\n Le Mans. Fantastic qualifying for the 24 Hours of Le Mans
\n (FRA)! Dries Vanthoor (BEL), driving the #15 BMW M Hybrid V8 for BMW
\n M Team WRT, secured the very first pole position ever for BMW M
\n Motorsport at Le Mans. With a time of 3:22.564 minutes, Vanthoor was
\n initially second by the tiniest margin of 0.005 seconds, but the
\n fastest lap of the Cadillac ahead of him was cancelled. In the #20
\n Shell BMW M Hybrid V8, Robin Frijns (NED) completed the excellent
\n team result in the Hypercar class by finishing fourth.\n<\/p>\n
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Both WRT cars also made it into Hyperpole 2 in the LMGT3 class.
\n There, Sean Gelael (INA) and Parker Thompson (CAN) put the two BMW M4
\n GT3 EVOs into the fifth and sixth starting positions. The 24 Hours of
\n Le Mans will begin on Saturday at 16:00 CEST.<\/p>\n
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\n Quotes after qualifying for the 24 Hours of Le Mans:\n<\/p>\n
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\n Andreas Roos (Head of BMW M Motorsport): \u201cA fantastic
\n qualifying session for the 24 Hours of Le Mans \u2013 it couldn\u2019t have gone
\n any better. Just getting all four cars into Hyperpole 2 was a huge
\n success in itself, but to have now secured BMW M Motorsport\u2019s first
\n ever pole position at Le Mans is simply fantastic! Congratulations to
\n Dries Vanthoor on a brilliant lap and many thanks to everyone who has
\n worked on this project over the years. This is a fantastic reward for
\n their efforts. We\u2019ll relish seeing our BMW M Hybrid V8 right at the
\n front of the grid on Saturday, but now we\u2019re focusing fully on race preparation.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\n Vincent Vosse (Team Principal, BMW M Team WRT): \u201cThat
\n is a great surprise! I am very happy to be on pole position for the
\n first time in Hypercar. I take that, of course, but at the same time
\n congratulations to Cadillac and Jack Aitken for putting on a great
\n show! Overall, we at WRT can be extremely happy with the qualifying
\n results. Now let\u2019s focus on the race.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\n Dries Vanthoor (BMW M Team WRT, #15 BMW M Hybrid V8, Pole
\n position): \u201cI\u2019m super happy to be on pole at Le Mans! This
\n is such a great event, and now being on pole here and giving everyone
\n in the team what they deserve, is awesome. At the same time our goal
\n is to win the race, so we need to keep it clean over 24 hours to be
\n right there on Sunday.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\n Robin Frijns (BMW M Team WRT, #20 Shell BMW M Hybrid V8, 4th
\n place): \u201cIt was the goal to be in the top-five, and in the
\n end we are in P4. That means we are a bit out of the jungle at the
\n start, which is good. My laptimes were pretty far off. I wasn\u2019t so
\n happy with my runs in Hyperpole 2. I\u2019m not where I should be, so we
\n need to see where we can improve for the race.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\n Sean Gelael (Team WRT, #32 BMW M4 GT3 EVO, 5th place LMGT3):
\n \u201cIt\u2018s probably one of the best positions to start the big
\n 24-hour race from. Third row, the slip stream in front of us \u2013 that\u2019s
\n good! We are happy, and we are where we want to be for the start of
\n the race.\u201d<\/p>\n
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\n Parker Thompson (Team WRT, #69 BMW M4 GT3 EVO, 6th place
\n LMGT3): \u201cOverall a very nice job by both sides of the
\n garage at Team WRT. Starting P5 and P6 is a great result for the team
\n and a fantastic place to start the race from. We are out of the areas
\n of chaos at the back. Great job by everybody!\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Le Mans. Fantastic qualifying for the 24 Hours of Le Mans (FRA)! Dries Vanthoor (BEL), driving the #15…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":34936,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20955],"tags":[24302,6213,21879,21881,32123,25040,27531],"class_list":["post-34935","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-bmw","tag-24h-races","tag-bmw","tag-bmw-m-motorsport","tag-customer-racing","tag-fia-wec","tag-gt-racing","tag-lmdh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34935","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=34935"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/34935\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/34936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=34935"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=34935"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/germany\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=34935"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}