Qualifying for the 2023 24 Hours of Le Mans is just behind us. This is the result!
We have to do without Formula 1 this weekend, but that does not mean that the motorsport enthusiast has nothing to do. It’s time again for the 24 hours of Le Mans. This endurance race of all endurance races is a true battle of attrition for man and machine.
To get an idea of what these drivers (and the cars) have to endure, we can compare the distances covered. In Formula 1 one drives 300 km (plus one lap) per race. If everything goes a bit normal, the winner of Le Mans will have covered about 5,000 km.
Two qualifications
Qualifying at Le Mans therefore does not seem so important. There is a rolling start, the times when drivers had to run to their cars are long gone. However, qualifying as well as possible is of great importance. The teams want the cars to be able to do their laps optimally, so you don’t want to be in traffic too much, with all the risks that entails.
The difference with Formula 1 is that there are two qualifying sessions on two different days. Next Friday they go for Hyperpole, the regular qualifying session has just ended. Today all 62 participants were allowed to qualify, the hyperpole is a special session where the 8 fastest cars per class can compete again.
2023 24 Hours of Le Mans qualifying results
Anyway, the result of the qualification per class is as follows. So keep in mind that this is not yet the final starting grid:
Hypercar
It was very exciting in this ranking. The first 8 hypercars were within a second of each other! The circuit is more than 13 kilometers long, so that is really very close. There is a clear division in terms of cars, as you can see below. The Ferraris are the fastest, the ‘s follow closely. Porsche, Cadillac and Peugeot are close behind.
PositionAutoRunnerTime1Ferrari 499PAntonio Fuoco3:25.2132Ferrari 499PAlessandro Pier Guidi3:25.4123Toyota GR010 – HybridJose Maria Lopez3:25.4854Toyota GR010 – HybridBrendon Hartley3:25.7495Porsche 963Frédéric Makowiecki3:25.8486Porsche 963Felipe Nasr3:25.8687Cadillac V-Series.RSébastien Bourdais3:25.9248Cadillac V-Series.REarl Bamber 3:26.0209Porsche 963Kévin Estre3:26.90010Peugeot 9X8Mikkel Jensen3:27.26011Peugeot 9X8Loïc Duval3:27.85012Cadillac V-Series.RLuis Felipe Derani3:27.96013Glickenhaus 007 LMHRomain Dumas3:28.49715Vanwall Vandervell 680Tom Dillman3:29.74516Porsche 963Will StevensGeen tijd
LMP 2
In the LMP 2 class we suspect that an Oreca 07 will win.
PositionAutoRunnerTime1Oreca 07 Pietro Fittipaldi3’34.7512Oreca 07Louis Deletraz3’34.7533Oreca 07 Mirko Bortolotti 3’34.7934Oreca 07Paul Loup Chatin3:34.8395Oreca 07Gabriel Aubry3:34.9856Oreca 07Reshad De Ger us3:35.1057Oreca 07Dries Vanthoor3:35.1768Oreca 07Bent Viscal3:35.3929Oreca 07Ben Hanley3:35.45310Oreca 07Tom Blomqvist3:35.51911Oreca 07James Allen3:35.57812Oreca 07Filipe Albuquerque3:35.58713Oreca 07Giedo van der Garde3:35.65214Oreca 07Job van Uitert 3:35.69115Oreca 07Albert Costa3:35.75516Oreca 07Robin Fries3:35.85317Oreca 07Maxime Martin 3:35.95118Oreca 07Malthe Jakobsen3:36.27119Oreca 07Ben Barnicoat 3:36.48320Oreca 07Neel Jani 3:37.21321Oreca 07André Negrao3:37.49822Oreca 0 7Anders Fjordbach3:39.30323Oreca 07Matthieu Vaxiviere3:59.17124Oreca 07Steven ThomasNo Time
LMGTE Am
Dutch success in qualifying for the 2023 24 Hours of Le Mans! Nicky Catsburg did excellent business in the Corvette! He may go for the hyperpole.
PositionAutoRunnerTime1Ferrari 488 GTE EVOAlessio Rovera3:51.8772Ferrari 488 GTE EVODavide Rigon3:51.9143Chevrolet Corvette C8.RNicky Catsburg3:52.2284Aston Martin Vantage AMRCharlie Eastwood3:52.4315Ferrari 488 GTE EVODaniel Serra3:52.4596Aston Martin Vantage AMRGustav Dahlmann Birch3:52.4847Ferrari 488 GTE EVOUlysse De Pauw3:52.9688Ferrari 488 GTE EVOKei Cozzolino3:53.2639Ferrari 488 GTE EVOAlessio Picariello3:53.37410Aston Martin Vantage AMRAlex Riberas3:53.40611Porsche 911 RSR – 19Julien Andlauer3:53.48112Porsche 911 RSR – 19Benjamin Barker3:53.53113Ferrari 488 GTE EVOJeffrey Segal3:53.59014Porsche 911 RSR – 19Michelle Gatting3:53.60315Aston Martin Vantage AMRValentin Hasse-Clot3:53.70316Porsche 911 RSR – 19Matteo Cairoli 3:53.94717Ferrari 488 GTE EVO Louis Prette3:54.09318Porsche 911 RSR – 19Martin Rump 3:54.12919Porsche 911 RSR – 19Jan Heylen3:54.13720Porsche 911 RSR – 19Harry Tincknell 3:58.48621Aston Martin Vantage AMRSatoshi Hoshino Geen tijd
Innovative Car
For fun, a real Nascar racer also participates. The Camaro has a naturally aspirated 5.8 liter V8 and is by far the best sounding car in the field.
PositionAutoRunnerTime1Chevrolet Camaro ZL-1Mike Rockenfeller3:47.976
In short, that hyperpole session is going to be a fun one!
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