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WEC 24 Hours of Le Mans
Le Mans 24h: Ferrari fastest in warm-up ahead of Cadillac
Ferrari topped Saturday's warm-up ahead of the Le Mans 24 Hours, with James Calado leading team-mate Nicklas Nielsen in the 15-minute session.
Jamie Klein
Edited: Jun 10, 2023, 11:36 AM
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Calado topped the timesheets after the chequered flag fell with a lap of 3m30.113s at the wheel of the #51 499P Le Mans Hypercar he shares with Alessandro Pier Guidi and Antonio Giovinazzi.
That was enough to beat the pole-sitting #50 car, in which Nielsen set a best effort of 3m32.959s, by a comfortable 2.8 seconds.
Best of the rest behind the Ferrari LMHs was the best of the Cadillac V-Series.R LMDhs, the #3 car in which Sebastien Bourdais suffered a dramatic fire in Thursday evening's Hyperpole session.
Bourdais slotted into third at the very end of the session on a 3m33.255s to demote the leading Peugeot 9X8, the #94 car of Nico Muller, to fourth ahead of the two Toyota GR010 HYBRIDs of Mike Conway and Sebastien Buemi.
Porsche's top representative was Andre Lotterer in seventh place aboard the #6 963 LMDh, followed by Paul di Resta in the #93 Peugeot.
Numerous Hypercars did not set flying laps, including the #2 Cadillac, #5 and #75 Porsches, the Action Express-entered #311 Caddy and the customer Jota Porsche.
The quickest LMP2 in ninth overall was the #23 United Autosports ORECA in which Tom Blomqvist posted a 3m39.818s.
Second-fastest was the #34 Inter Europol Competition machine of Fabio Scherer, 1.2 seconds behind, followed by Mathias Beche in the #14 Nielsen Racing car.
Leading the way in GTE Am were a pair of Kessel Racing-entered Ferrari 488 GTEs, with Daniel Serra setting the pace in the CarGuy Racing-branded #57 car ahead of Kei Cozzolino in the #74 machine.
The Garage 56 NASCAR Cup car posted a best of 3m59.403s in the hands of Mike Rockenfeller, behind the fastest six GTE cars.
The 100th anniversary running of the Le Mans 24 Hours is slated to begin at 16:00 local time.
Le Mans 24 Hours - Warm-up results:
Cla # Drivers Car Class Time Gap 1 51 James Calado
Antonio Giovinazzi
Alessandro Pier Guidi Ferrari 499P HYPERCAR 3'30.113 2 50
Antonio Fuoco
Miguel Molina
Nicklas Nielsen Ferrari 499P HYPERCAR 3'32.959 2.846 3 3
Sébastien Bourdais
Scott Dixon
Renger van der Zande Cadillac V-Series.R HYPERCAR 3'33.255 3.142 4 94
Loic Duval
Gustavo Menezes
Nico Müller Peugeot 9X8 HYPERCAR 3'34.867 4.754 5 7
Mike Conway
Kamui Kobayashi
Jose Maria Lopez Toyota GR010 - Hybrid HYPERCAR 3'37.453 7.340 6 8
Sébastien Buemi
Brendon Hartley
Ryo Hirakawa Toyota GR010 - Hybrid HYPERCAR 3'37.616 7.503 7 6
Kevin Estre
Andre Lotterer
Laurens Vanthoor Porsche 963 HYPERCAR 3'38.025 7.912 8 93
Paul di Resta
Mikkel Jensen
Jean-Eric Vergne Peugeot 9X8 HYPERCAR 3'39.691 9.578 9 23
Tom Blomqvist
Oliver Jarvis
Josh Pierson Oreca 07 LMP2 3'39.818 9.705 10 34
Albert Costa
Fabio Scherer
Jakub Smiechowski Oreca 07 LMP2 3'41.024 10.911 11 709
Nathanael Berthon
Esteban Gutierrez
Franck Mailleux Glickenhaus 007 LMH HYPERCAR 3'41.087 10.974 12 14
Mathias Beche
Ben Hanley
Rodrigo Sales Oreca 07 LMP2 3'41.153 11.040 13 43
Maxime Martin
Tom Van Rompuy
Ugo de Wilde Oreca 07 LMP2 3'41.874 11.761 14 41
Rui Andrade
Louis Deletraz
Robert Kubica Oreca 07 LMP2 3'42.548 12.435 15 923
Tom Gamble
Dries Vanthoor
Salih Yoluc Oreca 07 LMP2 3'42.607 12.494 16 35
Olli Caldwell
Andre Negrao
Memo Rojas Oreca 07 LMP2 3'43.135 13.022 17 48
Paul-Loup Chatin
Laurents Hörr
Paul Lafargue Oreca 07 LMP2 3'43.534 13.421 18 31
Robin Frijns
Sean Gelael
Ferdinand Habsburg Oreca 07 LMP2 3'44.447 14.334 19 65
Tijmen van der Helm
Manuel Maldonado
Job Van Uitert Oreca 07 LMP2 3'45.475 15.362 20 63
Mirko Bortolotti
Daniil Kvyat
Doriane Pin Oreca 07 LMP2 3'45.603 15.490 21 13
René Rast
Ricky Taylor
Steven Thomas Oreca 07 LMP2 3'46.118 16.005 22 39
Giedo van der Garde
Roberto Lacorte
Patrick Pilet Oreca 07 LMP2 3'46.487 16.374 23 4
Tom Dillmann
Esteban Guerrieri
Tristan Vautier Vanwall Vandervell 680 HYPERCAR 3'46.506 16.393 24 36
Julien Canal
Charles Milesi
Matthieu Vaxiviere Oreca 07 LMP2 3'48.229 18.116 25 9
Juan Manuel Correa
Filip Ugran
Bent Viscaal Oreca 07 LMP2 3'48.348 18.235 26 10
Gabriel Aubry
Ryan Cullen
Matthias Kaiser Oreca 07 LMP2 3'50.462 20.349 27 57
Scott Huffaker
Takeshi Kimura
Daniel Serra Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'55.038 24.925 28 74
Kei Cozzolino
Yorikatsu Tsujiko
Naoki Yokomizo Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'55.771 25.658 29 16
Ryan Hardwick
Jan Heylen
Zacharie Robichon Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE AM 3'56.833 26.720 30 54
Francesco Castellacci
Thomas Flohr
Davide Rigon Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'57.245 27.132 31 66
Thomas Neubauer
Giacomo Petrobelli
Louis Prette Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'58.760 28.647 32 21 Simon Mann
Ulysse De Pauw
Julien Piguet Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'58.877 28.764 33 24
Jenson Button
Jimmie Johnson
Mike Rockenfeller Chevrolet Camaro ZL1 INNOVATIVE CAR 3'59.403 29.290 34 55
Gustav Birch
Jens Reno Moller
Marco Sorensen Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE AM 4'00.939 30.826 35 25
Ahmad Al Harthy
Michael Dinan
Charles Eastwood Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE AM 4'06.169 36.056 36 83
Luis Perez Companc
Alessio Rovera
Lilou Wadoux Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 4'09.467 39.354 37 2
Earl Bamber
Alex Lynn
Richard Westbrook Cadillac V-Series.R HYPERCAR 38 5
Dane Cameron
Michael Christensen
Frédéric Makowiecki Porsche 963 HYPERCAR 39 22
Filipe Albuquerque
Philip Hanson
Frederick Lubin Oreca 07 LMP2 40 28
Pietro Fittipaldi
David Heinemeier Hansson
Oliver Rasmussen Oreca 07 LMP2 41 30
Rene Binder
Neel Jani
Nicolas Pino Oreca 07 LMP2 42 32
Anders Fjordbach
Mark Kvamme
Jan Magnussen Oreca 07 LMP2 43 33
Nick Catsburg
Ben Keating
Nicolas Varrone Chevrolet Corvette C8.R LMGTE AM 44 37 Alexandre Coigny
Malthe Jakobsen
Nicolas Lapierre Oreca 07 LMP2 45 38
Antonio Felix da Costa
Will Stevens
Ye Yifei Porsche 963 HYPERCAR 46 45
James Allen
Colin Braun
George Kurtz Oreca 07 LMP2 47 47
Reshad de Gerus
Vlad Lomko
Simon Pagenaud Oreca 07 LMP2 48 56
Matteo Cairoli
PJ Hyett
Gunnar Jeannette Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE AM 3'56.733 26.620 49 60
Matteo Cressoni
Alessio Picariello
Claudio Schiavoni Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE AM 50 72
Valentin Hasse-Clot
Arnold Robin
Maxime Robin Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE AM 51 75 Mathieu Jaminet
Felipe Nasr
Nick Tandy Porsche 963 HYPERCAR 52 77
Julien Andlauer
Christian Ried
Mikkel Pedersen Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE AM 53 80 Ben Barnicoat
Norman Nato
François Perrodo Oreca 07 LMP2 3'44.930 14.817 54 85
Sarah Bovy
Rahel Frey
Michelle Gatting Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE AM 55 86
Benjamin Barker
Riccardo Pera
Michael Wainwright Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE AM 56 88
Jonas Ried
Harry Tincknell
Don Yount Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE AM 57 98
Ian James
Daniel Mancinelli
Alex Riberas Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE AM 58 100
Andrew Haryanto
Chandler Hull
Jeff Segal Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 59 311
Jack Aitken
Pipo Derani
Alexander Sims Cadillac V-Series.R HYPERCAR 60 708
Ryan Briscoe
Romain Dumas
Olivier Pla Glickenhaus 007 LMH HYPERCAR 61 777
Tomonobu Fujii
Satoshi Hoshino
Casper Stevenson Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE AM 62 911
Michael Fassbender
Richard Lietz
Martin Rump Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE AM View full results
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