Monza WEC: Glickenhaus takes pole, trouble for Peugeot

Romain Dumas took the top spot by nearly a second aboard the solo #708 Glickenhaus 007 LMH after setting a sequence of laps good enough for pole over the course of the 10-minute session, which was red-flagged with around 90 seconds left on the clock.

That was due to the #93 Peugeot 9X8 of Mikkel Jensen coming to a stop on-track between the two Lesmo Curves, the Dane having gone off at the first chicane on his first run before coming into the pits for a new set of tyres.

Dumas, who shares the #708 entry with Olivier Pla and Pipo Derani, set a best of 1m35.416s to go nine tenths up on the #8 Toyota GR010 Hybrid, in which Brendon Hartley set a late improvement of 1m36.335s to bring the gap down to under a second. 

Glickenhaus's second pole of the WEC season follows a Balance of Performance adjustment ahead of the Monza event that has given the car an extra 13kW or 18bhp of engine power. 

Dumas said: "I was very happy to do some good laps. We had good speed and the lap times were very consistent."

Nicolas Lapierre was two tenths behind the best of the Toyotas aboard the Alpine A480 on a 1m36.489s, which gave him a margin of nearly half a second over Kamui Kobayashi in the second of the Japanese cars. 

Kobayashi ended up on a 1m36.919s, but had lost a time that was four tenths faster to a track limits infringement. 

The best of the new Peugeot 9X8s was a further three tenths back in the hands of Gustavo Menezes, his 1m37.253s leaving him nearly two seconds off the pace, while Jensen did not set a laptime in the sister car.

Filipe Albuquerque grabbed LMP2 pole for United Autosports right at the end of the session. 

He jumped to the head of the class times with a 1m38.403s aboard the #22 Oreca 07-Gibson to knock Mathias Beche down to second in ARC Bratislava’s Pro-am entry. 

Beche’s 1m38.731s lap gave him a narrow margin over the 1m38.780s set by Ferdinand Habsburg in the best of the WRT Orecas.

Alessio Rovera was fourth for AF Corse, while James Allen and Robert Kubica rounded out the top six in P2 for Algarve Pro and Prema respectively.

Ferrari claimed its first pole position of the season after bringing up the rear of the GTE Pro field at each of the WEC qualifying sessions so far this year. 

Alessandro Pier Guidi leapfrogged AF Corse teammate Antonio Fuoco on his final lap to take qualifying honours in the #51 Ferrari 488 GTE Evo. 

The Italian driver’s 1m45.270s gave him the top spot by just under a tenth after Corvette man Nick Tandy managed to split the Ferraris right at the end with 1m45.324s. 

The Briton had earlier set a time good enough for pole, a 1m45.238s that was cancelled by race control for a track limits violation. 

Fuoco’s 1m45.328s was still half a second clear of the best of the Porsche 911 RSR-19s.

Ferrari’s change of fortunes follows a BoP break for Monza: the 488 has gained between 12 and 14bhp under a so-called black ball change outside the scope of the automatic BoP system. 

Gianmaria Bruni took fourth in the #91 Porsche with a 1m45.804s, which was two tenths up on teammate Michael Christensen’s 1m46.024s in the #92 car.

Sarah Bovy snatched pole position in GTE Am after the chequered flag aboard the Iron Dames Ferrari 488 GTE Evo. 

A 1m47.431s gave her the top spot in class by two tenths ahead of TF Sport Aston Martin driver Ben Keating, who had lowered his pole mark by three tenths on his final lap. 

The Monza 6 Hours, round four of the 2022 WEC, begins at 12:00 local time on Sunday.

Hypercar/LMP2 results:

 

Cla	#	Drivers	Car	Class	Avg Time	Gap
1	708	Olivier Pla Romain Dumas Pipo Derani	Glickenhaus 007 LMH	HYPERCAR	1'35.416
2	8	Sébastien Buemi Brendon Hartley Ryo Hirakawa	Toyota GR010 - Hybrid	HYPERCAR	1'36.335	0.919
3	36	Andre Negrao Nicolas Lapierre Matthieu Vaxiviere	Alpine A480	HYPERCAR	1'36.489	1.073
4	7	Mike Conway Kamui Kobayashi Jose Maria Lopez	Toyota GR010 - Hybrid	HYPERCAR	1'36.919	1.503
5	94	Loic Duval Gustavo Menezes James Rossiter	Peugeot 9X8	HYPERCAR	1'37.253	1.837
6	22	Philip Hanson Filipe Albuquerque Will Owen	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'38.403	2.987
7	44	Miro Konopka Tijmen van der Helm Mathias Beche	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'38.731	3.315
8	41	Rui Andrade Ferdinand Habsburg Norman Nato	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'38.780	3.364
9	83	François Perrodo Nicklas Nielsen Alessio Rovera	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'38.817	3.401
10	45	Steven Thomas James Allen Rene Binder	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'39.122	3.706
11	9	Robert Kubica Louis Deletraz Lorenzo Colombo	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'39.203	3.787
12	10	Nico Müller Ryan Cullen Sébastien Bourdais	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'39.481	4.065
13	31	Sean Gelael Robin Frijns René Rast	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'39.654	4.238
14	1	Lilou Wadoux Paul-Loup Chatin Charles Milesi	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'39.682	4.266
15	34	Jakub Smiechowski Alex Brundle Esteban Gutierrez	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'39.692	4.276
16	38	Roberto Gonzalez Antonio Felix da Costa Will Stevens	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'39.723	4.307
17	35	Jean Baptiste Lahaye Matthieu Lahaye François Heriau	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'40.387	4.971
18	28	Oliver Rasmussen Edward Jones Jonathan Aberdein	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'44.763	9.347
19	23	Alex Lynn Oliver Jarvis Josh Pierson	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'39.159	3.743
20	93	Paul di Resta Mikkel Jensen Jean-Eric Vergne	Peugeot 9X8	HYPERCAR
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GTE results:

Cla	#	Drivers	Car	Avg Time	Gap
1	51	Alessandro Pier Guidi James Calado	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	1'45.270
2	64	Tommy Milner Nick Tandy	Chevrolet Corvette C8.R	1'45.324	0.054
3	52	Miguel Molina Antonio Fuoco	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	1'45.328	0.058
4	91	Gianmaria Bruni Richard Lietz	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	1'45.804	0.534
5	92	Michael Christensen Kevin Estre	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	1'46.024	0.754
6	85	Rahel Frey Michelle Gatting Sarah Bovy	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	1'47.431	2.161
7	33	Ben Keating Henrique Chaves Jr. Marco Sorensen	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	1'47.658	2.388
8	77	Christian Ried Sebastian Priaulx Harry Tincknell	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	1'48.206	2.936
9	21	Simon Mann Christoph Ulrich Toni Vilander	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	1'48.296	3.026
10	54	Thomas Flohr Francesco Castellacci Nick Cassidy	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	1'48.406	3.136
11	98	Paul Dalla Lana David Pittard Nicki Thiim	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	1'48.534	3.264
12	56	Brendan Iribe Ollie Millroy Ben Barnicoat	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	1'48.813	3.543
13	86	Michael Wainwright Riccardo Pera Benjamin Barker	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	1'48.842	3.572
14	46	Matteo Cairoli Mikkel Pedersen Nicolas Leutwiler	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	1'48.966	3.696
15	777	Satoshi Hoshino Tomonobu Fujii Charlie Fagg	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	1'48.987	3.717
16	71	Franck Dezoteux Pierre Ragues Gabriel Aubry	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	1'49.990	4.720
17	88	Fred Poordad Patrick Lindsey Jan Heylen	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	1'50.221	4.951
18	60	Claudio Schiavoni Matteo Cressoni Giancarlo Fisichella	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	1'50.296	5.026
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