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2016/06/17 | Stuttgart | Motorsports | Press Release

Fourth grid row for the best Porsche 911 RSR in GT class

18th pole position and 15th one-two in the grid for Porsche in Le Mans

Stuttgart. The Porsche Team with the innovative 919 Hybrid secured the 18th pole position and the 15th one-two result in total for the brand at the Le Mans 24-Hours. Due to mostly wet track conditions in both qualifying sessions yesterday, held from 7 pm to 9 pm and from 10 pm until midnight, there were no improvements in lap times for the top cars compared to the first qualifying session from Wednesday night.

The unbeaten best time for the field of 60 cars was achieved by Neel Jani on Wednesday. The Swiss had lapped the 13.629 kilometer long circuit in 3:19.733 minutes. In difficult track conditions he stayed above his qualifying record of 3:16.887 minutes that he achieved in 2015 and that now remains for the current track layout of the Circuit des 24 Heures. Timo Bernhard (DE) managed the second fastest lap on Wednesday. The reigning World Champion had managed a lap in 3:20.203 minutes. This means a front row lock out for the same Porsche works drivers as in Le Mans 2015. In the history of the race, which is being run in 2016 for the 84th time, it is the 15th time that Porsche has achieved a one-two result in qualifying.

Jani shares the 900 hp number 2 hybrid prototype with Romain Dumas (FR) and Marc Lieb (DE). Bernhard takes on what is known as the world’s hardest car race with partners Brendon Hartley (NZ) and Mark Webber (AU) in the number 1 sister car.

Fourth grid row for the best Porsche 911 RSR in GT class
The anticipated hunt for pole position for the 24 Hours of Le Mans was a washout: Heavy rain during the second and third qualifying sessions yesterday evening prevented faster lap times, compared to the previous day with a dry first qualifying session on the 13.629-kilometre Circuit des 24 Heures. Like most of the 60 cars, the two GT-class Porsche Motorsport works-entry 911 RSR racers were unable to improve on their grid positions for the 84th running of the long distance classic in France. In the 911 RSR with the starting number 92, overall Le Mans winner Earl Bamber (New Zealand) and his teammates Frédéric Makowiecki (France) and Jörg Bergmeister (Germany) take up the prestigious race on Saturday at 15.00 hrs from the fourth GT grid row. Lining up on the row behind them is the #91 sister car, driven by outright Le Mans winner Nick Tandy (Great Britain) and Frenchmen Patrick Pilet and Kévin Estre.

One of the few drivers who went out on this rainy night at exactly the right time was Patrick Long (USA). The Porsche factory pilot, who contests the GTE-Am class in the 911 RSR of the Abu Dhabi Proton Racing customer team with Khaled Al Qubaisi (Abu Dhabi) and David Heinemeier Hansson (Denmark), turned a perfect qualifying lap despite the difficult conditions. This catapulted his team from seventh to third.

Qualifying result
LMP1 class

1. Jani/Dumas/Lieb (CH/FR/DE), Porsche 919 Hybrid, 3:19.733 minutes
2. Bernhard/Hartley/Webber (DE/NZ/AU), Porsche 919 Hybrid, 3:20.203
3. Sarrazin/Conway/Kobayashi (FR/GB/JP), Toyota TS050 Hybrid, 3:20.737
4. Davidson/Buemi/ Nakajima (GB/CH/JP), Toyota TS050 Hybrid, 3:21.903
5. Fässler/ Lotterer/ Treluyer (CH/DE/FR), Audi R18, 3:22.780
6. Di Grassi/Duval/Jarvis (BR/FR/GB), Audi R18, 3:22.823

GTE-Pro class
1. Hand/Müller/Bourdais (USA/DE/FR), Ford GT, 3:51.185 minutes
2. Briscoe/Westbrook/Dixon (AT/GB/NZ), Ford GT, + 0.312 seconds
3. Bruni/Calado/Pier Guidi (IT/GB/IT), Ferrari 488 GTE, + 0.383
8. Bamber/Bergmeister/Makowiecki (NZ/DE/FR), Porsche 911 RSR, + 3.733
10. Pilet/Estre/Tandy (FR/FR/GB), Porsche 911 RSR, + 4.147
12. Christensen/Lietz/Eng (DK/DE/DE), Porsche 911 RSR, + 4.241

GTE-Am class
1. Mok/Sawa/Bell (MAL/J/GB), Ferrari 458 Italia, 3:56.827 minutes
2. Lamy/Dalla Lana/Lauda (P/CAN/A), Aston Martin, + 0.371 seconds
3. Al Qubaisi/Long/Heinemeier Hansson (UAE/USA/DK), Porsche 911 RSR, + 0.686
8. Ried/Henzler/Camathias (DE/DE/CH), Porsche 911 RSR, + 2.207
10. MacNeil/Keen/Miller (USA/USA/USA), Porsche 911 RSR, + 3.280
11. Wainwright/Carroll/Barker (GB/GB/GB), Porsche 911 RSR, + 4.219

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Tim Bravo

Porsche Latin America, Inc.

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