Cadillac claimed a 1-2 in qualifying for this weekend’s Interlagos spherical of the World Endurance Championship, its second straight entrance row lock-out.
Alex Lynn adopted up on his pole place on the Le Mans 24 Hours in June by taking qualifying honours in Brazil forward of team-mate Sébastien Bourdais within the second of the British Jota group’s Cadillac V-Collection.R LMDhs.
Lynn had topped the opening 12-minute qualifying session earlier than leaping to the highest of the Hyperpole order with a 1m22.788s within the 10-minute interval reserved for the quickest 10 automobiles.
He knocked two tenths off that with a 1m22.570s to safe the highest spot, whereas Bourdais improved to a 1m22.670s to finish up precisely one tenth behind in second place.
#6 Porsche Penske Motorsport Porsche 963: Kevin Estre, Laurens Vanthoor
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Julien Andlauer took third place for Porsche within the quickest of the Penske-run manufacturing facility 963 LMDhs with a 1m22.834s. Malthe Jakobsen was one other late improver in his Peugeot 9X8 2024 Le Mans Hypercar, a 1m22.948s propelling him as much as fourth.
Sheldon Van Der Linde took fifth aboard his WRT BMW M Hybrid V8 LMDh with a 1m23.062s. Paul di Resta rounded out the highest six within the second of the Peugeots on 1m23.101s. Kevin Estre and Dries Vanthoor took seventh and eighth within the second Penske Porsche and WRT BMW entries.
Robert Kubica claimed ninth within the Le Mans 24 Hours-winning Ferrari 499P LMH because the Italian producer’s solely consultant in Hyperpole. Ryo Hirakawa ended up tenth, likewise the only real Toyota within the qualifying shoot-out.
Kubica made an ultra-late enchancment aboard the shopper Ferrari within the opening session to sneak into Hyperpole after the chequered flag had fallen.
#5 Porsche Penske Motorsport Porsche 963: Julien Andlauer, Michael Christensen, #85 Iron Dames Porsche 911 GT3 R LMGT3: Celia Martin, Rahel Frey, Michelle Gatting
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The 2 manufacturing facility entries from Ferrari each missed the lower, Antonio Fuoco and Antonio Giovinazzi ending up 14th and seventeenth respectively.
They sandwiched the 2 Alpine A424s certified by Mick Schumacher and Paul-Loup Chatin in fifteenth and sixteenth. Alex Riberas took eleventh for Aston Martin in the very best of The Coronary heart of Racing Valkyrie LMHs, lacking out on a spot in Hyperpole by simply 4 hundredths.
Kamui Kobayashi introduced up the rear of the sector within the second of the Toyota GR010 HYBRID LMHs, the automotive that dominated at Interlagos this time final yr.
LMGT3 qualifying
#10 Racing Spirit Of Leman Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGT3: Derek Deboer, Eduardo Barrichello, Valentin Hasse Clot
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Dwelling hero Eduardo Barrichello set two laps adequate for pole place in LMGT3 aboard the Racing Spirit of Léman Aston Martin.
The Brazilian, son of 11-time Formulation 1 race winner Rubens, simply did sufficient for the highest spot along with his preliminary scorching lap of 1m33.867s within the Prodrive-run Aston Martin Vantage GT3.
That gave him a margin of simply six thousandths over Clemens Schmid, who ended up on 1m33.873s in the very best of the Auto Sport Promotion Lexus RC F GT3s.
A slender enchancment by Barrichello to 1m33.489s elevated the ultimate margin over the Lexus to a few hundredths.
Finn Gehrsitz took third within the second of the Lexus RC Fs after a late enchancment jumped him again forward of Lin Hodenius within the quickest of the Iron Lynx Mercedes-AMG GT3s.
The Sao Paulo 6 Hours, spherical 5 of the 2025 WEC, begins at 11:30 native time on Sunday.
Photographs from Sao Paulo – Qualifying
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