Cadillac has misplaced its front-row lock-out for this weekend’s Interlagos spherical of the World Endurance Championship for an on-track infringement.
Sébastien Bourdais, who ended up second within the Hyperpole session to Jota Cadillac team-mate Alex Lynn, has been docked one grid place for impeding one other automotive. This occurred throughout the opening interval of qualifying, after which the highest 10 automobiles undergo to the ultimate shoot-out.
Bourdais within the #38 Cadillac V-Collection.R LMDh was judged to have impeded the #93 Peugeot 9X8 2024 Le Mans Hypercar pushed by Paul di Resta in Flip 12 throughout the 12-minute session on the Autodromo Jose Carlos Tempo.
#93 Peugeot Totalenergies Peugeot 9X8: Paul Di Resta, Mikkel Jensen
Photograph by: FIAWEC – DPPI
The stewards concluded after reviewing video proof that whereas Bourdais’s actions weren’t deliberate, they nonetheless constituted the offence of impeding.
“The driving force of #38 was ready to maneuver apart earlier than the braking zone at Flip 12 and will have achieved so to permit #93 to move,” they said within the bulletin confirming the penalty.
The infringement was adjudged to be a breach of Appendix L of the FIA Worldwide Sporting Code. Jota and Cadillac haven’t any proper of attraction underneath the ISC.
A lack of one grid place for Bourdais implies that the manufacturing unit Penske-run Porsche 963 LMDh certified by Julien Andlauer will transfer up from third to start out on the entrance row alongside Lynn.
Bourdais will now line up on the grid alongside the #94 Peugeot during which Malthe Jakobsen, took fourth place within the occasions throughout the 10-minute Hyperpole session.
It might have been a second consecutive front-row lock-out for Jota, Cadillac’s manufacturing unit consultant within the WEC, following on from the Le Mans 24 Hours in June.
Lynn took pole place for the double factors spherical of the WEC, whereas Earl Bamber claimed second place within the sister Caddy. The Briton’s qualifying efficiency in Brazil implies that he now has three Hypercar class positions within the WEC, the primary coming at Fuji in Japan final September when the Cadillac manufacturing unit programme as run by Chip Ganassi Racing.
The Sao Paulo 6 Hours, spherical 5 of the 2025 WEC, begins at 11:30 native time on Sunday.
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