WEC 2026 Imola beginning lineup: Ferrari narrowly on pole forward of Toyota

Antonio Giovinazzi snatched pole place for Ferrari after the chequered flag had fallen in closing qualifying for Sunday’s World Endurance Championship curtain-raiser at Imola.

The Italian reprised his pole of final 12 months within the #51 Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercar with a 1m30.127s that propelled him from third to the highest of the occasions because the 10-minute Hyperpole session climaxed. 

His lap eclipsed the 1m30.138s with which the #8 Toyota TR010 HYBIRD sat atop the occasions in Ryo Hirakawa’s palms by only one hundredth of a second. 

The second of the AF Corse-run Ferrari manufacturing unit Hypercar entries took third on the grid for the Imola 6 Hours with Antonio Fuoco. 

Ferrari’s #50 entry ended up on 1m30.167s after earlier going quickest in Fuoco’s palms through the first spherical of qualifying lasting 12 minutes. 

Peugeot made it 4 vehicles inside 4 hundredths after Malthe Jakobsen set a 1m30.200s in one of the best of the French producer’s 9X8 2024 LMHs. 

#8 Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota TR010: Sebastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley, Ryo Hirakawa

Picture by: Paul Foster

Cadillac and the Jota crew took fifth with 1m30.419s from Norman Nato aboard its #12 automobile, whereas the #7 Toyota claimed sixth with Nyck de Vries setting a 1m30.432s.

Charles Milesi ended up seventh within the #35 Alpine A424 LMDh, simply forward of Ferrari’s satellite tv for pc entry pushed by Robert Kubica.

The 2 BMW M Hybrid V8 LMDhs run by the WRT crew rounded out the highest 10 within the palms of Robin Frijns and Kevin Magnussen. 

Neither Aston Martin Valkyrie LMH run by The Coronary heart of Racing crew made it into Hyperpole for the quickest 10 vehicles within the opening qualifying session, Harry Tincknell lacking out by lower than two tenths within the #007 automobile. 

The 2 Genesis GMR-001 LMDhs certified by Mathieu Jaminet and Andre Lotterer introduced up the rear of the sector within the 12-minute session, the Frenchman ending up 1.7s from Fuoco’s finest. 

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Briton Thomas Fleming took pole place in LMGT3 on his collection debut with the Storage 59 McLaren crew.

The 23-year-old headed the occasions for almost all of the Hyperpole session for the silver-rated driver in every automobile line-up aboard the #10 McLaren 720S Evo. 

Fleming’s 1m41.181s gave him a margin of two tenths over second-placed #78 Lexus RC F GT3 pushed by Hadrien David, who ended up 1m41.407s.

Third place went to the second of the Auto Sport Promotion-run Lexuses within the palms of Clemens Schmid. 

The Hyperpole session was red-flagged because the chequered flag was about to be proven on account of spin for the TF Sport Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R pushed by Salih Yoluc. 

Race returnee Peter Dempsey had earlier led the best way within the #34 Corvette all through the opening qualifying session for the bronze drivers.  

The Imola 6 Hours, which turned the 2026 WEC collection opener after the postponement of the Qatar spherical scheduled for March, begins at 13:00 native time on Sunday. 

Hypercar – Hyperpole outcomes
All Stats

1

FERRARI AF CORSE HYPERCAR

51

Ferrari 499P
8

 
196.083

2

8

Toyota GR010 – Hybrid
7

0.011
196.059

3

FERRARI AF CORSE HYPERCAR

50

Ferrari 499P
7

0.029
195.996

4

PEUGEOT TOTALENERGIES HYPERCAR

94

Peugeot 9X8
7

0.033
195.924

5

Cadillac Hertz Staff JOTA HYPERCAR

12

Cadillac V-Sequence.R
6

0.219
195.450

6

7

Toyota GR010 – Hybrid
7

0.013
195.421

7

Alpine Endurance Staff HYPERCAR

35

Alpine A424
8

0.037
195.342

8

83

Ferrari 499P
7

0.039
195.257

9

BMW M Staff WRT HYPERCAR

20

BMW M Hybrid V8
8

0.110
195.020

10

BMW M Staff WRT HYPERCAR

15

BMW M Hybrid V8
8

0.183
194.627

 

LMGT3 – Hyperpole outcomes
All Stats

1

Storage 59 LMGT3

10

A. Au

T. Fleming

McLaren 720S GT3 Evo
6

 
174.661

2

AKKODIS ASP Staff LMGT3

78

H. David

E. Masson

Lexus RC F GT3
6

0.226
174.271

3

AKKODIS ASP Staff LMGT3

87

R. Umbrarescu

Lexus RC F GT3
6

0.138
174.035

4

TEAM WRT LMGT3

69

D. Harper

BMW M4 GT3 Evo
6

0.046
173.956

5

TEAM WRT LMGT3

32

BMW M4 GT3 Evo
6

0.221
173.578

6

IRON LYNX LMGT3

61

Mercedes AMG GT3
6

0.280
173.102

7

Vista AF Corse LMGT3

21

Ferrari 296 GT3 Evo
6

0.138
172.869

8

Manthey DK Engineering LMGT3

91

J. Cottingham

Porsche 911 GT3 R
6

0.035
172.809

9

88

Ford Mustang GT3
6

0.170
172.523

10

Racing Staff Turkey by TF LMGT3

34

P. Dempsey

Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R
6

1.060
170.756

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