{"id":59124,"date":"2021-07-17T15:58:33","date_gmt":"2021-07-17T15:58:33","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wordpress_X\/index.php\/2021\/07\/17\/lopez-claims-pole-at-monza-for-toyota-estre-takes-2021-pole-hat-trick\/"},"modified":"2021-07-17T15:58:33","modified_gmt":"2021-07-17T15:58:33","slug":"lopez-claims-pole-at-monza-for-toyota-estre-takes-2021-pole-hat-trick","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/lopez-claims-pole-at-monza-for-toyota-estre-takes-2021-pole-hat-trick\/","title":{"rendered":"Lopez claims pole at Monza for Toyota; Estre takes 2021 pole hat-trick"},"content":{"rendered":"

Toyota will start from a 1-2 position for tomorrow\u2019s WEC 6 Hours of Monza after Jose-Maria Lopez set the fastest time in the 10-minute qualifying session this evening that was interrupted by a red flag due to the no28 JOTA Oreca-Gibson crashing into the barriers.<\/span><\/strong><\/p>\n

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Porsche took the LMGTE pole as Kevin Estre swept to his fourth consecutive top spot in the no92 Porsche 911 RSR 19.<\/span><\/p>\n

HYPERCAR<\/span><\/p>\n

Jose-Maria Lopez in No.7 Toyota GR010-Hybrid Hypercar takes 0.7s off this morning\u2019s best time as the Argentinian sets a rapid best lap of 1m35.899s.<\/span><\/p>\n

Lopez recovered from lock-up at first chicane on his first two laps, which he was forced to abandon and take to the escape road both times.<\/span><\/p>\n

No8 Toyota is second as Brendon Hartley sets 1m35.961s to make it another Toyota 1-2, just 0.062s behind.<\/span><\/p>\n

No36 Alpine ELF Matmut A480-0Gibson is third as Nicolas Lapierre laps in 1m36.121s after car is repaired from early morning accident.<\/span><\/p>\n

Pipo Derani ensures Glickenhaus Racing start on outside of the second row as he claims a fastest lap of 1m36.995s.<\/span><\/p>\n

The second Glickenhaus 007 LMH car is fifth as Richard Westbrook qualifies 0.328 in arrears to teammate.<\/span><\/p>\n

LMGTE Pro<\/span><\/p>\n

Porsche takes pole in LMGTE Pro class as No.92 Porsche 911 RSR-19 driven by Kevin Estre sets best time of 1m45.412s.<\/span><\/p>\n

Estre is unbeaten in 2021 as he celebrated third consecutive pole position and was also on pole in Bahrain at the end of last season.<\/span><\/p>\n

French ace\u2019s best time is just 0.065s faster than chasing No.51 AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE driven by Alessandro Pier Guidi.<\/span><\/p>\n

No91 Porsche 911 RSR-19 of Gimmi Bruni places third but half a second away from sister Porsche.<\/span><\/p>\n

No52 Ferrari 488 GTE Evo driven by Miguel Molina places fourth in second AF Corse entry.<\/span><\/p>\n

LMP2<\/span><\/p>\n

Charles Milesi sets 1m38.527 to claim first WEC pole for Team WRT.<\/span><\/p>\n

Milesi\u2019s lap just pips Filipe Albuquerque, who sets brilliant last ditch lap to get within 0.030s in United Autosport USA car!<\/span><\/p>\n

Ben Hanley driven Dragonspeed USA place entry sets third best lap of 1m38.663s. Team is also the leading Pro\/Am entry in LMP2.<\/span><\/p>\n

Racing Team Nederland place fourth as Nyck de Vries laps in 1m38.726s.<\/span><\/p>\n

JOTA suffer difficult session as no28 car driven by Stoffel Vandoorne crashes heavily at second Lesmo corner and causes session to be red flagged, leaving a 2m47s dash to the flag when the session goes green again.<\/span><\/p>\n

Anthony Davidson sets late lap to claim sixth in second JOTA entry.<\/span><\/p>\n

LMGTE AM<\/span><\/p>\n

TF Sport Aston Martin takes second pole of the 2021 season as Ben Keating flies to a 1m47.272s best lap after titanic battle.<\/span><\/p>\n

No83 AF Corse squad second with a best lap set by Francois Perrodo just 0.269s back from Keating\u2019s pole time.<\/span><\/p>\n

Cetilar Racing place third as Roberto Lacorte laps within 0.409s of pole as team continues fightback after practice accident.<\/span><\/p>\n

The 6 Hours of Monza will get underway at 12h00 on Sunday 18 July.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toyota will start from a 1-2 position for tomorrow\u2019s WEC 6 Hours of Monza after Jose-Maria Lopez set the fastest time in the 10-minute qualifying session this evening that was interrupted by a red flag due to the no28 JOTA Oreca-Gibson crashing into the barriers.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[133],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-59124","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-wec"},"aioseo_notices":[],"amp_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=59124"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/59124\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=59124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=59124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/insideracing.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=59124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}