GT1 pole-sitter Enge wants P1 win

Enge has become a qualifying specialist at the La Sarthe circuit in recent years, having taken the GT1 (formerly GTS) pole for Prodrive-run teams for the previous four years.

The Czech driver again produced the goods in tonight's qualifying to continue the run, but despite being grateful for everything Prodrive have done for him in that period, he admitted he would like a run in a car capable of winning the event overall.

"I still have to think about it a little bit and let it sink in," Enge told autosport.com, immediately after being told that Corvette had not beaten his time and he had taken the pole.

"Everyone is coming to congratulate here - I love this team and I love this car.

"But I have a little personal wish after five pole positions in a row, and that is to run in a car in the future that can win Le Mans overall.

"Obviously I will try to win with this car, because it is a really great factory Aston Martin team, and I have known them for a really long time now.

"But for this race I have a personal wish to win it sometime in the future. Maybe next year. We'll see."

Enge believes he could have gone even quicker than his 3:52.015 lap, had traffic favoured him.

"I was pushing hard, I'm always pushing hard. It was the same as Stephane [Sarrazin, teammate], and we both had traffic but I was better at the end of the lap, so I was so happy with this, and I'm happy to be first.

"But I'm not happy with the time because personally I can achieve with this car and get a better lap time with new tyre round the track here.

"We don't know what the Corvette situation was like and whether they used qualifying tyres or not.

"We knew that our main rivals were more concentrating on the race itself so they don't care if we grab the pole again."