Monza WEC: Toyota locks out front row ahead of Alpine

Lopez went straight on at the first chicane on his opening attempt, but two laps later he was able to get down to a 1m35.899s in the #7 Toyota GR010 Hybrid to snatch the pole from team-mate Brendon Hartley. 

Hartley's 1m35.961s left him just six hundredths behind Lopez, who has been fastest in every session of the Monza weekend so far, and was good enough for second position.

Lopez said: "It's not usual to be quickest in every session: I felt confident, but I put a bit of suspense into it. 

"We'd discussed with the team that we were only going to go once, so I went for it and still managed to do the lap after three laps on the tyres."

Nicolas Lapierre was only two tenths off Lopez in the Alpine A480-Gisbon grandfathered LMP1 car with a best lap of 1m36.121s. 

The Frenchman made a last bid for pole after the 10-minute session was red-flagged when Stoffel Vandoorne crashed his Jota ORECA 07 LMP2 on the exit of the second Lesmo right-hander, but failed to improve his time. 

The best of the two Glickenhaus-Pipo 007 LMHs got within a second of the pace after a late improvement from fourth-placed Pipo Derani. 

The Brazilian found three tenths with a 1m36.686s right at the end of the session, although he did not improve his position in the five-car Hypercar field.

#708 Glickenhaus Racing Glickenhaus 007 LMH: Luis Felipe Derani, Gustavo Menezes, Olivier Pla

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Richard Westbrook, who didn't go for a time after the red flag, ended up fifth with a best lap of 1m38.323s. 

Charles Milesi took a maiden WEC pole in LMP2 for the Belgian WRT squad. 

The Frenchman's 1m38.527s aboard his ORECA 07 set before the red flag secured him the top spot despite a late improvement from Filipe Albuquerque after the break. 

The United Autosports ORECA driver got to within three hundredths of the WRT car with a 1m38.557s to move up to second. 

Ben Hanley took third position for DragonSpeed with a 1m38.663s, while Nyck de Vries was fourth for Racing Team Nederland.

Kevin Estre maintained his monopoly on the GTE Pro pole with his third qualifying top spot of the season — and fourth in a row — for Porsche. 

The Frenchman posted a 1m45.412s on his second flier after straight-lining the first chicane on his opening lap to just do enough to beat Alessandro Pier Guidi in the best of the factory AF Corse Ferraris. 

Pier Guidi's 1m45.477s in the #51 Ferrari 488 GTE Evo gave him a margin of just over a tenth over the second Porsche 911 RSR in which Gianmaria Bruni made a late improvement to 1m45.844s. 

Miguel Molina took fourth in  the #52 Ferrari with a 1m46.214s.

Ben Keating came out on top in a battle for GTE Am pole with Francois Perrodo that continued after the chequered flag had fallen. 

Both drivers set their fastest times on their last laps of the 10-minute session, TF Sport Aston Martin Vantage driver Keating's 1m47.272s just shading Perrodo's 1m47.541s in the AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE Evo.

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Hypercar and LMP2 results:

Cla	#	Drivers	Car	Class	Avg Time	Gap
1	7	Mike Conway Kamui Kobayashi Jose Maria Lopez	Toyota GR010 - Hybrid	HYPERCAR	1'35.899
2	8	Sébastien Buemi Kazuki Nakajima Brendon Hartley	Toyota GR010 - Hybrid	HYPERCAR	1'35.961	0.062
3	36	Andre Negrao Nicolas Lapierre Matthieu Vaxiviere	Alpine A480	HYPERCAR	1'36.121	0.222
4	708	Pipo Derani Gustavo Menezes Olivier Pla	Glickenhaus 007 LMH	HYPERCAR	1'36.686	0.787
5	709	Romain Dumas Franck Mailleux Richard Westbrook	Glickenhaus 007 LMH	HYPERCAR	1'38.323	2.424
6	31	Robin Frijns Ferdinand Habsburg Charles Milesi	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'38.527	2.628
7	22	Philip Hanson Fabio Scherer Filipe Albuquerque	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'38.557	2.658
8	21	Henrik Hedman Juan Pablo Montoya Ben Hanley	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'38.663	2.764
9	29	Frits van Eerd Paul-Loup Chatin Nyck de Vries	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'38.726	2.827
10	82	Ryan Cullen Oliver Jarvis Felipe Nasr	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'38.829	2.930
11	38	Roberto Gonzalez Antonio Felix da Costa Anthony Davidson	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'38.890	2.991
12	70	Esteban Garcia Loic Duval Norman Nato	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'39.472	3.573
13	34	Jakub Smiechowski Renger van der Zande Alex Brundle	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'39.491	3.592
14	1	Tatiana Calderon Sophia Flörsch	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'39.905	4.006
15	20	Jan Magnussen Anders Fjordbach Dennis Andersen	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'40.026	4.127
16	44	Miro Konopka Oliver Webb Matej Konopka	Ligier JSP 217	LMP2	1'40.413	4.514
17	28	Sean Gelael Stoffel Vandoorne Tom Blomqvist	Oreca 07	LMP2
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GTE Pro and Am results:

Cla	#	Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Avg Time	Gap
1	92	Kevin Estre Neel Jani	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE PRO	5	1'45.412
2	51	Alessandro Pier Guidi James Calado	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE PRO	5	1'45.477	0.065
3	91	Gianmaria Bruni Richard Lietz	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE PRO	5	1'45.844	0.432
4	52	Daniel Serra Miguel Molina	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE PRO	5	1'46.214	0.802
5	33	Ben Keating Dylan Pereira Felipe Fraga	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	6	1'47.272	1.860
6	83	François Perrodo Nicklas Nielsen Alessio Rovera	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	6	1'47.541	2.129
7	47	Roberto Lacorte Giorgio Sernagiotto Antonio Fuoco	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	6	1'47.950	2.538
8	56	Egidio Perfetti Matteo Cairoli Riccardo Pera	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM	6	1'48.057	2.645
9	61	Christoph Ulrich Simon Mann Toni Vilander	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	6	1'48.227	2.815
10	54	Thomas Flohr Francesco Castellacci Giancarlo Fisichella	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	5	1'48.403	2.991
11	85	Rahel Frey Michelle Gatting Sarah Bovy	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	6	1'48.437	3.025
12	98	Paul Dalla Lana Augusto Farfus Marcos Gomes	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	5	1'48.457	3.045
13	388	Pierre Ehret Christian Hook Jeroen Bleekemolen	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	5	1'48.700	3.288
14	77	Christian Ried Jaxon Evans Matt Campbell	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM	6	1'48.766	3.354
15	777	Satoshi Hoshino Tomonobu Fujii Andrew Watson	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	5	1'49.128	3.716
16	88	Andrew Haryanto Marco Seefried Alessio Picariello	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM	5	1'49.211	3.799
17	86	Michael Wainwright Benjamin Barker Tom Gamble	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM	6	1'49.244	3.832
18	46	Dennis Olsen Anders Buchardt Maxwell Root	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM	5	1'51.051	5.639
19	60	Claudio Schiavoni Andrea Piccini Matteo Cressoni	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	2
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