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Silverstone WEC: Porsche's Mark Webber and Brendon Hartley on pole

Mark Webber and Brendon Hartley claimed pole position for Porsche ahead of tomorrow's opening round of the World Endurance Championship at Silverstone

Webber and Hartley set the two fastest laps of the 20-minute, two-driver session and did enough to take pole by six tenths of a second from the sister car driven by Neel Jani and Romain Dumas.

Webber set a 1m39.908s best on his lap before Hartley went quicker with a 1m39.634s to lower their two-lap average to 1m39.721s.

Hartley said: "The engineers did a good job in putting me out in clean air.

"I had a good target time in front of me; Mark's time put a lot of pressure on me."

Jani set a best lap of 1m39.974s and Dumas a 1m40.706s, which gave them an average of 1m40.340s.

Lucas di Grassi and Oliver Jarvis took third position for Audi, neither breaking the 1m40s barrier on the way to a 1m40.352s average.

Anthony Davidson and Sebastien Buemi were fourth in the best of the Toyotas, with an average a further three tenths behind.

Andre Lotterer and Marcel Fassler ended up fifth in the second Audi and Stephane Sarrazin and Mike Conway sixth for Toyota.

The G-Drive Racing squad locked out the top two positions in LMP2 with its Ligier-Nissan JSP2s.

Ricardo Gonzalez and Luis Felipe 'Pipo' Derani were fastest on a 1m48.021s, which put them just six hundredths ahead of Julien Canal.

Aston Martin Racing took a clean sweep of the top three positions in GTE Pro with its fleet of Vantage GTEs.

Nicki Thiim and Marco Sorensen were the only drivers to dip under the two-minute barrier in the Danish-crewed #95 entry to take pole with a two-lap average of 1m59.970s.

That put them two tenths up on Richie Stanaway and Fernando Rees, while Darren Turner and Stefan Mucke were third, with an average a further tenth behind, and Gianmaria Bruni and Toni Vilander fourth.

Aston also took pole in GTE Am with Paul Dalla Lana and Pedro Lamy.

QUALIFYING RESULTS:

Pos Class Driver Team Car Time Gap
1 LMP1 T.Bernhard, M.Webber, B.Hartley Porsche Team Porsche 1m39.721s -
2 LMP1 R.Dumas, N.Jani, M.Lieb Porsche Team Porsche 1m40.340s 0.619s
3 LMP1 L.di Grassi, L.Duval, O.Jarvis Audi Sport Team Joest Audi 1m40.352s 0.631s
4 LMP1 A.Davidson, S.Buemi, K.Nakajima Toyota Racing Toyota 1m40.382s 0.661s
5 LMP1 M.Fassler, A.Lotterer, B.Treluyer Audi Sport Team Joest Audi 1m41.153s 1.432s
6 LMP1 A.Wurz, S.Sarrazin, M.Conway Toyota Racing Toyota 1m41.694s 1.973s
7 LMP2 G.Yacaman, P.Derani, R.Gonzalez G-Drive Racing Ligier/Nissan 1m48.021s 8.300s
8 LMP2 R.Rusinov, J.Canal, S.Bird G-Drive Racing Ligier/Nissan 1m48.083s 8.362s
9 LMP2 M.Howson, R.Bradley, N.Tandy KCMG ORECA/Nissan 1m49.389s 9.668s
10 LMP2 N.Panciatici, P-L.Chatin, V.Capillaire Signatech Alpine Alpine/Nissan 1m49.498s 9.777s
11 LMP1 S.Trummer, V.Liuzzi, C.Klien Team ByKolles CLM/AER 1m50.622s 10.901s
12 LMP2 S.Sharp, R.Dalziel, D.H.Hansson Extreme Speed Motorsports HPD 1m51.551s 11.830s
13 LMP2 N.Leventis, D.Watts, J.Kane Strakka Racing Dome/Nissan 1m52.284s 12.563s
14 LMP2 J.Nicolet, J-M.Merlin, E.Maris Oak Racing Ligier/Nissan 1m53.457s 13.736s
15 LMP2 E.Brown, J.Fogarty, D.Brabham Extreme Speed Motorsports HPD 1m55.491s 15.770s
16 GTE Pro C.Nygaard, M.Sorensen, N.Thiim Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin 1m59.970s 20.249s
17 GTE Pro A.MacDowall, F.Rees, R.Stanaway Aston Martin Racing V8 Aston Martin 2m00.175s 20.454s
18 GTE Pro D.Turner, S.Mucke Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin 2m00.333s 20.612s
19 GTE Pro R.Lietz, M.Christensen Porsche Team Manthey Porsche 2m00.651s 20.930s
20 GTE Pro G.Bruni, T.Vilander AF Corse Ferrari 2m00.701s 20.980s
21 GTE Pro P.Pilet, F.Makowiecki Porsche Team Manthey Porsche 2m01.591s 21.870s
22 GTE Am P.D.Lana, P.Lamy, M.Lauda Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin 2m01.998s 22.277s
23 GTE Pro D.Rigon, J.Calado AF Corse Ferrari 2m02.156s 22.435s
24 GTE Am G.Roda, P.Ruberti, K.Poulsen Larbre Competition Chevrolet 2m02.937s 23.216s
25 GTE Am C.Ried, K.Al Qubaisi, K.Bachler Abu Dhabi-Proton Racing Porsche 2m03.134s 23.413s
26 GTE Am F.Perrodo, E.Collard, R.Aguas AF Corse Ferrari 2m03.482s 23.761s
27 GTE Am V.Shaytar, A.Bertolini, A.Basov SMP Racing Ferrari 2m04.114s 24.393s
28 GTE Am F.Castellacci, R.Goethe, S.Hall Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin 2m05.050s 25.329s
29 GTE Am P.Dempsey, P.Long, M.Seefried Dempsey-Proton Racing Porsche 2m06.024s 26.303s


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