WEC Monza: Glickenhaus takes pole as Peugeot hits trouble

The Frenchman took the top spot by nearly a second aboard the solo Glickenhaus-Pipo 007 LMH after setting a sequence of laps good enough for pole over the course of the 10-minute session.

His best of 1m35.416s put him nine tenths up on the #8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID in which a late improvement to 1m36.335s from Brendon Hartley brought the gap down to under a second.

The form of the Glickenhaus follows a Balance of Performance adjustment ahead of the Monza event that has given the car an extra 13kW or 18bhp of engine power.

Dumas said: "I was very happy to do some good laps. We had good speed and the lap times were very consistent."

Nicolas Lapierre was two tenths behind the best of the Toyotas aboard the Alpine-Gibson A480 on a 1m36.489s, which gave him a margin of nearly half a second over Kamui Kobayashi in the second of the Japanese cars.

Kobayashi ended up on a 1m36.919s, but had lost a time that was four tenths faster to a track limits infringement.

The best of the new Peugeot 9X8s was a further three tenths back in the hands of Gustavo Menezes, his 1m37.253s leaving him nearly two seconds off the pace.

The second Peugeot didn’t set a representative time in the hands of Mikkel Jensen.

#93 Peugeot Totalenergies Peugeot 9X8 of Paul Di Resta, Mikkel Jensen, Jean-Eric Vergne

Photo by: JEP / Motorsport Images

The Dane went off at the first chicane on his first run, came into the pits for a new set of tyres and then stopped between the two Lesmo Curves, which brought an end to the session with two minutes left on the clock.

Filipe Albuquerque grabbed LMP2 pole for United Autosports right at the end of the session.

He jumped to the head of the class times with a 1m38.403s aboard the #22 United ORECA-Gibson 07 to knock Mathias Beche down to second in ARC Bratislava’s entry.

Beche’s 1m38.731s lap gave him a narrow margin over the 1m38.780s set by Ferdinand Habsburg in the best of the WRT ORECAs.

Alessio Rovera was fourth for AF Corse, while James Allen and Robert Kubica rounded out the top six in P2 for Algarve Pro and Prema respectively.

Ferrari claimed its first pole position of the season after bringing up the rear of the GTE Pro field at each of the WEC races so far this year.

Alessandro Pier Guidi leapfrogged AF Corse team-mate Antonio Fuoco on his final lap to take qualifying honours in the #51 Ferrari 488 GTE Evo.

#51 AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE EVO of Alessandro Pier Guidi, James Calado

Photo by: Paul Foster

The Italian driver’s 1m45.270s gave him the top spot by just under a tenth after Nick Tandy managed to split the Ferraris right at the end with 1m45.324s.

The Briton had earlier set a time good enough for pole, a 1m45.238s that was cancelled by race control for a track limits violation.

Fuoco’s 1m45.328s was still half a second clear of the best of the Porsche 911 RSRs.

Ferrari’s change of fortunes follows a BoP break for Monza: the 488 has gained between 12 and 14bhp under a so-called black ball change outside the scope of the automatic BoP system.

Gianmaria Bruni took fifth for the German manufacturer with a 1m45.804s, which was two tenths up on Manthey Racing team-mate Michael Christensen’s 1m46.024s.

Sarah Bovy snatched pole position in GTE Am after the chequered flag aboard the Iron Dames Ferrari 488 GTE Evo.

A 1m47.431s gave her the top spot in class by two tenths ahead of TF Sport Aston Martin driver Ben Keating, who had lowered his pole mark by three tenths on his final lap.

The Monza 6 Hours, round four of the 2022 WEC, begins at 12:00 local time on Sunday.

WEC Monza - Qualifying results:

Cla	Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Avg Time	Gap	Interval
1	Olivier Pla Romain Dumas Pipo Derani	Glickenhaus 007 LMH	HYPERCAR	5	1'35.416
2	Sébastien Buemi Brendon Hartley Ryo Hirakawa	Toyota GR010 - Hybrid	HYPERCAR	4	1'36.335	0.919	0.919
3	Andre Negrao Nicolas Lapierre Matthieu Vaxiviere	Alpine A480	HYPERCAR	4	1'36.489	1.073	0.154
4	Mike Conway Kamui Kobayashi Jose Maria Lopez	Toyota GR010 - Hybrid	HYPERCAR	4	1'36.919	1.503	0.430
5	Loic Duval Gustavo Menezes James Rossiter	Peugeot 9X8	HYPERCAR	4	1'37.253	1.837	0.334
6	Philip Hanson Filipe Albuquerque Will Owen	Oreca 07	LMP2	4	1'38.403	2.987	1.150
7	Miro Konopka Tijmen van der Helm Mathias Beche	Oreca 07	LMP2	4	1'38.731	3.315	0.328
8	Rui Andrade Ferdinand Habsburg Norman Nato	Oreca 07	LMP2	4	1'38.780	3.364	0.049
9	François Perrodo Nicklas Nielsen Alessio Rovera	Oreca 07	LMP2	4	1'38.817	3.401	0.037
10	Thomas Steven James Allen Rene Binder	Oreca 07	LMP2	4	1'39.122	3.706	0.305
11	Robert Kubica Louis Deletraz Lorenzo Colombo	Oreca 07	LMP2	4	1'39.203	3.787	0.081
12	Nico Müller Ryan Cullen Sébastien Bourdais	Oreca 07	LMP2	4	1'39.481	4.065	0.278
13	Sean Gelael Robin Frijns René Rast	Oreca 07	LMP2	4	1'39.654	4.238	0.173
14	Lilou Wadoux Paul-Loup Chatin Charles Milesi	Oreca 07	LMP2	4	1'39.682	4.266	0.028
15	Jakub Smiechowski Alex Brundle Esteban Gutierrez	Oreca 07	LMP2	4	1'39.692	4.276	0.010
16	Roberto Gonzalez Antonio Felix da Costa Will Stevens	Oreca 07	LMP2	4	1'39.723	4.307	0.031
17	Jean Baptiste Lahaye Matthieu Lahaye François Heriau	Oreca 07	LMP2	4	1'40.387	4.971	0.664
18	Oliver Rasmussen Edward Jones Jonathan Aberdein	Oreca 07	LMP2	4	1'44.763	9.347	4.376
19	Alex Lynn Oliver Jarvis Josh Pierson	Oreca 07	LMP2	4	1'39.159	3.743
20	Paul di Resta Mikkel Jensen Jean-Eric Vergne	Peugeot 9X8	HYPERCAR	2
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Cla	Drivers	Car	Class	Laps	Avg Time	Gap	Interval
1	Alessandro Pier Guidi James Calado	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE PRO	4	1'45.270
2	Tommy Milner Nick Tandy	Chevrolet Corvette C8.R	LMGTE PRO	6	1'45.324	0.054	0.054
3	Miguel Molina Antonio Fuoco	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE PRO	5	1'45.328	0.058	0.004
4	Gianmaria Bruni Richard Lietz	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE PRO	5	1'45.804	0.534	0.476
5	Michael Christensen Kevin Estre	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE PRO	5	1'46.024	0.754	0.220
6	Rahel Frey Michelle Gatting Sarah Bovy	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	6	1'47.431	2.161	1.407
7	Ben Keating Henrique Chaves Jr. Marco Sorensen	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	6	1'47.658	2.388	0.227
8	Christian Ried Sebastian Priaulx Harry Tincknell	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM	5	1'48.206	2.936	0.548
9	Simon Mann Christoph Ulrich Toni Vilander	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	5	1'48.296	3.026	0.090
10	Thomas Flohr Francesco Castellacci Nick Cassidy	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	5	1'48.406	3.136	0.110
11	Paul Dalla Lana David Pittard Nicki Thiim	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	5	1'48.534	3.264	0.128
12	Brendan Iribe Ollie Millroy Ben Barnicoat	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM	6	1'48.813	3.543	0.279
13	Michael Wainwright Riccardo Pera Benjamin Barker	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM	6	1'48.842	3.572	0.029
14	Matteo Cairoli Mikkel Pedersen Nicolas Leutwiler	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM	6	1'48.966	3.696	0.124
15	Satoshi Hoshino Tomonobu Fujii Charlie Fagg	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	6	1'48.987	3.717	0.021
16	Franck Dezoteux Pierre Ragues Gabriel Aubry	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	6	1'49.990	4.720	1.003
17	Fred Poordad Patrick Lindsey Jan Heylen	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM	5	1'50.221	4.951	0.231
18	Claudio Schiavoni Matteo Cressoni Giancarlo Fisichella	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	5	1'50.296	5.026	0.075
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