Antonio Giovinazzi has a pillar of Qatar 1812km, the opening round of 2025 Fia World Endurance ChampionShip, and has deployed #51 AF Corse Ferrari 499p on the timing screen, and united autosports MCLARENS achieved the full heat lock in the LMGT3 class.
The EX-Formula 1 driver in Italy was ashamed of taking the last pioneering time of 1: 38.359 to the #20 bmw M hybrid V8 of Dries Vanthoor to secure the first WEC’s top-end pole position of the Bavarian manufacturer.
After securing one in COTA in 2024, it was marked as the second pillar of Giovinazzi in the last four rounds. Ferrari AF CORSE has become the fourth team with five entire pillars, depending on Audi, Toyota and Porsche LMP1 teams. This is also the second time that 499P has been qualified for Season Open’s Paul since SEBRING’s 2023 CURTAIN-RAISER.
The third location was the #50 AF CORSE FERARI driven by Antonio Fuoco. With the second line of Ferrari on the second line of the grid, Cadillac V-Series.rs, run by the HERTZ team Jota Squad, was better. Alex Lynn has the fastest time in the #12 car, and his team member, SEBASTIEN BOURDAIS, has qualified for the fifth place #30 cars and has finished a strong start for a new team manufacturer.
The second BMW, led by Robin Frijns, ranked sixth, and two BMWs joined Ferrari and Cadillac in sixth place. The top 10 is finished by #7 Toyota Gazoo Hypercar, #83 AF Corse Ferrari, #35 Alpine and #93 Peugeot Totalenergies.
LMGT3’s MCLAREN full heat lock
MCLARENS of the United Autosports secured the first pole position of the 2025 season, claiming the second consecutive WEC 1-2 in the qualifiers with #95 Mclaren LMGT3, driven by Sean Gelael. Gelael started Mclaren’s career with a perfect rap ahead of the Serite #59 UNITED AUTOSPORTS MCLAREN driven by Sebastien Baud driven by Sebastien Baud. This pillar was the first of Gelael in WEC.
This pillar was the first of Gelael in WEC. MCLAREN now has the largest number of pillars in LMGT3 and three with three names. The United Autosports became the first team to insist on continuous LMGT3 pole along the front line lock in Bahrain and Qatar.
MCLARENS has reached a hyperpol session thanks to the efforts of Daren Leung and James Cotingham, respectively. It was the first time that a new regulation was mandatory for silver ranking drivers to run in a hyperpol session.
The third in the grid of tomorrow is the #78 Akkodis ASP Lexus driving by Finn Gehrsitz, a WEC rookie. Joining Lexus in the second line is #54 Vista AF CORSE FERRARI 296 LMGT3 run by Francesco Castellacci.
