Porsche on pole at Le Mans 2015
It can’t get much better for Porsche at Le Mans, taking the first three grid positions for today’s race. The trio of turbo/hybrid V4 919’s have shown incredible pace during each qualifying session, hopefully this pace is also reliable enough to be sustained over the full race distance.
To put their relative speed into perspective:
It is the fastest pole lap set at Le Mans since the introduction of the chicanes on the Mulsanne Straight, and the sixth fastest in history in terms of laptime regardless of configuration.
It is also the first Porsche to take pole at Le Mans since Michele Alboreto in the Joest WSC 95 in 1997.