Silverstone Six Hours FIA/WEC Qualifying

Confused? ... you will be.

Now.. this might be interesting! Are you sitting comfortably? Then I will begin …

Two nominated drivers from each car must set at least two timed laps during qualifying. The average of the four best lap times (the best two lap times of each driver) will then serve as the reference time for establishing the grid. Also you can only use one set of tyres…

To add to the excitement the qualifying session is just twenty minutes long, interesting if there are three drivers who need to do three laps to qualify! This might not work so we assume that the third driver will have qualified by taking part in free practice. Well that is the theory anyway .. let’s sit back and see if it works! One thing is certain there won’t be time to pussy foot about !

WEC qualifying is in two sessions, the first for LMGTE Pro and LMGTE Am and the second for LMP1 and LMP2.

By the way LMPC is for those curious Le Mans specials that we have seen on an off over the last couple of years. Qualifying for LMGT is now over and it is far from clear what on earth happened… The teams, drivers and commentators are none the wiser either. Incidentally we hear that The ACO have chosen not to adapt this system for Le Mans, maybe a wise decision!

Now we are ready for LMP1 and LMP2 so let’s see what happens next..

They have all gone out and come straight back in for wet tyres so that is a precious ‘lost lap’. To be fair we have been told that the new timing system has not worked at least for the first session and the times etc will be worked out after the session when the data has been downloaded from the cars.

We are not sure if things are working any better for the second session, we have been told by the organisers it isn't to be relied on. This is even trickier with a wet/dry session, tyre changes, driver changes . But all is clearly not well since apparently Audi got credited with 12 laps but the team said there was only enough fuel for 10 !

So no results for the moment while they sort out 17 official protests ! Come back later and hopefully we will have some more info for you .. it could be a long night for the Race Stewards.