For the second time in three years, Ferrari’s Antonio Giovinazzi has secured pole place for Lone Star Le Mans, spherical 5 of the 2026 FIA World Endurance Championship, after prevailing within the closest Hyperpole session within the sequence’ historical past.
When Giovinazzi displaced Cadillac Hertz Staff JOTA’s Jack Aitken to vault to the top of the order behind the wheel of the #51 automotive he shares with fellow defending world champions James Calado and Alessandro Pier Guidi, the job appeared to be completed – however Aitken was not but completed.
Digging deep, the Briton matched his Italian rival’s pace-setting effort to the thousandth of a second, however with Giovinazzi having posted the time first, it’s the Ferrari that may line up on pole, with Aitken’s #38 Cadillac V-Collection.R alongside, setting the scene for a sensational scrap for supremacy.
Underscoring the fiercely shut nature of the ten-minute shootout, Charles Milesi snatched third within the #35 Alpine Endurance Staff A424, a mere 0.029s adrift of the benchmark time, with Harry Tincknell subsequent up in Aston Martin THOR Staff’s #007 Valkyrie.
The 5 hundredths of a second that separated the highest 4 Hypercars – all fielded by completely different producers – represents the closest hole within the championship’s 106 occasions to this point, eclipsing the earlier document set at Imola in April.
In LMGT3, in the meantime, Aston Martin outfit Coronary heart of Racing Staff locked out the entrance row of the grid, as Eduardo Barrichello secured the British marque’s third consecutive pole place within the championship and his third pole from 4 Hyperpole appearances in FIA WEC, an unrivalled achievement within the fiercely contested production-based class.
Lone Star Le Mans will get underway at 13:00 native time (GMT-5) on Sunday, 6 September.
