Brendon Hartley believes his No.8 Toyota GR010꧒-Hybrid has no hope of fighting for pole on Thursday for the 2025 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Toyota endured a difficult evening at Le Mans on Wednesday 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:in the openi🤪ng qualifying session, after the No.7 car - driven by Nyck d♔e Vries at the time - failed to get into the top 15 cutoff to progress into Thursday’s Hyperpole session.

The No.8 car, which Hartley shares with Sebastien Buemi and Ryo Hirakawa, did progress but was 1.141s off ♒the best pace set by the No.12 𝐆Jota Cadillac.

Speaking to ahead of Thursday’s track action, Hartley says he approaches qualifying💃 without any hope of battling for pole.

“I did a pr🦩etty clean run in quali💦fying,” he began.

“I did a safe one first lap to get on the boar🧸d and then the second one I was relatively happy with the lap.

“It wasn’t perfectܫ, I can’t imagine anyone did a perfect lap when you just one or two opportunities around here.

“That got us through to Hyperpole, but looking at that we realised we definitely don’t have the speed to be on pole position with our car here, which in one way I would say is fine, we move our focus onto the race car and not even dream about the possiඣbility of pole position.

“But obviously it would have been nice to think about going for pole.𒈔 But looking at yesterday, there’s a lot of cars who are faster than us over one lap.

“In the end, we want to win the race. No denying that I want to be fighting for pole, but I don’t think it’s going toꦉ happen.

“Car seven even got knocked out of the top 15. On one lap we’re not there, which was kind of similar last year, but hopefully with our long run pace, execution, we can f🦹ight back in the race.”

Hartley says the GR010-Hybrid is lacking in the high-speed sections, while team-mate in the No.7 car Mike Conway says top speed is also lacking compared to Porsche and Ferrari - which i🐼s “surprising”.

“If you look at some of the mini sectors, you’ll kind of see,” Conway t🃏old Crash.

“Top speed,ౠ the Porsche and Ferrari look very good - we’re lacking a bit there, which we’re a bit surprised about.

“Then through some of the mini sectors, like Porsche Curves, we’re definitely not good enough there. And there’s your one🐭 second qualy [gain] that yဣou want.”

Hartley𓆏 assured, however, that “I’m still going to send it” in Hyperpole and believes there is “room for improvement” on his part to find more lap time, with at top 10 “already good”.

No.7 qualifying exit at 24 Hour of Le Mans explained

Conway expl🎉ained that De Vries had a top 10 lap hindered by yellow flags in qualifying on Wednesday, while a mistake on his second attempt thwarted any recovery hopes.

“I think the main thing was just catching the yellow flag when one of the Alpines spun and it just so happened it was the lap when Nyck was goi🙈ng to do a lap that would have been enough to have been there in the top 10,” he said.

“I guess bad timing. I think he wenꦦt for another lap after that and I think he just made a mistake.

“I knew🐻 we wouldn’t be the q𝄹uickest but I was hoping it wouldn’t be as difficult to get through.

“I didn’t thin🐈k it would be easy, the competitio𓂃n is really tough.

“I knew Cadill🌞ac hadn’t really shown what they could do.

“They kind of did that last year as well, kept a bit till qualifying and they were very quick. We’ve seen it since th🅷e mini sectors since Sunday. It is whatꦦ it is now.”