SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 2020 14 seal front row Conway-Kobayashi-Lopez clinch pole in #7 TS050 Hybrid for 8 Hours of Bahrain at BIC, narrowly ahead of teammates Buemi- Nakajima-Hartley in #8 TS050

Pole-sitters Conway- Kobayashi-Lopez• earned a point in qualifying, It went well in qualifying and my lap narrowing the gap to was clean. I didn’t points leaders Buemi- want to make any Nakajima-Hartley in the mistakes, that was title fight for the FIA the priority, so I am World Endurance LMP happy to be in the Drivers’ Championship best possible starting position going into TDT | Manama turn one MIKE CONWAY, PART OF #7 CREW OF oyota Gazoo Racing TOYOTA GAZOO RACING sealed the front row last night for today’s FIA WEC three, the #8 crew set the pace T The #7 TS050 Hybrid in action 8 Hours of Bahrain at Bahrain at 1:43.557. International Circuit (BIC) in Sakhir. Class leaders QUALIFYING TOP 6 (Average lap time) The trio of Mike Conway, Pole-sitters, from left, Lopez, Kobayashi, and Conway after qualifying Meanwhile, amongst the LMP2 1 #7 Toyota Gazoo Racing (Conway/Kobayashi/Lopez) 1:40.747secs; Kamui Kobayashi and Jose runners, United Autosports con- Maria Lopez landed their #7 trio. ifying was not really important tinued their superb run of form 2 #8 Toyota Gazoo Racing (Buemi/Nakajima/Hartley) +0.751secs; TS050 Hybrid in pole for the Conway-Kobayashi-Lopez for us here so we completely with their fourth pole in class 3 #22 United Autosports (Hanson/Albuquerque/di Resta) +6.693secs; final round of the 2019/2020 earned a point for taking pole, focused on the race. In general, for the season. Paul Di Resta and 4 #37 Jackie Chan DC Racing (Tung/Aubry/Stevens) +7.491secs; FIA World Endurance Champi- reducing the deficit in the stand- it has been quite a challenging Phil Hanson took to the wheel onship (WEC). ings to six behind Buemi-Naka- weekend for us, as we have a lot of the #22 Oreca 07 Gibson to 5 #36 Signatech Alpine Elf (Laurent/Negrao/Ragues) +7.723secs; The result put them in prime jima-Hartley. of tyre degradation on the long set an average time of 1:47.440. 6 #38 JOTA (Gonzalez/da Costa/Davidson) +8.154secs position to secure the highly “I am pleased with pole po- runs. We do not feel super com- Jackie Chan DC Racing will start coveted drivers’ title for the sea- sition and another point,” said fortable and we have no more today’s race second out of the six in their #95 Vantage AMR. Just Vantage AMR of Paul Dalla Lana son, but their closest challengers Conway. “It went well in qualify- time on the track to try anything LMP2 crews competing in Sakh- 0.068s behind was the #92 Por- and Ross Gunn combining to set and Toyota teammates Sebas- ing and my lap was clean. I didn’t new before the race, so we have ir, while third will be the #36 sche GT Team’s duo of Kevin a best time of 1:58.356. Second in tien Buemi, Kazuki Nakajima want to make any mistakes, that to look into the data and try to Signatech Alpine Alf of French Estre and Michael Christensen class were another Aston Martin and Brendon Hartley in the #8 was the priority, so I am happy maximise the performance of duo Thomas Laurent and Pierre in their Porsche 911 RSR-19, while in TF Sport’s Jonny Adam and TS050 Hybrid will be right be- to be in the best possible starting the car for the race.” Ragues. making it three different manu- Salih Yoluc, while third were the side them at the 2pm race start. position going into turn one. Earlier in the day yesterday, In the LMGTE Pro class, As- facturers in the category’s lead- #62 Red River Sport The #7 crew registered a two- “It is nice to have pole com- both Toyota cars were also atop ton Martin Racing’s GT World ing positions were the #51 AF GTE EVO of Kei Cozzolino and lap average of one minute 40.747 fortably. That’s one part of the the timesheet following the two Championship points-leading Corse Ferrari 488 GTE EVO of Bonamy Grimes. seconds in qualifying, held long weekend out of the way and now practice sessions. pair of and Marco and Daniel Serra. after sunset under the bright we focus on the most important In the second practice of the Sorensen claimed their second In the LMGTE Am category, (Down to the wire: five WEC floodlights of BIC. They were day.” weekend, the #7 had a best lap pole of the season with a com- completed titles to be decided today - on 0.751secs quicker than the #8 Nakajima commented: “Qual- of 1:42.857, while in practice bined average time of 1:56.521 a qualifying double with the #98 Page 11)

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