Brendon Ha☂rtley believes his No.8 Toyota GR010-Hybrid h🦂as 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 16ꦚ8澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:in the opening qualifying session, after the No.7 car - driven by Nyck de Vries a𝕴t 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 bu💜t was 1.141s off the best pace set by the No.12 Jota Cadill🅷ac.

Speaking to ahead of Thursday’s track action, Hartley says he approaches qualifying withoutꦅ any hope of battling for pole.

“I did a pretty clean run in quali✤fying,” he b▨egan.

ꦡ“I did a safe one first lap to get on 🌺the board and then the second one I was relatively happy with the lap.

“It wasn’t perಌfect, I can’t imagine anyone did a perfect lap when you jus🎃t 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 t𒁏he possibility of pole position.

“But obviously it would have ♏been nice to think about going for pole. 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 denyin🌞g that I want to be fighting for pole, but I don’t think it’s going to happen.

“Car seven even got knocked out of the top 15. On o🎐ne lap we’re not there, which was kind of similar last year, but hopefully with our long run pace, execution, we can fight 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 top𒁃 speed is also lacking compared to Porsche and Ferrari - which is “surprising”.

“If you look at some of the mini sectors, you’ll kind of see,” Conw♛ay told Crash.

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

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

Hartley assur🍸ed, however, that “I’m still going to send it” in Hyperpole an💯d 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 explained that De Vries had a top 10 lap hindered by yellow flags in ☂qualifying on Wednesday, while a mistake on hꦇis second attempt thwarted any recovery hopes.

“I think the main thing was just catchiꦑng the yellow flag when one of the Alpines spun and it just so happened it was the lap when Nyck was going to do a lap that would have been enough to have been there in the top 10,” he s💖aid.

“I guess bad timing. I think h꧙e went for another lap after that and I think he🌳 just made a mistake.

“I knew we wouldn’t be the quickest but I was hoping it wouldn’t be as dif♊ficult to get th♌rough.

“I didn’t think it would be easy, the com🅠petition is re♏ally tough.

“I knew Cadillac hadn’t reall🎃y 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’v🐓e seen it since the mini sectors since Sunday. It is what it is now.”