Toyota Denied As Audi Take Pole In Japan By @James_Newbold Audi once again took pole position for the 6 Hours of Fuji, as Andre Lotterer/ Benoit Treluyer/ Marcel Fassler denied Toyota on home soil. The reigning WEC champions set a four-lap average of 1m26.577s, to pip Anthony Davidson/ Sebastien Buemi/ Stephane Sarrazin by just two tenths of a second. In their first appearance since Le Mans, the no. 7 Toyota crew of Alex Wurz, Nicolas Lapierre/ Kazuki Nakajima were a further tenth back in third, pushing championship leaders Allan McNish/ Tom Kristensen/ Loic Duval down to fourth, ahead of the sole Rebellion Lola of Andrea Belicchi/ Mathias Beche, with regulars Nick Heidfeld and Nicolas Prost away competing in the Petit Le Mans this weekend. In LMP2, the Le Mans winning crew of Martin Plowman/ Bertrand Baguette/ Ricardo Gonzalez claimed top spot, ahead of the in-form G-Drive crew of Mike Conway/ John Martin/ Roman Rusinov, which won the past two races in Sao Paolo and Texas. Japan-based Swede Bjorn Wirdheim returned to the Greaves Zytek after impressing in Brazil and was third fastest alongside his regular Super GT co-driver Katsuyuki Hiranaka and Masayuki Ueda. Aston Martin tinkered with their line-up before the event, slotting Fred Makowiecki alongside Darren Turner and Stefan Mucke in GTE-Pro no. 97 to reprise the dominant winning crew from the British round of the Blancpain Series, with Bruno Senna moving over to the no. 95 GTE-Am Aston in place of Nicki Thiim. The move paid off handsomely, Aston Martin taking both GTE class poles, with another Aston, that of Pedro Lamy/ Richie Stanaway, second in GTE-Pro, ahead of Giancarlo Fisichella/ Gianmaria Bruni’s Ferrari, the sole represented in qualifying after a technical fault side-lined Toni Vilander and fan favourite Kamui Kobayashi.
Posted on: Sat, 19 Oct 2013 10:17:05 +0000
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