The automotive pushed by Antonio Fuoco to a second consecutive WEC pole place in Friday afternoon’s Hyperpole session by a margin of 0.507s has misplaced all of its instances from qualifying and can now begin from the rear of the Hypercar discipline for Saturday’s 6 Hour race.
The #5 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963 LMDh will now assume pole place after Matt Campbell pipped the only Chip Ganassi-run Cadillac V-Series.R of Alex Lynn by 0.008s.
The stewards report mentioned: “After having checked the Technical Delegate report, the stewards thought of the minimal automotive weight didn’t adjust to the related rules.
“Consequently, the Stewards decided to impose the disqualification of car 50 of the qualifying and hyperpole sessions and the deletion of the lap times of these sessions.”
Fuoco had logged a finest time of 2m02.600s to place a margin of 0.507s between himself and closest challenger Campbell.
That effort was fractionally slower than the 2m02.462s Fuoco had managed within the first qualifying session which set the top 10 that progressed to Hyperpole.
A Ferrari assertion mentioned the automotive “was found to be around 1 kg under the minimum weight mandated by regulations” and attributed the discrepancy to a brand new element fitted to the rear finish after harm was incurred in collision with one other automotive throughout FP3.
His team-mate James Calado within the #51 entry admitted that he “screwed up” as he missed the reduce by 0.021s to Lynn.
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The #95 United Autosports McLaren 720S EVO has additionally misplaced its second place within the LMGT3 class for a similar infringement.
Josh Caygill had been 0.337s shy of polesitter Sarah Bovy’s Iron Dames Lamborghini Huracan within the delayed Hyperpole session that was red-flagged early on following Alexander Malykhin’s crash at Raidillon.
Caygill, Nico Pino and Marino Sato may also have to begin from the again of the 18-car grid.
