The two Porsche 919 Hybrids start from second row on the grid

June 16, 2017 Tim Havermans 919, Andre Lotterer, Brendon Hartley, Earl Bamber, FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC), Le Mans 24H, LMP1, Neel Jani, Nick Tandy, Timo Bernhard

Porsche 919 Hybrid, Porsche LMP Team: Neel Jani, Andre Lotterer, Nick Tandy

Drivers Porsche 919 Hybrid car number 1:

Neel Jani (33, Switzerland): “Toyota put in a great performance but we’ve been happy to concentrate on our race preparation rather than go for single ‘qually’ laps again at night. That has gone very well for us today so we’re looking good for the race.”

André Lotterer (35, Germany): “We tried different tyres on the cars, getting good information for the race, especially for the night. All in all, it worked according to plan. Neel’s qualifying lap was affected by traffic, but it is not easy to get the timing right. We cannot go the speed of the Toyotas, so I hope we can go through the race without problems.”

Porsche 919 Hybrid, Porsche LMP Team: Earl Bamber, Timo Bernhard, Brendon Hartley

Nick Tandy (32, Great Britain): “We have done a really good job in race week so far. We’ve made excellent progress from the test day two weeks ago with the team working perfectly through our program over the past two days. The car is the best handling one through the corners I’ve ever had here at Le Mans which is a good sign. Our race pace is strong and is also consistent.“

Drivers Porsche 919 Hybrid car number 2

Earl Bamber (26, New Zealand): “With every lap over the past two days the car has improved. I believe we have a very good race car for the weekend. Toyota’s qualifying pace is definitely impressive but our lap times looking ahead to the actual race are very good.”

Timo Bernhard (36, Germany): “I’m really looking forward to the race and can’t wait for it to get started on Saturday afternoon. The balance of the car felt really good tonight – we’ve a really nice car for the race.”

Brendon Hartley (27, New Zealand): “We feel we have a really good race car. Timo for the fourth year in a row had traffic on his ‘qually’ lap. That was unfortunate but obviously today we saw a very good job from Toyota. The time from Kamui Kobayashi would have been hard to beat. I didn’t do many laps in the very last session because we had to stop early but we feel very happy with the race car.”