Brendon Hartley believes his No.8 Toyota GR010-Hybrid has no hope of fighting for pole on Th🐼ursday for the 2025 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Toyota endured a difficult evening at Le Mans on Wednesday 168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 at the time - failed to get into the top 15 cutoff to progress into Thursda🃏y’s Hyperpole session.

The No.8 car, which Hartley shares with Sebastien Buemi and Ryo Hirakawa, did progress but was 1.141s off the best pace set by the No.12 Jota C🐽adillac.

Speaking to ahead of Thursday’s track action, Hartley says he approaches qualif🐼ying without any hope of battling for pole.

“I did a pretty clean run in qualifying�🐷�,” he began.

“I did a safe one first lap to get on the b🌜oard and then the second one I was relatively happy with the lap.

“It wasn’t ♉perfect, I can’t imagine anyone did a perfect lap when you just one or two opportunities around here.

“That got us through to Hyperpole, but lookinജg 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 the 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 car♌s who are faster than us over one lap.

“In th🦩e end, we want to🀅 win the race. No denying 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 one lap we’re not there, which was kind of simi☂lar last year, but hopefully with our long run pace, execution, we can fight back in the race.”

Hartley says the GRꦦ010-Hybrid is lacking in the high-speed sections, while team-mate in the No.7 car Mike Conway says top speed is also la✱cking compared to Porsche and Ferrari - which is “surprising”.

“I🍒f you look at some of th🦂e mini sectors, you’ll kind of see,” Conway told Crash.

“Top speed, the Porsche and Ferra💯ri look very good - we’re lacking a bit there, which we’re a bit surprise🥂d about.

“Then through some of the mini sectors, like Porsche Curves, we’re definitely not good enough there. And there’s you🏅r one second qualy [gain]🌸 that you want.”

Hartley assured, however, that “I’m still going𓂃 to send it” in Hyperpole and believes there is “roo🅷m 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 Wednesd🍬ay, while a mistake on his second attempt thwarted any recovery hopes.

“I think the main thing was just catching the yellow flag when o🀅ne of the Alpines spun and it just so happened it was the la✅p when Nyck was going to do a lap that would have been enough to have been there in the top 10,” he said.

“I guess bad timing. I think he 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 difficult to get through.

“I didn’t think it would 𝐆be easy, the competition is rea𒊎lly tough.

“I knew Cadillac hadn’t really ꧋shown whaღt they could do.

“⛄They kind of did that last year as well, kept a bit till qualifying and they were 🅰very quick. We’ve seen it since the mini sectors since Sunday. It is what it is now.”