Cadillac has taken a maiden pole for the 2025 24 Hours of Le Mans,𝕴 with Alex Lynn in the No.12 leading a Jota 1-2 ahead of the No.💙38 in a thrilling Hyperpole.

The American manufacturer came into the f🍨inal Hyperpole session on Thursday night at Le Mans having topped every session on the way𝓀 into the pole shootout.

In what proved to be a tight session, Alex Lynn in the No.12 Jota-run Cadillac sไnatched top spot in the dying seconds withꦓ a 3m23.166s lap.

He le💎d Jota team-mate Earl Bamber in the No.38 car, who jumped up to second with his final lap to shuffle the No.5 Porsche Penske Motorsportꦅ car to third.

It was a shocking evening for reigning Le Mans winners Ferrari, who only managed ♋to get one car into Hyperpole 2, with the No.50 ❀car only seventh on the grid.

Porsche set the pace in the early part of Hyperpole 2 with the No.5 car driven by Mathieu Jaꦦminet, who set the benchmark at 3m23.475s on☂ his first lap.

He led a Porsche 1-2 in the early stages of Hyperpole 2, before 𒉰Alex Lynn split the 963s in the fina🎃l five minutes in the No.12 Jota Cadillac.

A stellar final lap from the Briton saw him produce a 3m23.166s to snatch a 700th pole away from Roger Penske, with Earl Bamber in the No.38 Jota 🎃Cadillac 0.167s adrift with his final lap to l🐓ock out the front row in second.

Porsche heldﷺ onto third with the No.5 car, while the No.15 WRT BMW driven by Dries Vanthoor was fouꩵrth.

Disaster almost stru🀅ck Porsche in Hyperpole 1, as a wheel worked its way loo𒅌se from the No.5 car.

The No.4 Porsche Pℱenske car of Nick Tandy was fifth fastest in Hyperpole, with the No.20 BMW Team WRT car driven by Sheldon van der Linde six꧟th.

Ferrari lost the No.51 car and the No.83 AF Corse cus💖tomer car in Hyperpole 1, as ꦬboth failed to crack the top 10 cut-off.

With Antonio Fuoco behind the wheel, last year’s Le Mans-winning No.50 car was only seventh fastest and 1.04ౠ7s off the paceಌ.

The No.311 W൲helen Cadillac, that top🃏ped Hyperpole 1, was eighth in the end ahead of the No.36 Alpine of Fred Makowiecki and the No.8 Toyota.

Sebastien Buemi’s Hyperpole 2 was ended on his first flying 🌺lap when he suffered a puncture into the Mulsanne corner and couldn’t get the No.8 car to the pits in time.

The No.51 Ferrari will start 11th 🌠f♏rom the No.35 Alpine, the No. 83 AF Corse car, the No.101 WTR Cadillac and the No.009 Aston Martin.

TDS Racing leads the LMP2 class, Aston tops LMGT3

A tight LMP2 qualifying went the way of﷽ the No.29 TDS Racing entry driven by Matias Beche, as he put in a 3m35.062s ahead of th𓂃e No.43 Inter Europol entry driven by Tom Dillmann.

In the LMGT3 class, pole went to 🐷the No.27 Heart of Racing Aston Martin, while the No.46 Team WRT BMW driven by Valentino Rossi in Hyperpole 2 was third.

Full qualifying results for the 2025 24 Hours of Le Mans