{"id":730640,"date":"2026-06-11T23:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-06-11T23:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/730640\/"},"modified":"2026-06-11T23:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-06-11T23:36:09","slug":"2026-le-mans-24-hours-qualifying-hyperpole-results","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/730640\/","title":{"rendered":"2026 Le Mans 24 Hours Qualifying &#8211; Hyperpole results"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The #38 Cadillac has taken pole position for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, with Jack Aitken delivering the crucial time to top the timesheet.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>In a highly dramatic session, Aitken&#8217;s last effort put him just 0.005s ahead of Dries Vanthoor in the #15 &#8211; marking the closest pole position margin in Le Mans history.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>However, the #38 entry is under investigation, and may yet lose pole position.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The #12 Cadillac rounded out the top three in Hypercar, with Alpine managing a strong result to get the #35 into fourth.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Genesis also put on an impressive showing, as it got both its cars into the top 10.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>In LMP2, Esteban Masson drove the #29 entry to the top of the times with a strong effort to go three-tenths faster than the next competitor.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>The Forestier Racing team beat the IDEC Sport car to take bragging rights in the category ahead of Saturday&#8217;s race.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>In LMGT3, it was the #27 Aston Martin driven by Mattia Drudi for the Heart of Racing Team who topped the times, an impressive one second ahead of the next car.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>*UPDATE: The #38 has been demoted to 10th after being penalised for leaving the pit lane too early. The #15 pole has been promoted to pole.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n<p>Check out the full qualifying results after hyperpole below!\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The #38 Cadillac has taken pole position for the 24 Hours of Le Mans, with Jack Aitken delivering&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":730641,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[572],"tags":[64,63,827,830,828,831,829,826,813,823,825,806,805,824,803,804,822,85],"class_list":["post-730640","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-motosport","tag-au","tag-australia","tag-daniel-ricciardo","tag-f1-calendar","tag-f1-live","tag-f1-results","tag-f1-standings","tag-ferrari","tag-formula-1","tag-lewis-hamilton","tag-max-verstappen","tag-motor","tag-motor-sports","tag-motorsport","tag-motosport","tag-motosports","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730640","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=730640"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/730640\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/730641"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=730640"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=730640"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=730640"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}