The #35 Alpine, driven by Ferdinand Habsburg, went fastest in the first Hypercar qualifying for the 2026 24 Hours of Le Mans.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The Austrian, who thanked his mother afterwards for believing in him, safely got his car through to the Thursday evening grid-setting showdowns, beating the #12 Cadillac Hertz Team Jota and the #101 Cadillac WTR.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Stoffel Vandoorne in the #93 Peugeot, the #83 AF Corse Ferrari, which won the legendary race outright last year, and the #94 Peugeot failed to make it through and will start P16 to P18, respectively, at the Circuit de la Sarthe in France.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
The top 15 entries from each of the three classes progress to tomorrow’s Hyperpole qualifying sessions, retaining the opportunity to secure the best starting position for its representative group.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
In LMP2, Doriane Pin secured the quickest time for the #30 Duqueine Team machine, ahead of the #37 CLX Motorsport car and the #343 Inter Europol Competition entry.\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
For LMGT3, the #34 Racing Team Turkey by TF, driven by Peter Dempsey, topped the timing board, from the #77 Proton Competition and the #23 Heart of Racing Team, however, on Thursday morning, the car was disqualified for the rear diffuser strake height being illegal, meaning it moves to the back, with the #77 Proton moving up to class pole.\u00a0\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n
Check out the qualifying results for the 2026 Le Mans 24 Hours below! The Hypercar table is being updated…\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The #35 Alpine, driven by Ferdinand Habsburg, went fastest in the first Hypercar qualifying for the 2026 24…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":472059,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[3518,3521,3519,3522,3520,3517,3515,3513,3516,3514,111,139,69,3512,213],"class_list":["post-472058","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","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-motorsport","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz","tag-racing","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472058","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=472058"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/472058\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/472059"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=472058"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=472058"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=472058"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}