Le Mans 2015: Porsche on pole for historic battle at Sarthe

Porsche are flying! They demonstrated this during the first qualifying session of the 2015 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans at the Circuit de la Sarthe. The time of 3min 16.887sec that Neel Jani set in the No.18 Porsche 919 during the first qualifying session proved to be unbeatable. In fact the lap time was so terrific it broke the Le Mans pole record set back in 1989.

The second Porsche, the No.17, with Timo Bernhard at the wheel took second spot on the grid, with Nicky Tandy’s No.19 car third on the grid.

It was defending champions Audi who took the next three positions on the grid. The No.8 car of Lucas di Grassi, Loic Duval and Olivier Jarvis managed to take fourth on the grid, followed by 2014 winners in the No.7 car - Andre Lotterer, Benoit Treluyer and Marcel Fassler in fifth. Felipe Albuquerque managed …

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