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[bud]

Yep they are on Eau Rouge.

[scotty]

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[What's Burning?]

Hadn't thought about it but I guess that's how the F1 cars will also sound when on pit lane under electric power only.

Q; will getting the cars into reverse be a snap now due to the electric motors?

[scotty]

^^ Not sure about reverse, but you would assume they can use the electric motors which would be easier than trying to get the gearbox to select reverse. Not sure really. Only just saw the post, soz!

And the news i came to this thread to post...

Toyota driver Alex Wurz snatched pole position for Saturday's Sao Paulo 6 Hours on his first flying lap of World Endurance Championship qualifying.

Wurz set a time of 1m22.871s aboard the solo Toyota TS030 Hybrid to claim pole from sportscar newcomer Lucas di Grassi in the Audi R18 ultra around the 2.68-mile Interlagos circuit.

The Austrian then shaved half a second from his time to record a 1m22.363s on his second lap to go nearly eight tenths clear at the head of the timesheets and give Toyota's current programme its first pole.

"I am very pleased to bring home this pole position," said Wurz, who share the TS030 with Nicolas Lapierre.

"We said at the beginning of this project that if in year one we could make a pole, it would be a dream.

"We are using new technology in a car made against the clock, so with this gap I am extremely happy."

Wurz dedicated his pole to ex-Formula 1 medical delegate Sid Watkins, who died earlier this week at the age of 84.

Third place went to the hybrid Audi R18 e-tron quattro driven by Andre Lotterer. The German was just under two tenths shy of his team-mate.

The fastest privateer LMP1 runner was Neel Jani in the Rebellion Racing Lola-Toyota B12/60. The Swiss shaded Danny Watts in the Strakka Racing HPD ARX-03a by just over a tenth.

Honours in the closely-fought LMP2 class went to Stephane Sarrazin in the Starworks HPD ARX-03b. His best lap of 1m27.048s compared with John Martin's second-place time of 1m27.153s.

Aston Martin Racing claimed its first GTE Pro class pole. Darren Turner ended up two tenths quicker than Marc Lieb in the Felbermayr-Proton Porsche 911 GT3-RSR.

Enrique Bernoldi took GTE Am qualifying honours in the AF Corse/Waltrip Ferrari 458 Italia.

Glad to see this, hopefully they can start to really take it to Audi.

[vlad]

GO, Toyota, go!!! The fight should be great!

[LewEngBridewell]

I wish Toyota had cracked F1. I was always fond of that team.

[vlad]

Thank Glock for that... Oh, wait... I said the forbidden thing...

[andrew]

o you have Glock to thank for something else far worse.

[vlad]

We are thinking on the same thing...

[andrew]

That's 'cos the Force is stong amoung Red Bull fans.