Ferrari on the fourth row at the 24 Hours of Le Mans

The 93rd edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans will see the number 50 499P start from seventh place, thanks to the time set in Hyperpole by Antonio Fuoco, while the sister car entered by Ferrari – AF Corse, the number 51, will line up in 11th. Two places further back on the starting grid will be the number 83 499P entered by the AF Corse team.
The green flag for the 24 Hours – round four of the 2025 FIA World Endurance Championship – is scheduled for 4 p.m. on Saturday, 14 June (local time).

At the Circuit de La Sarthe this evening, the 15 fastest cars from Qualifying – held on Wednesday – took part in Hyperpole 1, which was contested on a dry track with ambient and track temperatures of around 26°C and 33°C respectively.

During the 20-minute session, Miguel Molina qualified the number 50 499P in fourth place, completing a lap of the 13.626-kilometre French circuit in 3’23”273, 531 milliseconds behind the session leaders, securing a place in the decisive Hyperpole 2 to determine the top ten grid positions. In this session, Antonio Fuoco managed to complete a flying lap, stopping the clocks at 3’24”213, 1”047 off the pace of the number 311 Cadillac, which will start from pole. Fuoco-Molina-Nielsen, the 2024 24 Hours of Le Mans winners, will therefore start seventh.

The other two Ferraris failed to progress to the second timed session. Alessandro Pier Guidi – sharing the number 51 car with James Calado and Antonio Giovinazzi – set a best lap time of 3’24”143, placing 11th in Hyperpole 1. Meanwhile, official Prancing Horse driver Yifei Ye – in a crew with Robert Kubica and Phil Hanson in the 499P in Giallo Modena livery – finished 13th.