Brendon Hartley reveals how Toyota turned the tables on Ferrari to grab WEC pole position at Portimao 👇
Hartley explained that the Toyota Gazoo Racing squad had worked hard on getting the most out of its two GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercars in Saturday afternoon’s qualifying session.
“We focussed more on getting the potential out of the car in qualifying than we normally do,” Hartley told Motorsport.com after taking the pole by nearly three tenths from team-mate“We tried to get the car as optimised as much as possible for qualifying. I would say we were a bit less focussed on the race compared to normal.TGR Europe technical director Pascal Vasselon stressed that the team hadn’t run a pure qualifying set-up on either of its GR010s.
“We still did not do a quali set-up because it is completely counterproductive to be changing the car around and then reverting,” he explained. “The focus came from the preparation itself, which we have taken a bit more seriously after Sebring. “Yes we were more focussed in terms of the very specific preparations for qualifying, the warm-up laps, when we get out of the pits and so on.”Photo by: JEP /
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