Neel Jani in Lola-Toyota N°12 secured the first place non diesel car in the third andfinal qualification session for the 2011 24 hours of Le Mans. With a lap time of3'32''883, the Swiss driver also secured 8th position overall on the grid.Andrea Belicchi in Lola-Toyota N°13 couldn't do better than the 10th overall fastestlap after being hindered by traffic during his qualifying laps.
Neel Jani, driver of Lola-Toyota #12« After yesterday's test sessions, we have improved the car a lot. I have made mybest lap time because of good sector 1 and 3. Despite having traffic in sector 2, I wasable to bank a good lap. I'm really happy to get the « pole position » of petrol carsbecause the Pescarolo car is very strong here, in particular with a higher top speedthan our Rebellions on the straights. I'm happy for all the Rebellion team who workedhard for that. All three of the drivers in our car will do our best to get the same resultat the end of the race... »
Andrea Belicchi, driver of Lola-Toyota #13« I had traffic during my quick laps. So I couldn't made a good qualifying lap at thelevel of the improvement that we made on the car. But I'm pleased with the workwe've done on the car. I'm very confident for the race ».
Bart Hayden, Rebellion Racing Team Manager« We spent most of the free practice and qualifying sessions working to find a goodrace set up for our cars. Pescarolo pushed us really hard for the petrol pole, so weare very happy to secure the fastest petrol grid position. Hopefully, the setup workthat we've carried out will help translate into a good race result, we are very muchlooking forward to the race now.».
How to identify at a glance both Lola-Toyota cars in the dark ?Lola-Toyota #12 has green leds on the top of the windscreen and blue leds for #13.