The Lone Star Le Mans, the sixth round of the 2025 FIA WEC, will see two Ferraris start from the front row thanks to the results achieved by the number 83 499P entered by AF Corse and the number 51 car, entrusted in Hyperpole to Robert Kubica and Antonio Giovinazzi respectively. Fifth place for the other crew of the official Ferrari team – AF Corse, the number 50.
For the second consecutive time, the Prancing Horse takes Hyperpole at the Circuit of The Americas, after last year’s result signed by Giovinazzi. For Ferrari, this is the eighth pole position in the top class of the FIA WEC, and the fourth in the current season. Meanwhile, the AF Corse crew, formed by official Ferrari driver Yifei Ye, Phil Hanson and Kubica himself, celebrates its first ever Hyperpole at COTA.
The race in Texas will kick off on Sunday, 7 September at 1.00 p.m. (local time).
Qualifying. The session was contested with air and track temperatures around 25° and 31° C, with the 499Ps fitted with Medium dry tyres, despite some light rain.
Kubica took second place with a time of 1’58.405, +0.250s off the leaders. Nielsen, setting a best lap time of 1’59.035, secured fourth place (+0.880s). Giovinazzi qualified the sister car in fifth position thanks to a best time of 1’59.261 (+1.106s).
Hyperpole. The session reserved for the ten fastest cars took place in conditions similar to the previous one.
With the 499P of the AF Corse team, the Polish driver improved his own time, stopping the clocks at 1’57.655. Second at the flag, just 96 thousandths of a second behind, was Giovinazzi – sharing the car with Alessandro Pier Guidi and James Calado – who completed a lap in 1’57.751. Third row for the number 50 499P (1’58.640) which Nielsen shares with Antonio Fuoco and Miguel Molina.
Numbers. As anticipated, the eighth pole position for the 499P arrives in America. The result adds to the four Hyperpoles taken by the number 50 crew (Sebring and Le Mans in 2023, Imola in 2024, Spa in 2025), and the three by the number 51 car (COTA in 2024, Qatar and Imola in 2025).
Furthermore, for the sixth time, Ferrari starts with two cars on the front row in the top class of the FIA WEC: this already happened at the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2023 (Fuoco-Molina-Nielsen started ahead of Pier Guidi-Calado-Giovinazzi); in 2024 at Imola (the number 50 car ahead of number 83) and at COTA (first number 51, second number 83); and in 2025 both at Imola (Pier Guidi-Calado-Giovinazzi ahead of Ye-Kubica-Hanson) and at Spa, when Ferrari qualified its three crews in the top positions with the number 50, 83 and 51 cars respectively.
The programme. The Lone Star Le Mans, the sixth round of the 2025 FIA WEC, will kick off tomorrow, Sunday, 7 September, at 1.00 p.m. (local time).