Antonio Giovinazzi secured Hypercar pole for Lone Star Le Mans in extraordinary circumstances at Circuit of the Americas. The #51 Ferrari AF Corse stopped the clock at 1:52.445.
Jack Aitken then matched that lap exactly in the #38 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA: 1:52.445 to the thousandth. Under the classification order, Giovinazzi keeps pole because he set the time first. Aitken starts alongside him.
A historic margin
FIA WEC described the shootout as the closest Hyperpole session in the series' history. The result is effectively a dead heat at the front, decided not by a measurable time gap but by who reached the benchmark first.
Charles Milesi placed the #35 Alpine third, only 0.029 seconds from the pole time. FIA WEC reported that the top four Hypercars, representing four different manufacturers, were covered by just 0.050 seconds.
What matters for the race
The pole gives Ferrari track position for the start, but the six-hour race will be decided by far more than one qualifying lap. The important signal from Hyperpole is the competitiveness at the front: Ferrari, Cadillac, Alpine and Aston Martin all produced times within five hundredths of a second.