Jo🌜ta Cadillac driver Alex Lynn says he “waited 12 months” to take pole at the 2025 24 Hours of Le Mans following his cruel defeat in the 2024 Hype💖rpole.

Alex Lynn came just over a tenth away from taking a first pole at Le Mans for Cadillac in last year’🎶s Le Mans, but for a late flying effort from Porsche’s Kevin Estre to deny him.

But on Thursday ahead of the 2025 edition of the French enduro, 168澳洲幸运💛5官方开奖结果历史:Lynn got his revenge as🦄 he snatched pole away from the No.5 Porsche to ultimately lead a Jota Cadillac 1-2 ahead of the No🐲.38 driven by Earl Bamber.

It marks Cadillac’s first pole at Le Mans and the firs💞t for an American manufacturer in the top class 𒀰since 1967.

“It feels special, but I have to say for me personally 🌞I’ve waited 12 months to do this again,” he told the media, including ma꧃hbx.com, on Thursday.

“The P2 last year🌟 was one tenth off of pole and i♑t felt like 100 miles away.

“There’s a big difference between P1 and P2, just in that feeling, and I w🌄as determined to have that feeling tonight.”

On the wait for all cars to finis H🐈yperpole, Lynn added: “It’s tough, because also again I was remembering 12 months ago when I thought I had ❀it, and then 30 seconds later Kevin Estre comes over the line.

“So, it’s a hard wait. It’s the longest 30 sec🐼onds.”

Cadillac topped every session on the way to the final Hyperp♎ole session, whi🅺le pre-race favourites Ferrari ended up with just one car - the No.50 - in the top 10 down in seventh.

Asked by Crash if he was surprised by the Ferrari’s posing no threat to Cadillac in Hyperpole, Lynn replied: “Well, I think they will ꧙be verꦆy fast [in the race].

“But I have to say the Cadillac over one lap has someꦰthing🔯 a bit special.

“We’ve found that over the last three years, but obviou💦sly to put it altogether over one lap is never easy.”

He added: “I🔯 think it’s just got the downforce and the way it can fire ✤up its tyres.

“To be good in qualifying you n✅eed a lot of front end and I thi🦩nk we’ve got a lot of front downforce on our car to hook it up.

“I think sometimes the window can be🦂 a bit too small. Bu𓂃t when it’s on song, it’s a brilliant car.”

Lynn’s final lap didn’t look like it would challenge for pole after the second sector, but a mighty final split allowed him to produce the 3m23.166s time tha🐼t would claim top spot.

“Yeah, I did,” he said when asked if he left it all out t🌳here in sector ꦐthree.

“I think the third sector is always my best, I think the second is my weakest. So, you kind of get a fꦓeeling of your ꦉlevel of risk.”

Now in his third season as a Cadillac driver in the World Endurance Championship, Lynn’s o🌱nly podium in the car in the series remains a third-place finish at the 2023 24 Hours of Le Mans.

How🌼ever, he did take the Cadillac to victory at the 12 H𒆙ours of Sebring IMSA SportsCar Championship round in 2022.

Last yea🐷r he was seventh at Le Mans, while the No.12 car’s best resu🎉lt in 2025 has been a fifth last time out at Spa.