Audi has swept the front row for Sunday’s Six Hours of Silverstone, breaking Porsche’s previous stranglehold in qualifying in the FIA World Endurance Championship.
Andre Lotterer and Marcel Fassler ended on top of the 20-minute, drying qualifying session, combining for a best two-lap average of 1:53.204 in their No. 7 Audi R18.
Their combined time was 0.104 seconds quicker than teammates Loid Duval and Lucas Di Grassi by 0.104 seconds.
Lotterer and Fassler’s top qualifying effort broke Porsche’s 11-race pole streak in WEC and marked the first pole for the German manufacturer since Fuji 2013.
The 2013 World Champions will share the wheel of their new diesel-powered contender with Benoit Treluyer in Sunday’s season-opener.
Porsche was relegated to third and fourth on the grid, with the No. 1 Porsche 919 Hybrid of Mark Webber and Brendon Hartley only able to reel off a 1:54.150 average, which was nearly one-second slower than the Audi.
