Toyota locked out the front row for its home World Endurance Championship race at Fuji, as Kamui Kobayashi scored pole position in the #7 GR010 HYBRID.
Kobayashi took the top spot with a best time of 1m27.794s around halfway through the 15-minute Hypercar qualifying session on Saturday afternoon, scoring a crucial bonus point for himself and his team-mates Jose Maria Lopez and Mike Conway.
The French driver's effort of 1m28.687s was still enough for third ahead of team-mate Frederic Makowiecki in the sister #5 car. Next up was the JOTA customer Porsche of Antonio Felix da Costa in eighth, followed by the Proton example of Neel Jani and the two Peugeot 9X8s, which struggled badly for pace in 10th and 11th places with Mikkel Jensen and Loic Duval at the wheel.United Autosports topped LMP2 qualifying courtesy of Philip Hanson, who took the #22 ORECA 07's first pole of the year and a third in total for the team.Hanson posted a best time of 1m32.
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