And I heard you saying to Seb, would you like to take the

start? Yeah.

I mean, with the rain, it's for sure interesting because...

It obviously throws a bit of a mix on the track condition, so hard to say what the grip level will be in turn one.

And it's going to be really humid now.

So we already have the high heat, which is challenging for everybody.

With the water coming down, it's going to bring the humidity higher, make it even more physical.

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The regulations, and if you're wondering why it works that way, the regulations are always whoever does in qualifying the fastest time first, if there is a tie for two or three drivers.

The entry to the S is OK now, but the lap's gone.

Do you know where you lost that thousandth of a second that could have given you the advantage?

I'm pretty sure if I just did that across the line, then it would have been enough.

But yeah, didn't know it was going to be that close.

No, I was surprised that the tide came back, to be honest, because it's been really peaky in this hot weather.

So we did the cool down.

I went again.

Did that make the difference today?

Yeah, no, as you could see in qualifying already, it was very, very tight to make it to hyper pole.

And at the end, I can feel like across the finish line, everything was still possible.

So as you just say, he managed to make everything, to put everything together and to start where we're going to start tomorrow from pole position.

So congrats to Will, congrats to the team and as a one-two as well.

So that's a very great result for us and looking forward to rest tomorrow.

I mean, this is quite an enjoyable day really, isn't it?

You're being way too nice.

Yeah, it was not bad.

A few full course yellows at the end which added a bit of spice to it because when the tyres get old then obviously they're that much harder to keep up to temperature.

And I did have a little bit of a nasty lockup after one of them at the restart.

But yeah, I nursed at home and Seb will be in the car now.

So yeah, it's going okay.

I mean, how much is that helping you guys, having all those facilities just next to the track?

Your preparation in race terms for that is a 100-minute race on something that... resembles corrugated iron um with zero runoff when you go to detroit i mean talk about 180 degrees difference

yeah yeah you're not wrong um but it's funny because um this is my first um mostly full season in weck i say mostly because i had to miss emila doing long beach um but my first time being a full-time driver in weck And I wondered how that would change my feeling going into Le Mans, if it would make me feel a bit more bedded in with the rules set and the flow of how the teams and the traffic work and all of that.

I still feel like Le Mans is kind of its own thing.

Having been to Spa and a couple of other WEC races now, yes, of course, you get more familiar with the rules and the way the director likes to do things, which is always important.

But frankly, Le Mans is such a different beast in the way that the traffic works around the circuit, the way the track evolves over race week, even the way you have to drive the cars.

So I don't feel like it's any different to the last few years when I've come in from the IMSA style of racing as a one-off race at Le Mans.

It'll be interesting, but yeah, that's my initial feeling anyway.

But how important are those two sessions for each of the cars that are out there for Cadillac Hertha Team,