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Back-to-back front row qualifying lockouts

Nos. 12, 38 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA V-Series.Rs grab first, second in Sao PauloSAO PAULO, Brazil (July 12, 2025) – For the second consecutive FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) race, the Nos. 12 and 38 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA V-Series.Rs will have a clear view of the green flag.
The first-year factory team locked out the front row for the Rolex 6 Hours of Sāo Paulo like it did last month for the 93rd edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Alex Lynn, who earned the pole at Circuit de La Sarthe, repeated the superlative effort as he drove the No. 12 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA V-Series.R to the top of the 18-car Hypercar field.
Lynn, who will share duties with Norman Nato and Will Stevens on the 4.409 km (2.677-mile), 15-turn Autódromo José Carlos Pace – commonly known as Interlagos – course Sunday, recorded a lap of 1 minute, 22.570 seconds in the 10-minute Hyperpole session. He also topped the 12-minute qualifying set with a lap of 1:22.829. Both bettered the 1:23.140 pole time from 2024.
“Congratulations to the No. 12 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA V-Series.R on securing pole position in qualifying for the Rolex 6 Hours of Sāo Paulo,” said John Roth, vice president, Global Cadillac. “We are thrilled to get back on the track Sunday and compete for the overall win.” 
Sebastien Bourdais was one-tenth of a second off Lynn’s blistering Hyperpole pace in the No. 38 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA V-Series.R. The Hypercar entry has qualified in the top 10 in four of the five WEC races, with Earl Bamber collecting the front-row start at Le Mans. Bourdais and Bamber will share the wheel with Jenson Button on Sunday.The pole is the third for Cadillac Racing in its third season of WEC competition, and the No. 12 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA V-Series.R is the only Hypercar to qualify in the top 10 of all five races this season.
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In-car viewsWatch the race (10:30 a.m. ET Sunday) unfold via streaming from the Cadillac V-Series.Rs’ cockpit HERE.
What they’re saying
No. 12 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA V-Series.R
Alex Lynn: “It feels great to be on pole again. It’s a special feeling to drive the Cadillac on one lap. I love being here in Brazil. The Sāo Paulo track is so cool. It’s huge a huge honor, and I’m really happy. I think, honestly, our side of the garage has been really confident all week. So, we concentrate on the race now. We knew we were going to be quick, and we were. So now we just focus. It’s a good place to start and we just want to race well now.”
Will Stevens: “We knew we needed to start at the front for this race. Track position is pretty key here, so this is the place to be starting for tomorrow.”
Norman Nato: “Big congrats to Alex and the team for another 1-2. We know it’s going to be a difficult race tomorrow with a lot of different strategies on tires and a lot of degradation. It’s good to start from pole tomorrow and we are going to try our best to be on first step of the podium tomorrow.”No. 38 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA V-Series.R
Sebastien Bourdais: “Up until Hyperpole, we just had a really difficult weekend. It’s just been a succession of little miscues that gave us a couple of wrong reads and I felt like it just kind of threw us a bit down the rabbit hole. A few more tweaks to the setup and it was OK in FP3. So, you go in qualifying, and you have no real idea of what the car is. Plus, traffic was an absolute mess in that first bout of qualifying. Thankfully, we made it to Hyperpole and now you have a better idea of where the car is at, what it’s doing. It just it worked a lot better for me. I still made a mistake and didn’t really get that best lap, but you’re always kicking yourself a bit. Very happy for the team. Congrats to Alex and we’ll see what we can do tomorrow.”