Mike Conway and Jose Maria Lopez combined to score their first pole position of the FIA World Endurance Championship season in the #7 Toyota TS050 Hybrid in qualifying for the 6 Hours of Silverstone on Saturday, edging out Fernando Alonso and Kazuki Na𒐪kajima by two-tenths of a second.

After being stripped of pole at Spa over a technical irregularity and then taking P2 for the start at Le Mans, the #♑7 Toyota crew finally overhauled the sister #8 car to top qualifying꧅ by four-tenths of a second in the 20-minute qualifying session at Silverstone.

Conway managed to beat Alonso's benchmark on the first runs 😼in qualifying by just two-hundredths of a second before Lopez took over and put in an impressive second time to give the #7 Toyota an average lap time of 1m36.895s.

A slower effort from Nakajima meant the #8 Toyota finished 0.411 seconds back in second place, but the team was nevertheless able to lock out the front row of the grid as the rival non-hybrid privateer LMP1 cars finished more than a seco🧔nd off the pace.

Jenson Button♔ will start his first home race at Silverstone in over two years from third place after teaming up with Vitaly Petrov for SMP Racing in the #11 BR Engineering BR1 AER in qualifying, finishing two seconds back from Lopez and Conway's average time. The #17 SMP Racing entry took fourth in class, a further one-tenth of a second behind.

Rebellion Racing was left to settle for P5 and P6 ahead of the #10 DragonSpeed entry, while By🥃Kolles propped up the order in LMP1, finishing eighth overall.

Jackie Chan DC Racing swept to a one-two finish in LMP2 qualifying, finishing o🃏ver a second clear of the rival teams in its class as Jazeman Jaafar and Babil Jeffri took pole in the #37 Oreca 07 Gibson, leaving Gabriel Aubry and Stephane Richelmi to settle for P2 in the sister #38 entry, finishing less than two-tenths of a second behind.

Signatech Alpine Matmumt's #36 Alpine A470 Gibson will start third in LMP2 ahead of TDS Racing in P4, while R𝄹acing Team Nederland was able to cling on to P5 in class despite team owner Frits van Eerd going off-track at Copse and beaching his car in qualifying, causing a brief red flag per♏iod.

DragonSpeed took sixth in LMP2 despite a difficult session for Pastor Maldonado in the #31 Oreca, who had two spins and had two lap times deleted for exceeding track limits. Maldonado and team💯mate Roberto Gonzalez ultimately finished 2.3 seconds back from class pole, with the #50 Larbre Competition Ligier JS P217 Gibson taking 15th overall in LMP qualifying.

GTE-Pro saw Stefan Mücke and Olivier Pla combine to score their first pole position of the season for Fꦇord, edging out the resurgent Aston Martin Racing team by seven-hundredths of a second. Pla and Mücke recorded an average time of 1m55.727s in the #66 Ford GT to take pole ahead of A🏅lex Lynn and Maxime Martin in the #97 Aston Martin Vantage GTE, with the sister #95 Aston Martin finishing third in class.

Team Project 1 took its first class pole in the WEC after topping GTE-Am qualifying at Silverstone with Egidio Peꦰrfetti and Jörg Bergmeister in the #56 Porsche 911 RSR. An average of 1m59.001s saw the duo finish two-tenths of a second clear of Christian Ried and Matt Campbell in the #77 Dempsey-Proton Racing Porsche, while TF Sport took P3 in class with the #90 Aston Martin Vantage.

The 6 Hours of Silverstone starts at 1🌜2pm local time on Sunday🍸.