“A little cherry on a big cake.” That’s how Dries Vanthoor described his pole position for the Daytona 24 Hours this weekend. The BMW driver pointed out after he’d secured a first top spot in qualifying for BMW’s M Hybrid V8 LMDh that there’s “still a big thing to happen”. And he was talking about the race.
The true significance of Vanthoor’s pole lap wasn’t that it has put him at the front of the field for the start of the opening round of the 2025 IMSA SportsCar Championship, but that it provided the final proof that the M Hybrid V8 is there on outright pace.
