Tom Fleming Takes Barcelona LMGT3 Pole for Garage 59 McLaren

Tom Fleming secured LMGT3 pole for Garage 59 at Barcelona on October 17, 2026, putting the No. 10 McLaren 720S Evo ahead of Riccardo Pera’s No. 92 The Bend Manthey Porsche by 0.122 seconds. The FIA World Endurance Championship’s official report places Simon Mann third in VISTA AF Corse’s Ferrari.

This is the starting-order result for the production-based LMGT3 class, not an overall Hypercar pole or the outcome of Sunday’s race. The six-hour race remains to be run.

A quick adjustment after missing Friday practice

Fleming missed Friday’s sessions while also competing in GT World Challenge at Portimão. His first Barcelona laps came in Saturday morning practice. Team-mate Antares Au advanced the McLaren through the opening qualifying stage before Fleming took over for Hyperpole.

The result repeats Fleming’s pole from his only earlier Hyperpole appearance, at Imola in April. It shows how qualifying work is shared between drivers: getting into the final session and setting the class-leading lap are separate steps.

The title fight continues on Sunday

Jonny Edgar placed the championship-leading No. 33 TF Sport Corvette fourth. The official report schedules the race for Sunday, October 18 at 12:00 CEST—06:00 Eastern Daylight Time in the United States.

Pole offers track position at the start, not a six-hour performance forecast. The gap to Pera describes the qualifying session; it should not be presented as an expected race margin or proof that the same order will survive traffic and pit stops.

The qualifying result follows Friday’s Barcelona practice report. That earlier running and today’s timed grid-setting session answer different questions, so a change in order is not a correction of the practice results.

Archive photo, not Barcelona qualifying: Garage 59’s No. 10 McLaren 720S LMGT3 Evo at Spa-Francorchamps on May 9, 2026. Photo: MarcelX42 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0. Image resized for display.