Two Toyota hypercars crossed the finish line first at Le Mans, and the Japanese carmaker’s works team added another double win to the long list of sporting achievements.
Anniversary, 90th Le Mans Marathon won by a trio consisting of Sebastien Buemi, Brandon Hartley and Rio Hirakawa; a little over two minutes, they lost to Toyota’s second crew – José-Maria Lopez, Kamui Kobayashi and Mike Conway.
Also on the podium were Pipo Derani, Frank Melieu and Richard Westbrook of the American Glickenhous team, although their conventional, non-hybrid car certainly cannot keep up with the Japanese hypercars. According to the results of the 24-hour race, the sports prototype No. 709 lost five laps to the leaders.
The second Glickenhous car lost time during the race due to technical problems, but in the end crew #708 managed to come back and finish in 4th place, although already ten laps from the leader.
In the LMP2 class, the match was won by the JOTA team, for which this is the first win since 2017, but today Roberto Gonzalez, António Felix da Costa and Will Stevens were rightly congratulated. Their car #38 crossed the finish line in 1 minute. 48 seconds ahead of the Prema sports prototype, but in any case the second place of Robert Kubica, Louis Deletraz and Lorenzo Colombo is a very worthy result, especially as this is the debut of Le Mans for the Italian team.
In the GTE-Pro category, American Corvette sports cars were considered the favorites, but both of their cars dropped out of the race for different reasons, so nothing stopped the Porsche works team from celebrating the victory: an international crew of Italy’s Gianmaria Bruni, Austrian Richard Lietz and French Frederik climbed to the top of the Makoveki podium.
Second in class went to the AF Corse crew, who long claimed the win, but with less than five hours to go before the finish, Ferrari No. 51 had to pit again due to a puncture .
In the “junior” GTE-Am class, the race was won by the TF Sport team with an Aston Martin sports car, a trio of Ben Keating, Enrique Chavez and Marco Sorensen, who had the confidence to cross the finish line.
Of the 62 cars that started, only 53 completed the race distance, with the last of the classified GTE-Am teams losing 56 laps to the winning Toyota trio.
Source: F1 News
I’m Todderic Kirkman, a journalist and author for athletistic. I specialize in covering all news related to sports, ranging from basketball to football and everything in between. With over 10 years of experience in the industry, I have become an invaluable asset to my team. My ambition is to bring the most up-to-date information on sports topics around the world.
