Yesterday the legendary 24-hour marathon at Le Mans ended, this year it was run for the 90th time. The French motoring club ACO, the race organizer, listed some of the results of the race and shared some very impressive statistics.
5 – The Toyota factory team, which drives the GR010 Hybrid hypercars, celebrated the victory for the fifth time. According to this indicator, it surpassed the previous performance of brands such as Ford and Alfa Romeo. The Japanese concern also joined the elite club of car manufacturers that won this toughest race five times in a row. Until 2022, it consisted only of Ferrari, Porsche and Audi.
By the way, Ryo Hirakawa, who first competed in Le Mans for Toyota, one of the racers of crew No. 8 who won the marathon, became the fifth representative of Japan to win Le Mans. Masanori Sekiya (1995), Seiji Ara (2004), Kazuki Nakajima (2018, 2019 and 2020) and Kamui Kobayashi (2021) succeeded him.
5177.17 km – Such a distance was overcome in a day by the sporty prototype Toyota No. 8 with an average speed of 215.4 km/h. This is 380 laps around the Sarte ring.
3 minutes 27,749 seconds “At that time, José-Maria Lopez, driver of the number 7 Toyota crew, drove the best lap of the race. He passed on lap 131 of the marathon.
2 minutes. 1 second “With this advantage, car #8 won the race for Toyota’s second hybrid hypercar. The sports prototype Glickenhaus 007 with a conventional 3.5-litre V8 turbo racing engine lost five laps from the leader.
21 – So many times in 24 hours at Le Mans the race leader has changed. At the various stages, one Toyota or the other led the way. In the LMP2 category, the leader changed 11 times, in the LMGTE-Pro class – 32 times and 21 times – in the LMGTE-Am.
342.3 km/h – Top speed recorded during the 90th race of Le Mans. It was shown on lap 9 by Sébastien Buemi, driver of crew #8 in a Toyota hypercar.
For comparison, it is worth bringing the maximum speed in other classes: LMP2 – 330.8 km / h (Oreca 07 car of the JOTA team), LMGTE-Pro – 312 km / h (Ferrari 488 GTE Evo of the AF Corse team), LMGTE-Am – 308, 2 km/h (Porsche 911 RSR-19).
eight – the number of dropouts recorded during the race (another crew was not classified). In 2021 15 cars failed to finish, in 2020 – 10, in 2019 – 11, in 2018 – 16.
244200 – Such a number of fans gathered for the 90th race at Le Mans, signaling a new surge in spectator interest and the return of the public after a period of pandemic, when there were strict restrictions.
In 2023, the 24 Hours of Le Mans will again take place on the second weekend of the first month of summer, ie The race will start on June 10 and end on June 11. An important detail: it will be another anniversary, as the first Le Mans race took place on May 26-27, 1923, ie one of the world’s biggest motorsport events is celebrating its centenary.
Source: F1 News
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