Double and fifth victory in a row for the 10th entry of Toyota Gazoo Racing at the 24 Hours of Le Mans

Double for Toyota and Chevrolet Corvette during the Hyperpole session. Brendon Hartley (Toyota GR010 Hybrid), Robin Frijns (WRT #31), Nick Tandy (Corvette #64) and Vincent Abril (AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE Evo #61) set the fastest time in their respective categories.

The starting positions for the 90th 24 Hours of Le Mans for 39 teams were decided in yesterday's qualifiers. The 6 fastest of each class will have a run-off in the Hyperpole session today. First Hyperpole for a 100% female crew as Rahel Frey qualified in P4 in LMGTE AM

Yesterday pm was dedicated to official photo of the pilots and cars as well as the pit-stop challenge where Toyota, TDS Racing, Porsche GT Team and TF sport teams won the Hypercar, LMP2, LMGTE Pro and LMGTE AM categories respectively.

Yesterday’s test day at Le Mans was rather intense with Toyota and Glickenhaus mixing in the top 4 as well as Corvette, Ferrari and Porsche in LMGTE PRO.

Three red flags with race stopped. Robin Frijns with his WRT #31 dominating the race in the 4th hour under heavy rain. The track was drying the last 2 hours enabling Toyota #7 and Alpine #36 take off to finish in that order.

Frist Pole for Glickenhaus Racing as Oliver Pla did set the fastest qualification time with Glickenhaus 007 LMH #708. Gianmaria Bruni with Porsche 911 RSR-19 #91 was faster LMGTE.

Both Toyota Gazoo Racing dominated the 3rd practice with Jose Maria Lopez fastest (#7) and Rio Harakawo second (#9).

Porsche #92 dominated both practices.

LMP2 cars did dominate the session with Robin Frijns setting the fastest lap driving Team WRT #31. Four LMP2 are in front of Romain Dumas with Glickenhaus 007 LMH setting the best Hypercar performance still 0,758” slower than #31!

Wednesday at Spa-Francorchamps is the day for scrutineering and drivers track walk. Alpine getting a 20kW power reduction. This should reduce the gap with Toyota’s GR010s and Glickenhaus 007 LMH. More news…

Alpine took its first Hypercar victory at the 1000 Miles of Sebring with Nicolas Lapierre, Matthieu Vaxiviere and Andre Negrao after a two red flag race.

Nicolas Lapierre with the #36 Alpine A480 did set the fastest lap of qualification sessions. With his teammates Matthieu Vaxivière and Andre Negrao, they’ll start from pole the 1.000 miles of Sebring 2022.

Glickenhaus #708 was fastest in FP1 with Romain Dumas and Matthieu Vaxivière did set best lap in FP2 with #36 Alpine A480. Porsche #92 was on top in both practices.

As for day 1 morning session, both WRT cars dominated the LMP2 class but also the Hypercars as Ferdinand Habsburg was the fastest overall with #41 Realteam by WRT Oreca 07 Gibson and stablemate Rene Rast was second fastest with #31 WRT Oreca 07 Gibson.

Jose Maria Lopez set the fastest lap in morning session shortened by heavy rain.

The dry afternoon session was dominated by Robert Kubica with his #9 Prema Orlen Team Oreca 07 Gibson.

Greeting ready for the Prologue on bumpy Sebring International Raceway

The Hypercars will make their first appearance on American soil with Toyota Gazoo Racing, Scuderia Cameron Glickenhaus and Alpine as only manufacturers represented in the Hypercar class. 

FIA WEC Season 9, Race 4/6: Hypercar @ 24 Hours of Le Mans: Toyota fourth win.

Kamui Kobayashi, Mike Conway and José-Maria Lopez won their first 24 Hours of Le Mans after dominating the race from qualifications to the end of the race.

FIA WEC Season 9, Race 4/6: Hypercar @ 24 Hours of Le Mans: Hyperpole.

Kamui Kobayashi got his fourth pole position (3 in a row) at the 24 Hours of Le Mans 0.295 seconds ahead of this team mate Brendon Hartley.

FIA WEC Season 9, Race 4/6: Hypercar @ 24 Hours of Le Mans: Qualifications.

Results of the qualification session today will not determine the order on the grid saturday. All 5 cars will participate at tomorrow’s hyperpole which ‘ll define the pole and following cars on the grid. Toyota #7 was the fastest of qualification session.