WEC season 10: 6 Hours of Monza 2022 LMP2 race
9 different leaders in LMP2 class of 6 Hours of Monza
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Filipe Albuquerque with United Autosports #22 took the lead from start for the 24 first laps (except 3 by Vector #10 during pit stops in the first FCY) but was taken over by Prema #9 during the first round of pit stops.
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Deletraz – Colombo – Kubica (Prema #9) kept the lead until lap 53 (except 2 by Vector #10 who was in a different pit stop strategy).
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JOTA #28 led then two laps.
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United Autosports #22 took the lead again at the end of the second hour for 10 laps.
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The third hour saw 3 different leaders with RealTeam by WRT #31, United Autosports #22, JOTA #28, and United Autosports #22 again at the end of mid-race.
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After 10 laps within the fourth hour in the lead, United Autosports #22 had to go to the garage for a throttle sensor issue that threw them down to last of class.
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JOTA #28 took the lead for 3 laps, followed by Vector #10 for 2 laps, United Autosports #23 for one, and JOTA #38 for two until JOTA #28 took the lead back for the 17 last laps of the fourth hour.
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The fifth hour saw different leaders again with Vector 10 and United Autosports #23 for one lap each during the two pit stops. More importantly, Inter Europol #34 took the lead for 14 laps before handing it back to JOTA #28.
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The end of the fifth hour saw JOTA #38, who started from the back of the grid due to an unsafe pit release in qualifying, taking the lead for 24 laps until half hour of the sixth hour.
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Thanks to a quicker pit stop from Realteam by WRT mechanics, Ferdinand Habsburg in #41 jumped #38 JOTA for the 17 last laps to clinch the first LMP2 victory for the Ferdinand Habsburg, Rui Andrade and Norman Nato squad.
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Will Stevens, Antonio Felix da Costa and Roberto Gonzalez with JOTA #38 end second and extend their lead to 19-points in the LMP2 championship.
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Nico Mueller, Ryan Cullen and Sebastien Bourdais in the Vector Sport team clinched the third step of the podium, their best result so far in the WEC championship.
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The Inter Europol Competition #34 who was second at the entrance of the last hour of racing, dropped to fourth after the team made a longer fuel stop.
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The #23 United Autosports took fourth and sits second in the Championship standings, ahead of the Prema #9 which is third in the title race and crossed the checkered flag in P6.
