Buemi dictates the pace
The first day of official testing opened under the sign of Toyotawhich after the good performance of the Penske Porsche on Test Day responded to its rivals by finishing ahead of everyone FP1 on the Circuit de la Sarthe. In a session characterized by several interruptions, he thought about achieving the best time Sebastien Buemiwho is behind the wheel of the car #8 stopped the clock on 3:36.013.
Ferrari, Porsche and Peugeot further away
A performance more than half a second better than that of Callum Ilott, at the wheel of the Porsche 963 of the Hertz Jota team #12. To be precise, the Briton finished 597 thousandths behind, 61 thousandths ahead of Dries Vanthoor’s BMW #15, with the Belgian thus completing the overall top-3. While waiting for qualifying, scheduled for 7pm, the Penske Porsches are not among the top ten (14th with the #5 of Campbell, Macowiecki and Christensen), nor are the Peugeots, unlike the Ferrari 499P #50 di Fuoco, Molina and Nielsen, in eighth position and in front of the two Alpines.
LMP2 and LMGT3
Very similar gaps between the first two classified also in the category LMP2in this case with the best time of Louis Deletrazstandard bearer of the team AO Racing by TF and author of a 3:34.245 which allowed him to lead James Allen of Duqueine Team #30 by almost 6 tenths. Almost a second, however, is the gap that he has closed Esteban Masson (Lexus #87 Akkodis ASP) Brendan Iribe’s McLaren #70 Inception Racing in LMGT3. Outside the top fifteen, however, Team WRT #46, with Valentino Rossi making his debut in the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The ‘Doctor’together with his teammates, did not go beyond 18th place.
