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WEC 24 Hours of Le Mans
Le Mans 24h: Toyota quickest in accident-strewn third practice
Toyota locked out the top two spots in an incident-packed third practice session for the Le Mans 24 Hours on Thursday afternoon.
Jamie Klein
Edited: Jun 11, 2022, 12:07 PM
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In the final on-track running before Hyperpole qualifying, Kamui Kobayashi recorded a best effort of 3m26.796s at the wheel of the #7 Toyota GR010 Hybrid - around half a second quicker than he managed during first qualifying on Wednesday.
Brendon Hartley backed that up with a 3m27.115s in the sister #8 car to go second-quickest ahead of the two Glickenhaus 007 LMHs.
The American boutique marque's best lap was a 3m27.466s from Olivier Pla in the #708 car, a little under seven tenths off the pace and marginally slower than its first qualifying benchmark, while Ryan Briscoe posted a 3m28.073s in the sister #709 machine.
Propping up the order in the five-car Hypercar class was Alpine's grandfathered A480-Gibson LMP1, despite receiving a power increase in a revised Balance of Performance issued as the three-hour session began.
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Matthieu Vaxiviere was 2.4 seconds down on Kobayashi with a 3m29.259s, only a minor improvement on Nicolas Lapierre's effort in the #36 machine in first qualifying.
Toyota's #8 car lost more track time with an electrical glitch that prompted Ryo Hirakawa to briefly stop on-track between Indianapolis and Arnage corners before bringing the stricken machine back for a stint in the garage.
That was prior to a 20-minute red flag period caused by a major crash for the #13 TDS Racing Oreca LMP2 of Philippe Cimadomo at Corvette Curve, the result of slight contact with the #31 WRT car of Sean Gelael.
Topping the times in the LMP2 class were United Autosports' pair of Oreca 07s, which both set their fastest times in the final five minutes of the session.
Filipe Albuquerque was quickest in the class on a 3m20.964s aboard the #22 United entry, going less than a tenth faster than squadmate Alex Lynn in the #23 car.
Robin Frijns, who set his best lap of 3m31.030s immediately after the red flag period, was demoted to third place in the #31 WRT car, ahead of Yifei Ye in the #37 Cool Racing entry and the best of the JOTA machines, the #38 car of Antonio Felix da Costa.
Most of the other major incidents during the session involved LMP2 runners.
Duqueine man Reshad de Gerus suffered an early off at Indianapolis, while following the red flag period Sebastien Page crashed the Graff car at the same part of the track, with both incidents being covered off with slow zones.
Miro Konopka also had an excursion through the gravel at the Dunlop chicane in the ARC Bratislava car following contact with another LMP2 car, although he was able to get going again.
Corvette Racing was again the team to beat in GTE Pro as Nick Tandy set a best time in class of 3m52.307s aboard the American marque's full-time WEC entry, the #64 C8.R.
A little under half a second down in second was the best of the factory Porsche 911 RSR-19s, the #91 machine of Richard Lietz, followed by the #63 Corvette of Antonio Garcia and the #92 Porsche of Michael Christensen.
Ferrari's pair of works 488 GTE Evos occupied fifth and sixth places in class, with Antonio Fuoco giving the Italian marque its best laptime aboard the #52 entry.
Mikkel Pedersen set the pace in GTE Am with a 3m54.386s aboard the #46 Team Project 1 Porsche, beating the TF Sport Aston Martin Vantage of Henrique Chaves by just over two tenths.
Hyperpole qualifying, involving the top six cars from each class, begins at 8pm local time.
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2022 Le Mans 24 Hours - third practice results:
Pos. # Drivers Car Class Time Gap 1 7 
Mike Conway
Kamui Kobayashi
Jose Maria Lopez Toyota GR010 - Hybrid HYPERCAR 3'26.796 2 8 
Sebastien Buemi
Brendon Hartley
Ryo Hirakawa Toyota GR010 - Hybrid HYPERCAR 3'27.115 0.319 3 708 
Olivier Pla
Romain Dumas
Pipo Derani Glickenhaus 007 LMH HYPERCAR 3'27.466 0.670 4 709 
Ryan Briscoe
Richard Westbrook
Franck Mailleux Glickenhaus 007 LMH HYPERCAR 3'28.073 1.277 5 36 André Negrão
Nicolas Lapierre
Matthieu Vaxivière Alpine A480 HYPERCAR 3'29.259 2.463 6 22 Philip Hanson
Filipe Albuquerque
William Owen Oreca 07 LMP2 3'30.964 4.168 7 23 Alex Lynn
Oliver Jarvis
Josh Pierson Oreca 07 LMP2 3'31.025 4.229 8 31 
Sean Gelael
Robin Frijns
René Rast Oreca 07 LMP2 3'31.030 4.234 9 37 Ye Yifei
Ricky Taylor
Niklas Kruetten Oreca 07 LMP2 3'32.057 5.261 10 38 
Roberto Gonzalez
Antonio Felix da Costa
Will Stevens Oreca 07 LMP2 3'32.151 5.355 11 41 Rui Andrade
Ferdinand Habsburg
Norman Nato Oreca 07 LMP2 3'32.169 5.373 12 83 François Perrodo
Nicklas Nielsen
Alessio Rovera Oreca 07 LMP2 3'32.349 5.553 13 13 Philippe Cimadomo
Mathias Beche
Tijmen van der Helm Oreca 07 LMP2 3'32.384 5.588 14 48 Paul Lafargue
Paul Loup Chatin
Patrick Pilet Oreca 07 LMP2 3'33.055 6.259 15 5 Dane Cameron
Emmanuel Collard
Felipe Nasr Oreca 07 LMP2 3'33.247 6.451 16 28 Oliver Rasmussen
Edward Jones
Jonathan Aberdein Oreca 07 LMP2 3'33.249 6.453 17 43 David Heinemeier Hansson
Fabio Scherer
Pietro Fittipaldi Oreca 07 LMP2 3'33.253 6.457 18 9 
Robert Kubica
Louis Deletraz
Lorenzo Colombo Oreca 07 LMP2 3'33.369 6.573 19 24 Rodrigo Sales
Matt Bell
Ben Hanley Oreca 07 LMP2 3'33.737 6.941 20 32 Rolf Ineichen
Mirko Bortolotti
Dries Vanthoor Oreca 07 LMP2 3'33.794 6.998 21 3 Laurents Hörr
Jean Glorieux
Alexandre Cougnaud Oreca 07 LMP2 3'34.085 7.289 22 1 Lilou Wadoux
Sébastien Ogier
Charles Milesi Oreca 07 LMP2 3'34.395 7.599 23 35 Jean-Baptiste Lahaye
Matthieu Lahaye
François Heriau Oreca 07 LMP2 3'34.486 7.690 24 10 Nico Müller
Ryan Cullen
Sebastien Bourdais Oreca 07 LMP2 3'34.511 7.715 25 45 Steven Thomas
James Allen
Rene Binder Oreca 07 LMP2 3'34.543 7.747 26 30 Richard Bradley
Guillermo Rojas
Reshad de Gerus Oreca 07 LMP2 3'34.788 7.992 27 39 Eric Trouillet
Sebastien Page
David Droux Oreca 07 LMP2 3'35.071 8.275 28 34 Jakub Smiechowski
Alex Brundle
Esteban Gutierrez Oreca 07 LMP2 3'36.285 9.489 29 65 Julien Canal
Nico Jamin
Job Van Uitert Oreca 07 LMP2 3'36.451 9.655 30 47 Sophia Floersch
John Falb
Jack Aitken Oreca 07 LMP2 3'36.841 10.045 31 27 Cresp Christophe
Michael Jensen
Steven Palette Ligier JSP 217 LMP2 3'39.056 12.260 32 44 
Miroslav Konopka
Bent Viscaal
Tristan Vautier Oreca 07 LMP2 3'47.210 20.414 33 64 Tommy Milner
Nick Tandy
Alexander Sims Chevrolet Corvette C8.R LMGTE PRO 3'52.307 25.511 34 91 Gianmaria Bruni
Richard Lietz
Frédéric Makowiecki Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE PRO 3'52.787 25.991 35 63 
Antonio Garcia
Jordan Taylor
Nicky Catsburg Chevrolet Corvette C8.R LMGTE PRO 3'52.824 26.028 36 92 Michael Christensen
Kevin Estre
Laurens Vanthoor Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE PRO 3'52.898 26.102 37 52 Miguel Molina
Antonio Fuoco
Davide Rigon Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE PRO 3'53.368 26.572 38 51 Alessandro Pier Guidi
James Calado
Daniel Serra Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE PRO 3'54.249 27.453 39 46 Matteo Cairoli
Mikkel Pedersen
Nicolas Leutwiler Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 3'54.386 27.590 40 33 Ben Keating
Henrique Chaves
Marco Sørensen Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE AM 3'54.618 27.822 41 99 Andrew Haryanto
Alessio Picariello
Martin Rump Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 3'54.906 28.110 42 98 
Paul Dalla Lana
David Pittard
Nicki Thiim Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE AM 3'54.937 28.141 43 77 Christian Ried
Sebastian Priaulx
Harry Tincknell Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 3'55.164 28.368 44 80 Matteo Cressoni
Giancarlo Fisichella
Richard Heistand Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'55.269 28.473 45 21 Simon Mann
Christoph Ulrich
Toni Vilander Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'55.286 28.490 46 88 Fred Poordad
Max Root
Jan Heylen Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 3'55.315 28.519 47 61 
Louis Prette
Conrad Grunewald
Vincent Abril Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'55.397 28.601 48 71 Franck Dezoteux
Pierre Ragues
Gabriel Aubry Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'55.531 28.735 49 86 Michael Wainwright
Riccardo Pera
Ben Barker Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 3'55.575 28.779 50 55 Duncan Cameron
Matt Griffin
David Perel Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'55.582 28.786 51 85 Rahel Frey
Michelle Gatting
Sarah Bovy Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'55.629 28.833 52 54 Thomas Flohr
Francesco Castellacci
Nick Cassidy Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'55.658 28.862 53 777 Satoshi Hoshino
Tomonobu Fujii
Charles Fagg Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE AM 3'55.659 28.863 54 60 Claudio Schiavoni
Alessandro Balzan
Raffaele Giammaria Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'55.764 28.968 55 59 Alexander West
Côme Ledogar
Marvin Klein Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'55.882 29.086 56 93 Michael Fassbender
Matthew Campbell
Zacharie Robichon Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 3'56.039 29.243 57 79 Cooper MacNeil
Julien Andlauer
Thomas Merrill Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 3'56.201 29.405 58 57 Takeshi Kimura
Frederik Schandorff
Mikkel Jensen Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'56.257 29.461 59 56 Brendan Iribe
Ollie Millroy
Ben Barnicoat Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 3'56.792 29.996 60 75 Pierre Ehret
Christian Hook
Nicolas Varrone Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'56.893 30.097 61 66 Renger van der Zande
Mark Kvamme
Jason Hart Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'57.696 30.900 62 74 Felipe Fraga
Sam Bird
Shane van Gisbergen Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE PRO 4'27.690 1'00.894
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