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Le Mans 24h: Toyota leads Glickenhaus in first practice

Toyota knocked Glickenhaus off the top spot in the closing minutes of opening free practice for this weekend’s Le Mans 24 Hours.

#8 Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota GR010 Hybrid of Sébastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley, Ryo Hirakawa

#8 Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota GR010 Hybrid of Sébastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley, Ryo Hirakawa

Marc Fleury

Brendon Hartley got down to a 3m29.441s with 20 minutes of the three-hour session remaining in the #8 Toyota GR010 Hybrid to push the #709 Glickenhaus 007 LMH down to second.

Glickenhaus driver Franck Mailleux had led the way with a 3m29.917s, which was just a couple of tenths up on Pipo Derani’s 3m30.102s in the sister car, which ended up third in the final times. 

A 3m30.403s set by Kamui Kobayashi aboard the #7 car set early in the session had stood as the fastest Toyota time before Hartley improved on Sebastien Buemi’s earlier best in the #8.

The second Toyota was pushed down to fifth by the fastest LMP2 runner in the dying stages of the session.

Alex Lynn found just over two tenths aboard his United Autosports Oreca 07-Gibson with a 3m30.238s to improve on a time set early in the session which had stood as best in class until his improvement.

The Alpine A480-Gibson, the final runner in the Hypercar class, ended up eighth in the classification behind three LMP2 cars courtesy of a 3m32.075s from Andre Negrao. 

Antonio Felix da Costa went second in P2 and sixth overall in the best of the JOTA Oreca with just a handful of minute left on the clock. His 3m31.624s just shaded Robert Kubica’s 3m31.881s in the Prema team’s solo Oreca.

Fourth fastest in class and ninth overall was taken by Robin Frijns in the best of three WRT-run Oreca.

The Dutch driver’s 3m32.158s just shaded Norman Nato’s 3m32.183s in the sister Realteam by WRT Oreca.

Fifth quickest LMP2, and the best of the pro/am P2 runners, was Mathias Beche aboard the TDS Racing entry with a 3m32.536s.

Corvette Racing maintained its test day form to take the top two positions in GTE Pro. 

A 3m53.250s from Antonio Garcia aboard the #63 Corvette C8.R knocked teammate Tommy Milner in the sister car off the top spot.

Milner’s 3m53.360s put him seven tenths up on the best of the rest, the #91 Porsche 911 RSR-19 in which Gianmaria Bruni got down to 3m54.081s. 

The sister Porsche took fourth in class in the hands of Michael Christensen with a 3m54.601s. 

The top car from Ferrari, which was hit by reduction in power with a late Balance of Performance change ahead of the session, was the #52 factory AF Corse entry. 

Antonio Fuoco got down to a 3m54.543s late in the session aboard his Ferrari 488 GTE Evo, while the sister #51 car didn’t set a representative time because it was undergoing an engine change.

The Proton-run WeatherTech Racing squad led the way in GTE Am. A 3m55.082s from Julien Andlauer gave the US entrant’s Proton-run Porsche 911 RSR a margin of nearly nine tenths on the GR Racing Porsche. 

First qualifying begins at 19:00 with a one-hour session from which the fastest six cars in each class will go through to tomorrow’s Hyperpole session.

Le Mans 24 Hours 2022 - First practice results:

Pos. # Drivers Car Class Time Gap
1 8 SUI Sebastien Buemi
NZL Brendon Hartley
JPN Ryo Hirakawa
Toyota GR010 - Hybrid HYPERCAR 3'29.441  
2 709 AUS Ryan Briscoe
GBR Richard Westbrook
FRA Franck Mailleux
Glickenhaus 007 LMH HYPERCAR 3'29.917 0.476
3 708 FRA Olivier Pla
FRA Romain Dumas
BRA Pipo Derani
Glickenhaus 007 LMH HYPERCAR 3'30.102 0.661
4 23 GBR Alex Lynn
GBR Oliver Jarvis
USA Josh Pierson
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'30.238 0.797
5 7 GBR Mike Conway
JPN Kamui Kobayashi
ARG Jose Maria Lopez
Toyota GR010 - Hybrid HYPERCAR 3'30.403 0.962
6 38 MEX Roberto Gonzalez
POR Antonio Felix da Costa
GBR Will Stevens
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'31.624 2.183
7 9 POL Robert Kubica
SUI Louis Deletraz
ITA Lorenzo Colombo
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'31.881 2.440
8 36 BRA André Negrão
FRA Nicolas Lapierre
FRA Matthieu Vaxivière
Alpine A480 HYPERCAR 3'32.075 2.634
9 31 INA Sean Gelael
HOL Robin Frijns
GER René Rast
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'32.158 2.717
10 41 POR Rui Andrade
AUT Ferdinand Habsburg
FRA Norman Nato
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'32.183 2.742
11 13 FRA Philippe Cimadomo
SUI Mathias Beche
HOL Tijmen van der Helm
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'32.536 3.095
12 45 USA Steven Thomas
AUS James Allen
AUT Rene Binder
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'32.621 3.180
13 47 GER Sophia Floersch
USA John Falb
GBR Jack Aitken
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'33.113 3.672
14 1 FRA Lilou Wadoux
FRA Sébastien Ogier
FRA Charles Milesi
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'33.185 3.744
15 5 USA Dane Cameron
FRA Emmanuel Collard
BRA Felipe Nasr
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'33.213 3.772
16 22 GBR Philip Hanson
POR Filipe Albuquerque
USA William Owen
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'33.363 3.922
17 83 FRA François Perrodo
DEN Nicklas Nielsen
ITA Alessio Rovera
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'33.367 3.926
18 32 SUI Rolf Ineichen
ITA Mirko Bortolotti
BEL Dries Vanthoor
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'33.502 4.061
19 37 Ye Yifei
USA Ricky Taylor
GER Niklas Kruetten
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'33.642 4.201
20 48 FRA Paul Lafargue
FRA Paul Loup Chatin
FRA Patrick Pilet
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'33.848 4.407
21 24 USA Rodrigo Sales
USA Matt Bell
GBR Ben Hanley
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'33.899 4.458
22 43 DEN David Heinemeier Hansson
SUI Fabio Scherer
BRA Pietro Fittipaldi
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'34.292 4.851
23 28

DEN Oliver Rasmussen
GBR Ed Jones 

Jonathan Aberdein

Oreca 07 LMP2 3'34.434 4.993
24 35 FRA Jean-Baptiste Lahaye
FRA Matthieu Lahaye
FRA Francois Heriau
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'34.564 5.123
25 30 GBR Richard Bradley
MEX Guillermo Rojas
FRA Reshad de Gerus
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'34.700 5.259
26 65 FRA Julien Canal
FRA Nico Jamin
HOL Job Van Uitert
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'34.854 5.413
27 10 SUI Nico Müller
IRL Ryan Cullen
FRA Sebastien Bourdais
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'35.091 5.650
28 44 SVK Miroslav Konopka
HOL Bent Viscaal
FRA Tristan Vautier
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'35.754 6.313
29 39 FRA Eric Trouillet
FRA Sebastien Page
FRA David Droux
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'35.834 6.393
30 3 GER Laurents Hörr
BEL Jean Glorieux
FRA Alexandre Cougnaud
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'36.390 6.949
31 34 POL Jakub Smiechowski
GBR Alex Brundle
MEX Esteban Gutierrez
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'36.519 7.078
32 27 FRA Cresp Christophe
Michael Jensen
FRA Steven Palette
Ligier JSP 217 LMP2 3'40.886 11.445
33 63 ESP Antonio Garcia
USA Jordan Taylor
HOL Nicky Catsburg
Chevrolet Corvette C8.R LMGTE PRO 3'53.250 23.809
34 64 USA Tommy Milner
GBR Nick Tandy
GBR Alexander Sims
Chevrolet Corvette C8.R LMGTE PRO 3'53.360 23.919
35 91 ITA Gianmaria Bruni
AUT Richard Lietz
FRA Frédéric Makowiecki
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE PRO 3'54.081 24.640
36 92 DEN Michael Christensen
FRA Kevin Estre
BEL Laurens Vanthoor
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE PRO 3'54.539 25.098
37 52 ESP Miguel Molina
ITA Antonio Fuoco
ITA Davide Rigon
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE PRO 3'54.543 25.102
38 74 BRA Felipe Fraga
GBR Sam Bird
NZL Shane van Gisbergen
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE PRO 3'54.601 25.160
39 79 USA Cooper MacNeil
FRA Julien Andlauer
USA Thomas Merrill
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 3'55.082 25.641
40 86 GBR Michael Wainwright
ITA Riccardo Pera
GBR Ben Barker
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 3'55.941 26.500
41 33 USA Ben Keating
POR Henrique Chaves
DEN Marco Sørensen
Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE AM 3'55.997 26.556
42 98 CAN Paul Dalla Lana
GBR David Pittard
DEN Nicki Thiim
Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE AM 3'56.211 26.770
43 777 JPN Satoshi Hoshino
JPN Tomonobu Fujii
GBR Charles Fagg
Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE AM 3'56.257 26.816
44 85 SUI Rahel Frey
DEN Michelle Gatting
BEL Sarah Bovy
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'56.663 27.222
45 60 ITA Claudio Schiavoni
ITA Alessandro Balzan
ITA Raffaele Giammaria
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'56.940 27.499
46 21 USA Simon Mann
CZE Christoph Ulrich
FIN Toni Vilander
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'56.954 27.513
47 56 USA Brendan Iribe
GBR Ollie Millroy
GBR Ben Barnicoat
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 3'57.082 27.641
48 77 GER Christian Ried
FRA Sebastian Priaulx
GBR Harry Tincknell
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 3'57.138 27.697
49 99 INA Andrew Haryanto
BEL Alessio Picariello
EST Martin Rump
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 3'57.237 27.796
50 57 JPN Takeshi Kimura
DEN Frederik Schandorff
DEN Mikkel Jensen
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'57.333 27.892
51 55 GBR Duncan Cameron
ITA Matt Griffin
David Perel
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'57.345 27.904
52 61 MON Louis Prette
USA Conrad Grunewald
FRA Vincent Abril
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'57.392 27.951
53 46 ITA Matteo Cairoli
DEN Mikkel Pedersen
SUI Nicolas Leutwiler
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 3'57.514 28.073
54 80 ITA Matteo Cressoni
ITA Giancarlo Fisichella
USA Richard Heistand
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'57.557 28.116
55 71 FRA Franck Dezoteux
FRA Pierre Ragues
FRA Gabriel Aubry
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'57.793 28.352
56 54 SUI Thomas Flohr
ITA Francesco Castellacci
NZL Nick Cassidy
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'57.964 28.523
57 93 IRL Michael Fassbender
AUS Matthew Campbell
CAN Zacharie Robichon
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 3'57.971 28.530
58 66 HOL Renger van der Zande
USA Mark Kvamme
USA Jason Hart
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'58.081 28.640
59 75 GER Pierre Ehret
GER Christian Hook
ARG Nicolas Varrone
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'58.138 28.697
60 88 USA Fred Poordad
USA Max Root
BEL Jan Heylen
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 3'59.105 29.664
61 59 GBR Alexander West
FRA Côme Ledogar
FRA Marvin Klein
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 4'00.254 30.813
62 51 ITA Alessandro Pier Guidi
GBR James Calado
BRA Daniel Serra
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE PRO 4'01.511 32.070

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