Practice report
WEC 24 Hours of Le Mans
Le Mans 24h: Toyota dominant in final practice
Toyota dominated the timesheets in final practice ahead of this weekend's Le Mans 24 Hours, going almost two seconds clear of the rest of the Hypercar field.
Jamie Klein
Edited: Jun 11, 2022, 12:16 PM
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The Japanese marque's pair of GR010 Hybrids, which swept the front row in Hyperpole qualifying earlier, were untouchable in Thursday evening's two-hour night session, the final on-track running before Saturday morning warm-up.
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Jose Maria Lopez set the pace aboard the #7 Toyota with a best lap of 3m28.322s, 0.362s faster than Sebastien Buemi in the sister #8 machine.
Best of the rest was the #708 Glickenhaus 007 LMH in which Pipo Derani set a late improvement of 3m30.141s to get within two seconds of Lopez's benchmark.
Richard Westbrook posted a 3m30.822s, exactly 2.5s off the pace, to go fourth in the sister #709 Glickenhaus, just ahead of the Alpine A480-Gibson grandfathered LMP1 car driven by Andre Negrao.
United Autosports led the way in the LMP2 class courtesy of a 3m32.226s effort from Alex Lynn in the #23 Oreca 07-Gibson.
Second in class was Job van Uitert for Panis Racing, ahead of Jonathan Aberdein in the best of the JOTA entries, the #28 car.
The order in the GTE Pro class virtually mirrored that of Hyperpole, as the two Corvette C8.Rs locked out the top two spots in class, albeit with the #63 car of Nicky Catsburg besting the pole-winning #64 machine of Tommy Milner.
Porsche's pair of works 911 RSR-19s were next, Gianmaria Bruni delivering the German marque's best laptime in the #91 car, followed by the two factory Ferrari 488 GTE Evos.
Harry Tincknell was the pacesetter in the GTE Am class with a best effort of 3m55.067s at the wheel of the #77 Dempsey-Proton Racing Porsche.
The two-hour night session ran largely without incident, although Graff driver David Droux did suffer an off on his out lap at Mulsanne corner on the car's first lap since Sebastien Page's incident in third practice.
Late in the session, the GTE Am pole-winning AF Corse Ferrari also ground to a halt on the start/finish straight.
TDS Racing's Oreca did not appear in the session following Philippe Cimadomo's crash at Corvette Curve in FP3.
The next on-track action at Le Mans is the warm-up session on Saturday morning at 10.30am local time, ahead of the start of the race at 4pm.
2022 Le Mans 24 Hours - fourth practice results:
Cla # Drivers Car Class Time Gap 1 7 Mike Conway
Kamui Kobayashi
Jose Maria Lopez
Toyota GR010 - Hybrid HYPERCAR 3'28.322 2 8 Sébastien Buemi
Brendon Hartley
Ryo Hirakawa
Toyota GR010 - Hybrid HYPERCAR 3'28.684 0.362 3 708 Olivier Pla
Romain Dumas
Pipo Derani
Glickenhaus 007 LMH HYPERCAR 3'30.141 1.819 4 709 Ryan Briscoe
Richard Westbrook
Franck Mailleux
Glickenhaus 007 LMH HYPERCAR 3'30.822 2.500 5 36 Andre Negrao
Nicolas Lapierre
Matthieu Vaxiviere
Alpine A480 HYPERCAR 3'31.039 2.717 6 23 Alex Lynn
Oliver Jarvis
Josh Pierson
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'32.226 3.904 7 65 Julien Canal
Nico Jamin
Job Van Uitert
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'32.422 4.100 8 28 Oliver Rasmussen
Edward Jones
Jonathan Aberdein
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'32.588 4.266 9 9 Robert Kubica
Louis Deletraz
Lorenzo Colombo
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'33.269 4.947 10 38 Roberto Gonzalez
Antonio Felix da Costa
Will Stevens
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'33.481 5.159 11 22 Philip Hanson
Filipe Albuquerque
Will Owen
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'33.546 5.224 12 10 Nico Müller
Ryan Cullen
Sébastien Bourdais
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'33.559 5.237 13 37 Ye Yifei
Ricky Taylor
Niklas Krütten
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'33.674 5.352 14 32 Rolf Ineichen
Mirko Bortolotti
Dries Vanthoor
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'33.681 5.359 15 47 Sophia Flörsch
John Falb
Jack Aitken
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'33.689 5.367 16 43 David Heinemeier Hansson
Fabio Scherer
Pietro Fittipaldi
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'33.701 5.379 17 41 Rui Andrade
Ferdinand Habsburg
Norman Nato
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'33.804 5.482 18 45 Steven Thomas
James Allen
Rene Binder
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'33.986 5.664 19 83 François Perrodo
Nicklas Nielsen
Alessio Rovera
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'34.080 5.758 20 31 Sean Gelael
Robin Frijns
René Rast
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'34.187 5.865 21 44 Miro Konopka
Bent Viscaal
Tristan Vautier
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'34.393 6.071 22 35 Jean Baptiste Lahaye
Matthieu Lahaye
François Heriau
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'34.588 6.266 23 5 Dane Cameron
Emmanuel Collard
Felipe Nasr
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'34.603 6.281 24 30 Richard Bradley
Guillermo Rojas
Reshad de Gerus
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'35.208 6.886 25 48 Paul Lafargue
Paul-Loup Chatin
Patrick Pilet
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'35.566 7.244 26 34 Jakub Smiechowski
Alex Brundle
Esteban Gutierrez
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'35.927 7.605 27 1 Lilou Wadoux
Sébastien Ogier
Charles Milesi
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'36.128 7.806 28 24 Rodrigo Sales
Matthew Bell
Ben Hanley
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'37.822 9.500 29 3 Laurents Hörr
Jean Glorieux
Alexandre Cougnaud
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'38.232 9.910 30 39 Eric Trouillet
Sebastien Page
David Droux
Oreca 07 LMP2 3'40.740 12.418 31 27 Cresp Christophe
Michael Jensen
Steven Palette
Ligier JSP 217 LMP2 3'51.009 22.687 32 63 Antonio Garcia
Jordan Taylor
Nick Catsburg
Chevrolet Corvette C8.R LMGTE PRO 3'52.710 24.388 33 64 Tommy Milner
Nick Tandy
Alexander Sims
Chevrolet Corvette C8.R LMGTE PRO 3'52.731 24.409 34 91 Gianmaria Bruni
Richard Lietz
Frédéric Makowiecki
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE PRO 3'53.123 24.801 35 92 Michael Christensen
Kevin Estre
Laurens Vanthoor
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE PRO 3'53.277 24.955 36 52 Miguel Molina
Antonio Fuoco
Davide Rigon
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE PRO 3'53.682 25.360 37 51 Alessandro Pier Guidi
James Calado
Daniel Serra
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE PRO 3'53.888 25.566 38 77 Christian Ried
Sebastian Priaulx
Harry Tincknell
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 3'55.067 26.745 39 88 Fred Poordad
Maxwell Root
Jan Heylen
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 3'55.265 26.943 40 61 Louis Prette
Conrad Grunewald
Vincent Abril
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'55.323 27.001 41 54 Thomas Flohr
Francesco Castellacci
Nick Cassidy
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'55.345 27.023 42 57 Takeshi Kimura
Frederik Schandorff
Mikkel Jensen
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'55.446 27.124 43 99 Andrew Haryanto
Alessio Picariello
Martin Rump
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 3'55.510 27.188 44 86 Michael Wainwright
Riccardo Pera
Benjamin Barker
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 3'55.626 27.304 45 60 Claudio Schiavoni
Alessandro Balzan
Raffaele Giammaria
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'55.728 27.406 46 80 Matteo Cressoni
Giancarlo Fisichella
Richard Heistand
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'55.899 27.577 47 79 Cooper MacNeil
Julien Andlauer
Thomas Merrill
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 3'56.039 27.717 48 56 Brendan Iribe
Ollie Millroy
Ben Barnicoat
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 3'56.182 27.860 49 93 Michael Fassbender
Matt Campbell
Zacharie Robichon
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 3'56.219 27.897 50 59 Alexander West
Côme Ledogar
Marvin Klein
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'56.237 27.915 51 85 Rahel Frey
Michelle Gatting
Sarah Bovy
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'56.303 27.981 52 75 Pierre Ehret
Christian Hook
Nicolas Varrone
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'56.393 28.071 53 71 Franck Dezoteux
Pierre Ragues
Gabriel Aubry
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'56.696 28.374 54 55 Duncan Cameron
Matthew Griffin
David Perel
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'56.855 28.533 55 21 Simon Mann
Christoph Ulrich
Toni Vilander
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'56.936 28.614 56 66 Renger van der Zande
Mark Kvamme
Jason Hart
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'57.169 28.847 57 98 Paul Dalla Lana
David Pittard
Nicki Thiim
Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE AM 3'58.959 30.637 58 13 Philippe Cimadomo
Mathias Beche
Tijmen van der Helm
Oreca 07 LMP2 59 33 Ben Keating
Henrique Chaves Jr.
Marco Sorensen
Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE AM 60 46 Matteo Cairoli
Mikkel Pedersen
Nicolas Leutwiler
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 61 74 Felipe Fraga
Sam Bird
Shane van Gisbergen
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE PRO 62 777 Satoshi Hoshino
Tomonobu Fujii
Charlie Fagg
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