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24H. Le Mans – Conway leads an eventful warm-up
Mike Conway (Toyota) was the fastest in the warm-up for the 24 2022 Hours of Le Mans. © DPPI
A quarter of an hour is enough to cause many errors among the competitors of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2022. The 15-minute warm-up contested this Saturday, June 11 between 10:30 a.m. and 10:45 a.m. was punctuated by several off-piste escapades in this legendary event of the WEC.
Equipped with tires that were still cold, Franck Mailleux narrowly missed sending his Glickenhaus into the wall at the exit of the Mulsanne bend. A few moments later, GTE Pro pole sitter Nick Tandy (Corvette) returned to his pits following an abnormally slow lap.
On the side of the Indianapolis corner, Nico Müller (Oreca) was surprised by late braking. And got stuck in the gravel. Despite an open driver's door, Alex Brundle (Oreca) achieved the third best time overall for Inter Europol Competition.
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It's been an incident filled Warm-up! Several cars spinning and visiting the gravel trap.https://t.co/4J3q5Z45q3# LeMans24 pic.twitter.com/MNqse50pZl
- 24 Hours of Le Mans (@ 24hoursoflemans) June 11, 2022
Among all these adventures, Mike conway (Toyota) a pu enregistrer le meilleur tour en 3’31’’236. Le Britannique devance non pas une Hypercar, mais la LM P2 de René Rast (Oreca, Team WRT) qui s’élancera en pole position de cette catégorie.
For his first laps of the week replacing Philippe Cimadomo, banned from racing by the stewards for dangerous driving in practice, Nyck de Vries (Oreca du TDS x Vaillante) climbs to fourth place just behind the Toyota hybrid of Sébastien Buemi.
En GTE Pro, alors que Nick Tandy n’a pas bouclé le moindre tour, son équipier Antonio Garcia s’affiche en haut du classement, devant les deux Porsche 911 RSR ainsi que les deux Ferrari 488 GTE Evo which benefited froma more advantageous Balance of Performance on Friday evening.
Finally, the GTE Am is led by the experienced Toni Vilander (Ferrari), ahead of the class pole-sitter, Vincent Abril (Ferrari). From now on, the teams will fully concentrate on the 24 Hours of Le Mans, which will start at 16 p.m. later today.
Medhi Casaurang
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