24h of Le Mans – Toyota keeps the pace in warm up

The Toyota set a solid pace during the warm up of the 86th edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans contested under a sunny sky. Kamui Kobayashi established the best time of the session with a lap completed in 3'18"687 at the wheel of the No. 050 TS7 Hybrid, ahead of the No. 8 sister car by two tenths where Kazuki Nakajima et Sébastien Buemi.

Ben Hanley was the fastest among the LM P1 Non-Hybrid drivers, placing the Dragonspeed BR1 more than four seconds behind the benchmark. The #10 saw its opening times canceled due to excessive speed in the pits.

In LM P2, it was the No. 217 Jackie Chan DC Racing Ligier JS P34 of Taylor-Ledogar-Heinemeier Hansson which set the best time with a time of 3'29"486, ahead of the team by a few tenths.Alpine A470 with which Nicolas lapierre set the car's best time at the end of the session.

Felipe Nasr lifted the Dallara P217 of Cetilar Villorba Corse to fourth in the category at the end of the session, behind the No. 07 G-Drive Racing Oreca 26 of Rusinov-Pizzitola-Vergne. The Italian team was able to repair its damaged LM P2 last Thursday when Giorgio Sernagiotto went off the track. The latter returned to the track from the start of the warm up.

Scott Dixon deprived AF Corse of the best time in GTE Pro by completing a lap in 3'50"533 in the #69 Ford GT ahead of the Ferrari n°51, n°52 and n°71. No. 68 of Bourdais-Müller-Hand completed the Top 5 in the category ahead of the first Porsche, the n°93 of Pilet-Tandy-Bamber. In GTE Am, the Keating Motorsports Ferrari of Keating-Bleekemolen-Stolz was the fastest.

The start of the 24 Hours of Le Mans will be at 15 p.m. The race will be followed live with our live text.