Yifei Ye: “We almost won Le Mans on our debut”

Is the disappointment still present a few days later Le Mans ?

With these few days having passed, the disappointment has subsided a little. But when I watch the footage from the last lap, this painful feeling comes to mind every time. That being said, what is most important is what happened during the race, in particular the way we came back and how we increased the gap on 2nd during the last two hours. We almost won when we started at Le Mans. This is what I remember. The positive. We know, Le Mans chooses its winner. And this year, it wasn't us. The hardest thing to come to terms with is that we didn't make any mistakes. In the last stint, I avoided all the curbs and took more space in the traffic, precisely so as not to stress the car and bring it back safely. And in the end the team told us that the condition of the car was