Lapierre happy with Toyota's performance

Grâce à une très bon relais au volant de la Toyota TS030 n°7, Nicolas lapierre managed to get back on the No. 18 Audi R1 e-tron four that he overtook on the track. Once in first place, the No. 7 then encountered reliability problems before retiring around 1:30 a.m. Despite this retirement, Nicolas Lapierre said he was satisfied with the potential displayed by the Toyota. “ I am disappointed to see the team withdraw its two cars, but on the other hand I think we can be happy with our level of performance », confides Lapierre. “ We fought with the leaders with both cars, which is a great success. We need to improve reliability, which we knew from our short test program before this event. The program is young and this is our first race. We had a good qualifying and a good start to the race. »