The 24 2021 Hours of Le Mans in a few figures

End clap on this 89th edition of 24 Hours of Le Mans. It is now time to look at some key figures.

In 4: 

Toyota Gazoo Racing scored a fourth victory at the Le Mans event with the #7. It thus joins major manufacturers on the list such as Alfa Romeo and Ford also having four successes on the Sarthe circuit.

5 055,2:

This is the number of kilometers covered by the victorious Hypercar, Toyota #7. His average speed over the entire event is 210,5 km/h, which represents 371 laps, or 16 fewer than last year.

3'27''607:

It's the best lap in the race. It was realized by Brendon Hartley at the wheel of the #7 during the 60th lap of the race.

339,1 KM/H:

This is the best top speed during the double clock tower. Here again, it is to the Toyota #7 that we owe this record which was recorded on the 72nd lap of the race, with Kamui Kobayashi.
As for the other categories, here are the vmax recorded:
– LMP2: 325,8 km/h by the #34 Inter Europol Competition (347th lap)
– LMGTE Pro: 309,1 km/h by the #64 Corvette Racing (57th lap)
– LMGTE Am: 306,5 km/h by the #95 of TF Sport (33rd lap).

In 15:

This is the number of retirements at the finish of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, 5 more than during the previous edition. Two cars were not classified, namely the #41 of Team WRT while leading the LMP2 category and the #82 of Risi Competizione.