Toyota win 94th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans

Toyota win 94th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans

Kamui Kobayashi, Mike Conway and Nyck de Vries racing with Toyota Racing took a sixth Le Mans victory as the #7 Toyota TR010 Hybrid Hypercar took a highly accomplished win for the Japanese manufacturer.

 

 Kobayashi, who added the success to his 2021 win at La Sarthe, took the chequered flag ahead of the #20 BMW M Team WRT entry driven by Rene Rast, Sheldon van der Linde and Rene Rast, who extended their WEC points lead

 

On a highly successful weekend for Toyota, the #8 car of Sebastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley and Ryo Hirakawa finished third.

LMGT3 went the way of the #33 TF Sport Corvette triumph with Ben Keating, Nicky Catsburg and Jonny Edgar lead home the #78 Akkodis ASP Lexus trio of Jack Hawksworth, Hadrien David and Tom van Rompuy.

 

Making it three different manufacturers in the top three positions was the #23 Heart of Racing Aston Martin Vantage of Eduardo Barrichello, Jonny Adam and Gray Newell.

 

The LMP2 category saw a third win in four races and back-to-back successes by the Inter Europol Competition squad as Tom Dillmann, Nick Yelloly and Jakub Smiechowski celebrated an epic win.

 

Sealing the Pro/Am LMP2 trophy was the #4 Crowdstrike Racing by APR team of Laurin Heinrich, Alex Quinn and George Kurtz.

Full report to follow….
 


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