Toyota fastest in dramatic FP1 at 24 Hours of Le Mans
Brendon Hartley in the #8 To꧒yota clocked 3:27.742, the fastest time, to lay down a m♈arker.
Kamui Kobayashi had breached 3:28 first💎, 🦩then Felipe Nasr in the #75 Porsche 963 went second-fastest, until Hartley bettered their efforts.
Earlier, Jo🦹sé María López in the #7 Toyota GR010-Hybrid clocked 3:28.290, very shortly after the 3:28.386 posted by Loïc Duval in💫 the Peugeot TotalEnergies #94 Peugeot 9X8.
Five Hypercars improved upon the best time from the test🌺 day (set by Ferrari) within the first five✨ laps of FP1.
Louis Prett🐽e’s JMW Motorsport’s #66 Ferrari 488 GTE Evo went off track at the Ford chicane, then both Peugeots pitted at the same time after separate issues.
Olli Ca🧸ldwell in the Alpine Elf Team #35 Oreca 07-Gibson then suffered the same fate as the Ferr𒀰ari at the Ford chicane.
A red flag was unfurled when Steven Thomas in Tow✅er Motorsports’ #13 Oreca ꦉ07 made contact with the Aston Martin Vantage AMR of D’Station Racing (#777).
C🔯asper Stevenson’s🎃 car had hit a barrier and was vulnerable to traffic when it was hit.
A 🐲second red flag ended the session when the #33 Chevrolet Corvette C8.R went off track.
The JOTA #28 Oreca 07 and COOL Racing's #37 went fas๊test in 🎀the LMP2 class.
GMB Motorsport’s Marco Sørensen in the #42 Aston Martin Vantage was✨ quickest in the LMGTE Am class.
Jenson Button impressed for the Hendrick Motorsports’ NASCAR Garage 56 entry, beating his own pre🔥vious time by two seconds after the red flag period ended. They did, however, run outsid♍e of official classification.
James was a sports journalist at Sky Sport🍸s for a decade covering everything from Am🌠erican sports, to football, to F1.
