Toyota is facing up to its first notable issues in the 2021 Le Mans 24 Hours after 💫the #8 GR010 Hybrid running second briefly stopped on course.

The first time the Toyota Gazoo Racing team has looked anything other than well on course for a d🐻ominant 1-2 result having opened up a four lap lead over the fight for third, Buemi was forced to bring his car to a halt on the Mulsanne straight.

After a shutdown and reboot the car was on its way again, with the trio of Buemi, Kazuki Nakajima and Brendon Hartley now looking to manage it to th🧸e end of the race, thus potentially putting an end to🦩 any hopes of challenging the leading #7 car now.

🔜For now the two cars remain on the lead lap but though the same issue is reportedly hanging like a cloud over the #7 Toyota, the margin between the two stands at around two minutes.

In third, Alpine led Glickenhaus in what has turned i♏nto an entertaining fight for best of the rest that could well be decided in the American team’s favour in a race that has seen it suffer few gremlins, get faster as it progresses and possess better fuel consumption than its more esteemed rival.

Team WRT continue to keep a stranglehold over LMP2 with a 1-2 position it has now held for several hours in the order #31 leading #41. The car driven by Charles Milesi, Ferdinand Habsburg and Robin Frijns has a healthy lead over the sister car, which in turn is coming under increasing pressure from the less🤪er fancied Jota car belonging to Tom Blomqvist, Sean Gelael and Stoffel Vandoorne.

Panis♒ Racing, a recovering United Autosports and Interpol 🌜round out the top six in that class.

AF Corse Ferrari hold sway out front in GTE Pro with the #51 remaining firm after the erstwhile leading sister car belonging to Daniel Serra, Sam Bird and Miguel Molina lost time with tech🎉nical issues.

As su🧸ch, James Calado, Alessandro Pier Guidi and C෴ome Ledogar have a plus-minute lead over the second place Corvette, with both of those holding a lap lead over the two factory Porsches.