44 Eurasia Ligier, and No. With the cars covering more than 5,000km in just 24 hours, it’s the ideal arena for us to simulate, test, and develop. 28 TDS cars had modified refuelling rigs in their fuel system assemblies extending to the dead man valve and inside the cone of the fuel restrictor to lessen the time spent in the pit lane, causing the stewards to disqualify the cars.The result increased Alonso, Buemi and Nakajima's lead in the LMP Drivers' Championship to 20 points over their teammates Conway, Kobayashi and López in second. 7 Toyota to 1 minute and 16 seconds and.In the early morning Kobayashi led his teammate Nakajima by around ten to twelve seconds.Several LMGTE cars took the opportunity to change.Unhindered in the final hours of the race, Nakajima achieved victory for the No. The 2018 edition of the 24 Hours … 28 TDS Oreca was penalised 1 lap and 1:18.188 by the stewards following the race because driver François Perrodo exceeded his maximum drive time of four hours within a six hour period.Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile,"An insider's guide to the Le Mans 24 hours: how to experience the ultimate endurance race in style","Commemoration of the 90th anniversary of the Le Mans 24 Hours","Dates for the 2018 24 Hours of Le Mans announced: 16/17 June","Porsche Curves safety upgrade on Le Mans 24 Hours circuit completed","Auto Entries Fixed For 2018 Le Mans 24 Hours","2018 24 Hours of Le Mans – The Entry List Revealed","Panoz Unveils GT-EV; Targets Garage 56 Entry","No 'Garage 56' experimental entry for 2018 Le Mans 24 Hours","ARC Bratislava Pulls Plug on LMP2 Program","Final Le Mans Entry & Test Entry Revealed","WEC LMP1 privateers given power reduction ahead of Le Mans test","Multiple Changes in Le Mans GTE-Pro BoP","24 Heures du Mans 2018 Specific Regulations","Le Mans Test Day: Fernando Alonso tops morning session for Toyota","#8 Toyota Leads #3 Rebellion In Red-Flagged Morning Session","Aston Martin Reverts to Spare Chassis After Sorensen Crash","Toyota Finishes Test Day Top After Multiple Improvements In Afternoon Session","Aston Martin handed boost in latest GTE BoP","Kamui Kobayashi fastest for Toyota in Le Mans practice","Toyota Fastest in Free Practice, but Rebellion Close (Updated)","Le Mans 24 Hours practice: Toyota claims 1–2 late in session","Motor racing: Nakajima puts Alonso's Toyota on provisional pole at Le Mans","Le Mans 24 Hours: Nakajima puts #8 Toyota on provisional pole","Toyota On Provisional Pole As Records Tumble In LMP2 & GTE","Red Flags Curtail An Incident-Packed Second Qualifying","Toyota Dominates LMP1 Le Mans Pole, Porsche Qualifies on Top In GTE-Pro and Am","Le Mans 24: Kazuki Nakajima's Flying Lap Puts The No. All Rights Reserved. It was a competition between the two of our cars in the garage. 7 Toyota. Alfa Romeo 8C Lord Howe-H. Birkin Winner Le Mans 1931.. Quick View. In LMGTE Am, Aston Martin received a 10 kg (22 lb) decrease of weight and Porsche had 10 kg (22 lb) added to their cars. Accueil NSR > Voitures > NSR 0154AW Porsche 997 Winner PRO Le Mans 2018 24h n.92 Livery. Garage 56 allows a 56th entry to test new technologies at the race.Nine reserves were initially nominated by the ACO, limited to the LMP2 (six cars) and LMGTE Am (three cars) categories.The FIA Endurance Committee altered the equivalence of technology in the LMP classes and the balance of performance in the LMGTE categories to try and create parity within them.
Bentley Speed Six W. Barnato-G. Kidston #4 Winner Le Mans 1930.. Quick View. Layout of the Circuit de la Sarthe. We’ll come to the drivers later!Toyota has finished second overall at Le Mans three times in the past seven attempts, twice in the Hybrid era and once in 1999 with the now iconic GT-One, plus a pair of further second place finishes in the twilight years of Group C in 1992 and 1995
.They therefore finish second here for a sixth time, but to the delight of all concerned, they take the win too in a race that brings to mind the near fault-free performance of the Bentley effort in 2003.The Toyota Gazoo Racing Team, and their spectacular TS050, is a deserved winner of the race, and that win will just endorse a further commitment from the Japanese marque to endurance racing in the future, a global arena where their technology can be displayed in terms of both pure performance, and efficiency.For the drivers, Sebastien Buemi and Kazuki Nakajima take their first overall wins, both men loyal servants of the Japanese-funded, Cologne-based effort.Much of the media coverage of this win will inevitably focus, some of it to an overly simplistic degree, on the triumph for Fernando Alonso, be reassured that the double F1 World Champion likely shares the mild distaste for that media tactic.We’ll take the outlook here that the achievement should be celebrated both as a great Champions’ latest career achievement, and that it inevitably brings more attention not just from mainstream media, but with the new friends that likely brings to the spectator banks, TV audiences and potential commercial partners.The reaction of the F1 world will be mighty interesting!Toyota came home with a 1,2, the #7 car featuring Jose Maria Lopez who claims a first Le Mans podium, Kamui Kobayashi and Mike Conway claiming a second second place apiece.Amongst the privateer non-hybrid LMP1s it is clear that the path of least resistance was the least obstructed!ORECA’s major redesign of their successful LMP2 product into the Rebellion R13 with less weight, better aero, more fuel and more power was simply too good with, for the most part too much speed, and most certainly more reliability than the other contenders, Rebellion then score a long awaited overall podium, after a pair of overall fourth places, and a disqualification from an overall podium with their LMP2 Oreca last year.That brings two men to the overall podium for the first time in the #3 effort, Gustavo Menezes and Matthias Beche, and a return to the overall podium for Thomas Laurent after second place overall last year as part of the Jackie Chan DC Racing Team.LMP2 promised a potential battle of the chassis, and of the tyre manufacturers, albeit with the ORECAs still looking dominant in the run-up to the race proper.Taking the tyre war between Michelin and Dunlop first, it looked set, in terms of podium finishes, to go to the wire until late in the race when both the #23 Panis Barthez Ligier and #48 IDEC Sport Oreca stumbled.That left a Dunlop-dominated top six, a sextet which also saw only one non-ORECA chassis, this the #32 United Autosports Ligier.The 2018 race saw a first win for G-Drive in six attempts, this year with TDS Racing, the French team finally scoring a win after a second place back in 2014.All three drivers too score their first Le Mans 24 Hours class win, Roman Rusinov taking a first win at Le Mans to extend his record LMP2 race winning total in the FIA WEC to 18 (in a year that he is not a full season entry! Rebellion, unable to match the pace of the Toyota cars, finished third and fourth with the No.