Estre leads Porsche 1-2 on test day

Kevin Estre led the best way within the #6 Porsche 963 LMDh with a 3m26.907s set within the second of the 2 three-hour classes on Sunday to go the occasions by simply over two tenths from Felipe Nasr within the sister #4 Porsche Penske Motorsport entry. 

The Brazilian improved the #4’s finest lap by Nick Tandy, already adequate for second, to 3m27.142s late within the sooner afternoon session by which the highest eight automobiles dipped beneath Toyota driver Kamui Kobayashi’s quickest lap from the morning. 

Brendon Hartley took third within the afternoon within the #8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar with a 3m27.615s, whereas Michael Christensen made it three PPM automobiles within the high 4 courtesy of a 3m27.773s.

Miguel Molina posted a 3m28.014s to leap to fifth with an hour left on the clock to go the trio of Ferrari 499P LMHs competing within the 23-car Hypercar area. 

Robin Frijns was once more within the high six for the WRT BMW squad, the Dutch driver discovering 1.4s from the morning to finish up on 3m28.072s within the #20 M Hybrid V8 LMDh. 

Lamborghini continued its improved WEC type from the morning, Daniil Kvyat getting right down to 3m28.222s to take seventh place within the Take a look at Day occasions throughout the closing hour within the afternoon. 

The shopper AF Corse-run Ferrari 499P was the final automotive to go beneath Kobayashi’s morning finest, Yifei Ye setting a 3m28.248s. 

#7 Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota GR010 – Hybrid of Jose Maria Lopez, Kamui Kobayashi, Nyck De Vries

Photograph by: Rainier Ehrhardt

The #12 Jota buyer Porsche staff’s 963s was one other later improver, Will Stevens placing the automotive ninth within the afternoon rankings with a 3m28.623s earlier than Callum Ilott improved the automotive’s time to 3m28.487s however not its place. 

Jose Maria Lopez, drafted again into the Toyota squad after Conway was dominated out of Le Mans as the results of a biking accident, rounded out the afternoon high 10 within the #7 GR010 with a 3m28.827s that left him 4 tenths off team-mate Kobayashi’s morning mark. 

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Behind the second Jota and Ferrari manufacturing facility entries by which Oliver Rasmussen and Antonio Giovinazzi set the occasions got here the very best of the revised Peugeot 9X8 LMHs with Paul di Resta on the wheel. The Briton’s 3m29.326s left him practically two and a half seconds off the frontrunning tempo. 

The highest Cadillac V-Collection.R was the Motion Categorical Racing with Pipo Derani on the wheel in 14th place. The Brazilian set a 3m29.380s to finish up some two tenths faster than Alex Lynn in the very best of the Ganassi-run Caddys in sixteenth. 

The 2 Alpine A424 LMDhs have been once more close to the rear of the Hypercar pack, Nicolas Lapierre and Charles Milesi taking seventeenth and twentieth. 

#36 Alpine Endurance Workforce Alpine A424 of Nicolas Lapierre, Mick Schumacher, Matthieu Vaxiviere

Photograph by: Marc Fleury

The LMP2 class was led by United Autosports, Oliver Jarvis taking the highest spot by practically three tenths. 

His 3m34.704s aboard the Anglo-American staff’s #22 ORECA-Gibson 07 simply shaded Olli Caldwell’s 3m25.981 in the very best of the Algarve Professional entries within the all-ORECA area.

Third place went to the Duqueine ORECA by which James Allen set a 3m36.354s shortly earlier than the session was red-flagged 5 minutes early.

The TF Sport Chevrolet staff headed the LMGT3 rankings with Sebastien Baud because the quickest runners within the new-for-2024 class dipped under 4 minutes for the primary time. 

Baud topped the occasions with a 3m59.883s within the #82 Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R, which put him simply three hundredths up on the 3m59.920s from Alex Riberas within the Coronary heart of Racing Aston Martin Vantage GT3.  

Augusto Farfus was the final driver under 4 minutes within the quickest of the 2 WRT BMW M4 GT3s. 

Monitor motion at Le Mans resumes with the primary free observe session at 14:00 native time on Wednesday, which is adopted up the hour-long first qualifying session within the night.

Le Mans 24 Hours take a look at day – Session 2