Now 21 hours into the centenary 24hoursoflemans, FerrariHypercar and TGR_WEC are still duelling for outright victory. Report:
That eradicated an advantage of a minute that Ferrari had over the sole surviving Toyota GR010 Hybrid, the #8 car, which had been bolstered by slow zones that hurt the car driven by Sebastien Buemi.
After that, Buemi closed right in on Pier Guidi, even getting within a second of the Ferrari man at one stage, before the Italian opened the advantage up again.at the next round of stops, costing the Toyota ground as Pier Guidi stayed on board the Ferrari, with the two cars then circulating around 20 seconds apart.
However, Toyota mixed up its strategy by bringing in Hartley earlier than the pit schedule that he and Pier Guidi had been running on, sending out the Kiwi with fuel only.taking over at the wheel and coming under pressure from Hartley as he headed back out on circuit. The gap between the two leaders shrunk to as little as 1.4 seconds with four hours to go before Calado started to stretch his legs at the head of the field again, and the 21-hour mark, Calado was 14 seconds ahead of Hartley.
The third-placed #2 Cadillac V-Series.R, the only one of the American marque's cars to have enjoyed a clean run up to now, dropped off the lead lap in the 20th hour.Photo by: Rainier Ehrhardt
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