Toyota set the pace in the opening practice session for this week's LeMans24, with Cadillac proving its nearest rival in the Hypercar class. Full FP1 report ⬇️
, who lowered the bar to a 3m27.875s when the session was resumed following a red flag prompted by a crash at Tertre Rouge involving the #777 D'station Racing Aston Martin Vantage and the #13 TDS Racing-run Tower Motorsports LMP2.
Casper Stevenson had already suffered an off in the D'station car and was stranded in the middle of the circuit when Steven Thomas slammed into the side of the stricken Aston, leaving both cars badly damaged. The session was resumed after a 35-minute delay. Hartley made his improvement with 23 minutes left on the clock to make it a Toyota 1-2, 0.133s ahead of Kobayashi, before the session was stopped for a second time with four minutes to go.
That was caused by another crash at Tertre Rouge, this time for the solo Corvette C8.R of Nico Varrone.Photo by: Marc Fleury Jumping to third late on prior to the stoppage was the best of the Cadillac V-Series.R LMDhs, the #2 Chip Ganassi Racing-run car ofNext up were two Porsche 963s, with the #75 car of
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