2022 [WEC] Le Mans 24 Hours

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Bottom post of the previous page:

The rain we had has screwed a lot of people for qualifying for Hyperpole. Fortunate for the #8 there are only 5 Hypercars so with first 6 per class going through they made it. They spent the first half hour of the session working on the rear of the car... then the red flag and rain after.
The only car not to make it through in GTE Pro was the Ferrari run by Riley Motorsports (that SVG is one of the drivers of).

Cars advancing to Hyperpole

Hypercar

#7 Toyota Gazoo Racing (Kobayashi/Conway/Lopez)
#8 Toyota Gazoo Racing (Buemi/Hartley/Hirakawa)
#36 Alpine Elf Team (Lapierre/Vaxiviere/Negrao)
#708 Glickenhaus Racing (Pla/Dumas/Derani)
#709 Glickenhaus Racing (Briscoe/Westbrook/Mailleux)

LMP2

#9 Prema Orlen Team (Kubica/Deletraz/Colombo)
#22 United Autosports USA (Hanson/Albuquerque/Owen)
#23 United Autosports USA (Jarvis/Lynn/Pierson)
#31 WRT (Gelael/Frijns/Rast)
#38 JOTA (Da Costa/Gonzalez/Stevens)
#41 Realteam by WRT (Nato/Habsburg/Andrade)

GTE Pro

#51 AF Corse (Pier Guidi/Calado/Serra)
#52 AF Corse (Molina/Fuoco/Rigon)
#63 Corvette Racing (Catsburg/Garcia/Taylor)
#64 Corvette Racing (Sims/Milner/Tandy)
#91 Porsche GT Team (Bruni/Lietz/Makowiecki)
#92 Porsche GT Team (Estre/Christensen/Vanthoor)

GTE Am

#54 AF Corse (Flohr/Castellacci/Cassidy)
#57 Kessel Racing (Kimura/Schandorff/Jensen)
#61 AF Corse (Prette/Grunewald/Abril)
#77 Dempsey-Proton Racing (Ried/Tincknell/Priaulx)
#85 Iron Dames (Frey/Gatting/Bovy)
#98 Northwest AMR (Thiim/Dalla Lana/Pittard)

[erwin greven]

Night practice started.

[Cheeveer]

I think this is the first Le Mans in like 4 or 5 years where I am not busy with work over the weekend! Really looking forward to an old school all-(kinda)nighter.

[Everso Biggyballies]

The crash of Fassbender looks like a driver error. But it is difficult to be sure of it. The onboard is still the best view of the crash.

Indeed, it seems it is being reported as driver error. I am sure by now if there had been any issue with a car problem it would have been mentioned. His record of damaging cars has not been good. Was it last years Ricard 4 hours he got marched to the stewards aand found at fault for an ambitious move on a competitor that resulted in the other cars DNF.

This is the relevant part of his Le Mans incident from the DSC report

Michael Fassbender lost the rear of the #93 Proton Competition Porsche under heavy braking going into the first Mulsanne chicane, a big frontal shunt to the driver’s right Armco red flagging the session. Seemingly a driver error, the Irish Bronze driver was thankfully unhurt.

https://www.dailysportscar.com/2022/06/ ... fying.html

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CLASS LEADERS in Free Practice 2

CLASS POS # STATUS TEAM / CAR DRIVER
Hypercar 1 708 IN
GLICKENHAUS RACING
GLICKENHAUS 007 LMH PLA Olivier, DUMAS Romain, DERANI Luis Felipe


LM P2 6 31 IN
WRT
ORECA 07 - GIBSON GELAEL Sean, FRIJNS Robin, RAST René


LM GTE Pro 32 63 IN
CORVETTE RACING
CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R GARCIA Antonio, TAYLOR Jordan, CATSBURG Nicky


LM GTE Am 39 46 IN
TEAM PROJECT 1
PORSCHE 911 RSR - 19 CAIROLI Matteo, PEDERSEN Mikkel, LEUTWILER Nicolas



So the Glick #708 nudges ahead of the Toyotas overall

FULL RESULTS

FP3 next, a couple of hours away yet.

[Everso Biggyballies]

For those that have missed out highlights of qualy plus other stuff is available on the FIA WEC youtube channel

https://www.youtube.com/user/FIAWEC/videos

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FP3 is on now.... the link that @erwin greven posted is showing live the Eurosports 2 coverage..
http://rc.freestreams-live1.com/eurosport2-tv/

I was only able to get a mute (no sound) version but got round it by running the Radio Le Mans live audio commentary feed in the background.
You can find that here: http://player.radiolemans.co/. Choose the RS1 feed.

Good luck. Enjoy

[Everso Biggyballies]

LIVE | Race 1 | Road To Le Mans | Michelin Le Mans Cup (English)

Just a heads up @erwin greven and @Cheeveer plus others interested, the Road to Le Mans Race 1 is being shown live shortly on youtube.

Starts in exactly one hour from now. (Reminder on the link set!)

http://lemanscup.com/en/

The Michelin Le Mans Cup will take place over six rounds, with drivers and teams competing to decide who will become champion. Five of the events will be 2-hour races on the same weekends as the European Le Mans Series, with the special event "Road To Le Mans" acting as the curtain raiser before the 24 Hours of Le Mans in June. Among the GT3 that can compete in the series are the Aston Martin V12 Vantage GT3, the Audi R8 LMS, the Ferrari 458 Italia GT3, and the new 488 GT3, and the Porsche 911 GT3R, though teams can also enter eligible cars from manufacturers such as Bentley, BMW, Lamborghini, Lexus, Dodge, Corvette, Nissan, McLaren and Mercedes Benz.

[erwin greven]

Thanks for the heads up!

[Everso Biggyballies]

The crash of Fassbender looks like a driver error. But it is difficult to be sure of it. The onboard is still the best view of the crash.

Indeed, it seems it is being reported as driver error. I am sure by now if there had been any issue with a car problem it would have been mentioned. His record of damaging cars has not been good. Was it last years Ricard 4 hours he got marched to the stewards aand found at fault for an ambitious move on a competitor that resulted in the other cars DNF.

This is the relevant part of his Le Mans incident from the DSC report

Michael Fassbender lost the rear of the #93 Proton Competition Porsche under heavy braking going into the first Mulsanne chicane, a big frontal shunt to the driver’s right Armco red flagging the session. Seemingly a driver error, the Irish Bronze driver was thankfully unhurt.

https://www.dailysportscar.com/2022/06/ ... fying.html

Now been reported by Porsche to have been caused by a rear disc breaking caused the car to snap out of line rather than Crashbender's error.

[erwin greven]

Pulled out of the bag, says Hindy after the Alpine gets on top. I would say they dropped a bag....

[Everso Biggyballies]

Hmmmm Alpine sandbagging? I know they got a bit of BoP benefit late on this week, but the slowest Hypercar all week, 10kph down on the straight has just on (provisional) pole with 5 minutes to go.

.... but lap time deleted.....

[Everso Biggyballies]

So Toyota 1-2, Hartley pole from Kobie, with Alpine 3rd and then the Glicks. Great session at the end.

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Hyperpole Class Winners

CLASS POS # TEAM / CAR DRIVER

Hypercar 1 8
TOYOTA GAZOO RACING
TOYOTA GR010 HYBRID HARTLEY Brendon

LM P2 6 31
WRT
ORECA 07 - GIBSON FRIJNS Robin

LM GTE Pro 12 64
CORVETTE RACING
CHEVROLET CORVETTE C8.R TANDY Nick

LM GTE Am 18 61
AF CORSE
FERRARI 488 GTE EVO ABRIL Vincent



Full results

Cla Drivers Car Class Avg Time Gap Interval
1
Sébastien Buemi
Brendon Hartley
Ryo Hirakawa Toyota GR010 - Hybrid HYPERCAR 3'24.408
2
Mike Conway
Kamui Kobayashi
Jose Maria Lopez Toyota GR010 - Hybrid HYPERCAR 3'24.828 0.420 0.420
3
Andre Negrao
Nicolas Lapierre
Matthieu Vaxiviere Alpine A480 HYPERCAR 3'24.850 0.442 0.022
4
Ryan Briscoe
Richard Westbrook
Franck Mailleux Glickenhaus 007 LMH HYPERCAR 3'25.841 1.433 0.991
5
Olivier Pla
Romain Dumas
Pipo Derani Glickenhaus 007 LMH HYPERCAR 3'26.359 1.951 0.518
6
Sean Gelael
Robin Frijns
René Rast Oreca 07 LMP2 3'28.394 3.986 2.035
7
Rui Andrade
Ferdinand Habsburg
Norman Nato Oreca 07 LMP2 3'29.697 5.289 1.303
8
Philip Hanson
Filipe Albuquerque
Will Owen Oreca 07 LMP2 3'30.070 5.662 0.373
9
Roberto Gonzalez
Antonio Felix da Costa
Will Stevens Oreca 07 LMP2 3'30.373 5.965 0.303
10
Robert Kubica
Louis Deletraz
Lorenzo Colombo Oreca 07 LMP2 3'31.115 6.707 0.742
11
Alex Lynn
Oliver Jarvis
Josh Pierson Oreca 07 LMP2 3'31.596 7.188 0.481
12
Tommy Milner
Nick Tandy
Alexander Sims Chevrolet Corvette C8.R LMGTE PRO 3'49.985 25.577 18.389
13
Antonio Garcia
Jordan Taylor
Nick Catsburg Chevrolet Corvette C8.R LMGTE PRO 3'50.177 25.769 0.192
14
Gianmaria Bruni
Richard Lietz
Frédéric Makowiecki Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE PRO 3'50.377 25.969 0.200
15
Michael Christensen
Kevin Estre
Laurens Vanthoor Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE PRO 3'50.522 26.114 0.145
16
Miguel Molina
Antonio Fuoco
Davide Rigon Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE PRO 3'51.779 27.371 1.257
17
Alessandro Pier Guidi
James Calado
Daniel Serra Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE PRO 3'51.816 27.408 0.037
18
Louis Prette
Conrad Grunewald
Vincent Abril Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'52.594 28.186 0.778
19
Takeshi Kimura
Frederik Schandorff
Mikkel Jensen Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'52.751 28.343 0.157
20
Christian Ried
Sebastian Priaulx
Harry Tincknell Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 3'53.006 28.598 0.255
21
Paul Dalla Lana
David Pittard
Nicki Thiim Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE AM 3'53.578 29.170 0.572
22
Thomas Flohr
Francesco Castellacci
Nick Cassidy Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'53.757 29.349 0.179
23
Rahel Frey
Michelle Gatting
Sarah Bovy Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 3'53.869 29.461 0.112

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Driver banned from Le Mans after string of incidents

A driver has been banned from competing in the remainder of this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans after three separate crashes.

Philippe Cimadomo, a Bronze-rated 62-year old, has been prohibited from taking any further part in the event “for the safety of himself and other competitors”.

Le Mans debutant Cimadomo was entered in the LMP2 class for TDS Racing, sharing the #13 with Mathias Beche and Tijmen van der Helm.

Following a string of incidents in practice and qualifying, the decision was made upon the recommendation of race director Eduardo Freitas.

The most recent of those incidents was a spin into the barriers in Practice 3 leaving the car with significant damage, with the team reverting to a spare chassis.

No news yet whether TDS Racing will source a replacement driver for the #13 entry.


Philippe Cimadomo’s Practice 3 crash.

Stewards decision in full:

The Stewards of the 24 Hours of Le Mans received a report from the Race Director in accordance with Art 10.1.1 of the 24 Hours of Le Mans Supplementary Regulations, regarding the driver, Philippe Cimadomo. The Stewards summoned (Document 64) the Driver and Team Manager and heard from the driver. The Stewards also heard from the FIA appointed Driver Advisor to the Stewards, Yannick Dalmas.

The Driver caused an accident in FP1 and nearly caused an accident also in FP1 at Pit Entry. Further he lost control during FP3 and suffered a significant accident.

Further, the observation and opinion of the Driver Advisor is that the Driver is not driving to the standard required to safely participate in the remainder of the Event, especially in consideration of the specificity of the Le Mans circuit and competition, and the specifics of an LMP2 car in this specific situation.

The Driver explained to the Stewards that he has competed in LMP2 cars previously in ELMS without incident, and the incidents during FP1 and FP3 represented momentary lapses. Further, he stated that he felt that he had gained experience throughout the practice sessions and felt more confident in his capacity to compete. However, the Stewards have concluded that a pattern exists that cannot be ignored at this time.

Therefore, on the recommendation of the Race Director, for the safety of himself and other competitors the Stewards prohibit Philippe Cimadomo from taking part in the remainder of the Competition, under the power of the Stewards in Art. 11.9.3.k. of the International Sporting Code.

The Stewards make special note that this decision is based on this specific situation and is only valid at this time. No inference should be drawn as to the driver’s capacity to compete in competitions in the future.

The Competitor is reminded that this decision of the Stewards is subject to appeal under the International Sporting Code, however it is not subject to the suspensive effect in accordance with Art. 12.3.3.b.

Competitors are reminded that they have the right to appeal certain decisions of the Stewards, in accordance with Article 16.1.6 of 2022 LeMans 24H Sporting Regulations, Article 15.1.5 of the FIA International Sporting Code and Article 9.1.1 and 10.1 of the FIA Judicial and Disciplinary Rules, within the applicable time limits.

[MonteCristo]

C'mon Glickenhaus upset.