Le Mans 24 Hours: #7 Toyota tops warm-up; Glickenhaus hits trouble
The #7 Toyota was fastest in the Le Mans 24 Hours warm-up as Glickenhaus Racing and Corvette Racing were among those to hit trouble in an incident-packed session.
The #709 Glickenhaus 007 LMH of Franck Mailleux had not even logged a single lap during the 15-minute session before hitting trouble, as the French driver appeared to spin exiting Mulsanne corner before coming to a stop on the right-hand side of the track.
It was later revealed by marque boss Jim Glickenhaus that it had been caused by “a sensor issue that kicked out the traction control”.
“There was a connector that hadn’t been properly attached, so it was a kind of rookie mistake that we’re not worried about,” he explained.
Moments later, another one of the American favourites, the GTE Pro pole-sitting #64 Corvette C8.R of Nick Tandy was also seen cruising at reduced speed between Mulsanne and Indianapolis, albeit making it back to the pits.
There was further drama when Nico Muller beached the #10 Vector Sport LMP2 ORECA 07 in the gravel, which combined with Alexandre Cougnaud suffering an off at the Dunlop chicane in the #3 DKR Engineering LMP2 meant there was a full-course yellow period.
This meant many cars did not set a representative lap, with those that did so generally only getting one or two clean tours of the Circuit de la Sarthe on the board.
Fastest overall was the #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID of Mike Conway, whose lap of 3m31.236s put him 2.313s clear of Sebastien Buemi in the sister #8 Toyota.
Splitting the two Japanese cars to go second overall was Rene Rast in the LMP2 pole-sitting WRT ORECA 07, 1.941s slower than Conway but four tenths up on Buemi.
#31 WRT Oreca 07 - Gibson LMP2 of Sean Gelael, Robin Frijns, Rene Rast
Photo by: Marc Fleury
Last-minute substitute Nyck de Vries, the Toyota reserve replacing Philippe Cimadomo in the #13 TDS Racing ORECA with the 62-year old barred from taking part following several incidents in practice, was second in class and fourth overall ahead of Ferdinand Habsburg' #41 Realteam by WRT ORECA.
Romain Dumas was eighth-fastest in the only Glickenhaus to set a representative lap, behind two more LMP2 runners, the #48 IDEC Sport car of Paul-Loup Chatin and Alex Brundle in the #34 Inter Europol Competition machine.
Corvette's #63 car was fastest in GTE Pro in the hands of Antonio Garcia on a 3m54.788s, while Toni Vilander set the pace in GTE Am at the wheel of his #21 AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE Evo.
The Le Mans 24 Hours is due to begin at 4pm local time (GMT +2).
2022 Le Mans 24 Hours - warm-up results:
| Cla | # | Drivers | Car | Class | Time | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 |  Mike Conway  Kamui Kobayashi  Jose Maria Lopez | Toyota GR010 - Hybrid | HYPERCAR | 3'31.236 | |
| 2 | 31 |  Sean Gelael  Robin Frijns  René Rast | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'33.177 | 1.941 |
| 3 | 8 |  Sébastien Buemi  Brendon Hartley Ryo Hirakawa | Toyota GR010 - Hybrid | HYPERCAR | 3'33.549 | 2.313 |
| 4 | 13 | Philippe Cimadomo Mathias Beche Tijmen van der Helm | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'33.759 | 2.523 |
| 5 | 41 |  Rui Andrade  Ferdinand Habsburg  Norman Nato | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'34.362 | 3.126 |
| 6 | 48 | Paul Lafargue Paul-Loup Chatin Patrick Pilet | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'35.253 | 4.017 |
| 7 | 34 |  Jakub Smiechowski Alex Brundle  Esteban Gutierrez | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'35.327 | 4.091 |
| 8 | 708 | Olivier Pla Romain Dumas  Pipo Derani | Glickenhaus 007 LMH | HYPERCAR | 3'36.098 | 4.862 |
| 9 | 83 | François Perrodo  Nicklas Nielsen  Alessio Rovera | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'38.593 | 7.357 |
| 10 | 65 | Julien Canal Nico Jamin Job Van Uitert | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'40.009 | 8.773 |
| 11 | 44 |  Miro Konopka Bent Viscaal Tristan Vautier | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'40.327 | 9.091 |
| 12 | 45 |  Thomas Steven  James Allen Rene Binder | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'40.527 | 9.291 |
| 13 | 5 | Dane Cameron Emmanuel Collard Felipe Nasr | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'41.802 | 10.566 |
| 14 | 43 | David Heinemeier Hansson Fabio Scherer Pietro Fittipaldi | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'43.975 | 12.739 |
| 15 | 47 | Sophia Flörsch John Falb Jack Aitken | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'44.544 | 13.308 |
| 16 | 35 | Jean Baptiste Lahaye Matthieu Lahaye François Heriau | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'44.580 | 13.344 |
| 17 | 27 | Cresp Christophe Michael Jensen Steven Palette | Ligier JSP 217 | LMP2 | 3'47.460 | 16.224 |
| 18 | 63 |  Antonio Garcia Jordan Taylor Nick Catsburg | Chevrolet Corvette C8.R | LMGTE PRO | 3'54.788 | 23.552 |
| 19 | 21 | Simon Mann Christoph Ulrich  Toni Vilander | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 3'56.532 | 25.296 |
| 20 | 61 |  Louis Prette Conrad Grunewald Vincent Abril | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 4'00.708 | 29.472 |
| 21 | 55 | Duncan Cameron  Matthew Griffin  David Perel | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 4'00.825 | 29.589 |
| 22 | 30 | Richard Bradley Guillermo Rojas Reshad de Gerus | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 4'01.244 | 30.008 |
| 23 | 75 | Pierre Ehret Christian Hook Nicolas Varrone | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 4'05.346 | 34.110 |
| 24 | 54 | Thomas Flohr Francesco Castellacci Nick Cassidy | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 4'10.855 | 39.619 |
| 25 | 91 | Gianmaria Bruni Richard Lietz Frédéric Makowiecki | Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE PRO | 4'14.271 | 43.035 |
| 26 | 39 | Eric Trouillet Sébastien Page David Droux | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 4'16.098 | 44.862 |
| 27 | 46 | Matteo Cairoli Mikkel Pedersen Nicolas Leutwiler | Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 4'20.204 | 48.968 |
| 28 | 77 | Christian Ried Sebastian Priaulx Harry Tincknell | Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 4'36.473 | 1'05.237 |
| 29 | 56 | Brendan Iribe Ollie Millroy Ben Barnicoat | Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 4'39.322 | 1'08.086 |
| 30 | 92 | Michael Christensen Kevin Estre  Laurens Vanthoor | Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE PRO | 4'41.665 | 1'10.429 |
| 31 | 59 |  Alexander West Côme Ledogar Marvin Klein | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 4'52.462 | 1'21.226 |
| 32 | 99 | Andrew Haryanto Alessio Picariello  Martin Rump | Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 4'53.648 | 1'22.412 |
| 33 | 51 | Alessandro Pier Guidi James Calado Daniel Serra | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE PRO | 5'20.800 | 1'49.564 |
| 34 | 80 | Matteo Cressoni Giancarlo Fisichella Richard Heistand | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 5'33.057 | 2'01.821 |
| 35 | 52 | Miguel Molina Antonio Fuoco Davide Rigon | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE PRO | 5'33.403 | 2'02.167 |
| 36 | 74 | Felipe Fraga Sam Bird Shane van Gisbergen | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE PRO | 5'33.704 | 2'02.468 |
| 37 | 777 | Satoshi Hoshino Tomonobu Fujii Charlie Fagg | Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 5'37.993 | 2'06.757 |
| 38 | 33 | Ben Keating Henrique Chaves Jr. Marco Sorensen | Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 5'40.077 | 2'08.841 |
| 39 | 66 | Renger van der Zande Mark Kvamme Jason Hart | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 5'41.114 | 2'09.878 |
| 40 | 85 | Rahel Frey Michelle Gatting Sarah Bovy | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 7'05.644 | 3'34.408 |
| 41 | 23 | Alex Lynn Oliver Jarvis Josh Pierson | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 7'12.566 | 3'41.330 |
| 42 | 9 | Robert Kubica Louis Deletraz Lorenzo Colombo | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 7'23.811 | 3'52.575 |
| 43 | 1 | Lilou Wadoux Sébastien Ogier Charles Milesi | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | ||
| 44 | 3 | Laurents Hörr Jean Glorieux Alexandre Cougnaud | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | ||
| 45 | 10 | Nico Müller Ryan Cullen Sébastien Bourdais | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | ||
| 46 | 22 | Philip Hanson Filipe Albuquerque Will Owen | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | ||
| 47 | 24 | Rodrigo Sales Matthew Bell Ben Hanley | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | ||
| 48 | 28 | Oliver Rasmussen Edward Jones Jonathan Aberdein | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | ||
| 49 | 32 | Rolf Ineichen Mirko Bortolotti Dries Vanthoor | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | ||
| 50 | 36 | Andre Negrao Nicolas Lapierre Matthieu Vaxiviere | Alpine A480 | HYPERCAR | ||
| 51 | 37 |  Ye Yifei Ricky Taylor Niklas Krütten | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | ||
| 52 | 38 | Roberto Gonzalez Antonio Felix da Costa Will Stevens | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | ||
| 53 | 57 | Takeshi Kimura Frederik Schandorff Mikkel Jensen | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | ||
| 54 | 60 | Claudio Schiavoni Alessandro Balzan Raffaele Giammaria | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | ||
| 55 | 64 | Tommy Milner Nick Tandy Alexander Sims | Chevrolet Corvette C8.R | LMGTE PRO | ||
| 56 | 71 | Franck Dezoteux Pierre Ragues Gabriel Aubry | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | ||
| 57 | 79 | Cooper MacNeil Julien Andlauer Thomas Merrill | Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | ||
| 58 | 86 | Michael Wainwright Riccardo Pera Benjamin Barker | Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | ||
| 59 | 88 | Fred Poordad Maxwell Root Jan Heylen | Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | ||
| 60 | 93 | Michael Fassbender Matt Campbell  Zacharie Robichon | Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | ||
| 61 | 98 | Paul Dalla Lana David Pittard Nicki Thiim | Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | ||
| 62 | 709 | Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook Franck Mailleux | Glickenhaus 007 LMH | HYPERCAR | ||
| View full results | ||||||
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