Beaten to top spot by two Penske Porsche’s, the #8 Toyota of Sebastien Buemi, Brendeon Hartley and Ryo Hirakawa finished third fastest during Sunday’s second day of testing at Le Mans.

Buemi started the six-hour test in the car be🉐fore ending the day out on track and was happy with how the day w🅺ent.

Buemi said: “Obviously its’s always a great pleasure to be back at Le Mans. We had good weather, 💎which may not be the case all through race week𝓀, and I was able to do quite a few laps.

“I started the day and finished it, so I saw a big track improvement but the car feels quite good and I am quite happy wܫith how the day ꩲwent.

“We have time to look at🤡 the data and see what we can improve for Wednesday.”

A four-time winner of the race, Buemi is the🎃 m🐼ost experienced and successful driver in the #8 car.

However, Hartley is also very experienced around t♊he Circuit de la Sarthe, winning the event in 2017 with Porsche, and again in 2020 and 2022 with Toyota.

♔“It’s really nice to be back at Le Mans,” said Hartley. “Every year when I come back here it is a real pleasure; it feels like we are back ♉at home.

“It was a smooth da🐷y with no real drama and we got through the majority of the run plan. There were a few red flags and safety cars but that’s the 🍌same for everyone.

“It looks promising for us at this stage. We never know wha𒁃t everyone is doing. but it’s been a positive start.”

Hirakawa also got some seat time on Sunday as he teste♔d several❀ different components.

Hirakawa added: “We tested a lot of different options and it has been a useful day. We ran through our programme and now we will focus over the next few days on investigating the data💜 and improving the set-up for race week.

“So far everything looks reasonable but we still need to improve a bit to catch up to 👍our competitors. I am sure we can improve further for race week.”