Brendon Hartley insists Toyota does not have the “quickest car” over long runs at theജ Le Mans 24 Hours, despite setting the fastest time in Sunday’s official test day.

Hartley posted a 3m26.246s lap in the #8 Toyota GR010 Hybrid he shares with Sebastien Buemi and Ryo Hirakawa, 168澳洲幸运5官方开ও奖结果历史:placing the Japanese manufacturer on168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史: top of the timesheets at the Circuit de la Sarthe.

The performance marked a notaꦑble improvement from las🥃t year’s test, when Toyota finished third and more than seven tenths adrift of the benchmark time set by Porsche.

Toyota has been granted a maximum output of 520kW below 250km/h under the latest 168澳洲幸运5官方开奖结果历史:Balance of Performance changes, the joint-highest figure for any LMH or LMDh car heading into the centrepiece round of the World Endura⛦nce Championship.

Despite the headline lap tꦇime, Hartley was cautious about Toyota’s prospects of securing a sixth Le Mans victory, pointing to the fiꦿerce competition in the Hypercar field.

“I think we ar💃e feeling positive after a successful෴ day with no major dramas,” he said.

“I had a good feeling with the car, and I think Ryo and Seb did tܫoo. Clearly the competition is fierce,🙈 and on long runs I wouldn’t say we look like the quickest car, but I feel like we are in the fight. We have some work to do next week.

“Hopefully get some good sleep in the next nights, recharge and be read𒉰y for the big job to come.”

Hartley’s teammate Buemi also expects a number of other carꦆs to be in the mix in the 🦩93rd edition of Le Mans.

“I always enjoy coming back to this circuit; itꦺ’s a real pleasure to drive a Hypercar around here,” h꧙e said.

“And of course, it’s nice to set the fastest lap obviously – but there are a lot of fast cars out there.
“We did a lot of laps, made some changes which were good, others which were𝓀 less so, but that’s part of the process. We will analyse everything and see where we can improve.

“Plus, the weather ▨conditions might be a bit different next week, so we need to get ready to adapt to tha✃t as well.”

With teams typically focuson🔥g on long runs and optimising🌸 the set-up on the test day, instead of chasing outright performance, Hirakawa underlined that Sunday's times don’t offer a clear picture of the competitive order.

“It was quite a busy day, as expected, with a lot of things to test and all t𒁏he different slow zones, full course yellows and red flags,” he said.

“We got what we wanted out of the day, so it has gone well. It’s always nice to be fastest, ⛎even though it doesn’t mean anything at this stage.

“The car felt really good but still we💎 have a lot of things we can improve so there should be more to come. We have to analyse the data over the next two days and prepare the best we can for race week.”

The sister #7 Toyotaꦿ crewed by Ka🅘mui Kobayashi, Mike Conway and Nyck de Vries ended up 14th in the overall classification, more than two seconds down on the #8 LMH.