FIA World Endurance front runners G-Drive has made a strong start in its quest to challenge for LMP2 honours at the 2014 Le Mans 24ꦰ Hours by pacing the first day of testing in a competitive field.

The Onroak Automotive assisted outfit h🃏ad been seventh quickest in the morning session, but the No.26 car shared by Roman Rusinov, Olivier Pla and Julien Canal would hit the front in the afternoon courtesy of a 3m37.795secs lap from Rusinov - already faster than last year's pole position.

Indeed, though G-Drive has tasted suc꧒cess in WEC this year with the Morgan-Nissan, the slim entry of between four and five cars in that series offers few reference points in a sizeable LMP2 Le Mans field of 18 entr♌ies.

With this in mind, Onroak A🎃utomoti🌸ve and OAK Racing President Jacques Nicolet was impressed to be out front at this early stage.

"It's been✤ a good day's work for🐎 G-Drive Racing, which ended with Rusinov's fantastic time of 3.37, which is better than last year's pole. I am very pleased with this and I hope that it's a good omen for the next weekend."

G-Drive will be re𝓀presented by two entries in this year's LMP2 class, albeit with different machines, with a G-Drive by OAK Racing Liger JS Nissan to be driven by Jann Mardenborough, Alex Brundle and Mark Shulzhitskiy.