2021 Le Mans 24 Hours | Incident aplenty as Alpine fastest, Toyota crash
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Nicolas Lapierre hauled Alpine to the top of♏ the timesheets fo⛦r the 2021 Le Mans 24 Hours ahead of Toyota in the final free practice session before this evening’s Hyperpole session.
Th𓂃e ‘grandfathered’ Alpine A480 - so-called because it is adapted from an LMP2 chassis to meet Hypercar regulations - has represented an interesting threat to favourites Toyota throughout preparations for the round-the-clock classic, with its proven reliability and impressive performance through corners.
And so it proved again in FP3, Lapierre dodging the various yellow flags and two red flag periods - not to mention an off at Indianapolis in which he avoided damage - to take the French machine he will share with Matthieu Vaxiviere and Andre Negrao to the top s📖pot.
However, there remains 🧔a sense Toyota are the favourites heading into the Hyperpole session later
tonight with Jose M𓆏aria Lopez in the #7 GR010 Hybrid en route for the top spot before being slowed by yellow flౠags.
One those came courtesy of the sister #8 Toyota when Kazuki Nakajima dropped the Hypercar at Indianapoli🌞s and damaged the rear-end of his car, though he was able to recover it back to the pit-lane for repairs.
Glickenhaus face a nervy couple of d♌ays ahead of the race after both cars began to suffer gremlins, necessitating engine changes that kept them in the pit lane until the final hour. The #708 car driven by Olivier Pla ended the session fourth, but the #709 car was well down the order after seemingly hitting more problems towards the conclusion of the session.
Two red flags for simil𓆏ar incidents at different times brought a halt to track action after Derrick Merriman crashed his IDEC Sport at the Dunlop chicane, which was then followed by a similar incident for the DragonSpeed car driven by Juan Pablo Montoya.
It is the second big rebuild for the IDEC 🙈team after the #48 car also crashed heavily in Qualifying, while DragonSpeed were also in the wall la🌳te on in FP2.
In LMP2, Jota continued to look strong with the fattest time set in the final minutes courtesy of Antonio Felix da Costa, pushing aside Fabio Scherer 💛and Paul di Resta in the sister United Autosports cars.
Panis Racing and Team WR💜T - helmed by James Allen and Robin Frijns respectively - completed the top five in class.
In GTE Pro, Kevin Estre was quickest once aga🍬in fo🍃r Porsche, ahead of the privateer WeatherTech 911 of Earl Bamber, while Richard Leitz ensured a 1-2-3 for the German manufacturer.
Porsche dominated the GTꦰE Am class too with Julien Andlauer quicker foဣr the Dempsey-Proton team, ahead of the sister Project 1 car of Matteo Cairoli.