Toyota 24 hours take BOP-inspired “Two-Class Race” in Mans

Toyota Gazu Racing Technical Director David Flourie exploded the balance of the FIA ​​performance – without name – Le Mans for 24 hours.

Ferrari dominated the French classic, while the Japanese constructor stumbled in the fifth and 15th, AF core-run machines-and suffer from a deficiency of competition compared to others.

“Clearly, we have not reached our goals. The target that comes here was to win, so it has not reached,” said Matter spread after the race.

“We knew who was going to the top. I announced who was a favorite, I did not get it wrong. It’s not surprising, it’s the same thing every year.”

The French said: “We were never really in a position to fight.

“At night, we ran the softs and were on other mediums, so we did better then, but when the day broke, we had no chance.

“On pure performance, there was no way that we could compete.”

#8 car operated by Sebastian Bumi, Brendon Hartley And Rio Hirkawa In short, he led the race after half of its halfway, but could not be better than the fifth under the checker flag – which would have turned into the fourth fourth of the #50 Ferrari. It was not, due to a technical failure on the front-left wheel after the pitstop in the morning, forced Hirkawa to adopt almost complete with a hobby car.

“There was no performance ability,” made bitter comments from flourishing. “It was a two-class race, with the top speed with cars and with a cars that had no top speed.

“Unfortunately, we got the wrong ticket and we were in second grade with Cadilac and Eston Martin.”

Ferrari was the fastest in the speed trap in the race with 349.0 km/h, followed by Puezo (346.7 km/h), Porsche and Cadillac (345.6 km/h), and with BMW Alpine (Both 344.5 km/h). Toyota and Eston Martin were slow at only 342.3 km/h.

Asked that the GR010 was lacking hybrid, an mischief was grown: “Between the turtre rose and the first chicken, the first chicken and the second chicken, between the second chicken and the Mulkson, between Mulkson and Indianapolis, and between Arnaz and Porsche (Curves). It is quite accurate!”

The Toyota Tech chief also expanded the first-lap incident of #7 car: “We wanted to stay out of trouble, but in return, we got sandwiches. We had a loss on both sides of the car, bodywork, and was too long to fix it. So we had to run with it.”

Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi And NYCK DE VRIES Before being promoted in post-race after the fifth place, took #7 entry in sixth place on the finish line.