Before we get to this next hour
of racing, it is interesting to note that Frits van Eerd, who is the CEO of
Jumbo Supermarkets in Holland and one of the people involved with the Racing
Team Nederland LMP2 team, he owns three Spitfire airplanes. So, he is a
man who has done very well for himself, and he has put his money towards the
things he enjoys. If you are rich and yet you use your money to invest in
classic cars or classic vehicles of any sort, more power to you. Everyone
wonders why we don't have enough coverage here at Le Mans at night. Well,
it is plainly too dark, mate. You see the headlights and that's about
it. It is harder to see the Mulsanne straight than it is the corners.
Another reason is, if the
driver is on the righthand side, it is what you want for the corners.
Grab a coffee or food or whatever you'd like and settle in because we have a
whole half of this great motor race to go yet. We have a Slow Zone on the
circuit right now, but it is hard to tell as to what the reason could be.
Currently in GTE Am, the class leader is the #83 AF Corse Ferrari 488
GTE. Dane Nicklas Nielsen is at the controls, sharing the car of course
with Francois Perrodo of France and Alessio Rovera of Italy. We ride
aboard, through the darkness, with Ben Barnicoat aboard the #71 Inception
Racing GTE Am Ferrari 488 GTE, as he is chasing an identical car, the #60 Iron
Lynx Ferrari, Paolo Ruberti, the Italian, at the wheel of it.
Some mechanics are tired, others are wide awake. They ought to be getting a little shuteye between pit stops while the cars are out there racing. It is hard to do though because of the adrenaline factor. Indeed, from the fixed cameras, we can see how these mega bright headlights do pierce the gloom. Through Mulsanne corner as we follow Ben Barnicoat on his lap. The #708 Glickenhaus is in the pit lane and it looks like a scheduled service, here at 2:00 A.M. in France. Olivier Pla is currently driving Glickenhaus #708. The Glickenhaaus is a magnificent race car.
The design of it is so amazingly retro compared to the competitors from Toyota and Alpine which have a more modern aura to them. Now, as lovely a shape and design as this car has, we know it has been fragile for the whole race. It is now stopped at the end of the pit lane past the board for the RFID sign that reads the tires on the cars as they go through back onto the track. It seems that Olivier Pla may have been clear to go and there was not stoplight on with a red or green light at the end of pit lane. There used to be a purple light down there to signal nighttime during the 1980s when the awesome Group C cars raced at Le Mans, from Porsche, Lancia, Mercedes, and others. The #71 Ferrari is run by Inception Motorsports. Sean Goff, Ian Smith, and former driver turned team manager Bas Leinders, from Belgium, run that team.
We have four teams this year at Le Mans with all rookie drivers. They are all doing a great job despite not being to the track before and Inception have had a very busy time this year in 2021. They've been doing a lot of different championships like GT Open, Asian Le Mans, and SRO Europe. Our leader in GTE Pro is in the lane now, look. The #51 AF Corse Ferrari, Alessandro Pier Guidi currently driving. Kevin Estre is bringing the #92 Porsche to the lane as well. This is the eleventh pit stop for that car if any Porsche fans are keeping score at home. For some reason we still have the slow zone, and the brakes are not working on that car when it stopped.
Maybe the electronics are doing smething odd. Michael Christensen has joined the Porsche GT factory team to share at Le Mans with Neel Jani and Kevin Estre. So, the Dane will be back on his way for his stint momentarily. New tires, you can hear the rattle guns. The race seems to be coming back to Porsche as they are biding their time and doing what they can. They had some iffy times during the rain at the beginning of the race but they are coming back to the fore now, slowly gaining on Corvette and Ferrari. Now, speaking of Corvette, we go on board with the brand new C8.R and this is the #63 car, the predominantly yellow car with Jordan Taylor at the controls. Taylor has covered 135 laps so far. Well over 900 some odd miles. Now, this is funny. Are the ARC Bratislava boys practicing pit stops or practicing boxing? Don't get to rambunctious down there, boys. Hardy har har. As we know, many of the mechanics signal their drivers to pit by saying "box, box, box". But, that's the box that they service the car in, not boxing, much less putting items into a box. Oh boy. I can see where this is going. Better quit while I'm ahead, mate. Strangely, we still have a slow zone on the road. If the Ferrari is in the way, the marshals are taking their time about moving it. This could impede traffic, but it also has a benefit where they are trying to not to do more damage to the car.
Double Yellow removed at
marshal post six. We still have the slow zone two posts back, at marshal
post four. Jordan Taylor takes the Corvette C8.R down to Arnage, the
slowest turn on this legendary track. Watch out for the wall. It is
so close down there, and we have seen many drivers crunch the barriers down
there inadvertently over the years. It juts out right at you. The
entry of that corner also sees a change of pavement and that's why the cars
skate off the road. Be cautious down there. Corvette Racing have
new management and Doug Fehan, former team boss, he is still an
ambassador. Risi Competizione are using their team from Europe to
help. The expense of bringing full teams to Europe to race has been
prohibitive because of the cursed virus pandemic that still is a part of our
daily lives in this world. Lots of paperwork and red tape to deal
with.
Now, we might see where the slow zone is, but the camera crews show us something more humorous. What is this? A Ferrari dummy? Nope. That's one of the AF Corse team members posing, probably their fueler kitted up in his helmet, and the boys at Corvette Racing are laughing their heads off. What is this shenanigans at 3AM? Right now, the category leaders see Toyota #7 leading Hypercar and the overall, the #31 WRT car leading LMP2, Corvette Racing leading GTE Pro amid their giggle fest with the mechanics, and in GTE Am, maybe that dummy was sent to see that the #83 AF Corse Ferrari was still ahead in GTE Am, which it is.
We're still in a slow zone but no one has told us what the deal is. Now, the yellow remains out. One of the factory Ferrari's is crawling. Everyone should be back to green and Ben Barnicoat zooms past GTE Am cars. We look at the GTE Pro standings now, and Corvette #63 leads covering the rest of the field in the dvision by a single lap. That is how it ought to be. That shows how remarkably competitive GTE Pro is. Factory Corvette ahead of two factory Ferrari's, ahead of two factory Porsche's, ahead of the American WeatherTech Porsche, ahead of the HubAuto Porsche which is a lap down, and the bottom of the deck, currently, sees the sister factory Corvette.
Alpine in the pit lane for scheduled
service. Andre Negrao, the Brazilian, behind the wheel. No
tires. Fuel only, and he is down and away. That car fourth overall
a minute down on Robin Frijns in the #31 WRT LMP2 car. Team WRT are right
in the hunt here. The Alpine had that wild spin earlier on and they are
still in recovery mode. All the LMP2's are close to the Hypercar
machines. Yifei Ye, the 21 year old Chinese driver, is managed by Neel
Jani's dad. Ye raced in Formula 3 in France and he won 16 races and won
11 races last year in Euro Formula Open in 2020 and he is of course now in the
European Le Mans Series as well.
The battle for second in GTE
Pro is heating up, simmering along well, thank you, between the two AF Corse
Ferrari's. The slow zone continues, and we are still glued to this
fascinating scuffle in GTE Pro for the time being and yes indeed the Corvette
boys are very interested. Now then, we have a Slow Zone once again
through the Dunlop curve and the esses on the way to Tetre Rouge. Other
pit crew members for other teams are quite tired and why shouldn't they
be? They have been preparing for this race all week and just now are
getting ever closer to the halfway mark. There's still a long, long way
to go yet.
As we get closer to halfway,
once again (and we shall speak of this a little later as the sun comes up), we
are getting to the point that my friends at the IMSA team at Action Express in
the United States, would call "zombie land" in a 24 hour race, where
the cars and drivers are just putting in the laps while the mechanics are doing
their darnedest to get some shuteye between pit stops. That is the point
of the race we might just be at right now. Jordan Taylor blasts his way
down the incredible Mulsanne straight once again. That is the signature
of this track just like the high banks, the banking is the signature at Daytona
International Speedway. Now we ride aboard the overall leading #7 Toyota
Hypercar which is running ahead of the sister car for Toyota Gazoo Racing, car
#8.
This is the overall leader as
mentioned. Mike Conway is currently driving. He has completed 147
laps. Some people wonder about the future of LMP2 in the World Endurance
Championship? Will LMP3 be considered for the championship? We will
see, what Eurosport commentators Mark Cole and Chris Parsons have to say about
that. It is always interesting to hear what these two have to say, as
they have been around sports car racing for a long time. This is a major
subject, to be honest. This LMP2 class was going to run out at the end of
next year in 2022. But it is now being back up another year for certain
reasons, so we will see the current cars until the end of 2023.
2024 will see a new LMP2
format. LMP3 can't be used because the new LMP2 cars will be the basis of
the LMDh class that we've all been so excited about if you have followed sports
car racing. Now, we have another Toyota pit stop. Let's see which
one has been instructed to box here. This is the #8 car. Now, back
to the LMP2 story. The ACO announced yesterday that they are working
through new regulations as we hear over the Toyota radio to Sebastien Buemi,
that the team is working through a refueling problem on the car.
Now what on earth could this
be? How did this refueling kerfuffle crop up? Toyota does have a
refueling issue but only on this latest stop for the #8 machine. That's
strange. C'est etrange. Pourquoi la Toyota a-t-elle un probleme de
revitaillment? Maybe they didn't fill up enough at the most recent
stop. At Monza last time out they could not pick up enough petrol.
With LMP2, the ACO say they need to get the new regulations published by the
end of this year in 2021 because of the manufacturers for LMDh needing to know
the chassis to base their cars off of. The same four companies that have
the current franchise tender for building the cars will be included.
Oreca, Dallara, Multimatic, and Ligier are those four companies. All of
them are lining up manufacturers.
It seems Audi, Porsche, and
Lamborghini (all part of the Volkswagen group, Volkswagen AG), are going to
Multimatic. Cadillac are expected to stay with Dallara. Not sure if
other announcements have been made. We wonder who will use Ligier and
Oreca, the two French constructors. Multimatic are from Canada.
Dallara are from Italy. Those chassis are going to be the basis for not
only LMDh but LMP2 next gen cars as well. With GTE being dropped and GT3
coming, there will be a bigger gap, so the LMP2 cars can be slowed down.
Right now, in terms of speed and performance the LMP2 cars are in fact too
close to the Hypercars.
The Gibson V8 has been a really
successful motor, Gibson Technologies' 4.2 liter V8. However, there will
be a tender put forth for other companies to come in and build LMP2 spec
motors. The idea is that the new LMP2 engines will be less powerful in
order to compensate for the Hypercars and we wonder about LMDh because those
are said to have capacity for a petrol engine depending on the manufacturer and
a hybrid system that is connected only to the rear wheels. Both Dempsey
Proton Porsche's are running well. Both are racing in LM GTE Am.
Currently, Jaxon Evans, from New Zealand, is fifth in class in GTE Am. He
is sharing the #77 car with Christian Ried from Germany and Matt Campbell from
Australia of course.
#88 is running 11th.
Lance Arnold, the German, is driving, alongside French born American Dominique
Bastien and French Porsche contracted driver, Julien Andlauer. Porsche
and Team Penske will be ready to compete in LMDh. They will be running
for Porsche in both IMSA and the World Endurance Championship, and presumably
the IMSA cars will be at Le Mans. Porsche and Audi both want to run
customer LMDh cars. BMW and Lamborghini are anticipating coming in.
BMW could have a factory program and Lamborghini Squadra Corse, they want an all-customer
program. Robin Frijns brings the #31 Team WRT car into the pit lane, the
current LMP2 leader.
The prototype field here at Le
Mans in the next couple of years is going to be massive and there will be
little room for GT's. It seems like we are going back to what the height
of the Group C era was in the early to mid 1980s here at Le Mans. The
only way the number of starters can be expanded is by adding three or four cars
to the entry and that's it. There's no more room. We now see the
#20 High Class Racing LMP2 car in the pit lane. It is also likely that if
GT3 rules are adopted, there will be one single GT class instead of splitting
them up on driver ratings like the FIA World Endurance Championship does
currently. Mike Conway is told he will have a full-service pit stop
coming.
Corvette Racing want to have a full-on
professional team and say GT3 is just not the place they want to invest in if
they can't do it that way. The ACO wants to have GT3 be an amateur class.
Jota are pitting in LMP2 from 16th place in the category, so they are a way
down the overall running order right now. Anthony Davidson is in the car,
the Englishman, sharing with Roberto Gonzalez from Mexico and Antonio Felix Da
Costa from Portugal. IMSA will do with GT3 what WEC is doing with their
GT classes currently, meaning that their GT3 cars (known as GT Daytona) will
have a Pro and an Am class, or it will work out to GT Daytona Pro and GT
Daytona. This is a very complex jigsaw puzzle. That's how sports
car racing is, and well, yours truly is as on top of all of it as he possibly
can be.
What do drivers eat during
endurance events? We have had this discussion before. Slow-release
food like carbohydrates can help. Hydrating with liquids is the best way
to stay in the zone. Plan your diet around when you are in the car and
get some sleep. Let's take a lap at Le Mans. From Mulsanne to
Indianapolis is the fastest part of the circuit. It is pitch black out
there, but we can't continue the lap because there's problems for a GTE Pro car
and it is a Porsche! It is the #79 WeatherTech Porsche 911 RSR-19, Cooper
MacNeil at the controls, sharing with Earl Bamber and Laurens Vanthoor.
Cooper MacNeil has gone off in
the same place we saw Oliver Milroy back into the fence earlier and we can see
too, that even though he has recovered, the impact was hard enough that the
blue medical light on the right side of the dashboard is flashing.
Fortunately, MacNeil can make his way back to the pits going right across to
the lane from the Ford Chicane. Thankfully he did not have too far to
drive. In replay, this could be a big one. Let's see what
happened. The car swaps ends coming into the corner, whipping around,
and... wallop! He slams the wall on the rear left- hand corner and the
impact were obviously big enough to trigger the medical light in the
cockpit. The car is OK and can be fixed. That damage does not look
too severe, but Coop will have to go to the medical center and get examined by
the doctors to see he is OK and not hurt.
Earl Bamber or Laurens Vanthoor
will be in the car. Oh dear. That corner is a mess on the right
rear. What a darn shame. They were running top five in
GTE-Pro. Proton Competition run the car under team boss Giacomo Mattioli.
David and Cooper MacNeil bring the sponsorship as David MacNeil is the owner
and operator of WeatherTech which makes automotive accessories and sponsors the
IMSA WeatherTech Sports Car Championship of course. David, being Cooper's
dad. So, Christian Ried owns the team and used to drive with his dad
Gerold. Cooper MacNeil, again, sharing with Earl Bamber and Laurens
Vanthoor. So, now we see the leader is in and the #7 Toyota will have a
driver change. Mike Conway will hand the car over to Kamui Kobayashi for
the next stint.
Cooper MacNeil is a very good
driver and so are Laurens Vanthoor and Earl Bamber. Presumably, Cooper
will be OK but may be told by the driver, "sorry, you cannot drive in the
race anymore", "pardon. Vous ne pouvez plus conduire dans la
course." Big damage for the Porsche and they will have to work for a
while to get that car back on the track. Kevin Estre had a similar wreck
on Thursday night with the factory car. We saw the impact and if the
suspension and the chassis pickup points are damaged, that will mean the
chassis needs to be binned and cannot be rebuilt.
Ferrari and Corvette continue
their monumental scrap for the lead in GTE Pro. It is between Alessandro
Pier Guidi and Jordan Taylor. The sister AF Corse Ferrari holds down
third in class with Brazilian Daniel Serra at the wheel. Daniel Serra's
father Chico Serra raced Formula 2 and Formula 1 in the 1970s and '80s.
Pier Guidi has moved past Jordan Taylor. We have forgotten Nick Mason and
Holly Mason, father and daughter. Nick Mason, the drummer for Pink Floyd,
the great rock and roll band, he has driven sports cars both at a Pro Am and
amateur level. We have had a lot of father/son or dad and lad driver
duos. Kevin and Jan Magnussen in this race is an example.
It looks like the Corvette
mechanics are running on fumes and getting a little zany. Now, speaking
of fumes, in England, all petrol should be containing biomass elements in the
next month. It goes from 5-10% in a little over a week. Higher
octane gas is at five percent but the price will increase. The ACO also
announced, from 2022 onward, Total, is set to have 100% renewable fuel for next
year for the WEC and the European Le Mans Series, based on bioethanol made from
of all things, are you ready for this? Wine residue. So, would you
rather drink a cab sav or a chardonnay or a merlot, or put it in your car's
petrol tank?
Why not. It is from wine
residue, not the wine itself. Hopes are to reduce CO2 emissions by
65%. The Porsche Super Cup one make championship uses a synthetic biofuel
for racing that is produced from food waste. Bentley recently took a
Continental GT3 car to Pikes Peak and ran in the famed hill climb there, in
Colorado, running the car on a synthetic fuel made from biomass. Exxon
Mobil are developing that and they also want to use algae of all things for
synthetic fuel. Volkswagen and Porsche are also looking at synthetic fuel
for petrol powered motors. This is interesting. We wonder what
hydrogen will do.
The pit crews are getting
ready. Anyhow, the ACO and the FIA said in their Friday press
conference. Hold on. Hold that thought. We have an interview
with Alex Lynn. He says that driving out there at Le Mans is very busy.
Catching a GT car is hard when you are evaluating risk, and the team had damage
to the car earlier on in the race. United Autosport were running very
well earlier but now, they just have to go for it, moving back towards the
leaders and going for maximum attack with more than half the race left to
run. Lynn says that with less power and more weight, they lost only three
seconds in qualifying trim. He has a much faster and quicker car.
He is sharing the #23 United Autosport LMP2 car with Paul di Resta and Wayne
Boyd, an all-British driver lineup. Meanwhile, during the interview with
Alex, we saw the RealTeam Racing LMP2 car pit from ninth in class, the #70
Oreca with Esteban Garcia from Switzerland, currently at the wheel.
The #79 WeatherTech Porsche is
in the garage and the pit crew is swarmed all over the car in a frantic effort
to repair it. Damage on the front and back ends of the car. Once in
the garage, everyone can work on it. It is stripped down to the bare bones,
but they'll know if it is salvageable or not. They are examining the
car. Will it return? Or is it game over? The rule at Le Mans
is that you have to complete 70% of the leader's distance, and if you don't,
you are not classified, disqualified from the official results sheet at the end
of the motor race. We watch a replay of the accident with the WeatherTech
Porsche. Ouch! That was a heavy lick even though the right rear
corner was damaged for the most part.
We are now looking at the #92
factory Porsche, third in GTE Pro behind the Ferrari and the Corvette.
Alessandro Pier Guidi, Jordan Taylor, Michael Christensen, the top three in LM
GTE Pro. Alexander Sims was out for a long while doing a triple stint on
tires. So, the Michelin tires are in their sweet spot around Le Mans this
evening. So, now that the housekeeping is out of the way, we ought to see
if there is more to speak of with Chris Parsons and company on the subject
of... hydrogen. For some years the ACO stated they'd have a class of cars
exclusively focused on being fueled on hydrogen power. Now, we see a car
going off the road in one of the chicanes on the Mulsanne straight to interrupt
this discussion on the hydrogen probability.
We'll return to that in a wee
while, (the car off the road). Back then, to hydrogen. Because of
the pandemic, we won't see a hydrogen powered car until 2025. Currently,
there is a working group of officials from the ACO in discussion with eight
automakers about hydrogen fuel for race cars. ACO hydrogen group manager
Bernard Niclot says three companies will be ready to go with hydrogen powered
prototypes to win the race overall. These cars, whatever they end up as,
will be powered by geeen hydrogen made from water as opposed to blue hydrogen
made from the gas itself. They have companies from Asia, Europe, and the
United States, who are interested.
Hyundai and Toyota have
hydrogen powered automobiles on the market in Great Britain right now.
So, we shall wait and see where the hydrogen endurance race car saga
goes. Mr. Akio Toyoda, the founder, and CEO of Toyota motorcars in Japan,
he recently competed in a 24-hour race in Japan driving a hydrogen powered
Yaris compact car. The hydrogen powered a standard petrol motor that was
converted to use hydrogen. JCB are making earth movers to run on
hydrogen, (bulldozers, backhoes, steam shovels etc.) Buses are also now
being powered by hydrogen. The British government says hydrogen will
account for 1/4 of energy production and consumption in the next 30
years. Meanwhile, the #63 Corvette C8.R has been in the pit lane for
scheduled service.
The hydrogen powered race cars
we will see will be a part of Le Mans Hypercar and will not race within their
own separate category. The hydrogen prototype sports car will use a spec
chassis that is being developed by Red Bull, yes, the same Red Bull that is not
just the energy drink but also the Formula 1 constructor. It is a
cooperative effort between Red Bull and Oreca. Each individual brand that
wants to get involved will develop their own fuel cell technology. So,
that is where the hydrogen story stands at this point in time.
The #83 AF Corse Ferrari 488
GTE is in the pit lane. We are soon to be at the end of the eleventh hour
of this race. Man, oh man. Time flies when you are having
fun! This motor race has been a gas so far! We know none of you
folks are going to go to bed. So, stay with us. Michael Christensen
might be the quieter of the Porsche factory drivers, but he is astonishingly
quick, too. Speak softly and carry a big, heavy foot. Some drivers
like being told they have faster cars coming up on them and they need to yield,
while others don't appreciate it at all. Faster traffic is important
because at night you have no idea because all the headlights are the
same. The GT cars do not use yellow amber gels on the headlights anymore
like they used to.
Right now, Michael Christensen
has the #52 AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE right on his six, just 6/10ths of a second
behind, coming in a hurry. The team is telling him, "the Ferrari is
on much fresher tires and he will breeze right by, so don't fight it, and don't
slam the door on him. Stick to the plan." We saw that the #7
Toyota had a nasty brake lockup into Mulsanne corner and sometimes it can lock
the brakes up when harvesting the energy back into the batteries from the motor
and the brakes. Let us now have a Captain Cook at the 2022 FIA WEC
calendar so that we know when to follow the races next year. The season
will begin in March at Sebring with the 1,000 mile race that is a doubleheader
with the IMSA WeatherTech Championship and the 12 Hours of Sebring.
The Prologue FIA WEC official test session will run at Sebring as well next year, a week or so before the race itself. Holy smokes! So the Prologue will be March 12th-13th 2022 with the 1,000 miles on March 18th and the 12 Hours of Sebring the next day on March 19th. That is the first of half a dozen races. Round two will be the traditional May date at Circuit de Spa Francorchamps in Belgium in the Ardennes pine forests, on May 7th. Round three, is the classic. We will be right back here at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, on June 12th and 13th, 2022. That is when the crown jewel race is next year, so, mark your calendars ladies and gentlemen.
July 10th at the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza will be the Monza 6 Hours following Le Mans. A hopeful return to Fuji Speedway in Fuji, Japan, will be on September 11th, and then, on November 12th, the season finale in Bahrain. Hopefully this schedule I have just given to you works out with all of the ever shifting madness that is the global pandemic right now. Alpine will pit soon. Whoever their driver is now, we don't know exactly who, he is being told to box, either this lap or the next. Also at the press conference yesterday, IMSA and the ACO signed a partnership agreement extension for another decade.
So, there will be influence overlap in the two championships for the next ten years and we shall see where that leads, hopefully, in a positive direction. The Glickenhaus is in the pit lane and it looks to be the #708 car. The manufacturers can invest in sports car racing, and we hope it works out because sometimes things don't work. The trouble is that the ACO and IMSA are two different committees, so we don't know if the cars will be compatible. It's like trying to have a horse and you end up designing a camel. Sorry to be crude, but that's how it can work sometimes. Let's try and be positive about it. There will be a lot more cars, too, competing for a win.
However, we need to sort out class name confusion. Let's just zip it on that deal. Of course we have also talked about GT3 making a debut in the ACO rules racing in 2024 because these gorgeous GTE Pro cars from the factories are amazing but they are extremely expensive compared to a prototype if it is not a Hypercar. LMP2 of course is capped for cost reasons, as we see the #36 Alpine in the pit lane now. It is a fuel stop for #36. Audi, Mercedes, BMW, Honda, Lamborghini and more, already race in GT3 in the SRO GT World Challenge. Audi and Mercedes are going to pull out of the Formula Electric series.
BMW will have an LMDh car,
too. IMSA and the ACO want manufacturer involvement but don't want high
costs and boatloads of money associated with getting them into the sport and
keeping them here in the wonderful world of sports car racing. It is an
internecine battle in LMP2 at WRT as Yifei Ye is catching Charles Milesi hand
over fist at a rate of knots. There's 15 seconds or so between those two
chaps. Pit stop time for the second High Class Racing LMP2, the #49
car. This is the one being shared by Jan and Kevin Magnussen (father and
son), alongside Anders Fjordbach in that all Danish effort.
Jan Magnussen will take over
the car for this stint. Anders Fjordbach's dad, Soren, runs the
team. Also, into the pit lane, we have the #54 AF Corse Ferrari in LM GTE
Am. This is the regular season entry for Francseco Castellaci of Italy,
his countryman and former Formula 1 driver Giancarlo Fisichella, and
Switzerland's Thomas Flohr. Ah. Wow. We have a purple sector
from Sebastien Buemi, fastest of all in each sector of the track, in Toyota
#8. Not sure which segment of the track that is in, however. Kevin
Magnussen, Jan's son, is signed to race in the Peugeot Hypercar for next year
and is currently running a Cadillac DPi with Ganassi Racing in IMSA as
well.
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