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The incident that Kamui Kobayashi was involved in shortly before the end of the round earned him the loss of time.
He Toyota #7 driven by José María López, Kamui Kobayashi and Nyck De Vries lost their qualifying times and they must start from the back of the grid in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, which will be played next Saturday, June 15. The vehicle had finished fourth in the session and had secured a place in the Hyperpole definition.
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With three minutes left until the end of the session, Kobayashi, who was in charge of driving the hypercar, made a mistake in one of the Porsche curves on the French track. This situation generated the appearance of the red flag and the abrupt early end of the classificationwhich harmed other cars that were closing their lap.
Faced with this situation, the Stewards saw the Japanese as guilty of the situation and decided to remove all the times from the car, so it fell to 61st place in the classification. While, López’s prototype will start from the bottom of the grid in its category.
