The 2024 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans They got underway this Sunday with the test day at the Le Sarthe circuit. J.osé María López and Nicolás Varrones are the national pilots who took part in the action prior to the start of the official activity.
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The day had two sessions of three hours each. In the first, The Toyota number 7 of López, Kamui Kobayashi, Nick De Vries, Ritomo Miyata and Sebastian Buemi set the pace of the training with 3:28.467 and was the fastest among the Hypercars. For its part, The AF Corse LMP2 prototype of Varrone, Francois Perrodo and Ben Barnicoat finished 34th overall, at 11s152, although in their divisional they finished 11th2s575s off the 3:37.044s of IDEC Sport driven by Paul Lafargue, Job van Uitert and Reshad de Gerus.
The closing of the day came with the second session, whereThe number 6 Porsche of Kevin Estre, Andre Lotterer, Laurens Vanthoor and Dane Cameron prevailed with 3:26.907. López’s Toyota finished tenth, 1s920 behind the reference. Meanwhile, andOreca Gibson of AF Corse, crewed by Varrone, finished 28th, 9s843 behind the overall leader; although in his category he placed 5th2s046 from the 3:34.704 timed by the United Autosports car of Oliver Jarvis and Bijoy Garg.
The activity for the 24 Hours of Le Mans will continue next Wednesday, June 12 with the first official training at 9 (Argentine Time). Then, at 2 p.m. there will be Qualy 1 and from 5 p.m. the second free round will take place.
