The Japanese marque’s set of GR010 Hybrids, which swept the front row in Hyperpole certifying earlier, were untouchable in Thursday night’s two-hour night session, the last on-track running priorto Saturday earlymorning warm-up.
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Jose Maria Lopez set the speed aboard the #7 Toyota with a finest lap of 3m28.322s, 0.362s faster than Sebastien Buemi in the sibling #8 maker.
Best of the rest was the #708 Glickenhaus 007 LMH in which Pipo Derani set a late enhancement of 3m30.141s to get within 2 seconds of Lopez’s standard.
Richard Westbrook published a 3m30.822s, precisely 2.5s off the rate, to go 4th in the sibling #709 Glickenhaus, simply ahead of the Alpine A480-Gibson grandfathered LMP1 vehicle driven by Andre Negrao.
United Autosports led the method in the LMP2 class courtesy of a 3m32.226s effort from Oliver Jarvis in the #23 Oreca 07-Gibson.
Second in class was Job van Uitert for Panis Racing, ahead of Jonathan Aberdein in the finest of the JOTA entries, the #28 vehicle.
The order in the GTE Pro class practically mirrored that of Hyperpole, as the 2 Corvette C8.Rs locked out the leading 2 areas in class, albeit with the #63 automobile of Nicky Catsburg besting the pole-winning #64 device of Tommy Milner.
Porsche’s set of works 911 RSR-19s were next, Gianmaria Bruni providing the German marque’s finest laptime in the #91 automobile, followed by the 2 factory Ferrari 488 GTE Evos.
Harry Tincknell was the pacesetter in the GTE Am class with a finest effort of 3m55.067s at the wheel of the #77 Dempsey-Proton Racing Porsche.
The two-hour night session ran mostly without event, although Graff motorist David Droux did suffer an off on his out lap at Mulsanne corner on the carsandtruck’s initially lap consideringthat Eric Trouillet’s occurrence in 3rd practice.
Late in the session, the GTE Am pole-winning AF Corse Ferrari likewise ground to a stop on the begin/finish straight.
TDS Racing’s Oreca did not appear in the session following Philippe Cimadomo’s crash at Corvette Curve in FP3.
The next on-track action at Le Mans is the warm-up session on Saturday earlymorning at 10.30am regional time, ahead of the start of the race at 4pm.
2022 Le Mans 24 Hours – 4th practice results:
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