Le Mans 2022

Hour 00:01: The race has begun. Toyota gets both of their cars through turn 1 together, with No. 8 leading No. 7, but both of the Glickenhaus cars pass the No ...

The No. 22 United Autosports and No. 47 Algarve Pro Racing cars are of in the dirt on the start, with the No. 22 flying off screen through the gravel as the Hypercar smade their way through the first few corners. Toyota gets both of their cars through turn 1 together, with No. 8 leading No. 7, but both of the Glickenhaus cars pass the No. 36 Alpine before the first corner. Corvette Racing holds the entire front row in the final year of GTE Pro, a class with just seven cars this season. After the two other WRT cars suffered damage in an opening lap clash and one of them was assessed an additional penalty, the No. 32 WRT car is up to sixth. LMP2 is the biggest class in the race, boasting more than 25 cars. That would have been a battle for the lead. Both the gaps and order remain consistent near the top of the other three classes. The No. 708 Glickenhaus and No. 7 Toyota will both go 11 laps. The No. 709 Glickenhaus and sole Alpine LMP1 car are both following. Hour 00:45: After stopping a lap earlier, Toyota No. 7 now leads overall for the first time today. The No. 64, the car currently drien by Nick Tandy, leads that group. That remains a 1-2-3-4-5 for the 911 GT3 RSR.

LE MANS 24 Hours endurance race is taking place this weekend. If you want to watch the 2022 edition of the iconic and world famous race then here's how to ...

If not, you can subscribe to Discovery+ which bundles in access to Eurosport and is available as a Prime Video channel. ORIGINAL: The Le Mans 24 Hours endurance race is starting today, with Toyota bidding for yet another win at the 2022 event. Eurosport will be broadcasting every minute of the world famous race at the Circuit de la Sarthe exclusively. LE MANS 24 Hours endurance race is taking place this weekend. If you want to tune in to the Le Mans 24 Hours race then you will need access to Eurosport, who are the exclusive broadcaster in the UK. Glickenhaus (Briscoe, Westbrook, Mailleux) 5.

The 24 Hours of Le Mans 2022 saw a number of incidents within the first hours of daylight action at the iconic endurance race.

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As the night rolled in, it was the Toyota Gazoo Racing #8 car on top, with Ryo Hirakawa having completed his first stint and handed the reins back.

The WRT #31, which was being driven by Rene Rast, later got a one-minute stop-go penalty for its part in the situation. The United Autosport Oreca #22 was clipped by the WRT #31,sending the #22 car into the gravel. LMP2 was the stand-out class, with battles going on all along the grid. At one point, he was nearly two minutes ahead of second place. Topping LMP2 was still the JOTA #38 car. The Alpine Elf Team #36 had a nightmare of a stint.

Toyota suffered technical dramas just before two-thirds distance at the Le Mans 24 Hours, with a brief stoppage for Jose Maria Lopez promoting the #8 car of ...

The leading Glickenhaus continues to run in third place with Richard Westbrook driving the Pipo-engined #708 LMH, albeit four laps down on the two Toyotas after losing time in the pits for a change of rear wing. The #7 Toyota lost further time when Lopez brought the car into the pits at the end of the lap, leaving him more than a lap behind the sister car with eight hours remaining in the race. Lopez was holding a comfortable lead of 15 seconds when his Toyota GR010 crawled to a halt at Arnage, with Hartley passing him for the lead by the time the Argentine was able to perform a reset and get going again.

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The #63 car had led from the start and was well clear of the pack when it suffered a suspension failure. To its credit, Toyota has proven impenetrable out front with the two cars still circulating together and occasionally swapping the lead through the pit-stop cycle. Despite the quick turnaround by mechanics, it is now seven laps off the lead in 17th overall.

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The 24 Hours of Le Mans is back. Live coverage is rolling on Eurosport now, with the racing kicking off at 3pm. Buemi leads the pack over the start line and we already have cars off. Estre in the Porsche #92 now leading. They need to be careful as the two Glickenhaus's are getting closer. In the pits he goes. However, most of the pack came in to leaving Tandy coming out in second. Nasr is just clinging on to it. However, Buemi's pit is slower than Conway's previous on, handing Conway the lead. Florsch is in trouble in the Algarve Pro #47 and is trundling to the pits. The United Autosports #22 is in the gravel and it looks to be the end for them already. However, Lynn pits, ending that little battle.

Toyota Gazoo Racing #7 saw themselves lose the race lead overnight as the car came into issues. Jose Maria Lopez did have a 15-second lead over the #8 ...

The United Autosport Oreca #22 was clipped by the WRT #31,sending the #22 car into the gravel. The WRT #31, which was being driven by Rene Rast, later got a one-minute stop-go penalty for its part in the situation. LMP2 was the stand-out class, with battles going on all along the grid. The Alpine Elf Team #36 had a nightmare of a stint. Topping LMP2 was still the JOTA #38 car. After pitting, the #92 was left bottom of the GTE Pro class. The car’s nearest competitor, the Prema Orlen #9 in second was a lap down, giving the JOTA plenty of breathing space. Brendon Hartley was able to take advantage and slip pass to take the lead. At one point, he was nearly two minutes ahead of second place. Jose Maria Lopez had a 15-second lead over the #8 Toyota but that was all thrown away when the #7 came stopped at Arnage. Heartbreak for Corvette, who looked on target to win. However, Corvette #64 had its race ruined while competing for first in class.

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Brendon Hartley has taken over the #8 Toyota while Jose Maria Lopez is now in the #7. In GTE Pro, the leading #92 Porsche pits and retains the lead. The #92 Porsche leads GTE Pro from the #51 AF Corse Ferrari. In GTE Am, the #79 Weathertech Racing Porsche holds a 55s margin over the #98 NorthWest AMR Aston Martin. In the Hypercar Toyota battle, Hartley currently leads aboard #8 by 17.9s over Lopez, who has clawed back nearly 10 seconds in the #7 after losing out in a slow zone on his outlap. Richard Westbrook has just been into the pits aboard the #709 Glickenhaus which remains comfortably in third. From second in LMP2, Kubica has just come into the pits which cycles Frijns ahead. A big spin for Richard Bradley in the Duqueine LMP2 car almost catches out the following Mathieu Vaxiviere in the Alpine Hypercar, the Frenchman leaping over the kerb and bouncing across a strip of gravel in avoidance. Behind him meanwhile, Sean Gelael is now aboard the #31 WRT car which has recovered so strongly to second from its early penalty but has Louis Deletraz closing on him in the #9 Prema car. Julien Canal is still finding his bearings in LMP2, having just been inserted into the Panis Racing ORECA that currently runs fourth. The bulk of that came when Lopez lost out in a slow zone on his outlap, the two cars having been almost welded together in the laps prior. All the while, Thomas Merrill is continuing serenely out front in the #79 WeatherTech Porsche, fulfilling his role as 'Super Bronze' to the tee. Here comes the #38 Jota car into the pits again from the LMP2 class lead.

Sims was leading by more than a minute in the #64 C8.R he shares with Nick Tandy and Tommy Milner when he was taken out of the race by the #83 AF Corse LMP2 ...

Further time was then lost with checks to inspect a vibration and a subsequent diffuser change, before the decision was made to pull the car from the race due to what the team called "significant mechanical damage - seen and unseen - at the rear of the car." The #63 car had been leading in the early part of the race, but lost considerable time with a left-rear suspension failure that sent the car into the garage for lengthy repairs. Sims was leading by more than a minute in the #64 C8.R he shares with Nick Tandy and Tommy Milner when he was taken out of the race by the #83 AF Corse LMP2 car driven by Francois Perrodo.

Corvette Racing's hopes of scoring the final GTE Pro class win in the Le Mans 24 Hours were destroyed as Alexander Sims was side-swiped by an errant LMP2 ...

Further time was then lost with checks to inspect a vibration and a subsequent diffuser change, before the decision was made to pull the car from the race due to what the team called "significant mechanical damage - seen and unseen - at the rear of the car". Sims was leading comfortably in the #64 C8.R he shares with Nick Tandy and Tommy Milner when he was taken out of the race by the #83 AF Corse LMP2 car driven by Francois Perrodo. Corvette Racing's hopes of scoring the final GTE Pro class win in the Le Mans 24 Hours were destroyed as Alexander Sims was side-swiped by an errant LMP2 car with just over six hours to go.

Toyota Gazoo Racing is on a bit of a roll. Toyota hybrid vehicles have won the 24 Hours of Le Mans four years in a row, snapping a three-year win streak by ...

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Six hours into the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the #7 Toyota Gazoo Racing GR010 Hybrid driven by Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and José Maria López continues to ...

D’Station Racing’s earlier pace has cooled off, Satoshi Hoshino’s times falling a little shy of his team-mates, dropping the #777 Aston Martin behind the quickest of the AF Corse Am entries, but the car still sits tenth. Corvette Racing explained that the cooling effect was losing them time at a critical part of the circuit. Incidents aplenty, the most notable of which were Christoph Ulrich being unseated by the bump on entry to the fast right-hander into Porsche Curves, spitting the red #21 AF Corse Ferrari into the gravel and littering the track with debris at the left-hander at Karting, as the car rejoined. Antonio Garcia is leading in the #63 Corvette, half a minute ahead of Kevin Estre’s #92 Porsche , chased down by Nick Tandy in the #64 Corvette. AF Corse’s #52 Ferrari sits fourth, but is due to stop, which will bring the #91 Porsche back into fourth. The Corvette pit crew was working well and the British driver was on a charge, hauling in the #92 Porsche 911 RSR-19 of Laurens Vanthoor and making the pass to regain Corvette’s 1-2, 41 seconds behind Nicky Catsburg in the #63, the top four all lapping in the 3:51s. Vanthoor came back though, closing to within a second of the #64 car, straight line speed not lacking as the pair traded tenths. The #24 Nielsen Racing Oreca driven by Rodrigo Sáles collided with Sarah Bovy in the #85 Iron Dames Ferrari 488 GTE Evo at the exit of the Porsche Curves. Both cars were able to continue their race without apparent damages. Corvette Racing leads GTE Pro at the six hour mark. Meanwhile in LMP2, it’s a JOTA 1-2, headed by the #38 JOTA Oreca 07-Gibson shared by Roberto González, Antonio Felix Da Costa, and Will Stevens after six hours of racing. ‘Coach Kamui’ Kobayashi in the #7 managed to overtake the past SUPER GT champion Hirakawa in the #8 and then built a gap of nearly ten seconds ahead of his teammate. The #708 Glickenhaus Racing 007 LMH shared by Olivier Pla, Romain Dumas and Pipo Derani is third, a little less than two minutes behind the leading Hypercar. I could no longer lock the first gear,” said Vaxivière. Repairs took a while and the Alpine dropped to 28th position overall, four laps behind the two Toyotas. The Alpine returned to track for a few laps, but eventually the #36 was back again into the pits for lengthy repairs. Moments later, the #36 Alpine Elf Team A480-Gibson driven by Mathieu Vaxivière was given a drive-through penalty for exceeding speed limits in a slow zone.

Toyota secured its fifth consecutive victory in the Le Mans 24 Hours as the #8 crew of Sebastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley and Ryo Hirakawa came out on top.

Corvette had swept the front row of the class and its cars looked to be the class of the seven-car Pro field on sheer pace, with Porsche its nearest challenger and Ferrari struggling to hang on to the coat-tails of its two rivals. A crash for the #31 WRT entry of Robin Frijns in the early morning, which caused the one and only safety car period of the race, meant the #38 was delayed at the end of the pitlane by a red light, but that was just about the only misfortune that befell the team. With Frijns crashing out the lead WRT entry and the #41 Realteam by WRT car heavily delayed and damaged in the first-corner incident involving Rast and Owen, it was the third-string #42 car of Dries Vanthoor, Mirko Bortolotti and Rolf Ineichen that was the Belgian squad’s highest finisher in a lowly 10th place. The only blip on the way to victory for the #8 car was a slightly slow changeover from Buemi to Hartley in the penultimate hour, with Hartley going on to secure victory by a final margin of 2m01.222s over Lopez in the #7 machine. Two trips to the garage - first to replace the electronic clutch unit and then the ignition coil - were followed by a penalty for speeding and then another 20-minute spell in the pits after an off for Vaxiviere at the Porsche Curves in the morning hours. Although the car shared by Lopez, Mike Conway and Kamui Kobayashi was able to get back on to the lead lap, on pace there was virtually nothing to choose between the two Toyota crews, which had spent the first two thirds of the race exchanging the lead.