You wouldn’t have thought that the best preparation for a 24-hour race around one of the toughest racetracks in the world was to throw your car at the scenery or at others, but that’s what we saw in the opening day of practice and qualifying at Le Mans.
There were two red flags in opening practice, one for a sickening car-on-car impact as an LMP2 didn’t slow down enough for waved yellow flags and slammed into a GTE Am Aston Martin hard enough to wreck both cars. That was followed by another two reds in the opening qualifying session for yet more LMP2 silliness, including one dawdling on the racing line causing another collision.
It’s an endurance event, not a no-holds-barred sprint. On a hot day at the Circuit de la Sarthe, with 62 cars entered, let’s hope they’ve got it out of their system.
When the track was green, we were treated to an amazing battle between Ferrari, Toyota, Porsche and Cadillac for overall honours. And tomorrow, they’ll scrap it out for the centenary race’s pole position. By: Charles Bradley, Global Editor in Chief
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