Fastest time and last lap drama for Toyota #8 in FP2

Hypercar

• The final track running on Wednesday sees the second Free Practice session fall to the #8 TOYOTA GAZOO Racing GR010 Hybrid Hypercar as Sébastien Buemi posts the fastest time 
• The four-time Le Mans winner peaks on a 3m26.156s in the car he shares with team-mates Brendon Hartley and Ryō Hirakawa
• But the session ends with drama for the #8 Toyota, as Hirakawa appears to be in collision with the #57 Kessel Racing Ferrari driven by Casper Stevenson at the Karting corner
• Robert Kubica had set the fastest lap in the #83 AF Corse Ferrari, but lost the top spot for a pit-lane speeding offence which elevated the #8 Toyota to first place 
• Norman Nato in the #12 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA he races with qualifying pace-setter Alex Lynn and Will Stevens peaks with a 3m26.607s lap but is 0.451s off the leading Toyota in second 
• Third is the initially quickest but then penalised distinctive yellow #83 AF Corse Ferrari, as Yifei Ye tops the time in that car with a quickest lap of 3m26.680s 
• The additional #4 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963 takes fourth position, as Pascal Wehrlein gets increasingly to grips with his new challenge in his first-ever Le Mans
• The second-best Ferrari 499P is the #50 Ferrari AF Corse entry, as Miguel Molina posts quickest time in the reigning Le Mans-winning car in fifth place
• The #15 BMW with Raffaele Marciello at the wheel is sixth, ahead of the #5 Porsche Penske Motorsport entry in seventh
• The rest of the top ten in FP2 sees the #20 BMW in eighth, the #38 Cadillac Hertz Team JOTA V-Series.R in ninth and the #51 Ferrari AF Corse in tenth
• The recent TotalEnergies 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps-winning #51 Ferrari AF Corse 499P of Alessandro Pier Guidi, James Calado and Antonio Giovinazzi misses the first 35 minutes of the session with a suspected turbo problem, but the car joins the session later on and completes 21 laps to place 14th
• But there is big trouble for the #6 Porsche 963, as it is disqualified from qualifying after being found to be underweight at post-session technical checks. That penalty means the #009 Aston Martin Valkyrie will take part in tomorrow evening’s Hyperpole session

LMGT3 

• Akkodis ASP Team takes a one-two sweep in FP2 as the #87 Lexus heads the sister #78 machine to consolidate the French outfit’s recent strong form with the Japanese sportscar
• José María López, who is taking part in his first LMGT3 race at Le Mans, claims the best time with a 3m55.422s effort
• That fastest class lap is just 0.027s quicker than the #78 Lexus, with ‘super-sub’ Jack Hawksworth impressing again in the car he crews with Arnold Robin and Finn Gehrsitz 
• The best non-Lexus is the #92 Manthey 1st Phorm Porsche, as veteran Richard Lietz peaks with a 3m55.986s
• The rest of the top six is completed by the #57 Kessel Racing Ferrari, the #61 Iron Lynx Mercedes and the #27 Heart of Racing Team Aston Martin Vantage, which continues to be consistently quick in hands of Mattia Drudi
• The #63 Iron Lynx Mercedes-AMG LMGT3 crashed by Stephen Grove in FP1 continues to be worked on to try and ready it for action on Thursday 

LMP2

• The fastest qualifying car doubles up with another top spot, as the #199 AO by TF Sport ‘spikes’ the opposition with another stellar display. This time, Dane Cameron sets the time with a best lap of 3m37.515s
• That effort betters the #22 United Autosports Oreca-Gibson by just over a second, as Pietro Fittipaldi claims that car’s best time of the two-hour evening running
• Third is the #37 CLX Pure Rxcing car of reigning FIA WEC LMGT3 champion Aliaksandr Malykhin, Tom Blomqvist and Tristan Vautier. Blomqvist sets the best time on a 3m38.720s
• The top six in LMP2 is rounded out by #29 TDS Racing in fourth, the VDS Panis Racing car in fifth and the #183 AF Corse entry in sixth

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