🗣️ 'It was probably not a very small one because it has done big damage to the front end.' Toyota has revealed that its 8 car received heavy damage after running over a squirrel while leading the LeMans24 😯
In the 16th hour of the race, Ryo Hirakawa was seen rapidly losing time to the chasing #51 Ferrari of Alessandro Pier Guidi, the Japanese driver’s entire 12s advantage being wiped out in the course of a single stint.
The #8 Toyota shared by Hirakawa, Brendon Hartley and Sebastien Buemi remained in the hunt for victory despite that setback, even trading positions with the Ferrari after it stalled in the pits later on, but the GR010 Hybrid wasn’t able to match the pace of the 499P thereafter, with aToyota’s first defeat at Circuit de la Sarthe since 2017
“There have been some windows where we were sometimes dominating Ferrari,” he said. “There is a logic behind that. According to Vasselon, Toyota faced the possibility of neither of its cars making it to the finish, with the engine temperature on the #8 GR010 HYBRID rising abnormally during the night due to debris blocking off the cooling areas.
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