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Robert Kubica paved the way during the opening session at the 24 Hours of the Le Mans test day, putting the number 83 AF Corse Ferrari 499p at the front.
The best Tour of the Polish driver of 3: 27,010 intervened halfway halfway from the first three hours of racing at the Sarthe circuit, exceeding the Toyota GR010 hybrid n ° 8 by Brendan Hartley of 0.990 second.
The Hertz team n ° 38 JOTA CADILLAC of EARL BAMBER was the third faster, 1.481 second at the drift of the main Ferrari.
The time of Bamber arrived late in the last 40 minutes of the session, which struck the time of turn 3: 28.923 of Jack Aitken in the n ° 311 Action Express Racing Cadillac at the fourth at the time, before an improvement of the last blow of Antonio Giovanazzi in n ° 51 AF Corse Ferrari.
A first laurens Vanthoor leaflet in N ° 6 of Penske Porsche 963 ended quite well for the sixth on the overall time sheets.
Team n ° 20 WRT BMW M Hybrid was seventh, followed by entry No. 50 AF Corsica by Antonio Fuoco in eighth.
Set 3: 29.277 of Kamui Kobayashi at the start of the session held the ninth for Toyota, with the n ° 5 Penske Porsche finishing the high -end at Hypercar.
Patrick Pilet exceeded time leaves in LMP2, in his Oreca 07 Gibson n ° 16 RLR MSPORT.
It was 0.260 seconds faster than the number 37 clx – Pure RXCING ORECA by Tom Blomqvist, which was second.
LMGT3 was led by team n ° 87 AKKODIS ASP LEXUS RC F GT3 by Jose Maria Lopez, thanks to a 3: 57.109 by the Toyota factory driver at the start of the race.
N ° 21 AF Corse Ferrari 296 GT3 finished second class on the cards, followed by sister n ° 78 ASP Lexus in third.
The session saw a full course in yellow for debris, followed by an important accident for Luca Ghiotto, who left in the Porsche curves in the interuropol competition n ° 34 ORECA.
He resulted in a safety car procedure of almost 50 minutes, which included a complete wave exercise.
The other car to meet in trouble was No. 45 Algarve Pro Racing Oreca n ° 45, which ventured at the end of the session after having undergone a change of engine.
The second and last test session takes place from 3:30 to 6.30pm. (9:30 a.m. to 12:30 p.m.).
RESULTS: Test session 1