2023-06-11 03:33:17
The Le Mans night shattered Peugeot’s very fine start to the race. So at the forefront, the Peugeot 9X8 n°94, driven by Gustavo Menezes, made a mistake at the first chicane of the Hunaudières.
???? The #94 Peugeot stopped on the track at the first Mulsanne Straight chicane. @followgustavo attempts to return to pit lane.@peugeotsport #LeMans24 #LeMansCentenary pic.twitter.com/iqgjt7t6Lx
— 24 Hours of Le Mans (@24hoursoflemans) June 11, 2023
If the French car was able to return to the pits, the blow is hard for the Peugeot clan, which sees its best chance of a good result fly away. Left 11th following the episode, the n°94 is currently 16th in a general classification dominated by the duo Toyota – Ferrari.
Brendon Hartley is currently leading the 2023 24 Hours of Le Mans, 7.9 ahead of Antonio Giovinazzi’s n°51 Ferrari, which returned to the lead following Alessandro Pier Guidi’s exit at the start of the night, having notably taken advantage of the long Safety -Car following the collective accident of the Tertre Rouge having eliminated the Toyota n°7.
Earl Bamber keeps the no.2 Cadillac – Cadillac Racing in third position at 1’40”, when André Lotterer hoists the best Porsche 963 no.6 – Porsche Penske Motorsport in 4th position, 44″ behind Bamber. Following in the same lap, Renger van der Zande (Cadillac n°3). Jean-Eric Vergne (Peugeot n°93) is two laps away and precedes the two Glickenhaus 007 LMH n°709 and 708.
Porsche #5 was delayed in the 10th hour by a leak. Ferrari now has only one 499P capable of aiming for victory since the n°50 of Molina – Nielsen – Fuoco lost several laps following a stone damaged a radiator.
In LMP2, and despite an injured foot in an incident with another car in the pit lane, Fabio Scherer maintained the Oreca 07 n°34 – Inter Europol Competition at the head of the category, a car currently driven by Albert Costa.
Foot news❗️Fabio had his food run over by another car at the first stop. He is racing at the front with a very painful left foot❗️#FootlooseFabio | #24LeMans pic.twitter.com/iaTJMU8LDf
— Inter Europol Competition (@IE_Competition) June 10, 2023
Nicolas Pino follows with the Oreca n°30 – Duqueine Engineering, Tiejmen van der Helm pointing in 3rd position with the Oreca n°65 – Panis Racing.
If Project1-AO and the Porsche 911 RSR n°56 have long led in GTE Am, it is now the Ferrari n°57 – Kessel Racing and the Porsche 911 RSR n°85 – Iron Dames who are at the forefront of the category .
Note in the collective accident involving the Toyota n°7, the Oreca 07 n°35 – Alpine and n°39 – Graff and the Ferrari n°66 – JMW, Louis Prette (Ferrari n°66) and Memo Rojas (Oreca n°35) were found responsible for the collision, following accelerating before the next Slow Zone and causing a collision.
The classification at H+13 is HERE
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