![]() But victory at Le Mans for the sister #91 Porsche 911 RSR-19 that Italian home hero Gianmaria Bruni and Richard Lietz will campaign at Monza means the #92 car driven by Estre and Michael Christensen trail by three points. ![]() Porsche claimed GTE Pro spoils at Monza last year courtesy of recently-announced Porsche LMDh driver Kevin Estre and Neel Jani. #22 United Autosports USA Oreca 07 Gibson LMP2 of Philip Hanson, Filipe Albuquerque, William Owen The recent Le Mans-winning trio has an 11-point lead over United’s #23 entry of Sebring winners Josh Pierson and Oliver Jarvis, joined once more by Alex Lynn, with a second place finish at Le Mans moving Prema's Robert Kubica, Louis Deletraz and Lorenzo Colombo up to third in the standings, six points further back. The 2019-20 champions currently sit ninth in the standings, headed by the #38 Jota entry driven by Antonio Felix da Costa, Will Stevens and Roberto Gonzalez. In LMP2, Phil Hanson/Filipe Albuquerque will aim to make up for being punted off the track on the opening lap at Le Mans by repeating their 2021 Monza win in the #22 United Autosports’ ORECA Gibson-07 they share with Will Owen. The same goes for the other three classes where, like in Hypercar, no crew has won more than once. Reigning champions and defending Monza winners Jose Maria Lopez, Kamui Kobayashi and Mike Conway in the #7 Toyota are 20 points off the lead in fourth, and eight points behind Glickenhaus 007 LMH drivers Romain Dumas and Olivier Pla, with everything still to play for. But despite their retirement with a hybrid-related problem at Spa, victory at the double points Le Mans means the #8 Toyota crew of Sebastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley and Ryo Hirakawa is just three points behind in the leading GR010 HYBRID. #8 Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota GR010 - Hybrid Hypercar of Sebastien Buemi, Ryo Hirakawa, Brendon HartleyĪn eventful race beset by issues meant Le Mans was one to forget for Alpine, but the Signatech-run A480 has finished every race so far, with Nicolas Lapierre, Mathieu Vaxivierre and Andre Negrao also winning the Sebring opening round. Derek Warwick and Yannick Dalmas claimed the title, but the pair missed out on victory at Monza when Dalmas's late crash handed the win to the Toyota TS010 of Geoff Lees and Hitoshi Ogawa - a result the Japanese marque will hope to repeat as it seeks to chase down the WEC points-leading Alpine crew. ![]() Peugeot’s victory in the 1993 Le Mans 24 Hours came after the two had gone toe to toe in the 1992 FIA Sportscar World Championship, where its 905 Evo 1 Bis also came out on top. It’s driver line-ups (Paul Di Resta, Jean-Eric Vergne and Mikkel Jensen, plus Loic Duval, James Rossiter and Gustavo Menezes) lack nothing in the talent and experience stakes either, which will give Peugeot hope of showing well from the off in Italy as it renews hostilities with Toyota for the first time in almost 30 years. The cars are run by an in-house team put together from scratch, but have undergone extensive test and development work to be ready for racing. A decade after its 908 LMP1 programme ceased on the eve of the WEC’s 2012 premiere, the French marque is back with its futuristic-looking racer that has eschewed a conventional rear-wing in favour of exploiting underbody aerodynamics from its 2.6-litre twin turbo V6-powered chassis.
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