24h Le Mans
This first day of activity at the 89th 24 Hours of Le Mans included the first Road to Le Mans and Fun Cup sessions. Tomorrow, competitors in the Endurance Racing Legends hit the track.
The first free practices for the 2021 Road to Le Mans kicked off at 10:30. The quickest time in LMP3 was clocked by the United Autosports team's #22 Ligier shared by Scott Andrews/Gerald Kraut in 3:45.948 ahead of Cool Racing's #19 Ligier of Nicklas Kruetten/Mathieu de Barbuat and DKR Engineering's #3 Duqueine of Jean Glorieux/Laurents Hörr. Pzoberer Zürichsee by TFT's #2 Porsche shared by Julien Andlauer/Nicolas Leutwiler led the GT3 field in 3:56.551, followed by Team WRT's #34 and #72 Audi R8s. The outfit is also competing in the LMP2 class in the 24 Hours of Le Mans.
The second hour of free practice was held at night, and the #2 Porsche kept its lead in GT3 with a time of 3:56.547, this time ahead of Iron Lynx's #8 Ferrari shared by Rory Penttinen/Logan Sargeant and AF Corse's #51 of Ken Abe/Edward Cheever. Third in the first session, the #3 Duqueine clinched the pole in 3:45.941, ahead of Nielsen Racing's #7 Ligier of Colin Noble/Anthony Wells and Mühlner Motorsport's #21 Duqueine shared by Moritz Krantz/Ugo de Wilde). The first of two races Road to Le Mans races this weekend, lasting 55 minutes, will start tomorrow at 19:30.
The Fun Cup field made its debut at the 24 Hours of Le Mans circuit today. Eighty-nine cars took part in three sessions, one of which was qualifying. After the fastest time of 5:05.368 was clocked by Groupe Lemoine by M3M's #424 in the morning, the second session saw no improvement for the team. Well-known outfit Team WRT took the pole in 5:06.195. The Belgian crew is competing in LMP2 with the #31 and #41 ORECA 07s. In the end, during qualifying, CG Racing's #219 scored the fastest time in 5:03.397. The race is set for Friday from 15:30 to 20:30.
