P1racenews AI automatic summary:
Antonio Fuoco set the fastest time in the third free practice session for this weekend’s 24 Hours of Le Mans, with the #50 Ferrari 499P driver setting a 3:27.283 to go quickest. Kevin Estre was second fastest, with the Frenchman just over a tenth back from Fuoco, in the #6 Porsche 963. BMW’s Dries Vanthoor, […]
Kevin Estre was the second fastest, just over a tenth behind Fuoco in the #6 Porsche. Dries Vanthoor, who was the quickest in the previous qualifying session, placed third in the #15 BMW Team WRT M Hybrid V8, trailing Fuoco by 0.149 seconds. Sebastien Bourdais in the #3 Cadillac V-Series.R was the fastest Cadillac in fourth place, with Kamui Kobayashi’s #7 Toyota GR010 Hybrid taking fifth place. Alex Palou in the #2 Cadillac and Pipo Derani in the #311 Action Express Cadillac followed in sixth and seventh, respectively. Ryo Hirakawa in the #8 Toyota, Mathieu Jaminet in the #4 Porsche, and Nicolas Lapierre in the #36 Alpine A424 completed the top 10.
The session was interrupted by a red flag when James Cottingham crashed at Tertre Rouge in the #59 United Autosports McLaren 720S Evo, necessitating repairs to the barriers on the Mulsanne Straight. A full course yellow was also deployed to clear debris from the track. Frederik Vesti set the fastest time in LMP2, followed by Louis Deletraz and Nico Varrone. In the LMGT3 category, Inception Racing faced issues with a wheel sensor on their #70 McLaren, while James Cottingham’s incident caused a red flag during the session. Gregoire Saucy set the fastest time for the #59 McLaren, with Frederik Schandorff experiencing trouble in the #70 McLaren. AF Corse completed the most laps in the LMGT3 category with their Ferrari 296s.
