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Overall
#8 won.
The race ebbed and flowed between the two Toyotas. Each benefitting a few seconds from stops and SZs, until the #7 lost best part of a lap going through a tedious reboot. #7 tried to fight back, but #8 kept up the pace and controlled it.
Other than the odd lap, especially at the end when Glickenhaus, put in some almost fastest laps, the other others couldn't keep up. An hour or so in Toyota was about 1 to 1.5s faster than the others. They then scored with more consistency and better reliability.
Well done Toyota.
LMP2
#38 dominated.
Wow, just wow for JOTA. It was impressive - all the cars are the same. I would say the most dominant performance of the race. Consider the volume of competitors and how lots of them didn't suffer any reliability issues.
Towards the end it's dominance suffered when it lost out during the SC and there was a brief period when the weaker drivers were on track at the same time; Gonzalez couldn't quite match Colombo's pace. However it wasn't that much and the team even left Gonzalez in for a stint longer than they needed to. It was totally under control.
Well done JOTA.
GTE-Pro
This had a lot in it. I think I'll miss some stuff.
Corvette had the early pace, but then Porsche seemed to be getting a bit of a pace advantage as the conditions changed. At the same time Corvette had problems with both cars, delaying #64 and ultimately eliminating #63.
Porsche took over with the #92, after #91 had been delayed earlier.
Then the #92 locked up into Mulsanne, followed by a tyre blow out which damaged the front of the car. It was impressive how quickly they fixed it, but it was down the order.
It is also impressive how quickly they can change discs and pads now!
In all this changes with the Porsche and Corvette the Ferrari #51 kept popping up in the lead.
Ultimately the #91 came through with it's pace advantage.
Well done Porsche.
GTE-Am
All the Porches were at the front. With a couple of Astons in the mix. The million Ferrari's always seemed to be outside the top 6 or so.
This ebbed and flowed depending on who was in the car.
In the end the #33 Aston came through; it was always there over the last few hours, but never got more than a pitstop ahead so the front was rotating quite a bit.
Well done Aston.