Michelin wins 90th Le Mans 24 Hours with simulator developed tyres
After spending much of the 24-hour classic running at the sharp end of the field,the N°8 Toyota GR010 Hybrid of Sébastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley and Ryo Hirakawa went on to earn Toyota Gazoo Racing’s fifth consecutive Le Mans 24Hours victory. Second was its N°7 sister car (Mike Conway/Kamui Kobayashi/JoséMaria Lopez), ahead of the N°709 Glickenhaus 007 of Ryan Briscoe, RichardWestbrook and Franck Mailleux who came third to go one place better than theAmerican constructor’s result in 2021. Its N°708 car (Romain Dumas/Olivier Pla/Felipe Derani) was fourth. The winning Toyota set a new distance-record forthe recently-introduced Hypercar category, completing 380 laps of the 13.626-kilometer track to total 5,178 kilometres.
