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Porsche dominates the beginning of Le Mans

Place de la Republique, Le Mans - Brendon Hartley #17 Porsche Team

Brendon Hartley establish the Porsche #17 as the fastest of the practice session today in Le Mans. In second place finished the Audi #8, between the following Porsche’s. The session has a wet and humidity conditions.


At the start of the session, there was some outing from the drivers. Meanwhile, the Audi and the Porsches set the pace.

The first crash was caused by Bamber with the Porsche #19 at the first chicane in the Hunaudières straight. Patterson (Murphy Prototypes #48) crashed at Porsche turns. The #41 Graves Motorsport gone off at last turn before the rain comeback.

The brand-new SMP #27 LMP2, spun off at Dunlop chicane, and then gone off at Moulsane. At the end of the session, the Corvette GTE stopped his car between the chicanes of Hunaudières straight.

Theoretically, Porsche #18 was the fastest of the session, but they has been penalized because Neel Jani cut a chicane, in order to overtake the Ferrari that was in front. This makes the Porsche #17 as the fastest of session, in front of Audi #8, Porsche #18, Porsche #19 and the Audi #7 & #9. Behind them, the Toyota’s. The Nissan cars finished behind the fastest LMP2 team, KCMG. In GTE, Aston Martin #99 was the fastest in front of the #64 Corvette.