The morning session of Test Day still had an hour to run when an accident involving the #95 Aston Martin driven by Marco Sorensen forced Race Control to suspend the action. The standings therefore remain unchanged since the third hour round-up with Toyota and Rebellion sharing the top four places. Fernando Alonso has made a successful start to his Le Mans adventure with the best time at the wheel of the #8 Toyota Gazoo Racing TS050 Hybrid in 3:21.468. Thomas Laurent managed to get his #3 Rebellion R13-Gibson to within 0.36 seconds of Alonso’s mark. Despite a very fast time from Mike Conway, the #7 Toyota TS050 Hybrid is still behind the Swiss car. The top three cars are all within a second of each other which promises exciting battles ahead!
In LMP2, the leading trio is made up of three Oreca 07-Gibsons. The #26 car of G-Drive Racing stands top of the timesheets ahead of the #48 IDEC Sport entry and the #31 car from DragonSpeed. In LMGTE Pro, the Ford GTs soon showed they were particularly quick with the four cars claiming the four fastest times, with the #67 fielded by Chip Ganassi Team UK leading the way. The Clearwater Racing #61 Ferrari 488 GTE comfortably held on to top spot in the LMGTE Am class.
The red flag bringing the morning to a premature end, the afternoon session will start 30 minutes earlier than scheduled, at 13:30.
PHOTO: LE MANS (SARTHE, FRANCE), CIRCUIT DES 24 HEURES DU MANS, 2018 TEST DAY. Fernando Alonso recorded the fastest lap time this morning at the wheel of the #8 Toyota TS050 Hybrid.