Photo : Frederic GAUDIN - ACO/NIKON

LM P2 winners were the American based Starworks Motorsport, led by Peter Baron. Despite there being many Orecas in the class, they were one of just two HPD-Hondas which triumphed. Here, the winning drivers give their thoughts on the class victory.

Enzo Potolicchio, nr44 Starworks Motorsports HPD ARX 03b-Honda (1^st LMP2): “This is an amazing result. We run in Grand Am, in United-States, that to me doesn’t get the recognition it deserves. Last October, we decided to do something else while having dinner together and we ended up in the WEC. We won at Sebring and we now win at Le Mans. I’ve watched these two races on TV for so long and it’s a great feeling to win at these fabulous circuits.”

Two-time consecutive LM P2 winner, Tom Kimber-Smith, nr44 Starworks Motorsports HPD ARX 03b-Honda (1^st LMP2): “I would like to thank Enzo, Ryan and Peter Baron. We followed our plan. I actually fell ill during the night and Enzo wasn’t planning to do much of the night running but he had to step up and he did a great job. I won last year with a Zytek and I now win with a Honda. For me, a fast and winning car is just perfect. Any winning car is perfect.”

Ryan Dalziel, nr44 Starworks Motorsports HPD ARX 03b-Honda (1^st LMP2): "At Sebring we had a brand new car and we won.  At Spa, we had to do some work on the car but the Honda Performance Development chassis is perfect.  We haven't got the pace of the Oreca chassis but we could do triple stints.  I think that was the key to our success.

"A clean car is generally the car which ends up in victory lane. Our car has got a couple of batters and bruises on it but HPD have built a really strong chassis.   We had a couple of small, strange things go wrong during the race – the ECU fell into the tub, for example, but they were small things and nothing that anyone could see from the outside.”

Photo: CIRCUIT DES 24 HEURES DU MANS (LE MANS, SARTHE), 24 HOURS OF LE MANS, 17TH JUNE 2012.  The LM P2 class winning No.44 Starworks Motorsport HPD ARX-03b Honda.