Le Mans 2022: Toyota and Porsche on the podium đ„
CONGRATULATIONS SĂ©bastien Buemi, Ryo Hirakawa and Brendon Hartley win the 24 Hours of Le Mans ahead of teammates Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and JosĂ© MarĂa LĂłpez. Porsche triumphs in GTE Pro.
The 90th edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans has been entered in the history books - and as in the previous year there was a one-two for the Toyota hypercar.
The driver trio of SĂ©bastien Buemi, Ryo Hirakawa and Brendon Hartley narrowly prevailed ahead of teammates Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and JosĂ© MarĂa LĂłpez (who were the 2021 winners). It was Toyota's fifth consecutive victory in the great classic on the French Sarthe.
The Japanese are thus unbeaten since 2018. Third place went to the Glickenhaus 007 LMH driven by Ryan Briscoe, Franck Mailleux and Richard Westbrook.
New distance record for GTE cars
Porsche has won the GTE-Pro class at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Works drivers Gianmaria Bruni from Italy, Richard Lietz from Austria and Frédéric Makowiecki (center gallery) from France crossed the finish line in first place at the end of an intense and thrilling 350-lap race.
The trio at the wheel of the number 91 Porsche 911 RSR thus set a new distance record for GTE cars: 4769 kilometers.
Customer team at the top of the podium
The sister car with KĂ©vin Estre (France), Michael Christensen (Denmark) and Laurens Vanthoor (Belgium) at the wheel finished the 90th edition of the endurance classic in fourth place. In the GTE-Am category, the Porsche customer team WeatherTech Racing finished on the podium.
