Fernando Alonso’s Toyota wins Le Mans 24 Hours after dominant display

Fernando Alonso has won the Le Mans 24 Hour on debut in the sports auto classic with Toyota.

A win in Indy Car’s Indianapolis 500, would see him join the legendary Graham Hill as the only ever driver to secure the triple crown.

Toyota are the only major manufacturer competing in the top LMP1 class after champions Porsche quit the World Endurance Championship past year, and have only themselves to beat.

Only one Japanese marque has won before, Mazda in 1991, and Toyota have failed 19 times-agonizingly past year when their two leading cars retired in a night of drama. We did a lot of progression for the race.

This year, he sought permission from McLaren to dovetail his F1 programme with an attempt to win Le Mans, which became an entry in the entire World Endurance Championship.

In the end, the only competition to Alonso and his co-drivers Nakajima and Sebastien Buemi came from the sister #7 Toyota. Toyota Gazoo Racing lead Shigeki Tomoyama spoke about the development.

Alonso is aiming for the second leg of motor-racing’s triple crown, having won the Monaco Grand Prix in 2006 and 2007.

The SMP Racing auto, driven by another former Formula One world champion Jenson Button, spent three hours in the pits with a mechanical problem and one of each the Bykolles and the SMP Racing cars went off the track. The other Toyota is crewed by Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and Jose Maria Lopez, and one of the two cars is favored to win.

“I’m not used to watching my vehicle racing, I’m normally in it”.

“I went there (the Indy 500) past year without any particular objective”.

Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and Jose Maria Lopez, who led for long periods in the #7 TS050 HYBRID, made it a flawless result for TOYOTA with second place in front of 256,900 fans. The Japanese motoring giant announced over the weekend that a production version of its current generation Le Mans race auto has been green lit – that means a race vehicle legally rolling around on public roads, people.

Rebellion Racing took the third and fourth spots, with the No. 3 auto shared by Thomas Laurent, Mathias Beche, and Gustavo Menezes finishing 12 laps behind.

Frederic Makowiecki is still in second with Sebastien Bourdais in the Ford Chip Ganassi Team USA GT still in third. The number 77 911, fielded by private team Dempsey-Proton Racing, won in GTE-Am, driven by Matt Campbell, Christian Ried, and Julien Andlauer.