5 facts from the Prologue – LMP2
The fastest times for both of the JOTA-run cars, the #28 JOTA and #48 Hertz Team JOTA Orecas was identical – 1:51.000.
LMP2 debutant Doriane Pin finished the test third fastest in class in the #63 Prema behind only Filipe Albuquerque and Robert Kubica.
11 of the 12 cars had fastest times in the top 15 of the two-day test with only the #35 Alpine not featuring, their fastest time the 28th fastest driver time of the test by Andre Negrao
The top 11 fastest drivers posted lap-times within a single second with three cars having two drivers apiece in that group, the #22 United Autosports car, the #63 Prema car and the #48 Hertz Team Jota car.
The entire 36 driver LMP2 field were at least 2.8 seconds quicker than #4 Floyd Vanwall Racing Hypercar driver Jacques Villeneuve.
5 facts from the Prologue – GTE Am
The top 5 fastest drivers in the class were separated by 0.097 of a second: Matteo Cairoli, Michelle Gatting, Benjamin Barker, Lilou Wadoux and Alessio Picariello.
7 of the top 8 fastest times came from Porsche drivers across 6 different cars.
The only car with two drivers in the top 8 was the #85 Iron Dames car (Gatting and Frey), three female drivers figured in the top 8 – Gatting, Wadoux and Frey.
The top 23 drivers were separated by under a second with the fastest Aston Martin driver Charlie Eastwood, 24th fastest!
The two drivers involved in the shootout for the Northwest AMR Silver-ranked seat, Axcil Jeffries and Thomas Merrill were separated by just 28 thousandths of a second on their fastest lap times.
