The planned eight-hour race ended in an anticlimax when severe weather moved into the area in the final hour.
The #36 Alpine A480-Gibson grandfathered LMP1 car – driven by Nicolas Lapierre, Matthieu Vaxiviere and Andre Negrao – dominated the event, constantly outpacing the Hypercar class opposition from Toyota and Glickenhaus as well as the LMP2s.
Following the first red flag and 30-minute delay, while the barriers were repaired following Toyota’s Jose Maria Lopez’s huge crash at Turn 15, the race went green with just over 3hr 40mins remaining.
The #8 Toyota led at that point but had to take emergency service, to avoid running out of fuel, and pitted on the following lap for another stop.
At the resumption, Alpine led Glickenhaus by a lap with the remaining Toyota dropping back to third. However, as the green flag flew, Briscoe in the Glickenhaus passed the Corvette GTE Pro car before the restart, earning a penalty.
After a second red flag for electrical storms in the…
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