Ryo Hirakawa leads the Six Hours of Portimao after two hours forward of the 2 Ferraris of quantity 50 and quantity 51 following a driveshaft downside for the quantity seven Toyota.
Sebastian Buemi accomplished the opening shift for the main Toyota, handing over to group mate Hirakawa from the lead on the two hour mark. The quantity 50 Ferrari 499P sits second, pushed by Miguel Molina, with Antonio Giovinazzi third within the second Ferrari quantity 51.
Initially, the pole successful quantity eight Toyota pushed by Sebastien Buemi was instantly swamped on the run to show one and was overtaken by its quantity seven group mate pushed by Mike Conway across the exterior into flip one. The quantity 51 Ferrari with James Calado behind the wheel then demoted Buemi down to 3rd by additionally sweeping round into quantity eight Toyota to 3rd.
After 5 minutes of racing, Buemi muscled his approach handed the Ferrari into the kink of flip two, claiming the place beneath braking for flip three and restoring a Toyota one-two on the entrance, albeit with the quantity seven automotive holding a bonus of round 5 seconds out entrance. Whereas Ferrari misplaced second place, they quickly regained fourth with the quantity 50 automotive when Nicklas Nielsen handed the Penske Porsche of Laurens Vanthoor which had overtaken him in the course of the begin.
As Buemi started reeling in his group mate out entrance, the 2 Ferraris rapidly fell away from the Toyotas behind. Calado vocally disputed his group’s request to maneuver over and permit his group mate by, nevertheless it was not lengthy earlier than Nielsen took the place on the observe, making the most of Calado being caught behind a GT automotive to out-drag his group mate into third on the exit of flip 4.
After the primary spherical of pit stops, the quantity eight Toyota discovered itself out within the lead forward of its beforehand main group mate. Nevertheless, an hour and quarter-hour into the race, the second place quantity seven Toyota instantly obtained a black-and-orange warning flag by race management attributable to a driveshaft knowledge downside, forcing Conway to pit to vary the driveshaft and falling over eight laps all the way down to its main group mate. This moved the 2 Ferraris into second and third, round half a minute behind the main quantity eight Toyota.
On the two hour mark, the quantity 22 United Autosports automotive led the LMP2 class with Joshua Pierson 14 seconds forward of Daniil Kvyat within the Prema automotive. In GTE AM, Iron Lynx are main with their quantity 60 automotive.
Six Hours of Portimao race standings after two hours:
PosNo.ClassTeamCarDriversLaps18Hypercar (Hybrid)ToyotaToyota GR010 HybridSebastien Buemi/Brendon Hartley/Ryo Hirakawa75250Hypercar (Hybrid)Ferrari AF CorseFerrari 499PAntonio Fuoco/Miguel Molina/Nicklas Nielsen75351Hypercar (Hybrid)Ferrari AF CorseFerrari 499PAlessandro Pier Guidi/James Calado/Antonio Giovinazzi7546Hypercar (Hybrid)Porsche PenskePorsche 963Kevin Estre/Andre Lotterer/Laurens Vanthoor7552Hypercar (Hybrid)CadillacCadillac V-Collection.REarl Bamber/Alex Lynn/Richard Westbrook75694Hypercar (Hybrid)PeugeotPeugeot 9X8Loic Duval/Gustavo Menezes/Nico Mueller7475Hypercar (Hybrid)Porsche PenskePorsche 963Dane Cameron/Michael Christensen/Frederic Makowiecki7484HypercarFloyd VanwallVanwall Vandervell 680Tom Dillmann/Esteban Guerrieri/Jacques Villeneuve74993Hypercar (Hybrid)PeugeotPeugeot 9X8Paul di Resta/Mikkel Jensen/Jean-Eric Vergne7310708HypercarGlickenhausGlickenhaus 007Romain Dumas/Ryan Briscoe/Olivier Pla731148LMP2JotaOreca 07 – GibsonDavid Beckmann/Yifei Ye/Will Stevens731222LMP2United AutosportsOreca 07 – GibsonFrederick Lubin/Philip Hanson/Filipe Albuquerque731323LMP2United AutosportsOreca 07 – GibsonJoshua Pierson/Tom Blomqvist/Oliver Jarvis721463LMP2PremaOreca 07 – GibsonDoriane Pin/Mirko Bortolotti/Daniil Kvyat721534LMP2Inter EuropolOreca 07 – GibsonJakub Smiechowski/Fabio Scherer/Albert Costa72169LMP2PremaOreca 07 – GibsonFilip Ugran/Bent Viscaal/Andrea Caldarelli721736LMP2AlpineOreca 07 – GibsonMatthieu Vaxiviere/Julien Canal/Charles Milesi721841LMP2Team WRTOreca 07 – GibsonRui Andrade/Robert Kubica/Louis Deletraz721931LMP2Team WRTOreca 07 – GibsonSean Gelael/Ferdinand Habsburg/Robin Frijns722028LMP2JotaOreca 07 – GibsonDavid Heinemeier Hansson/Pietro Fittipaldi/Oliver Rasmussen722135LMP2AlpineOreca 07 – GibsonAndre Negrão/Memo Rojas/Oliver Caldwell722283LMGTE AmAF CorseFerrari 488 GTE EVOLuis Perez Companc/Lilou Wadoux/Alessio Rovera702354LMGTE AmAF CorseFerrari 488 GTE EVOThomas Flohr/Francesco Castellacci/Davide Rigon69247Hypercar (Hybrid)ToyotaToyota GR010 HybridMike Conway/Kamui Kobayashi/Jose Maria Lopez692560LMGTE AmIron LynxPorsche 911 RSR 19Claudio Schiavoni/Matteo Cressoni/Alessio Picariello692621LMGTE AmAF CorseFerrari 488 GTE EVOStefano Costantini/Simon Mann/Ulysse de Pauw692733LMGTE AmCorvetteChevrolet Corvette C8.RBen Keating/Nicolas Varrone/Nicky Catsburg692825LMGTE AmORT by TFAston Martin Vantage AMRAhmad Al Harthy/Michael Dinan/Charlie Eastwood692985LMGTE AmIron DamesPorsche 911 RSR 19Sarah Bovy/Michelle Gatting/Rahel Frey693056LMGTE AmProject 1 AOPorsche 911 RSR 19PJ Hyett/Gunnar Jeannette/Matteo Cairoli683177LMGTE AmDempsey-ProtonPorsche 911 RSR 19Christian Ried/Mikkel Pedersen/Julien Andlauer683257LMGTE AmKesselFerrari 488 GTE EVOTakeshi Kimura/Scott Huffaker/Daniel Serra683388LMGTE AmProton CompetitionPorsche 911 RSR 19Ryan Hardwick/Zacharie Robichon/Harry Tincknell673486LMGTE AmGRPorsche 911 RSR 19Michael Wainwright/Riccardo Pera/Benjamin Barker673598LMGTE AmNorthwest AMRAston Martin Vantage AMRPaul Dalla Lana/Nicki Thiim/Axcil Jeffries673610LMP2Vector SportOreca 07 – GibsonRyan Cullen/Matthias Kaiser/Gabriel Aubry5137777LMGTE AmD’StationAston Martin Vantage AMRSatoshi Hoshino/Casper Stevenson/Tomonobu Fujii42
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