Le Mans 24h: Drama for Glickenhaus, Corvette in warm-up

The #709 Glickenhaus 007 LMH of Franck Mailleux had not even logged a single lap during the 15-minute session before hitting trouble, as the French driver appeared to spin exiting Mulsanne corner before coming to a stop on the right-hand side of the track.

It's understood Mailleux lost control on exit because of a faulty traction control sensor.

Moments later, another one of the American favourites, the GTE Pro pole-sitting #64 Corvette C8.R of Nick Tandy was also seen cruising at reduced speed between Mulsanne and Indianapolis with what the marque called a "driveline issue", albeit Tandy made it back to the pits.

There was further drama when Nico Muller beached the #10 Vector Sport LMP2 Oreca 07 in the gravel, which combined with Alexandre Cougnaud suffering an off at the Dunlop chicane in the #3 DKR Engineering LMP2 triggered a full-course yellow period.

This meant many cars didn't set a representative lap, with those that did so generally only getting one or two clean tours of the Circuit de la Sarthe on the board.

Fastest overall was the #7 Toyota GR010 Hybrid of Mike Conway, whose lap of 3m31.236s put him 2.313s clear of Sebastien Buemi in the sister #8 Toyota.

Splitting the two Japanese cars to go second overall was Rene Rast in the LMP2 pole-sitting WRT Oreca 07, 1.941s slower than Conway but four tenths up on Buemi.

Last-minute substitute Nyck de Vries put the #13 TDS Racing Oreca second in class and fourth overall, ahead of the #41 Realteam by WRT car of Ferdinand Habsburg.

Romain Dumas was eighth-fastest in the only Glickenhaus to set a representative lap, behind two more LMP2 runners, the #48 IDEC Sport car of Paul-Loup Chatin and Alex Brundle in the #34 Inter Europol Competition machine.

Corvette's #63 car was fastest in GTE Pro in the hands of Antonio Garcia on a 3m54.788s, while Toni Vilander set the pace in GTE Am at the wheel of his #21 AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE Evo.

The Le Mans 24 Hours is due to begin at 4pm local time (GMT +2).

2022 Le Mans 24 Hours - warm-up results:

Cla	#	Drivers	Car	Class	Time	Gap
1	7	Mike Conway Kamui Kobayashi Jose Maria Lopez	Toyota GR010 - Hybrid	HYPERCAR	3'31.236
2	31	Sean Gelael Robin Frijns René Rast	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'33.177	1.941
3	8	Sébastien Buemi Brendon Hartley Ryo Hirakawa	Toyota GR010 - Hybrid	HYPERCAR	3'33.549	2.313
4	13	Philippe Cimadomo Mathias Beche Tijmen van der Helm	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'33.759	2.523
5	41	Rui Andrade Ferdinand Habsburg Norman Nato	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'34.362	3.126
6	48	Paul Lafargue Paul-Loup Chatin Patrick Pilet	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'35.253	4.017
7	34	Jakub Smiechowski Alex Brundle Esteban Gutierrez	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'35.327	4.091
8	708	Olivier Pla Romain Dumas Pipo Derani	Glickenhaus 007 LMH	HYPERCAR	3'36.098	4.862
9	83	François Perrodo Nicklas Nielsen Alessio Rovera	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'38.593	7.357
10	65	Julien Canal Nico Jamin Job Van Uitert	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'40.009	8.773
11	44	Miro Konopka Bent Viscaal Tristan Vautier	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'40.327	9.091
12	45	Steven Thomas James Allen Rene Binder	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'40.527	9.291
13	5	Dane Cameron Emmanuel Collard Felipe Nasr	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'41.802	10.566
14	43	David Heinemeier Hansson Fabio Scherer Pietro Fittipaldi	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'43.975	12.739
15	47	Sophia Flörsch John Falb Jack Aitken	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'44.544	13.308
16	35	Jean Baptiste Lahaye Matthieu Lahaye François Heriau	Oreca 07	LMP2	3'44.580	13.344
17	27	Cresp Christophe Michael Jensen Steven Palette	Ligier JSP 217	LMP2	3'47.460	16.224
18	63	Antonio Garcia Jordan Taylor Nick Catsburg	Chevrolet Corvette C8.R	LMGTE PRO	3'54.788	23.552
19	21	Simon Mann Christoph Ulrich Toni Vilander	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	3'56.532	25.296
20	61	Louis Prette Conrad Grunewald Vincent Abril	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	4'00.708	29.472
21	55	Duncan Cameron Matthew Griffin David Perel	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	4'00.825	29.589
22	30	Richard Bradley Guillermo Rojas Reshad de Gerus	Oreca 07	LMP2	4'01.244	30.008
23	75	Pierre Ehret Christian Hook Nicolas Varrone	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	4'05.346	34.110
24	54	Thomas Flohr Francesco Castellacci Nick Cassidy	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	4'10.855	39.619
25	91	Gianmaria Bruni Richard Lietz Frédéric Makowiecki	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE PRO	4'14.271	43.035
26	39	Eric Trouillet Sebastien Page David Droux	Oreca 07	LMP2	4'16.098	44.862
27	46	Matteo Cairoli Mikkel Pedersen Nicolas Leutwiler	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	4'20.204	48.968
28	77	Christian Ried Sebastian Priaulx Harry Tincknell	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	4'36.473	1'05.237
29	56	Brendan Iribe Ollie Millroy Ben Barnicoat	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	4'39.322	1'08.086
30	92	Michael Christensen Kevin Estre Laurens Vanthoor	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE PRO	4'41.665	1'10.429
31	59	Alexander West Côme Ledogar Marvin Klein	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	4'52.462	1'21.226
32	99	Andrew Haryanto Alessio Picariello Martin Rump	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	4'53.648	1'22.412
33	51	Alessandro Pier Guidi James Calado Daniel Serra	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE PRO	5'20.800	1'49.564
34	80	Matteo Cressoni Giancarlo Fisichella Richard Heistand	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	5'33.057	2'01.821
35	52	Miguel Molina Antonio Fuoco Davide Rigon	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE PRO	5'33.403	2'02.167
36	74	Felipe Fraga Sam Bird Shane van Gisbergen	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE PRO	5'33.704	2'02.468
37	777	Satoshi Hoshino Tomonobu Fujii Charlie Fagg	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	5'37.993	2'06.757
38	33	Ben Keating Henrique Chaves Jr. Marco Sorensen	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	5'40.077	2'08.841
39	66	Renger van der Zande Mark Kvamme Jason Hart	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	5'41.114	2'09.878
40	85	Rahel Frey Michelle Gatting Sarah Bovy	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	7'05.644	3'34.408
41	23	Alex Lynn Oliver Jarvis Josh Pierson	Oreca 07	LMP2	7'12.566	3'41.330
42	9	Robert Kubica Louis Deletraz Lorenzo Colombo	Oreca 07	LMP2	7'23.811	3'52.575
43	1	Lilou Wadoux Sébastien Ogier Charles Milesi	Oreca 07	LMP2
44	3	Laurents Hörr Jean Glorieux Alexandre Cougnaud	Oreca 07	LMP2
45	10	Nico Müller Ryan Cullen Sébastien Bourdais	Oreca 07	LMP2
46	22	Philip Hanson Filipe Albuquerque Will Owen	Oreca 07	LMP2
47	24	Rodrigo Sales Matthew Bell Ben Hanley	Oreca 07	LMP2
48	28	Oliver Rasmussen Edward Jones Jonathan Aberdein	Oreca 07	LMP2
49	32	Rolf Ineichen Mirko Bortolotti Dries Vanthoor	Oreca 07	LMP2
50	36	Andre Negrao Nicolas Lapierre Matthieu Vaxiviere	Alpine A480	HYPERCAR
51	37	Ye Yifei Ricky Taylor Niklas Krütten	Oreca 07	LMP2
52	38	Roberto Gonzalez Antonio Felix da Costa Will Stevens	Oreca 07	LMP2
53	57	Takeshi Kimura Frederik Schandorff Mikkel Jensen	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM
54	60	Claudio Schiavoni Alessandro Balzan Raffaele Giammaria	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM
55	64	Tommy Milner Nick Tandy Alexander Sims	Chevrolet Corvette C8.R	LMGTE PRO
56	71	Franck Dezoteux Pierre Ragues Gabriel Aubry	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM
57	79	Cooper MacNeil Julien Andlauer Thomas Merrill	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM
58	86	Michael Wainwright Riccardo Pera Benjamin Barker	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM
59	88	Fred Poordad Maxwell Root Jan Heylen	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM
60	93	Michael Fassbender Matt Campbell Zacharie Robichon	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM
61	98	Paul Dalla Lana David Pittard Nicki Thiim	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM
62	709	Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook Franck Mailleux	Glickenhaus 007 LMH	HYPERCAR
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