The Toyota Gazoo Racing squad has positioned both its Hypercars at the top of the field after an incident-filled first six hours at Le Mans. At 10:00pm local time, the leading #7 Toyota GR010 of Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and Jose Maria Lopez held nearly a 1m24s advantage over the sister car of Sebastien Buemi, Kazuki Nakajima and Brendon Hartley. A lap down on the two Japanese chargers sat the Alpine A480-Gibson of André Negrao, Nicolas Lapierre and Mathieu Vaxivière, while the #708 Glickenhaus of Luis Felipe Derani, Franck Mailleux and Olivier Pla was two laps adrift from the leaders. Earlier in the day, the race had kicked off behind the Safety Car on a track inundated by a heavy...
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