![]() ![]() Vaxiviere got more or less alongside past the pits before the Toyota nibbled back ahead. He’d taken three or four goes to get past Ryo Hirakawa in the #8 Toyota for second, but once ahead closed down the one-second deficit to Kamui Kobayashi in #7 in the space of a lap. Time after time Vaxiviere got a run on the Toyotas out of the Parabolica. ![]() The lighter but less powerful old-style prototype has never been a match for the Le Mans Hypercars on the straights and that meant overtaking was never going to easy. The grandfathered LMP1 car co-driven by Nicolas Lapierre and Andre Negrao was the slightly faster car on Sunday, though not necessarily the more raceable machine. The pair of Toyota GR010 Hybrids ran 1-2 as the five-hour mark approached, but the Alpine A480-Gibson with Matthieu Vaxiviere aboard was on a charge. The engine failure that followed turned round four of the 2022 WEC into a Toyota versus Alpine battle on a day that the debuting Peugeot showed promise but ultimately wasn’t a contender. The Glickenhaus 007 LMH had a clear performance advantage over the rest of the Hypercar pack around the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, almost certainly enough for Romain Dumas, Pipo Derani and Olivier Pla to come back from a drive-through penalty to win.
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