🗣️'The result we expected, but it wasn’t the gap we expected - we’re a bit disappointed to be so far away.' Alpine driver Nico_Lapierre was dejected by the gap to Toyota at Fuji, with victory for the 8 crew setting up a head-to-head fight in Bahrain ⬇️
and that third would be a satisfactory result in the circumstances.
Podium: #36 Alpine Elf Team Alpine A480 - Gibson LMP1: André Negrão, Nicolas Lapierre, Matthieu Vaxiviere“The BoP is managing the pure performance, and in this sense all cars were pretty close together,” Vasselon said. “The other thing we did is ensure we made one stop less, which we anticipated from the beginning. We made sure we would do six stints exactly and this paid off as well.”
Lapierre called Toyota the “favourite” for the eight-hour race but vowed to push to the end despite the disappointment of Fuji.
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