Peugeot made headlines, Glickenhaus stole the show, but in the end it was Alpine that defeated Toyota. Catch up with our full WEC 6HMonza report.
Last weekend’s Monza 6 Hours was packed full of high drama. The fastest thing in the place went out with a smokey turbo failure and the two cars fighting for the lead as the final hour approached came together at high speed on the start/finish straight. The Signatech-run Alpine squad ultimately came out of that battle with Toyota to record a second victory of the 2022 FIA World Endurance Championship, a race that the Glickenhaus should by rights have won.
Vaxiviere got more or less alongside past the pits before the Toyota nibbled back ahead. Approaching the braking area for the first chicane Kobayashi eased infinitesimally over on his rival. There was a left-front to right-rear contact, the nose of the Alpine shredding the affected tyre of the Toyota, which then went straight on when it reached the Rettifilo.
Hirakawa had repeatedly been able to repel Vaxiviere’s advances via the inside line through Parabolica. The Alpine driver then changed tactics: he opted to go for the outside line and it worked at the first attempt. Vaxiviere got enough of a run to maintain the lead into the first chicane and then set off after Kobayashi.
Toyota was less keen than ever to discuss the BoP after the race at Monza. Pascal Vasselon, technical director at Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe, did express some satisfaction with second and third positions with what he described as a “slow car” in the face of opposition from two cars that had been given more power: the Glickenhaus was up 13kW or 17-18bhp. The TGR team, he insisted had done a perfect job with the tools available to it.
Vasselon sportingly offered commiserations to Glickenhaus for the failure that put it out of the race early in the fourth hour. “We did nothing wrong in any department: the mechanics were perfect at every pitstop and we made the right strategy calls,” said technical director Luca Ciancetti. “And we had good pace over a double stint: in Pipo’s second stint the #7 Toyota was on new tyres and we were on old tyres and we were not doing too badly.”Photo by: Morgese / Gandolfi
“We were thinking it was still possible to win,” he said. “By keeping running at the pace we had at the beginning, we would have been fighting for the win.” The new Peugeot had teething troubles on its debut, with the #94 9X8 of Duval, Menezes and Rossiter the only one to finishFerdinand Habsburg, Norman Nato and Rui Andrade claimed LMP2 honours at Monza, and deservedly so.
The mid-race safety car was key to getting the lead JOTA entry back into the game. The car had a lot of ground to make up thanks to starting right from the back after being penalised for an unsafe release in qualifying. The #41 Realteam by WRT ORECA shared by Habsburg, Nato and Andrade took LMP2 spoils, as Vector's Muller, Cullen and Bourdais scored a maiden podium in thirdPrema, too, was a contender with Robert Kubica, Louis Deletraz and Lorenzo Colombo. The safety car undid Deletraz’s good work triple stinting a set of Goodyears and then a clash for Kubica with Paul-Loup Chatin in the Richard Mille Oreca at the first chicane resulted in a drivethrough that left the Le Mans runner-up sixth at the finish.
The splash for the highest-place Ferrari left it 19s down on the Corvette Racing entry at the chequered flag, while the sister car shared by Alessandro Pier Guidi and James Calado was third after also taking on fuel at the death. “Shocked” was the word an incredulous Calado used to describe Tandy’s ability to get to the end.
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