Last year, Toyota romped to a dominant 1-2 in the first outing for its new GR010 Hybrid LMH, leaving the grandfathered Alpine A480-Gibson LMP1 design a distant third, four laps behind the winning car.
However, Lapierre and his Alpine teammates Matthieu Vaxiviere and Andre Negrao scored the marque's first outright WEC win at Sebring in March and head into this weekend's Le Mans test day as championship leaders.
