Toyota once again put on a show at the Le Mans 24 Hours in the absence of any real opposition. The hoped-for challenge from Glickenhaus never materialised and Alpine had neither the pace nor the reliability to make a fight of it, but the two Japanese cars battled hard deep into the race. The contest was only decided in favour of Sebastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley and Ryo Hirakawa in the final third of the blue-riband round of the FIA World Endurance Championship when an electrical glitch delayed the sister car.
The internecine battle at Toyota Gazoo Racing last weekend was reminiscent of Le Mans 2018. This 90th running of the 24 Hours didn’t have the storylines of 2018 and the night-time comeback drive by Buemi, Fernando Alonso and Kazuki Nakajima, but it was no less frenetic. Probably more so: for the better part of the 16 hours that this race raged at full pelt.
