Toyota Racing came to the 24 Heures du Mans for its first World Endurance Championship race with two TS030 hybrid LMP1 prototypes. They had a good qualifying effort that saw the No. 8 car of Anthony Davidson, Stephane Sarrazin and Sebastien Buemi in third place on the 56-car grid, with the No. 7 car of Alex Wurz, Nicolas Lapierre and Kazuki Nakajima earning fifth place for the start.
It was a good way to begin the 24-hour race and, throughout the opening hours the two Toyota hybrid prototypes were able to use the KERS technology that recovers energy under braking, stores it in super capacitors and then releases under acceleration - from any speed - to gain a significant power boost, keeping the duo towards the front of the field.
While the TS030 hybrid wasn't able to make the finish line at 3PM on Sunday afternoon, the TMG-supplied engine in the Rebellion Racing Lola/Toyota finished as "best of the rest" in fourth position.
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