Toyota enjoyed a trouble-free start to its campaign to finally clinch the honours in the Le Mans 24 Hours endurance race. Sebastien Buemi took the wheel of the #8 Toyota Gazoo Racing polesitting LMP1 car for the start. While he initially retained the lead, he then succumbed to a first-lap move from the sister #7 car driven by Mike Conway into the Dunlop Chicane. Buemi was able to recover the lead four laps later and went on to pull out a comfortable cushion over Conway. However a prolonged slow zone for barrier repairs at Indianapolis after an accident for the #86 Gulf Porsche enabled Conway to pull closer just in time to leapfrog Buemi during the second round of pit stops. Conway was...
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