24 Hours of Le Mans, the Ferrari of Giovinazzi, Calado and Guidi triumphs

Ferrari triumphs at Le Mans. Could there have been a better way to celebrate the return of the Ferrari to the 24 Hours after a fifty-year absence and after the last victory 58 years ago? On the centenary of its edition, then? So congratulations to Alessandro Pier Guidi, James Calado and Antonio Giovinazzi who took one of the two Ferrari 499Ps, number 51, to the top, and honors to the crew of the 499P number 50 driven by Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina and Nicklas Nielsen who finished in fifth place (behind Toyota and the two Cadillac crews) and, had there not been a stone that damaged the car’s ERS cooling system, he could have aspired to the podium, perhaps achieving a historic one-two.

It was the fourth round of the FIA ​​World Endurance Championship, the one staged on the La Sarthe circuit, the classic theater of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, the most prestigious endurance event in the world. Maranello took part in the top class category, half a century after the last official appearance of the Prancing Horse. The race finished at exactly 4pm, having started at the same time on Saturday.

However, Guidi/Calado/Giovinazzi had to reject Toyota GR’s comeback attempt right up to the last minute, and Giovinazzi, a former Formula 1 driver, confirmed it after his last stint: “It was very intense, the fight with Toyota it was very tough, we saw our advantage wiped out twice in this race”. But the premier class success became clear with two hours to go, when the Japanese Hirakawa, driver of the #8 Toyota, lost his car under braking hitting the wall on the left with the front of the car. At that point the games are over.

“We made history. We knew we had a good car with a package that suited the faster sections of the Le Mans track but taking a win would have been a dream come true.” And to think that, on the eve, prudence had been the watchword, obviously justified. by Alessandro Pier Guidi: “The first objective was the finish line, considering the number of cars on the track and that, as we have seen in previous races, with the new hypercars everyone had encountered some reliability problems”.