India’s Karun Chandhok and his team finished 12th overall and 10th in the LMP2 category in a gripping 85th edition of the 24-hour endurance race on Sunday.
Racing for Tockwith Motorsports with teammates Nigel Moore and Philip Hanson, Chandhok took the graveyard shift in the race and helped his team to a creditable finish.
Porsche floored Hong Kong actor and stuntman Jackie Chan’s audacious bid for Le Mans glory as Toyota suffered fresh torment. Timo Bernhard overtook Ho-Pin Tung in Chan’s LMP2 class Oreca-Gibson with less than an hour to go to claim a 19th Le Mans title for the German constructor.
While Bernhard, who won with Audi in 2010, and his New Zealand co-drivers and childhood chums Earl Bamber and Brendon Hartley were celebrating, Toyota’s agonising wait for a maiden title continued.
Here’s a more detailed report of the event.
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