It was a dramatic afternoon at Monza on Sunday in FIAWEC. gazzasportscars explains how Alpine was helped to victory by Glickenhaus' implosion in Italy. Feature:
Last weekend’s Monza 6 Hours was packed full of high drama. The fastest thing in the place went out with a smokey turbo failure and the two cars fighting for the lead as the final hour approached came together at high speed on the start/finish straight. The Signatech-run Alpine squad ultimately came out of that battle with Toyota to record a second victory of the 2022 World Endurance Championship, a race that the Glickenhaus should by rights have won.
Vaxiviere got more or less alongside past the pits before the Toyota nibbled back ahead. Approaching the braking area for the first chicane Kobayashi eased infinitesimally over on his rival. There was a left-front to right-rear contact, the nose of the Alpine shredding the affected tyre of the Toyota, which then went straight on when it reached the Rettifilo.
Hirakawa had repeatedly been able to repel Vaxiviere’s advances via the inside line through Parabolica. The Alpine driver then changed tactics: he opted to go for the outside line and it worked at the first attempt. Vaxiviere got enough of a run to maintain the lead into the first chicane and then set off after Kobayashi.
Toyota was less keen than ever to discuss the BoP after the race at Monza. Pascal Vasselon, technical director at Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe, did express some satisfaction with second and third positions with what he described as a “slow car” in the face of opposition from two cars that had been given more power: the Glickenhaus was up 13kW or 17-18bhp. The TGR team, he insisted had done a perfect job with the tools available to it.
“It is a shame for them, because they really are putting so much effort in,” he said. “They were really able to win this race.”something that Vasselon insisted came as no surprise Dumas had raced away into a clear lead from the start: he was more than seven seconds clear of Buemi in second after seven laps, while the lead stood at a shade over 50s after two and half hours. That was wiped out by the safety car that followed Henrique Chaves rolling the TF Sport Aston Martin at the second chicane. Derani had incurred a drivethrough penalty for going over the 80km/h FCY speed limit, which Pla took shortly after the race went green.
Peugeot got one of its new 9X8s to the finish, albeit 25 laps off the lead, while the other went out early with what were described by technical director Olivier Jansonnie as “car system problems”. He wouldn’t elaborate, because the exact nature of the trouble wasn’t clear, though a turbo boosting issue was at least part of it.
Habsburg was at the front of the pack when the race went green after the lone safety car, though crucially with three-stint old tyres on each corner of his ORECA-Gibson 07. He made one mistake at the Rettifilo, losing a couple of positions, and then had a massive moment coming out of the Ascari Chicane that dropped him all the way down to seventh in class.
Vector Sport delivered on its potential with a first LMP2 podium in only its fourth start. The team finally had a trouble-free race with the car shared by Sebastien Bourdais, Nico Muller and Ryan Cullen. The other WRT entry of Robin Frijns, Rene Rast and Sean Gelael needed repairs for a water leak, while the second United shared by Alex Lynn, Oliver Jarvis and Josh Pierson was another car to come through from the back of the grid, though it only made it as high as fifth behind the Euro Interpol ORECA shared by Alex Brundle, Esteban Gutierrez and Jakub Smiechowski.
Calado and Pier Guidi should have won this race on a day that the Ferrari was the quicker car after a Balance of Performance break ahead of the race. There hadn’t been enough dry laps at Spa back in May for the auto BoP to kick in for Monza, but the FIA and the Automobile Club de l’Ouest made a so-called black ball change that gave the 488 an extra 12 to 14bhp according to Ferrari’s calculations.
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