The Japanese manufacturer has revealed that problems with the clutch were the reason why the race-winning #8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar lost a handful of seconds at each pitstop to the second-placed sister car over the closing stages of the eight-hour race. Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe technical director Pascal Vasselon stated that the problem became “critical” and that “during one stop we were nearly not able to restart the car”.
Vasselon could not put an exact total time loss for #8 that resulted from the problem, but he explained that it reared its head quite early in the race even though the “the last three pitstops have been the critical ones”. He described the Bahrain 8 Hours WEC finale as “quite intense because we had problems on both cars”, even though Toyota notched up a fourth 1-2 finish of the season.
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