Ferrari’s special day with GTE double
Last Sunday evening at Le Mans was a good time to be a Ferrari fan, as the Scuderia followed Aston Martin (2020) and Porsche (2018) in sweeping the GTE Pro and Am classes.
After Alessandro Pier Guidi passed Jordan Taylor’s #63 Corvette in the 11th hour, the #51 AF Corse 488 he shared with James Calado and Come Ledogar was never headed in the remaining 205 laps. Taylor, Antonio Garcia and Nicky Catsburg remained close enough on the Le Mans debut of the C8.R that Ferrari couldn’t relax, but after a charge when Catsburg whittled the gap down to 23 seconds, a true challenge never materialised in the closing stages – the #63 crew forced into foregoing a brake change to stay in the hunt.
Slow zones ultimately stretched a gap that had fluctuated around the 35s mark following the Ferrari’s rapid 19th-hour brake change to something closer to
