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    Poles position

    Sep 03, 2021 5 minutes
    BY ANDREW COTTON
    ‘Everyone wants to win Le Mans but it took me time to do it, and when you do win you realise how special it is’

    The LMP2 field at Le Mans in 2021 was one of the most competitive in recent years. With 25 cars lining up at the start of the event, all of them bar one an ORECA chassis, on the same Goodyear tyres and with highly professional drivers, this was a category to watch. And one of the stand-out teams in LMP2 is Inter Europol, which perhaps has more to do with a lairy colour scheme than results to date, though its ORECA did show well at Le Mans, coming home fifth in class and 10th overall.

    This result might partly be attributed to the arrival of Rafal Pokora as technical director. The Pole has a long history in racing, starting in British F3 with Hitech, then moving to South

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