Peugeot arrives, Glickenhaus stars, Alpine wins
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Last weekend’s Monza 6 Hours was packed full of high drama. The fastest thing in the place went out with a smoky 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.
The Glickenhaus-Pipo 007 LMH had a clear performance advantage over the rest of the Hypercar pack around the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza, almost certainly enough for Romain Dumas, Pipo Derani and Olivier Pla to come back from a drivethrough penalty to win. The engine failure that followed turned round four of the 2022 WEC into a Toyota-versus-Alpine battle on a day when the debuting Peugeot showed promise but ultimately wasn’t a contender.
The pair of Toyota GR010 HYBRIDS ran 1-2 as the five-hour mark approached, but the Alpine-Gibson A480 with Matthieu Vaxiviere aboard was
