we were able to use our fuel tank capacity better. When you do fourteen laps you come very close to an empty tank and it’s difficult to extract fuel from an empty tank! But if you stay [under the threshold] you lose a lot of lap time. Mathematically it would be a very bad strategy to save fuel at the expense of lap time just to do one more lap”.
Were you expecting Porsche to close the pace after the first day of the Le Mans weekend.
“The gap to Porsche after the first day wasn’t realistic, so we were expecting a reaction from Porsche. Porsche may know better what they may have done wrong on the test day, so we always considered that Porsche may be closer”.
In which area do you think Porsche have closed the gaps?
“You’ll have to ask them”.