COMPLETELY CRUEL
It was like a scene out of a movie at the 24 Hours of Le Mans: at seven
minutes from the finish, the #5 Toyota was going into its next-to-last lap with
a comfortable lead of 1:14 on the #2 Porsche. And then, the impossible
happened when the lead car stopped on the finish line going into its final lap.
“We’ve dreamed about winning this race,” said Hugues de Chaunac after
the race, the team manager of the French team Oreca associated with Toyota
since 2012. “We also had a nightmare, breaking down an hour from the finish.
But not in the last lap. It’s completely cruel. It hasn’t sunk in yet. We were right