translated from Spanish: The Toyota of “Pechito” López achieved pole position in the 24 hours of Le Mans

One of the most important dates for world motorsport arrives with the 24 hours race of Le Mans and its 89th edition in which Argentina again says present and with the illusion of being able to fight to the end with the marriage of the hand of José María López.The 38-year-old driver from Cordoba will start from the best position on the grid, after having signed the best time as a team together with the British Mike Conway and the Japanese Kamui Kobayashi and are already preparing for the dispute that will start on Saturday at the French circuit of le Castelet.
At the helm of the No. 7 Toyota Gazoo Racing WEC, the Piltoos accumulated the best differences, beating the other Toyota (No. 8), driven by Sébastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley, who was in charge of qualifying, and Kazuki Nakajima, by a minimum difference of 295 thousandths. For “Pechito” López, who has already been crowned three times world champion in Rally, it will be his third participation at Le Mans where he finished in 2nd place in 2019 and 3rd in 2020, with the main objective of the whole team to close a victory and be the second Argentine in history to achieve it after José Froilán González (1954). The Cordoban will not be the only team in the dispute, but there will also be Franco Colapinto, who will start from ninth place with the Aurus 01 Gibson No. 26, which will alternate with the Russian Roman Rusinov and the Dutch Nyck de Vries.

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