Ask anyone at the Toyota team from this weekend’s Le Mans…
From Autosport:
Toyota lost its shot at a first victory in the Le Mans 24 Hours in devastating circumstances, handing Porsche a second consecutive win in the closing minutes of the race.
The #5 TS050 led the race by 1m24s inside the final 10 minutes, but with just over five minutes of the 24 hours remaining Kazuki Nakajima slowed, reporting that he had no power.
As the Toyota attempted to crawl around to the finish, Neel Jani blasted by in the #2 Porsche 919 Hybrid to snatch the lead and complete one more lap to take an unexpected victory with Romain Dumas and Marc Lieb.
Nakajima initially stopped the car on the pits straight, after the start/finish line, eventually rejoining to complete his final lap in 11m53s, crossing the line second.
However, moments after that the #5 car he shared with Sebastien Buemi and Anthony Davidson was removed from the timing screens, with its final lap being too slow to make it eligible to be classified.
That promoted the #6 Toyota of Mike Conway, Stephane Sarrazin and Kamui Kobayashi to second, and enabled Audi to maintain its record of always finishing on the podium since its debut at Le Mans in 1999 with the #8 car of Lucas di Grassi, Loic Duval and Oliver Jarvis.
