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Richard Mille Racing’s Tatiana Calderon is embracing the challenge of her and her teammates first season in the FIA World Endurance Championship.

The fourth and final Free Practice session concluded with the #8 Toyota at the top of the times with a 3m27.994s.

Kamui Kobayashi put the #7 Toyota Gazoo Racing GR010 on pole position for this weekend’s 24 Hours of Le Mans. The outright track record holder Kobayashi sealed the top spot with a sensational 3m23.900s lap.

In the final Free Practice session before Hyperpole at 21h00 this evening, the #36 Alpine Elf Matmut A480-Gibson topped the time sheets, with Nicolas Lapierre posting a 3m26.594 lap despite a spin in the latter stages of the session, just three tenths slower than the best time of the weekend so far set by the #7 Toyota GR010 during qualifying.

The second Free Practice session was two hours long held in darkness and concluded at midnight. The two Toyotas topped the times, with the #8 GR010-Hybrid the fastest with a 3m29.351, three tenths ahead of the #7 Toyota. The #708 Glickenhaus 007 LMH was third fastest ahead of the #36 Alpine Elf Matmut A480.

The 60-minute session that determines which cars will take part in tomorrow evening’s Hyperpole session saw the #7 Toyota Gazoo Racing GR010 and #52 AF Corse Ferrari take the top spots in LMH and LMGTE Pro respectively.

The #7 Toyota Gazoo Racing GR010-Hybrid was the quickest in the first three-hour practice session ahead of this weekend’s 89th 24 Hours of Le Mans, with Jose Maria Lopez posting a 3m29.309 lap time, beating the #36 Alpine Elf Matmut A480-Gibson into second place by just 0.086s and another 0.001s ahead of the #8 Toyota.

Round 4 of the 2021 FIA World Endurance Championship is the 89th 24 Hours of Le Mans.

The FIA World Endurance Championship will conclude its 2021 season with a double-header in the Kingdom of Bahrain, marking the championship’s first ever back-to-back race weekend.

Five-time 24 Hours of Le Mans winner, and double FIA World Champion, Derek Bell will follow in the footsteps of Emanuele Pirro as Grand Marshal at the 89th 24 Hours of Le Mans, which is Round 4 of the 2021 FIA World Endurance Championship. He will lead out the 62 cars on the formation lap ahead of the 16:00 start on 21 August.