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The no7 Toyota Gazoo Racing GR010-Hybrid continues to set the pace at Monza with Jose Maria Lopez posting the fastest time of the weekend so far. The Argentine driver’s time of 1m36.864 was 1.6 seconds faster than his own best time set in FP1. In LMGTE Pro, after Ferrari were fastest in FP1, Porsche fought back and went ahead in FP2, with Racing Team Nederland and AF Corse fastest in LMP2 and LMGTE Am respectively.

Five of the drivers competing in this weekend’s 6 Hours of Monza, Round 3 of the 2021 FIA World Endurance Championship, answered some questions in the pre event press conference.

The first session of the 6 Hours of Monza weekend saw the no7 Toyota Gazoo Racing GR010-Hybrid set the fastest lap, with Jose Maria Lopez posting 1m38.401 lap, 0.134s ahead of Brendon Hartley in the no8 Toyota and 0.152s ahead of the no36 Alpine A480-Gibson. The two Glickenhaus 007 LMHs were 4th and 5th fastest with the no709 finishing four hundredths ahead of the no708.

Round 3 of the FIA World Endurance Championship will take place at the Autodromo Nazionale di Monza in Italy. While The Prologue, the official preseason test, was held at Monza in 2017, the FIA WEC has never raced at Italy’s premier race circuit.

In early 2020, the FIA, the ACO and IMSA announced their intention to work hand-in-hand to create a joint top class for Endurance racing. The three parties have now come to an agreement on the technical specifications for the new category.

John Elkann, Chairman of Ferrari, will be the official starter at the 89th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, waving the French flag at 16:00 CET on August 21 to unleash the field of 62 cars.

Round five of the FIA World Endurance Championship, the 6 Hours of Fuji, has been canceled and will be replaced by an additional six-hour race in the Kingdom of Bahrain.

Peugeot has taken the wraps off the new 9X8, its Le Mans Hypercar challenger poised to make its competitive debut in the FIA World Endurance Championship in 2022.

Next month’s round three of the FIA World Endurance Championship, the 6 Hours of Monza, is set to welcome a limited number of spectators.

The class winners took part in the post race press conference after the 8 Hours of Portimao.