Le Mans - LMP2 drivers

I’ve written lots about this year’s Le Mans, but failed miserably to write anything on my blog. Sorry about that. Of course, most of what I have written elsewhere has earned me some money, so priorities being what they are, this has been left until last.

Since I’ve written nothing yet about the closely-fought LMP2 class, and since my readers here will (I am sure) be interested, I thought it would be worth comparing drivers in that class.

For the purposes of this, I show the “average lap time” of each driver who actually got behind the wheel of an LMP2 during this year's 24 hour race. For the average, I have used 20% of the laps that each driver completed: in some cases, this leads to very few laps being considered.

It also means that track conditions - for example yellow zones and full course caution periods - are ignored. And spare a thought for Kirill Ladygin, Maurizio Mediani and Alessandro Latif, who didn’t get to drive at all! Nevertheless, for the most part, the following provides interesting reading.

No.	Car	Driver	Grade	No. of laps	Average Lap Time
38	Jota Zytek	Harry Tincknell	Gold	121	3m 39.814s
35	Oak Ligier	Jann Mardenborough	Gold	121	3m 39.881s
36	Signatech Alpine	Nelson Panciatici	Platinum	149	3m 39.987s
38	Jota Zytek	Oliver Turvey	Platinum	131	3m 40.034s
46	TDS Ligier	Tristan Gommendy	Platinum	146	3m 40.380s
26	G-Drive Morgan	Olivier Pla	Platinum	64	3m 40.473s
36	Signatech Alpine	Paul-Loup Chatin	Silver	129	3m 40.749s
35	Oak Ligier	Mark Shulzhitskiy	Silver	93	3m 40.756s
35	Oak Ligier	Alex Brundle	Gold	140	3m 40.828s
47	KCMG Oreca	Alex Imperatori	Gold	28	3m 40.969s
36	Signatech Alpine	Oliver Webb	Gold	77	3m 41.284s
48	Murphy Oreca	Rodolfo Gonzalez	Silver	22	3m 41.298s
24	Loeb Oreca	René Rast	Platinum	134	3m 41.313s
48	Murphy Oreca	Nathanael Berthon	Gold	28	3m 41.336s
34	Race Performance	Franck Mailleux	Gold	122	3m 41.462s
46	TDS Ligier	Ludovic Badey	Silver	135	3m 41.491s
48	Murphy Oreca	Karun Chandhok	Platinum	23	3m 41.596s
26	G-Drive Morgan	Roman Rusinov	Gold	22	3m 41.623s
46	TDS Ligier	Pierre Thiriet	Silver	74	3m 41.751s
27	SMP Oreca	Mika Salo	Platinum	93	3m 41.860s
47	KCMG Oreca	Matthew Howson	Silver	21	3m 42.159s
42	Caterham Zytek	Tom Kimber-Smith	Gold	99	3m 42.185s
33	Oak Ligier	Ho-Pin Tung	Gold	173	3m 42.402s
37	SMP Oreca	Nicolas Minassian	Platinum	9	3m 42.453s
34	Race Performance	Jon Lancaster	Silver	110	3m 42.547s
29	Pegasus Morgan	Léo Roussel	Silver	82	3m 42.537s
43	Morand Morgan	Christian Klien	Platinum	160	3m 42.635s
38	Jota Zytek	Simon Dolan	Silver	104	3m 42.738s
24	Loeb Oreca	Jan Charouz	Gold	105	3m 42.929s
43	Morand Morgan	Gary Hirsch	Silver	125	3m 43.335s
24	Loeb Oreca	Vincent Capillaire	Silver	115	3m 43.391s
47	KCMG Oreca	Richard Bradley	Gold	38	3m 43.549s
41	Greaves Zytek	James Winslow	Silver	20	3m 43.672s
33	Oak Ligier	Adderley Fong	Silver	88	3m 44.405s
42	Caterham Zytek	Chris Dyson	Gold	116	3m 44.419s
26	G-Drive Morgan	Julien Canal	Silver	34	3m 44.561s
34	Race Performance	Michel Frey	Silver	110	3m 45.014s
50	Larbre Morgan	Pierre Ragues	Silver	149	3m 45.130s
27	SMP Oreca	Anton Ladygin	Silver	81	3m 45.154s
50	Larbre Morgan	Ricky Taylor	Gold	137	3m 45.266s
42	Caterham Zytek	Matthew McMurray	Silver	114	3m 45.844s
29	Pegasus Morgan	Julien Schell	Silver	135	3m 46.406s
29	Pegasus Morgan	Nicolas Leutwiler	Silver	119	3m 47.005s
27	SMP Oreca	Sergey Zlobin	Bronze	129	3m 47.075s
33	Oak Ligier	David Cheng	Silver	86	3m 48.757s
43	Morand Morgan	Romain Brandela	Bronze	67	3m 48.900s
50	Larbre Morgan	Keiko Ihara	Bronze	55	3m 56.249s
41	GreavesZytek	Michael Munemman	Bronze	11	4m 20.306s

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