Why 2024 British GP was Hamilton's greatest F1 win
Lewis Hamilton hadn't won in almost three years – and then produced a sensational victory at Silverstone 2024. James Elson explains why it was his best ever
The annual pre-Daytona test day, the ‘Roar before’, took place at the International Speedway over the weekend, with the LMP2s leading the way from the new DPis on the timing screens.
Porsche LMP1 racer Neel Jani set the early benchmark, moonlighting with Rebellion Racing alongside Seb Buemi, heading four of the five sessions. But it was resurgent Briton Ben Hanley who set the weekend’s fastest lap in DragonSpeed’s Oreca. Mazda was the quickest of the new-for-2017 Daytona Protoypes, 0.2s shy of Hanley’s weekend best. Just 1.3s covered the entire premier prototype field.
Ryan Briscoe and Tony Kanaan were quickest in GTLM, both in Ford GTs, Porsche’s Sven Muller topped GT Daytona, with James French fastest of the five Prototype Challenge cars.
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The DragonSpeed Oreca topped the timesheets in the hands of Ben Hanley, who partners Henrik Hedman and Nicolas Lapierre
AX Racing opted for a Cadillac chassis, reigning champions Dane Cameron and Eric Curran finished sixth fastest
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The new Porsche RSR made its competitive debut, clocking almost 3,000 kilometres
Mercedes too moves into GTD, with 24 Hours Nürburgring winner Adam Christodoulou
Rebellion Racing switches from LMP1 privateers to LMP2, and has recruited Stephane Sarrazin, Sebastien Buemi and Neel Jani for the Daytona 24
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