Beaten to top spot by two Penske Porsche’s, the #8 Toyota of Sebastien Buemi, Brendeon Hartley and Ryo Hirakawa finished third fastest during Sunday’s second day of testing at Le Mans.

Buemi sta♈rted the six-hour test in the car before ending the day out on track and was ❀happy with how the day went.

Buemi said: “Obviously its’s always a great pleasure to be back at Le Mans. We had good weather, which may not be the case all through race 🧸week, and I was able to do quite a few laps.

“I started th🅺e day and finished it, so I saw a big track improvement♉ but the car feels quite good and I am quite happy with how the day went.

“We have time to look at the data and see what we can improve for Wꦺednesdꦯay.”

A four-time winner of the race, Buemi is the most ex🐓perienced and successful driver in the #8 car.

However, Hartley is also very experienced around the Circuit de la Sarthe, winning the event in 2017 with Porsche, and🐠 again in 2020 and 2022 with Toyota.

“It’s really nice to be back at Le Mans,” said Hartley. “Every year when I comꦅe back here it is a real pleasure; it feels like we are back at home.

“It wꦬas a smooth day with no real drama and we got through the majority of the run plan. There were a few red flags and safety cars but that’s the same for everyone.

“It lookꦺs promis🦹ing for us at this stage. We never know what everyone is doing. but it’s been a positive start.”

Hirakawa al🌞so got some seat time on Sunday as he tested se✅veral different components.

Hirakawa added: “We tested a lot of different options and it has been a useful day. We ran through our programme and now we will focus over the next few days on investigating the data and improving ▨the set-up for race week.

“So far everything looks reasonable but we still need to imp🍸rove a bit to catch up to our competitors. I am sure we can improve further for race ꦑweek.”