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 started the six-hour test in the car before ending the day out ꦑon track and was happy w🎐ith 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 𝔍the case all through race week, and I was able to do quite a few laps.

“I started the 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 da🎀y went.

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

A f🃏our-time winner of the race, Buemi is the m🦄ost experienced and successful driver in the #8 car.

However, Hartley is also very experienced around the Circuit de la Sarthe, wi🌠nning 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 come back here it is a real pleasure; it fe🎐els like we are back at home.

“It was a smooth day with no real drama and we got through the majority of the run plan. There were a few r🔜ed flags and safety cars but that’s the same for everyo🀅ne.

“It looks🔯 promising for us at thisꦅ stage. We never know what everyone is doing. but it’s been a positive start.”

Hirakawa also got some seat timeꦜ on Sunday as he 🃏tested several 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 ღnext few days on investigating the data and improving the set-up for race week.

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