“It didn’t actually give me an opportunity,” Vanthoor advised Autosport. “I used to be nonetheless rolling, I didn’t cease the automobile, I didn’t have any subject. I used to be simply rolling down and making an attempt to go on energy once more.
“And earlier than I knew it, it was a purple flag. For me, it’s a little bit of a harsh purple flag. It price us.
“On the finish of the day, I ruined a bit my very own session with making the error. However in fact it doesn’t actually assist while you don’t even have the possibility to even get again [on track].
“It’s harsh, however I believe we must always study from it, we must always look into it why it got here so early.”
He added: “I’m a bit irritated that I made the error initially. The lap I used to be on – it solely was half a lap, true, nevertheless it felt like a extremely good lap till that second. So it’s annoying.”
#15 BMW M Crew WRT BMW M Hybrid V8: Dries Vanthoor, Raffaele Marciello, Marco Wittmann
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Vanthoor had set the second-fastest time in Saturday morning’s third observe session, and Vosse mentioned “we might anticipate him to be sure, within the prime 10”. His team-mate Rene Rast certified the sister #20 BMW in seventh.
“Most likely they [race control] had been shocked that he was in a position to carry on going,” Vosse remarked.
Vanthoor mentioned the anticipated problem of overtaking at Imola will imply “technique will in all probability come loads into place” because the #15 crew seeks to recuperate and Vosse conceded that the qualifying mishap “will make a distinction as a result of right here, your monitor place can be fairly vital”.
However whereas acknowledging “it’s going to for certain not be straightforward, it’s not straightforward to overhaul right here”, Vanthoor expressed optimism that the automobile will have the ability to recuperate.
“We’ve obtained a superb racecar, we’ve obtained good race tempo, so I do assume there’s a risk to return again,” he predicted.
“It’s a six-hour race, loads can occur, particularly with the GT automobiles now we have to attempt to overtake. So I do really feel fairly assured that we will get again fairly quick. It is not going to be straightforward, however I believe for certain it’s potential.”
#20 BMW M Crew WRT BMW M Hybrid V8: Sheldon Van Der Linde, Robin Frijns, Rene Rast
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Rast admitted to creating “a small mistake within the final nook” that he believes doubtlessly price him sixth place to Kamui Kobayashi’s Toyota GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar.
However triple DTM champion Rast was inspired by the progress BMW has made for the reason that first outing for its LMDh automobile within the WEC in Qatar, the place the Bavarian marque languished in fifteenth and sixteenth after qualifying.
“We might be very proud of what now we have achieved already within the second WEC race, being within the Hyperpole is clearly greater than we anticipated after Qatar,” he replied when requested by Autosport whether or not there was any extra potential within the automobile.
“The objective needs to be to gather factors. Realistically, we might be within the prime 10 tomorrow, now we have a superb tempo within the lengthy runs.”
Requested whether or not its automobile is extra suited to Imola than Qatar, Vosse said: “We’ve been working with BMW, we’ve been working very exhausting since Qatar on making steps. We had been shocked by our state of affairs in Qatar and this appears somewhat bit extra the place now we have to start out.”