“It didn’t actually give me an opportunity,” Vanthoor advised Motorsport.com. “I used to be nonetheless rolling, I didn’t cease the automotive, I didn’t have any difficulty. 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 crimson flag. For me, it’s a little bit of a harsh crimson flag. It value us.
“On the finish of the day, I ruined a bit my very own session with making the error. However after all it doesn’t actually assist once you don’t even have the prospect to even get again [on track].
“It’s harsh, however I believe we should always study from it, we should always look into it why it got here so early.”
He added: “I’m a bit irritated that I made the error to begin with. The lap I used to be on – it solely was half a lap, true, however it felt like a very good lap till that second. So it’s annoying.”
#15 BMW M Group 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 count on 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 quite a bit into place” because the #15 crew seeks to get better and Vosse conceded that the qualifying mishap “will make a distinction as a result of right here, your monitor place could be fairly necessary”.
However whereas acknowledging “it’ll for certain not be straightforward, it’s not straightforward to overhaul right here”, Vanthoor expressed optimism that the automotive will have the ability to get better.
“We’ve received a very good racecar, we’ve received good race tempo, so I do assume there’s a chance to come back again,” he predicted.
“It’s a six-hour race, quite a bit can occur, particularly with the GT vehicles we now 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 Group 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 value 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 because the first outing for its LMDh automotive within the WEC in Qatar, the place the Bavarian marque languished in fifteenth and sixteenth after qualifying.
“We could be very pleased with what we now 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 Motorsport.com whether or not there was any extra potential within the automotive.
“The purpose needs to be to gather factors. Realistically, we could be within the prime 10 tomorrow, we now have a very good tempo within the lengthy runs.”
Requested whether or not its automotive 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 to be like slightly bit extra the place we now have to start out.”