Sturm defined that he recognised the difficulties Kobayashi was having in bringing the recent set of slick tyres on his GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar as much as temperature behind the protection automotive, amid difficult circumstances that prompted race management to declare a moist observe.
“For them [Hypercars] it’s clearly fairly tough,” Sturm advised Autosport.
“They’ve far more energy than we have now, after which additionally they have been on slicks. So for positive, they didn’t have the most effective playing cards at the moment, however it was good to overhaul them.”
Sturm’s slick tyres have been already as much as temperature, which allowed him to pounce on the struggling Hypercars that have been sooner on the straights however slower within the corners.
“Already behind the protection automotive I seen that [Kobayashi] was fairly gradual, struggling on his tyres,” stated the German.
#92 Manthey Purerxcing Porsche 911 GT3 R LMGT3: Aliaksandr Malykhin, Joel Sturm, Klaus Bachler
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“So it was like ‘okay, possibly we have now to overhaul him after the restart’ and that was the case. I deliberate it a bit let’s say.”
“We’re nonetheless championship leaders, so we are able to’t danger it at that time,” he stated.
“We prolonged our lead, in order that’s what issues for us,” he added.