Sturm defined that he recognised the difficulties Kobayashi was having in bringing the contemporary set of slick tyres on his GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar as much as temperature behind the protection automobile, amid tough situations that prompted race management to declare a moist observe.
“For them [Hypercars] it’s clearly fairly troublesome,” Sturm advised Autosport.
“They’ve far more energy than we’ve, after which additionally they have been on slicks. So for certain, they didn’t have the most effective playing cards at the moment, but it surely 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 quicker on the straights however slower within the corners.
“Already behind the protection automobile I seen that [Kobayashi] was fairly sluggish, struggling on his tyres,” mentioned 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, perhaps we’ve 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 will’t danger it at that time,” he mentioned.
“We prolonged our lead, in order that’s what issues for us,” he added.