Bad start to the World Championship for the Toyota Endurance team at Sebring.
The Japanese brand yielded the victory to Alpine, a first in the Hypercar era but above all, it got itself a huge scare with the exit from the track of one of the two team drivers on the track.
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After 3h30 of racing, José Maria Lopez first hit the Porsche N.88 before hitting the wall.
A first warning, fortunately not serious.
He was able to start again a few seconds later, but his damaged prototype shot straight into a wall of tires.
The car overturned, partially destroyed but the Argentinian was, fortunately, not injured.
I had no more steering or brakes
Jose Maria Lopez
“
I'm fine.
I went to the medical center where they carried out the tests to see if everything was fine.
Sometimes the adrenaline pushes you to get out of the car quickly so... But everyone did a great job.
I'm really sorry for the team, it's all my fault.
I wanted to get back to the stand as soon as possible.
At the speed I was going and with the damage on the car, the front end stalled.
When I wanted to turn, I had no more steering or brakes
,” reacted the driver on the WEC Twitter account.
