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june 14, 2018 - Dunlop

Throwback Thursday: Dunlop’s 2017 Le Mans race

2017 was an epic year for #Dunlop. In addition to the results that far exceeded expectations and even hopes, the tyres had an incredible year too. 2017 was the year that saw five teams quintuple-stint (x5!).

The results:

  • 2 overall podium finishes
  • 3 out of 3 fastest laps
  • 2 out of 3 class wins
  • 6 podiums
  • Dunlop tyres led a total of 769 laps across 7 teams and 3 classes:
  • 366/366 LMP2
  • 210/340 LM GTE Pro
  • 63/333 LM GTE Am


Dunlop sets out to be faster, stronger, longer – every year – and 2017’s numbers showed just that.

 

Faster

  • The 36 fastest LMP2 drivers were on #Dunlop tyres – all three 38 drivers were in the top 11
  • Ho Pin Tung’s fastest lap of 3:28.632 was also his theoretical best time – he didn’t better any of his sector times when setting the new LMP2 #LeMans race record.
  • Top LMP2 car finished only one lap behind the LMP1 race winner.
  • Nelson Piquet Jr was one of the most consistently quick LMP2 drivers – his best 10 laps average was 3:29.738 – less than one second from his best lap time of 3:28.785
  • Daniel Serra was the fastest GTE Pro driver in the winning #97 Aston Martin, with #95’s Nicki Thiim in third.
  • After 24 hours, four #Dunlop GTE Am cars finished on the same lap – separated by 8.5km after 4484km of #racing.

 

Stronger and longer…..

  • 17 LMP2  teams quadruple stinted
  • 5 LMP2 teams ran for 5 stints on the same set of tyres – up to 668 kilometres on one set
  • 9632 laps completed
  • Over 525000 tyre kilometres – more than 13 times round the Earth
  • 245 million tyre revolutions

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