Franck Mailleux and the Morand Racing team have carried out a busy day of testing around the La Sarthe circuit today joining 60 other vehicles on track to prepare for this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans. 

 

The Morand Racing team stuck to a firm programme of car evaluation looking at the full Morgan Judd LMP2 package in order to prepare every aspect of the car and team performance before the big event gets underway with scrutineering next Sunday.

 

With the focus on car set-up and not going for an outright lap time, the team has managed to learn some useful information from today’s communal test day, the only opportunity to gain experience of the full La Sarthe track before practice begins in just over a week’s time. 

 

However, the weather has played an important role with the morning session held in completely wet conditions. Nonetheless, Franck got some valuable laps under his belt this morning as the team used the opportunity to adapt the car to the wet track conditions. 

 

The only downside to the morning activities was an off-track excursion for Olivier Lombard which necessitated some repair work in the pit garage. Still, the team completed 28 laps in the morning and were back on track in the afternoon thanks to some excellent work by the Morand Racing crew.

 

Unfortunately two additional red flag periods in the afternoon caused a disjointed afternoon’s running but all three drivers – Franck, Olivier Lombard and Natacha Gachnang – accumulated 33 more laps as they turned their attention to dry weather set-up work, aerodynamic evaluation and the all-important work with tyre supplier Dunlop.