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The tenth participation in the mythical 24 Hours of Le Mans ended on the 192nd passage, at 5:30 on Sunday morning, with Davide forced to retire due to the breakage on his Ferrari 296 LMGT3 of the sensor that regulates the power of the BOP. The pit-stop operation to repair it, and get the OK from the Federation, cost the #54 crew the equivalent of six laps. Therefore the team took the difficult decision to retire permanently.
Davide Rigon, Vista AF Corse #54 “I am really happy with my performance, with the start, with how we managed all aspects, with the engineers, with the guys in the team and with Ferrari. We managed the strategies, the petrol consumption, the tyres and everything was ready for the end of the race as we had prepared for it. In the early hours of the morning a Safety Car helped us to compact and in my opinion we were in the game for the podium. Unfortunately, a technical problem stopped us; this took us almost 30 minutes, plus six laps, so Thomas Flohr together with the engineers decided to retire the car. There were a lot of cars in the race and to finish in the top 10 would have been really tricky. Of course it would have been nice to finish because Le Mans is always a fantastic experience and the car was going really well. Together with the whole team, Francesco and Thomas, we gave our all and that is the beauty of this sport and what gives us hope for the future.”
Attention now turns to the fifth round of the FIA World Endurance Championship, scheduled for 13 July in Sao Paulo, Brazil, but Davide has already flown to the Watkins Glen track, for the 6 Hours valid as the sixth round of the IMSA SportsCar Championship and the third of the IMSA Endurance Cup, where he will partner Albert Costa in GTD Pro with the #81 Ferrari 296 of DragonSpeed.