And three for Toyota!

The Japanese car manufacturer won the endurance race at the 24 Hours of Le Mans on Sunday for the third time in a row.

Toyota won its third consecutive victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans on Sunday thanks to the crew of Sébastien Buemi, Kazuki Nakajima and Brendon Hartley.

The second place goes to the Rebellion of Norman Nato, Bruno Senna and Gustavo Menezes which leads the other Toyota of Kamui Kobayashi, Mike Conway and Jose Maria Lopez.

The Japanese manufacturer was never worried during this 88th edition despite the problems encountered by one of its cars at the halfway point.

It is also the third victory at Le Mans for the Swiss Sébastien Buemi and the Japanese Kazuki Nakajima and the second for the New Zealander Brendon Hartley.

On the other hand, it is the fourth time that Kamui Kobayashi has finished second, victory slipping away due to a change of turbo just after halfway which immobilized his car for more than half an hour.

This 88th edition took place behind closed doors because of the coronavirus pandemic and took place exceptionally in September after having seen its traditional date of June postponed for the same reason.

Turbo faulty

In principle, Toyota will not participate in the next edition of the legendary endurance test in 2021 with its TS050 hybrid, preparing for the arrival of the new category of "hypercars" from 2022. Buemi and Nakajima had won in 2018 and 2019 with Fernando Alonso, the two-time Formula 1 world champion. But the Spaniard has decided to ignore the Le Mans event this year to prepare for his return to Formula 1 next year with Renault.

He was replaced by Brendon Hartley, already winner at Le Mans in 2017 with Porsche.

The other Japanese car, the N.7 of Conway, Kobayashi and Lopez, was once again unlucky.

Starting from pole position on Saturday, she led until halfway through the race before having to change her faulty turbo.

Kamui Kobayashi's crestfallen face as he got out of his car after driving it back to the pit in the middle of the night spoke volumes about the Japanese driver's disappointment.

Three times second in 2019, 2018 and 2017, "Koba", a former Formula 1 driver, fully intended to take his revenge this year and climb to the top of the podium.