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Toyota Gazoo's No. 8 car wins 24 Hours Le Mans for 3rd year

LE MANS, France (AP) — tered a problem on the
Toyota Gazoo’s No. 8 car hood at around 9 a.m. and
comfortably won the 24 the change took six min-
Hours Le Mans by five laps utes, allowing the Rebellion
from Rebellion No. 1 on No. 3 (Nathanaël Berthon-
Sunday to secure a third Louis Delétraz-Romain Du-
straight victory in the presti- mas) to close the gap.
gious endurance race. It was becoming a tight
It was also a third consecu- battle between the two
tive win for Swiss driver Sé- Rebellion cars behind Toy-
bastien Buemi and Japan’s ota’s No. 8.
Kazuki Nakajima driving. At 12 p.m. Rebellion No.
Brendon Hartley was the 3 with Dumas behind the
other driver, having re- wheel was only one sec-
placed two-time Formula ond ahead of No. 1 driven
One champion Fernando by Menezes. Then both
Alonso. cars came in for a driv-
Buemi and Hartley sat on er change with Delétraz
the side of the car as Na- swapping for Dumas on a
kajima drove toward the lengthy stop, and Nato for
podium. Hartley won for a Menezes as Rebellion No. 1
second time after tasting suddenly moved ahead of
success with the Porsche its team rival.
LMP Team in 2017 before Drivers Sebastien Buemi of Switzerland, Kazuki Nakajima of Japan and Brendon Hartley of the Dumas, a winner in 2016
an unhappy season in For- Toyota Gazoo Racing Team spray champagne during the podium ceremony of the 88th 24-hour with Porsche, appeared
Le Mans endurance race, in Le Mans, western France, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2020.
mula One. Associated Press unhappy at the strategy
The Swiss team’s Rebellion decision to bring his car in
No. 1 featured American gine problem and the ter former F1 driver Kamui took advantage to move first and the length of the
driver Gustavo Menezes 30-minute stop in the stands Kobayashi narrowly edged into second place behind stop. There were tense ex-
and Brazilian Bruno Senna proved costly. out the Rebellion No. 1 Toyota’s No. 7. planations in the team ga-
— the nephew of late F1 The race was first held in team in qualifying. Then came the decisive rage.
great Ayrton Senna. 1923. A total of 252,500 In damp and humid con- moment at 2:40 a.m. as the Colombian Tatiana Calde-
It finished one lap ahead of spectators attended in ditions Mike Conway got No. 7 — also featuring Ar- rón, an F1 test driver with
Toyota Gazoo’s No. 7, with 2019, but there were none away cleanly from the start, gentine José María López Alfa Romeo, was in the
Rebellion’s No. 3 finishing in this year when the race while Senna held off Buemi. — encountered a turbo Richard Mille Racing Team
fourth place. started three months late After nearly seven hours, problem. When the car in the LMP2 category. She
For much of the race it because of the coronavirus Toyota’s No. 8 fell back af- came back out it was back was joined by German So-
looked like Toyota’s No. 7 pandemic. ter a 10-minute stop in the in fourth. phia Flörsch — an F3 driver
would win after leading “We miss the fans,” New stands to fix a brake-cool- “We had a few problems — and Dutchwoman Be-
comfortably from pole po- Zealander Hartley said. “I ing problem on Kazuki Na- early in the race,” Naka- itske Visser. They placed
sition. look forward to seeing all kajima’s car. jima said. “Later they had a ninth out of 24 in their
But late into the night the the fans again.” Rebellion’s No. 1, driven by bigger issue than us.” category.q
car encountered an en- Toyota No. 7 took pole af- Frenchman Norman Nato, Rebellion’s No. 1 encoun-

WNBA postpones game between Storm and Lynx due to COVID-19

before its scheduled tipoff The Lynx already had ar- night. "We want to make
Sunday because of incon- rived at the arena and sure we have all the data
clusive COVID-19 test re- some of the players had and testing if someone is
sults for Storm players. been warming up when affected with COVID," En-
The players with inconclu- they were told the game gelbert said. "We can iso-
sive results have under- was postponed. late them and take care
gone additional testing "This is the hardest part of their safety. Hopefully
and are in isolation, ac- of COVID-19 of putting we'll get good data over
cording to the WNBA. on live sports," Engelbert the next 24 to 48 hours.
WNBA Commissioner said. "Every day you're re- Hopefully get back on the
Cathy Engelbert was at set to zero. Keeping the court for Game 1 on Tues-
the hotel when she found bubble safe and making day. We will test them to-
out about the inconclu- sure there's no commu- night and have additional
sive results and boarded nity spread. The purpose testing on those players
the Storm's bus to let them of testing program and that had inconclusive re-
WNBA Commissioner Cathy Engelbert answers questions know. protocols is to pull anyone sults."
about a postponed game between the Seattle Storm and the
Minnesota Lynx after Game 1 of a WNBA basketball semifinal "We needed more testing out before they are infec- Engelbert, along with
round playoff game between the Connecticut Sun and the Las and data," Engelbert said tious." players' union head Terri
Vegas Aces, Sunday, Sept. 20, 2020, in Bradenton, Fla. in a TV interview. "As soon The league didn't imme- Jackson, went into the
Associated Press as I talked to them they diately announce when Connecticut locker room
were concerned about Game 1 of the best-of- after the Sun's semifinal se-
BRADENTON, Fla. (AP) — the Seattle Storm and the health and safety, and it five semifinal series would ries win over Las Vegas to
The opener of the WNBA Minnesota Lynx was post- wasn't about basketball at be played. Game 2 was tell the players about what
playoff series between poned nearly 90 minutes that point." scheduled for Tuesday had happened. q