3:14.791! #7 Toyota Gazoo Racing Kamui Kobayashi just did the best time ever around Le Mans24

Kamui Kobayashi in Toyota #7 has literally annihilated the Le Mans lap record with a 3'14"791 on a flying lap just after the restart of qualifying session #2 after a red flag.

[aldofalla]

It's incredible how stable LMP1 cars are around the corners. It truely looks the they are on rails.

[Siphodemos]

The #8 nearly broke the engine
The #7 nearly broke the Internet

[NavF]

For real, this is absolutely insane, we just witnessed some shit right here...I mean, think of all the monsters that have been competing in Le Mans, and this thing goes 2 seconds quicker than the record like that...and it might even get quicker wow...

[hughmungus]

Being german and a Porsche lover, I still want Toyota to win. They deserve it, especially after last year's disaster. I mean, just look at how this beast is flying through corners and down the straight.

[charles]

You cannot deny, Kamui was one of the best F1 drivers but unfortunately top Formula One teams couldn't give him car because he wasn’t graduated from their junior teams as now Formula One teams are running. Kamui Kobayashi and Robert Kubica should have received driver seat in Formula One but both drivers have lacked of sponsors and back ground. They both have lost driver seats to slower drivers who have sponsors and background.

[bmchdi]

What a lap. Superb driving... Go Kamui Kobayashi!!! Go Toyota!!!

[TotalMotorsports]

RIP LMP1. We'll probably never see anything like this at Le Mans again.

[colddude]

He's been driving this circuit on PS2 since he was 4...#howitsdone

[jasonhui]

Kamui Kobayashi!! F1 lost. WEC gained!! 👍

[stu]

The thing they didn't mention in commentary is that it wasn't just the fastest lap on That circuit lay out but an ABSOLUTE fastest lap - even quicker than the previous record pre-1989 when the chicanes went in to the Mulsanne.
This was a genuinely incredible sporting moment - the equivalent of watching a snooker player drop a 147, or a 9 darter in Darts, or hole in one in golf. About as close as you will see to "The Perfect Lap". I can't EVER recall seeing a car lop 2 full seconds off a lap record before like that in race conditions. The only thing that reminds me of this is the 919EVO shattering Bellof's record at the Ring - but that was not under race conditions.
The teams were spending $100m plus on Le Mans at that time. There's something very very special about knowing that those enormous companies like Toyota, Audi, Porsche etc were, for that short period of time, throwing pretty much everything they could at this open rulebook format to create the very very quickest cars imaginable pretty much - That little period of sports car racing between 2014-2017 was absolute *peak* motorsport. It's genuinely hard to see how we will ever get back to that now, It's just impossible to see a time when big marques will be willing throw that level of risk, finance and creativity at a motor sport and push the envelope this hard, and regulations now are constantly really pegging the cars back artificially to a target laptime.

[andrelima]

TOYOTA deserves to win this race they have been close so many times

[closedcl]

Let's forget the meaninglessness of pole position at a 24-hour race for a moment and look at how Kamui-san leans on those tires. Beans, man. He got dem beans!

[theblackboyjoe]

I could not see a single mistake on that lap.

[txisbest]

0:55 Imagine how fast it'll be without per lap energy limit.

[vincenzo]

this guy is underrated, honestly he’s unreal with that gap.

[jasonlamgtevo]

Eurobeat can boast up this car by 50HP.

[tyronnezx]

LOL They tried to slow LMP1 down. and Toyota builds this beast. Race will be a different matter. I hope they can keep this thing reliable to keep ahead of Porsche and win. They deserve it the most

[DailyStreetRacing]

this is as close as you can get to a perfect lap !!! 👍

[miguelibarra]

Could it be... Takuma Sato wins Indianapolis, now Kobayashi (and his team) wins le mans. Too bad there is no japanese F1 driver at the time...

[EvilVoices]

Wow, this is almost frightening. Look at the braking points ! 50 Meters?! From 280 km/h to 130 km/h... That's not a simulation, that is a insane good driver in a insane good car. Huge respect to Kamui!