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In motorsport, Nyck de Vries, Kamui Kobayashi and Mike Conway of Toyota Racing win the 24 Hours of Le Mans. · Spoken News

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  Speaker 1: Welcome to Spoken News. I'm a computer. In motorsport, Nike Devrees,
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  Kamui Kobyashi and Mike Conway of Toyota Racing win the
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  twenty four Hours of Lamar. The ninety fourth Twenty four
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  Hours of Lamont was an automobile endurance race held from
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  thirteen to the fourteenth of June twenty twenty six at
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  the Circuit de la Sath in La Main, France. It
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  was the ninety fourth running of the Twenty four Hours
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  of Lamont, organized by the Automobile Club de Lueste. Cars
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  competed in three classes, hypercar, LMP two and LMGT three.
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  In qualifying, pole position was taken by Drys van Thor
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  in a BMW MT and WRT hypercar. The race was
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  closely contested, with numerous lead changes between BMW, Cadillac and Toyota.
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  Seven cars finished on the lead lap. The overall classification
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  was won by the number seven Toyota hypercar, driven by
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  Mike Conway, Kamui, Kobyashi and Nick Devrees. Toyota Racing GmbH
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  is an automotive engineering and motor sports services facility based
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  in Cologne, Germany. It is fully owned and controlled by
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  Toyota Motor Corporation. Tig's principal operation is technical development of
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  motorsport vehicles and their competitive entries on behalf of Toyota's
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  Gazoo Racing brand in the FIA's World Endurance Championship and
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  World Rally Championship. The latter is run from a satellite
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  facility in Jaiverskala, Finland, known as Toyota Gazoo Racing WRT.
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  TIG was also previously known as Anderson Motorsport, Toyota Motorsport
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  GmbH and Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe GmbH. Hendrik Johannes Nicasius
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  Nick Devreese is a Dutch racing driver who competes in
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  the FIA World Endurance Championship for Toyota and in Formula
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  E for Mahindra. In Formula racing, Devrees competed in Formula
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  one at eleven Grand Prix from twenty twenty two to
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  twenty twenty three and won the twenty twenty twenty one
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  Formula E World Championship with Mercedes. In endurance racing, Dvrees
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  won the twenty four Hours of Lemon in twenty twenty
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  six with Toyota Born and raised in Whitwelling, Gerga, Daverse
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  began competitive cut racing aged nine. After a successful karting
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  career culminating in back to back victories at the Senior
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  World Championship in twenty ten and twenty eleven, Davrees graduated
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  to junior Formulae, signed to the McLaren Young Driver program
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  from twenty ten to twenty nineteen. Davies won his first
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  championship at the Formula Reno EuroCup in twenty fourteen with Koirnen.
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  He finished third in the twenty fifteen Formula Reno three
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  point five series before winning multiple races in the twenty
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  sixteen GP three series. Davrees progressed to FIA Formula two
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  for its inaugural twenty seventeen season, winning the title in
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  his third season driving for Aart. Davrees graduated to sports
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  car racing that year, competing in the LMP two class
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  of the FIA World Endurance Championship with Nedaland. He took
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  his first class win the following season at Fuji, before
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  joining Formulae with the recently established Mercedes team in twenty nineteen.
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  In his second season, when Devrees took multiple victories as
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  he won his maiden World Championship. Alongside his successes in
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  Formula Ree, Davrees also became a race winner in the
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  European Lemonte Series with G Drive in twenty twenty and
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  twenty twenty one. A test and reserve driver for Williams Mercedes,
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  McLaren and Aston Martin, Davrees made his Formula One debut
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  with the former at the twenty twenty two Italian Grand
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  Prix as a substitute for Alexander Album. After scoring a
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  points finish on his debut, he joined Alphatari for twenty
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  twenty three, but was replaced by Daniel Riccardo after ten rounds.
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  Dvrees moved back to Formula E with Mahindra for his
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  twenty twenty three twenty four campaign and signed for Toyota
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  in the hypercar class of WEC in twenty twenty four,
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  winning the Six Hours of Immola. He has served as
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  a test driver and simulated driver for McLaren in Formula
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  One since twenty twenty five. Kamui Kobayashi is a Japanese
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  racing driver and motorsport executive who competes in the FIA
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  World Endurance Championship for Toyota and in super Formula for KCMG.
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  Kobayashik competed in Formula one from two thousand and nine
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  to twenty fourteen. In endurance racing, Kobayashi has won two
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  FIA World Endurance Championship titles and is a two time
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  winner of the twenty four Hours of Lemon in twenty
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  twenty one and twenty twenty six, all with Toyota. He
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  is also a two time winner of the twenty four
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  Hours of Daytona in twenty nineteen and twenty twenty with WTR.
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  Since twenty twenty two, Kobyashi has served as team principal
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  of Toyota in WEC, winning three consecutive World Manufacturers Championship
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  titles from twenty twenty two to twenty twenty four. Kobyashi
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  also serves as team principal for Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe
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  for their FIA World Endurance Championship team. Kobyashi previously competed
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  in Formula one, Formula E, the GP two Series and
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  the GP two Asia Series. He became champion of the
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  FIA World Endurance Championship alongside co drivers Mike Conway and
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  Jose Maria Lopez in the twenty nineteen twenty season and
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  in twenty twenty one, where he also won the twenty
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  twenty one twenty four four Hours of Lamont. Kobayashi is
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  the third FIA World Champion from Japan after Toshi Arai
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  and Kazuki Nakajima, and became the third Asian born driver
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  after countrymen Aguri Suzuki and Takumasato to score a Formula
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  One podium finish, doing so at the twenty twelve Japanese
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  Grand Prix for Salba. That's it for now. See the
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