Kevin Magnussen and his father complete the first pre-Le Mans test

Kevin Magnussen, a former Formula One driver, has completed the first test in the car he will share with his father Jan in this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours.

On the 21st and 22nd of August, Magnussen father and son drove the High Class Racing ORECA-Gibson 07 at the Motorland Aragon circuit in Spain alongside Anders Fjordbach, their teammate for the double-points World Endurance Championship round.

Kevin Magnussen described the test, which took place on Monday and Tuesday this week, as follows: “a good start to the project”.

“We made great progress over the two days and, if we compare our speed to the other LMP2 teams that also tested this week, it looks strong,” The 28-year-old Dane, who will make his Le Mans debut this year before joining Peugeot’s World Endurance Championship team in 2022, said.

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“More importantly, it feels like we three drivers fit really well together.

“We all gave the same feedback to the engineers after our runs and, if we agree on how the car should behave, then as I said it is a really good start.”

Magnussen, who flew in directly from the Road America IndyCar race, where he was filling in for Felix Rosenqvist at Arrow McLaren SP, said driving with his father was “really cool” and “an extraordinary experience.”

“It’s quite natural for my father and I to talk about race cars, because we have done that pretty much since I could talk,” he said.

“But usually we tend to talk about each of our race cars, and now all of a sudden it was about the same one.

“It was fun and interesting to hear each other’s feedback, and it was especially fun to stand and compare my dad’s data with my own.”

Magnussen Sr revealed that he had “goosebumps when Kevin jumped in the car and left the pitlane”.

“We have worked extremely hard to make this project a success, and there’s a lot of work still ahead of us,” said the sportscar veteran, who is racing full-time with Danish entrant High Class in this year’s WEC.

“But, in the middle of it all, we are really just father and son on a racetrack, doing something together that we have only been able to dream of until now.”

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Magnussen Sr, a former Formula One driver with McLaren and Stewart, stated shortly after the program’s announcement in April that this year’s Le Mans will be their final race together.

“He’s off to Peugeot and when he’s done, I’m going to be far too old: this was absolutely the last shot,” he told Autosport.

After the test, Kevin Magnussen flew over to America to join the Ganassi Daytona Prototype international team for the IMSA SportsCar Championship’s Watkins Glen 6 Hours race this weekend.

At the Detroit round earlier this month, he and Renger van der Zande won their first race in the series.

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