It is not clear yet whether or not the team will reappear at Bahrain for the season finale, though its movements in previous seasons suggest that a 007 LMH will take no further part. The entry list for Fuji sees the Hypercar field reduced to 12 cars again, with Glickenhaus opting to skip the trip to Japan. It and JOTA (which wrapped up the Team’s Hypercar title at Monza) have a number of routes to success: finishing, finishing well, beating each other, beating the Penske Porsches and beating the rest. Proton will debut its second 963 (its first car will complete the IMSA season) at Fuji. Both have shown good form with very limited testing. It will hope it can find a set-up that works at the Fuji Speedway, with its 1.5km pit straight.ĭon’t count out either of the two privateer Porsches. Porsche Penske’s team too showed better form in Italy, though once again its cars struggled with straight-line speed. With two circuits that should suit the car’s aerodynamic concept left in the season, watch this space. Its first podium came at Monza, with great pace shown by the 9X8s for the second consecutive race. The team’s pace and consistency has been the class of the LMDh side of Hypercar so far, but with only a single podium, albeit at Le Mans, to show for it. Two second-place finishes, a third and a fourth keep their title bid alive.įuji is of course Toyota’s home race and the factory squad has amazing form on home ground, plus, it is fair to say, the needle between Toyota and its title rival Ferrari is particularly sharp.įor Toyota, its home race has been a happy hunting ground for a long time, and few would bet against it extending its win streak (which dates back to 2016) to six wins.Ĭadillac is unlucky to sit as far behind as it is, wrong-footed by a safety car at Monza, dropping its V-Series.R to 10th. The #51 Ferrari meanwhile, has just one win too, at Le Mans, with the sister car showing great consistency through the season, with the exception of the retirement at Spa. Sebastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley and Ryo Hirakawa have just one race win, at Portimao, but three second-place finishes plus a sixth at Monza, grabbed by a hard-charging Hartley has kept them ahead of the #7, which has three wins, but crucially a DNF at the double-points scoring race at Le Mans. So far this year we have had three winners, but it is consistency for the championship leaders that has paid dividends. There are two other cars mathematically in the hunt, with the Ganassi Cadillac 44 points off the championship lead and the #5 Porsche in sixth, 63 points off. The second Ferrari, the #50, sits fourth, a further seven points adrift. The gap between them and the sister #7 GR010 and the #51 AF Corse Ferrari 499P is 23 points after the #7’s victory at Monza. In Hypercar, with a maximum of 65 points up for grabs, the #8 Toyota crew of Sebastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley and Ryo Hirakawa lead the standings in Hypercar. While Corvette Racing has sewn up the GTE Am titles ahead of this weekend, after another fine performance at Monza, there’s still so much up for grabs in both Hypercar and LMP2 with 14 hours of WEC racing remaining. With the summer break for the FIA WEC now over, it’s time for the second flyaway race of the season, the teams heading east to Japan for the penultimate round of the championship, the 6 Hours of Fuji.
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