Keeping up a trend they have had since the 6 Hours of Silverstone in August, Ginetta have once again taken their sole LMP1 car off the entry list for next month’s 6 Hours of Shanghai.
The World Endurance Championship will be introducing a new hypercar class for the 2020/21 season, Since announcing the concept in June a cost saving of around €10million has already been made.
Both LM GTE Am Dempsey-Proton Racing Porsches have been hit with post-race time penalties at the 6 Hours of Fuji, losing them their second in class finish.
Toyota Gazoo Racing and Jackie Chan DC Racing took dominate one-two finishes in their respective classes, whilst Porsche took victory in both LM GTE Pro and LM GTE Am at the FIA World Endurance Championship 6 Hours of Fuji.
Both DragonSpeed and Aston Martin Racing hace claimed their maiden pole position in LMP2 and LM GTE Pro ahead of tomorrow’s 6 Hours of Fuji.
Both of the Free Practice sessions for the 6 Hours of Fuji today were delayed or cut short due to long periods of red flag conditions. Surprisingly this wasn’t due to the usual bad weather, but loose kerbs on the track.
It has been nearly two months since the FIA World Endurance Championship has battled it out on the asphalt, but returning to Toyota Gazoo Racing’s home track, the 34 strong grid are ready to go racing again.
Toyota Gazoo Racing have had a dominant start to the season, with the Privateer teams classing them in a league of their own, but ahead of the 6 Hours of Fuji, the FIA and WEC governing body ACO have put a new EoT into action to try and bring the field closer.
The automated BoP system has accrued enough data on the GTE Pro field to assign a new, more relative BoP for this weekend’s 6 Hours of Fuji, and it looks like BMW have gained the most from the performance shift.
G-Drive and TDS Racing have lost their appeal with the FIA, ensuring they remain disqualified and hand Signatech the victory.
Sébastien Buemi is unlikely to race for Toro Rosso or anyone else in Formula 1 in 2019, according to Red Bull’s Christian Horner.
Ahead of the fourth round of the FIA World Endurance Championship in Fuji, Manor have cut all ties with CEFC TRSM and Ginetta and will have no involvement in the running of the sole Ginetta at the Japanese race.
Read about how the field performed at the FIA World Endurance Championship 6 Hours of Silverstone with TheCheckeredFlag.
Fernando Alonso, Sebastien Buemi and Kazuki Nakajima have lost their Silverstone victory after both they and the sister Toyota were disqualified for failing post-race scrutineering.
The Toyota Gazoo Racing #8 trio of Fernando Alonso, Sebastien Buemi and Kazuki Nakajima took their third victory in a row, whilst the #51 AF Corse found some surprising pace and luck to take the GTE Pro honours at the 6 Hours of Silverstone.
Each class has seen a new team take their first pole position of the FIA World Endurance Championship Super Season ahead of tomorrow’s 6 Hours of Silverstone
Going two seconds clear of the rest of the field, Fernando Alonso has continued Toyota’s run of being on top of every session so far this weekend.
