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Victory for Toyota at the 2017 6 Hours of Shanghai 2019
The #8 Toyota TS050 Hybrid secured victory over the two works Porsches at the 2017 6 Hours of Shanghai. The Stuttgart-based manufacturer still has reason to celebrate, however, as second and third position handed the German marque the FIA World Endurance Drivers’ and Manufacturers’ titles with one round of the season to go. The #8…
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Porsche take commanding victory in Mexico
The #2 Porsche 919 Hybrid of Brendon Hartley, Earl Bamber and Timo Bernhard recorded a comfortable victory, its third of the season, to extend Porsche’s lead at the head of the manufacturers’ championship. Porsche held a significant advantage over the pair of Toyota TS050s throughout the weekend, with the pair of 919 Hybrids evidently more…
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Porsche completes Nürburgring hat-trick
The #2 Porsche 919 Hybrid of Brendon Hartley, Timo Bernhard and Earl Bamber took victory at the 6 Hours of the Nürburgring on Sunday after a tough battle against the sister car and the Toyotas. The Porsche team had shown solid pace in free practice, but were second-best to the Toyotas in qualifying and started…
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Porsche top in Nürburgring practice
Porsche topped the timing sheets in both free practice sessions for Sunday’s 6 Hours of the Nürburgring, with the #2 car of Earl Bamber posting the quickest time of the day – a 1:38.663. Following on from the team’s success at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, where Hartley, Bamber and Bernhard secured Porsche’s 19th…
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Toyota secure one-two at Spa
The #8 Toyota Gazoo Racing TS050 Hybrid of Sébastien Buemi, Anthony Davidson and Kazuki Nakajima won the Six Hours of Spa-Francorchamps after an impressive showing at the second round of the 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship. After engaging in a race-long battle with the #2 Porsche 919 Hybrid of Brendon Hartley, Earl Bamber and Timo…
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Porsche take Spa pole, Ferrari head up GTE Pro
The #1 Porsche 919 Hybrid of André Lotterer, Neel Jani and Nick Tandy will start tomorrow’s Six Hours of Spa-Francorchamps from pole position after an incident-filled qualifying session at the Belgian track. LMP2 pole went to the #26 G-Drive Racing Oreca, with Ferrari and Porsche fastest in GTE Pro and GTE Am respectively. The session…
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Toyota fastest at Spa
The #7 Toyota Gazoo Racing TS050 topped the time sheets in both of the first two free practice sessions for Saturday’s 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps. Mike Conway was the fastest man in FP1, while Kamui Kobyashi posted the fastest lap in the second 90-minute session. Toyota travelled to Belgium with both its high- and low-downforce…
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The best social media from Silverstone
The opening race of the 2017 FIA World Endurance Championship offered a mouth-watering taste of what is set to be an exciting season. Fans flocked to the Silverstone circuit in the UK to watch their favourite teams and drivers. Elsewhere, fans resorted to social media to follow their heroes and gain an insight behind the…
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Toyota and Porsche go toe-to-toe at Silverstone
The Porsche team will likely have left Silverstone with a smile on their face, having travelled to the UK with the low-downforce, Le Mans-spec bodywork and performing well at a track not entirely suited to a low-drag set-up. “We are even happier about today’s second and third place with such a marginal gap to the…