WEC-Spa
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Toyota & Ford win at Spa opener
The #8 Toyota TS050 Hybrid of Fernando Alonso, Sébastien Buemi and Kazuki Nakajima secured victory at the opening round of the FIA World Endurance Championship 2018/19 Super Season at Spa. WEC debutant Alonso and his experienced teammates Buemi and Nakajima held out for the victory despite an impressive charge by the sister #7 Toyota TS050…
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Toyota on pole for Six Hours of Spa
The #7 Toyota TS050 Hybrid of Kamui Kobayashi, Mike Conway and José Maria López qualified on pole the 2018 6 Hours of Spa from pole position after a commanding performance in qualifying. However, a subsequent technical infringement linked to fuel flow means that the #8 machine has inherited pole position, while the #7 car will…
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Both CEFC TRSM Racing cars out of Six Hours of Spa
Ginetta today announced that the pair of CEFC TRSM Racing Ginetta G60-LT-P1s have been pulled out of the Six Hours of Spa. The decision comes after funds promised to Ginetta from team backer TRS (China) have failed to materialise, forcing the British manufacturer to not allow the cars to race. The British-based, Manor-run team were…
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Rebellion Racing fastest in FP3 at Spa-Francorchamps
The #1 Rebellion R13 topped the timing sheets in the third and final free practice session ahead of tomorrow’s 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps. Swiss driver Neel Jani registered the fastest time of the one-hour session, a 1:57.120, some eight tenths faster than the second-fastest #7 Toyota TS050 Hybrid. Jani’s time was the fifth fastest across…
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Super Season begins in Spa-Francorchamps
The 2018/19 FIA WEC Super Season is set to get underway this weekend with the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps. The first race of the Super Season will see six brand-new or at least heavily revised cars make their competitive debuts, including the wealth of new LMP1 privateer machinery and new cars from the factory BMW…
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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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Driver’s view: Simon Trummer from Spa
The race in Spa was definitely one of the highlights of the year for us. For us drivers, this circuit is an unbelievable thrill to drive. The perfect weather conditions made the weekend even better. We were unable to run through our testing programme in Free Practice 1, as we found a fault in the…