TOYOTA GAZOO Racing begins its defence of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) titles with the 1000 Miles of Sebring on 17 March. Drivers comments before the prologue.

The race in GTD PRO was very intense with the top 3 ending within 5 sec. Matthieu Jaminet won the class with Pfaff Motorsport Porsche #9 co-driven by Matt Campbell and Felipe Nasr.

The race was very tight from start to finish as the top 4 finished within 5.615 sec., after having exchanged the lead in the closing hours and seeing all seven DPi cars on the lead during the first half of the race.

Many changes of leaders during the first half of the race with the 7 DPi’s within 5.5 sec. Currently #5 JDC Miller Motorsport Cadillac holds the lead thanks to less pits than competitors. In GTE PRO, 6 cars are within 6.6 sec.

Four time Indy car Champion Sebastien Bourdais dominated the session and was the only one to cover the lap in less than 1:35 with his #01 V-Performance Academy Cadillac.

Poor weather conditions for the Thursday sessions with a mostly wet track.

The second practice saw some dryer laps enabling the 2 WEC 2021 World Drivers Champions to perform the fastest laps with K. Kobayashi (#48 Ally Cadillac) in P1 and M. Conway (#31 Whelen Engineering Racing) in P2. 

Ricky Taylor, Filipe Albuquerque, Alexander Rossi and Will Stevens will start the 60th running of the 24 hours of Daytona from pole as Taylor and Albuquerque won the Rolex qualifying 100 minutes race this Sunday.

FIA WEC Season 2022 teams’ announcements.

Peugeot, Corvette racing, Glickenhaus and Alpine committed to 2022 WEC season.

FIA WEC LMP1 and Hybrid from 2012 till 2021.

Three manufacturers won the LMP1 and Hybrid seasons since WEC inception: Audi, Porsche and Toyota.

FIA WEC Season 2021: Hypercar & LMP2 @ 8 Hours of Bahrain.

The suspense didn’t last long in Hypercar as Alpine Elf Matmut went in garage during 3 laps with gear box problem after 46’. Mike Conway, Jose Maria Lopez and Kamui Kobayashi clinched the first Hypercar World Endurance Drivers Championship.

FIA WEC Season 2021: 8 Hours of Bahrain Qualifications & Titles in play

Kamui Kobayashi in pole for tomorrow race. Both toyota will be in front row. Albuquerque was fastest in LMP2 with United Autosports #28 and Estre with Porsche #92 in LMGTE Pro. Roberto Lacorte with Cetilar Racing Ferrari #47 in pole for LMGTE AM class.

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FIA WEC Season 2021: 6 Hours of Bahrain LMP Race

Jose Maria Lopez, Kamui Kobayashi and Mike Conway (#7 Toyota) win the 6 Hours race. Team WRT #31 driven by Charles Milesi, Robin Frijs and Ferdinand Habsburg win the LMP2 class, #29 Racing Team Nederland win LMP2 Pro/am class.

FIA WEC Season 2021: 6 Hours of Bahrain Qualifications

Brendon Hartley in pole for tomorrow race. Both toyota will be in front row. Blomqvist was fastest in LMP2 with JOTA #28 and Estre with Porsche #92 in LMGTE Pro. Mastronardi with Iron Lynx Ferrari in pole for LMGTE AM class.