The #8 Toyota Gazoo Racing crew of Sébastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley and Ryo Hirakawa has received the 6 Hours of São Paulo, with the trio taking their second victory of the season and the Japanese producer changing into the primary automaker to triumph in Interlagos’ FIA World Endurance Championship occasion twice, having received the inaugural version in 2012
The crew of the #8 Toyota GR010 Hybrid was untroubled on the entrance of the pack after a gasoline strain sensor subject for the early-leading, pole-sitting sister automobile of Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and Nyck de Vries, which resulted in a prolonged pit-stop.
Buemi took the checkered flag, heading dwelling the #6 Porsche Penske 963 of Laurens Vanthoor, Kévin Estre and André Lotterer, with the second of the Porsche Penske Motorsport entries (the #5 automobile of Michael Christensen, Matt Campbell and Frédéric Makowiecki) finishing the rostrum.
The #51 Ferrari AF Corse pushed by James Calado, Antonio Giovinazzi and Alessandro Pier Guidi was simply overwhelmed to fourth place with Kamui Kobayashi executing what absolutely was the transfer of the race within the recovering #7 machine.
Taking sixth was the #50 24 Hours of Le Mans-winning Ferrari 499P of Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina and Nicklas Nielsen.
MANTHEY PURERXCING RETURNS TO WINNING WAYS
The #92 Manthey PureRxcing Porsche dominated the LMGT3 class with Klaus Bachler, Aliaksandr Malykhin and Joel Sturm taking the trio’s second victory of the season and first for the reason that season-opening Qatar 1812km race.
With the second Manthey Porsche of Yasser Shahin, Richard Lietz and Morris Schuring having a tough opening hour of the race and ending outdoors the factors, the #92 crew gained a big lead within the standings, with the 2 entries tied on factors earlier than the Brazilian spherical. Porsche additionally turned the primary producer with 4 LMGT3 class victories to its identify.
Coronary heart of Racing Aston Martin took its greatest results of the season with second place as Ian James, Daniel Mancinelli and Alex Riberas claimed a well-earned runners-up place regardless of serving a drive-through penalty for a full course yellow infringement late within the race.
Rounding out the rostrum was the #95 United Autosports McLaren trio of Marino Sato, Joshua Caygill and Nico Pino who delivered the first-ever podium place for McLaren within the FIA WEC.
Heartbreak struck once more for the Iron Dames Lamborghini crew of Sarah Bovy, Michelle Gatting and Rahel Frey as they retired from second place with a mechanical subject, having began from pole place.
