Monday, April 21, 2014

FIA World Endurance Championship round 1: Silverstone, Part 5


The fifth and final part of the Six Hours of Silverstone.  Winning the race, was the #8 Toyota TS040 in the hands of Anthony Davidson, Nicolas Lapierre, and Sebastien Buemi over their team car #7 of Alexander Wurz, Stephane Sarrazin, and Kazuki Nakajima.  The LMP1-L division (for non hybrid prototypes) was won by the #12 Lola B-12/60 Toyota for Rebellion Racing in the hands of Nicolas Prost, Nick Heidfeld, and Mathias Beche.

LMP2 honors went to the #26 G-Drive Racing Morgan Nissan in the hands of Romain Rusinov, Olivier Pla, and Julien Canal.  Porsche Team Manthey, running the factory Porsche GT program this year, won LM GTE Pro with their #92 Porsche 911 RSR driven by Marco Holzer, Richard Lietz, and Frederic Makowiecki.  Then, in LM GTE Am, Aston Martin Racing emerged victorious with the #95 Aston Martin Vantage GTE driven by the Danish trio of David Heinemeier-Hanson, Kristian Poulsen, and Nicki Thiim.

Overall/LMP1-H      #8 Buemi/Davidson/Lapierre    Toyota TS040
            LMP1-L      #12 Beche/Heidfeld/Prost         Lola B-12/60 Toyota
            LMP2          #26 Rusinov/Pla/Canal             Morgan Nissan
            LM GTE
            Pro              #92 Holzer/Lietz/Makowiecki   Porsche 911 RSR
            LM GTE
           Am               #95 Heinemeier-Hanson/Poulsen/
                               Thiim                                          Aston Martin Vantage GTE

The next round of the championship is the Six Hours of Spa at the Spa Francorchamps circuit in Belgium, coming up in a mere two weeks. 

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