FIA World Endurance Championship round 2: Spa Francorchamps Part 3

Part three of the Spa Six Hours for the FIA World Endurance Championship.  Toyota wins their second race in a row, with the same driving team in the #8 car that won at Silverstone, including Sebastien Buemi, Anthony Davidson, and Nicolas Lapierre.  In LMP1-L, Rebellion Racing takes their second win of the year.  LMP2 honors went the way of G-Drive Racing and their #26 Morgan Nissan shared by Roman Rusinov, Olivier Pla, and Julien Canal.

Ferrari and AF Corse, sweep both the LM GTE divisions, (Pro, and Am).  Giancarlo Fisichella and Toni Vilander win Pro in the team's #51 Ferrari 458 Italia, while in Am, the sister car, wins the class, in the hands of Argentinian Luis Perez Companc, and Italians Marco Cioci and Mirko Venturi.  So, here are the class winners.

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:          #51 Fisichella/Vilander               Ferrari 458 Italia
           LM GTE
           Am:           #61 Perez Companc/Cioci/Venturi    Ferrari 458 Italia

Check out the videos of the race, and be ready for the next event.  It's the big one.  The granddaddy of them all, the 24 Hours of Le Mans at the Circuit de la Sarthe, in Le Mans, France.  Yours truly, will have a full race report with all the highlights, coming your way, when the race happens in mid June.  That race, will also settle the championship standings, very likely, before a long break, and then, resume for the final five races of the season.

 

 

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