Six Hours of Sao Paulo Part 3

Part three of the Six Hours of Sao Paulo, FIA World Endurance Championship finale for 2014.

Porsche scores it's first ever overall win in the FIA World Endurance Championship, in Brazil!  Porsche, Toyota, and Audi, finish 1-2-3.  The #14 factory Porsche 919 of Romain Dumas, Neel Jani, and Marc Lieb, wins the Six Hours of Sao Paulo!  Their team car, piloted by Mark Webber at the time (along with co-drivers Brendon Hartley and Timo Bernhard), suffered a massive accident, still finishing 15th overall.

You have seen articles about Mark Webber's condition, after the accident.  He should recover.  In LMP2, the #47 KCMG Oreca Nissan of Matthew Howson, Richard Bradley, and Alexandre Imperatori, wins another race.  Aston Martin nips Porsche for the LM GTE Pro win, with some of the teams in that class, electing to go with two, as opposed to three drivers on their squads.  It was the #97 factory Aston Martin V8 Vantage of Darren Turner and Stefan Mucke, taking victory.

In LM GTE Am, the honors went to Aston Martin once again, with the sister car #98 winning in the hands of Paul Dalla Lana, Pedro Lamy, and Christoffer Nygaard.  Four Aston Martins actually came home in the top 15.  So, here are the winners from the Six Hours of Sao Paulo.

Overall/LMP1: #14 Dumas/Jani/Lieb                        Porsche 919 Hybrid

             LMP2: #47 Howson/Bradley/Imperatori      Oreca 03R Nissan

             LM GTE Pro: #97 Turner/Mucke                 Aston Martin V8 Vantage

             LM GTE Am: #98 Dalla Lana/Lamy/Nygaard     Aston Martin V8 Vantage

Here are the champions.

In LMP1, Toyota takes the driver's championship, with both Sebastien Buemi and Anthony Davidson, sharing it, on the same number of points scored.  This is the same scenario in the GT Endurance World Cup drivers championship, for AF Corse and Ferrari, as, with 168 points apiece, AF Corse Ferrari and their drivers Gianmaria Bruni, and Toni Vilander, share a championship.

Mathias Beche, Nick Heidfeld, and Nicolas Prost, share the championship on 204 points apiece in the LMP1 Private Teams Eudurance Trophy championship.  Russia's Sergey Zlobin, is the lone champion in LMP2, while his competitors finished in a three-way tie for second, and a two-way tie for third.  These drivers include Julien Canal, Olivier Pla, and Romain Rusinov for second, and for third... team mates at KCMG, Matthew Howson, and Richard Bradley, can lay claim to it.

Finally, in the LM GTE Am Driver's Trophy standings, the title can only go the way of two gentlemen who shared a car all season, ending up on the same number of points.  Your champions in GTE Am are Aston Martin's Danish duo, David Heinemeier-Hanson, and Kristian Poulsen.  Fellow Aston Martin drivers, are in a tie for third, including another Dane, (Christoffer Nygaard), Canada's Paul Dalla Lana, and Portugal's current sports car and former Formula One ace, Pedro Lamy.

So ends another great season in the FIA World Endurance Championship.  2015 is shaping up to be a good one, too.  It will start in April, at Silverstone.  The full schedule has already been announced, and might be re-announced, at a later date.  For now, though, FIA WEC 2014 is in the books.  We'll see you again, next year, for more World Endurance Championship action on, Endurance... The Sports Car Racing Blog.

So long for now, everyone.