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Porsche: Toyota made it “simpler” to win 2024 WEC titles
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Porsche: Toyota made it “simpler” to win 2024 WEC titles

Motorsports October 31, 2024
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Porsche driver Matt Campbell believes Toyota has made it “simpler” for the German producer to win the World Endurance Championship this yr.

Campbell made the feedback after the penultimate spherical of 2024 WEC at Fuji, the place Toyota’s best-placed automotive within the standings retired after a collision with the #5 Porsche 963 LMDh.

Kamui Kobayashi within the #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID was battling with the #5 Porsche of Campbell for seventh place after they got here to blows at Flip 3, sending each vehicles into retirement.

Whereas the #5 Porsche was by no means realistically within the title combat and therefore had little to lose, the #7 entry Kobayashi shared with Nyck de Vries and Mike Conway was Toyota’s finest hope of successful the drivers’ championship and had solely a 12-point deficit to beat to the opposite manufacturing facility Penske automotive.

Kobayashi was subsequently handed a suspended drive-through penalty for inflicting an avoidable crash.

To make issues worse for the Japanese producer on dwelling turf, its second automotive pushed by Ryo Hirakawa was concerned in a separate run-in with the successful #6 Porsche 963 of Kevin Estre within the remaining hour, selecting up a drive-through penalty that left it a distant tenth on the end.

Mixed, the 2 incidents have left Toyota nearly out of the combat for the drivers’ title, whereas leaving it with a 10-point deficit within the producers’ race with simply the Bahrain finale to run.

Campbell stated he didn’t anticipate Kobayashi to be so aggressive whereas battling with him for place, however feels the incident solely served to shift the stability away from Toyota within the championship combat.

#5 Porsche Penske Motorsport Porsche 963: Matt Campbell, Michael Christensen, Frederic Makowiecki

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“Because of Toyota [we are in a strong position], they’ve most likely made it somewhat bit simpler for us [for us to win the titles],” the Australian advised Motorsport.com.

“For me I used to be stunned by the transfer and the incident as a result of it additionally took them out and made it so much tougher for them [to win the title].

“For us, clearly we have nonetheless obtained to have the ability to do job in Bahrain, little doubt about that however clearly now it is a bit extra of a bridge there [between us and Toyota].”

Estre and his team-mates Laurens Vanthoor and Laurens Vanthoor now get pleasure from a 35-point lead within the drivers championship over drivers within the #50 Ferrari 499P LMH, Antonio Fuoco, Nicklas Nielsen and Miguel Molina. Kobayashi, de Vries and Conway have slipped to 3rd within the #7 Toyota, going through a 37-point shortfall to the Porsche trio.

Within the producers’ battle, Porsche has gone from trailing Toyota by 11 factors to main the championship by 10, a 21-point swing in its favour over the course of the Fuji weekend.

There might be a complete of 39 factors on provide (together with the bonus level for pole) within the eight-hour Bahrain finale in comparison with 26 for a daily WEC spherical.

Whereas the drivers’ championship is successfully within the bag for Porsche, Estre believes securing a double title in 2024 won’t be a “stroll within the park” for the Stuttgart marque, particularly with Bahrain’s abrasive observe floor set to play into the arms of rival Toyota.

“We all know that we now have a cushty lead,” he advised the official WEC YouTube channel. “The producers’ is an important factor for Porsche for certain, for us [drivers] as effectively.

“It is nice to have the lead in each championships and have some hole, however Bahrain is a troublesome observe, longer race and tough on the tyre.

“We have now to remain out of bother, execute effectively as we did the entire season and we’ll be good.

“It is undoubtedly not gonna be a stroll within the park there, the others are going to make it onerous for us, however we’re effectively ready.”

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