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Ferrari and Toyota concede WEC drivers’ title to Porsche
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Ferrari and Toyota concede WEC drivers’ title to Porsche

Motorsports October 31, 2024
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Ferrari and Toyota have conceded the World Endurance Championship drivers’ title to Porsche with one race left to run after Sunday’s Fuji spherical. 

The 2 producers chasing the German marque within the Hypercar classification have admitted that their probabilities of taking the crown at November’s Bahrain finale are over after factors leaders Lauren Vanthoor, Andre Lotterer and Kevin Estre took victory within the penultimate spherical of the collection in Japan. 

There are 39 factors up for grabs over the Bahrain 8 Hours WEC weekend on 2 November and the Ferrari crew of Miguel Molina, Nicklas Nielsen and Antonio Fuoco have fallen 35 factors in arrears of the Porsche drivers, whereas Toyota’s Kamui Kobayashi and Nyck de Vries are 37 factors again.  

“For me it’s sport over,” stated Ferrari sportscar racing technical director Ferdinando Cannizzo after the Italian producer’s championship-challenging crew may solely ending ninth of their 499P Le Mans Hypercar at Fuji.  

“I’m not saying we’re giving up – we’ll attempt to work miracles,” he added. “We have to have the automobile at its finest, make every part excellent and put three automobiles on the rostrum.

“Mathematically it’s doable, however the chances are high very poor.”

Cannizzo additionally instructed that Ferrari’s probabilities of taking the producers’ title had been over after the marque fell 27 factors behind Porsche at Fuji.

David Floury, Cannizzo’s counterpart at Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe, provided an identical opinion following a non-score for the Toyota GR010 HYBRID LMH Kobayashi and de Vries share with Mike Conway after the first-named crashed with Porsche driver Matt Campbell. 

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Conway is fourth within the classification, tied with Campbell and team-mates Michael Christensen and Frederic Makowieci, after lacking the Le Mans 24 Hours in June by way of damage. 

“Clearly for the drivers’ championship we’re kind of out of rivalry,” Floury stated. 

#7 Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota GR010 – Hybrid: Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi, Nyck de Vries, #6 Porsche Penske Motorsport Porsche 963: Kevin Estre, Andre Lotterer, Laurens Vanthoor

Photograph by: Andreas Beil

However the Frenchman insists that there’s all to play for within the producer’s championship through which Toyota are solely 10 factors adrift of Porsche. 

“It’s nonetheless open in Bahrain and for certain we can be pushing,” he added. 

Estre asserts that will probably be necessary for him and his team-mates to maintain their “toes on the bottom” in Bahrain.

“You may by no means be assured as a result of if we’ve a nasty race and one of many others has an ideal race, they’ll win,” he advised Motorsport.com.

“We may be assured that if we hold doing what we’ve been doing the entire yr we could have an excellent shot and we don’t have to threat something.”

Ought to the Ferrari win in Bahrain and take pole place, then Estre and his team-mates would solely want to complete eighth to seal the title. 

If the Toyota was to win and take the purpose for pole, then they’d solely be required to complete tenth, which might give them the title on countback with extra second locations.

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