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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

By Miles Cooper 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 12 months.

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 automobiles into retirement.

Whereas the #5 Porsche was by no means realistically within the title struggle and therefore had little to lose, the #7 entry Kobayashi shared with Nyck de Vries and Mike Conway was Toyota’s greatest hope of profitable the drivers’ championship and had solely a 12-point deficit to beat to the opposite manufacturing unit 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 residence turf, its second automotive pushed by Ryo Hirakawa was concerned in a separate run-in with the profitable #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 just about out of the struggle for the drivers’ title, whereas leaving it with a 10-point deficit within the producers’ race with simply the Bahrain finale to run.

Campbell mentioned he didn’t count on Kobayashi to be so aggressive whereas battling with him for place, however feels the incident solely served to shift the steadiness away from Toyota within the championship struggle.

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

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

Picture by: JEP / Motorsport Photos

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

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

“For us, clearly we have nonetheless bought to have the ability to do a very good job in Bahrain, little doubt about that however clearly now it’s kind of 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 will probably 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 an everyday WEC spherical.

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

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

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

“We now have to remain out of bother, execute nicely 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 exhausting for us, however we’re nicely ready.”

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