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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

By Miles Cooper 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 sequence 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 recreation over,” stated Ferrari sportscar racing technical director Ferdinando Cannizzo after the Italian producer’s championship-challenging crew might solely ending ninth of their 499P Le Mans Hypercar at Fuji.  

“I’m not saying we’re giving up – we are going to attempt to work miracles,” he added. “We have to have the automotive at its greatest, make the whole lot excellent and put three vehicles on the rostrum.

“Mathematically it’s doable, however the likelihood is very poor.”

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

David Floury, Cannizzo’s counterpart at Toyota Gazoo Racing Europe, supplied an analogous 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 harm. 

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

Ferrari and Toyota concede WEC drivers’ title to Porsche

#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

Picture by: Andreas Beil

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

“It’s nonetheless open in Bahrain and for positive we will probably be pushing,” he added. 

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

“You possibly can by no means be assured as a result of if we’ve got a foul race and one of many others has an ideal race, they will win,” he instructed Motorsport.com.

“We may be assured that if we maintain doing what we’ve got been doing the entire 12 months 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 might solely be required to complete tenth, which might give them the title on countback with extra second locations.

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