2018 6 Hours of Silverstone Review Update

Review of Round Three of the 2018/19 FIA World Endurance Championship at Silverstone.

The Toyota Gazoo Racing team won the race overall and the LMP1 class too of Sébastien Buemi, Kazuki Nakajima and Fernando Alonso in their Toyota TS050 Hybrid; Toyota 2.4 L Turbo V6.



While, second place was the other Toyota Gazoo Racing to complete a Toyota one-two finish, with the team of Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and José María López in their Toyota TS050 Hybrid, Toyota 2.4 L Turbo V6; they were nineteen seconds behind the leaders at the end of the race.

However, since Sunday night both Toyota cars has been disqualified from the race, after both cars failed their skid block deflection tests. Meaning, Rebellion Racing team won the race overall and the LMP1 class too of Mathias Beche, Thomas Laurent and Gustavo Menezes in their Rebellion R13, Gibson 4.5 L V8.



While, second place was the other Rebellion Racing team to complete a Rebellion one-two finish, with the team of André Lotterer and Neel Jani in their Rebellion R13, Gibson 4.5 L V8; they were a lap behind the leaders at the end of the race. While third place was the SMP Racing team of Stéphane Sarrazin and Egor Orudzhev in their BR Engineering BR1, AER P60B 2.4 L Turbo V6; they were a lap behind the leaders at the end of the race.

In LMP2 class (all cars using the Gibson 4.2 L V8 engine), Jackie Chan DC Racing team of Ho-Pin Tung, Gabriel Aubry and Stéphane Richelmi in their Oreca 07 won LMP2 class. They finish in fourth place overall and they were eight laps behind the leaders at the end of the race.

While in GTE Pro class, was won by AF Corse team of Alessandro Pier Guidi and James Calado won in their Ferrari 488 GTE Evo. They finish in eleventh place overall and they were twenty-one laps behind the leaders at the end of the race.

While in GTE Am class, was won by Dempsey-Proton Racing team of Matt Campbell, Christian Ried and Julien Andlauer in their Porsche 911 RSR. They finish in seventeenth place overall and they were twenty-five laps behind the leaders at the end of the race.

Highlights of the 6 Hours of Silverstone below, enjoy.



Next Stop 6 Hours of Fuji in eight weeks time for Round Four of the FIA World Endurance Championship.