Toyota Gazoo Racing took a dominant 1-2 finish in the 2018 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, the team’s pair of TS050 HYBRIDs cruising to…
Toyota Gazoo Racing took a dominant 1-2 finish in the 2018 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, the team’s pair of TS050 HYBRIDs cruising to the finish in formation, both two laps ahead of its privateer competition, despite one of its cars starting the race from the pit lane, and a lap down.
The big headline was Fernando Alonso scoring his first WEC win on his series debut, alongside Kazuki Nakajima and Sebastien Buemi in the No. 8. As a result, the Spaniard won his first significant race since the 2013 Spanish Grand Prix, and scored his first win at Spa since his season in Formula 3000 back in 2000.
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Results
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The best privateer team by far was the Rebellion Racing crew, its pair of R-13 Gibsons running almost faultlessly all race and finishing third and fourth – a remarkable achievement for the long-standing Swiss team considering it’s the newest chassis in the field.
The only niggle was a problem with the data logger for the No. 1 of Neel Jani, Andre Lotterer and Bruno Senna, which looked to have cost it a podium toward the end of the race, though it regained second in the final hour after an enormous shunt at Eau Rouge by the No.
