La Gazzetta del Motorsport: Toyota double win at 8 hours in Portimao

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For Toyota & egrave; a brace arrived at the 8 hours of Portimao , the second round of the 2021 World Endurance Championship. To triumph & egrave; was the crew consisting of pilots S & eacute; bastien Buemi, Kazuki Nakajima and Brendon Hartley. In second place, the GR010 Hybrid driven by Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and Jos & eacute; Maria Lopez. Third step of the podium for the Alpine A480 driven by Andr & eacute; Negr & atilde; o, Matthieu Vaxivi & egrave; re and Nicolas Lapierre.

Motorsport 24 Feb

THE RACE

Ed & egrave; it was the Alpine A480 to sign the pole position. However, in the race, the teams of Toyota Gazoo Racing they were practically perfect and for the French there & # 39; & egrave; it was very little to do also because of the necessity; of having to carry out more; stops. But this does not mean they conducted a conservative race, quite the opposite. For example, Lapierre's overtaking against the GR010 Hypercars after the safety car was very nice. arrived, however, an excellent third place, the result of a race always on the attack. The Glickenhaus made its debut at the 8 Hours of Portimao. A debut, however, not without problems of various kinds, so much so that the car driven by Richard Westbrook, Ryan Briscoe and Romain Dumas finished in thirtieth place overall (fourth place in the Hypercar category).


In LMP2 comes the team double Jota Sport . In first place & egrave; arrived the car driven by Antonio Fel & igrave; x Da Costa, Roberto Gonzalez and Anthony Davidson and the second one driven by Sean Gelael, Stoffel Vandoorne and Tom Blomqvist. Despite the double win, the match is not; It was not at all easy since the two crews had to fight until the end with the cars of the United Autosport team and the WRT team.

In LMGTE Pro success of the team Ferrari 488 AF Corse with James Calado and Alessandro Pier Guidi at the helm. Second place for the twin car of Miguel Molina and Daniel Serra. For Ferrari, therefore, comes a double. In the GTE-Am class , with the race pulled up to the last, to win & egrave; it was the Ferrari 488 of Cetilar Racing with AF Corse, with Giorgio Sernagiotto, Roberto Lacorte and Antonio Fuoco at the wheel. Third place for another Ferrari driven by Giancarlo Fisichella, Francesco Castellacci and Thomas Flohr.

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