Toyota s GR010 Wins on Spa Debut
The Hypercar class is underway, and the favorite is 1-for-1. James Moy PhotographyGetty Images
The GR010, the first factory Le Mans Hypercar, came into today s FIA World Endurance Championship season opener burdened with the weight of an entire category s expectations. As the only car built by a major manufacturer in Hypercar s first season, GR010 will be the clear favorite for both Le Mans and every World Endurance Championship round it has not been shut out of by the category s take on success ballast.
Those expectations are in place, in part, because the car will be competing against relatively weak competition in its first few rounds. The program s only direct competition for the early portion of the season is a grandfathered-in privateer LMP1 car built for Rebellion but now run by Renault s Alpine division, and the regulations were written to ensure that any car in the the LMH category would comfortably be fast enough to outpace competition