FIA WEC – TOYOTA GAZOO Racing wins Total 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps
TOYOTA GAZOO Racing s #8 Toyota GR010 Hybrid has won the Total 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, the first race of the 2021 FIA WEC season, against Alpine Elf Matmut.
This weekend, the Total 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, first round of the 2021 FIA WEC season, officially kicked off the new
Hypercar class in competition. TOYOTA GAZOO Racing s #8 Toyota GR010 Hybrid shared by Sébastien Buemi, Kazuki Nakajima and Brendon Hartley has won the first race of this new era. However, it wasn t smooth sailing for the Japanese team.
The #8 incurred a five-second penalty during a pit stop for an unsafe restart.
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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
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