Andre Lotterer, Kevin Estre and Laurens Vanthoor clinched the World Endurance Championship drivers’ title regardless of accumulating two penalties and ending tenth within the Bahrain finale.
Vanthoor collected each five-second penalties for the quantity six Penske Porsche, one for a first-lap collision with the quantity 36 Alpine and one other for passing the quantity 15 BMW off the monitor at flip seven.
Their single-point haul supplied the quantity 50 Ferrari crew of Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina and Nicklas Nielsen an opportunity to pip them to the title. Nonetheless, a puncture sustained involved with the identical Alpine, pushed by Charles Milesi, finally led to a point-less eleventh place end.
The quantity seven Toyota of Kamui Kobayashi, Nyck de Vries and Mike Conway – the primary two of which have been additionally title outsiders – retired early on resulting from issues with their GR010’s gas pump. However Sebastien Buemi prevailed in a late struggle with Matt Campbell within the different Penske Porsche to take the automobile he shared with Brendon Hartley and Ryo Hirakawa to victory.
Toyota’s third victory of the season means they beat Porsche to the constructors’ title.
The quantity 51 Ferrari of Alesandro Pier Guidi, James Calado and Antonio Giovinazzi took the chequered flag in second place, however a swingeing post-race penalty demoted them to 14th, two laps down and final of the categorised hypercars. The stewards added 4 minute and 55 seconds to their race time for utilizing 28 tyres over the course of qualifying and the race, two greater than the utmost permitted.
That promoted the Penske Porsche of Campbell and crew mates Michael Christensen and Frederic Makowiecki to second place. Peugeot claimed the ultimate podium place courtesy of the quantity 93 automobile shared by Mikkel Jensen, Nico Mueller and Jean-Eric Vergne.
Each Alpines took the chequered flag in fourth and ninth positions. The quantity 20 BMW retired with a drivetrain downside shortly earlier than the midway level within the eight-hour race, leaving the sister quantity 15 automobile to take fifth.
The lone Cadillac of Sebastien Bourdais, Earl Bamber and Alex Lynn claimed seventh. The primary categorised Ferrari 499P was the shopper AF Corse machine shared by Robert Kubica, Yifei Ye and Robert Shwartzman in eighth place.
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