WEC Austin 2024: Porsche stands tall

Motorsport fans were busy with a full-packed racing week: during the Formel 1 in Monza and the MotoGP in Aragon, Spain, you go to the WEC during the seasonal event in Austin, Texas. Gut für heimische Zuschauer: Das Rennen der Langstrecken-WM starts the roads of the Zeitverschiebung von 7 Stunden am Sonntag at 20:00 Uhr Deutsche Zeit and will return again with the F1 nor with the Motorrad-WM. Eurosport 1 said at 6-Stunden-Rennen in Austin komplett live on Free-TV, Sport1 starts from 11:00 PM.

One has joined forces to race in Monza, Aragon and Austin: It is absolute gluttony! I kept the WEC thermometer at 34 degrees, and the Wettergott is still a joke, but the race Sunday at the Circuit of the Americas is dry storm and heavy rain. So come to the 6-day race for a real water battle, as it lasts in 2014.

The WEC host party after the US host games in Sebring will take place during the 2019/20 season in Austin. Let the racing loose on the ‘CotA’ in February 2020 on Rebellion. If you are private private, it is so that you can never earn more money, while Isotta Fraschini will win the season hat of the season. There are already 18 prototypes in the Hypercar class and the start and cover with 18 Fahrzeugen in the LMGT3 category.

WEC 2024: Die bisherigen Sieger

Porsche travels as a WEC Spitzenreiter to Austin

Whoever wins in Austin, we are the best Porsche. The Zuffenhausener events between 2015 and 2017 followed another victory during the LMP1 series. Also with the following names Porsche 963 is the first year of blending: The German Sportwagenbauer carries out all the Fahrer-, Team- und Hersteller-Wertungen in the WEC an. Andre Lotterer, Kevin Estre and Laurens Vanthoor traveled as Spitzenreiter in the USA, in a few hours back on Ferrari’s Le-Mans-Sieger – Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina and Nicklas Nielsen – entered 19 punkte.

“Das Ziel ist clear: We became a Weltmeister”, said the German language of the Belgian Vanthoor, and go once into the Team Strategy: “It is so that it is more strategic. We have a focus on consistent Punktegewinne. Natürlich wollen If you win a race, you will always have a chance.” Lotterer/Estre/Vanthoor will continue after this event in Qatar in your next race on the podium, now with both the 24 Stunden von Le Mans being completely free from thankless celebrations.

The US-American Porsche works team Penske can no longer enjoy the IndyCar Series and NASCAR races in Austin, including on test drive dates. In July, Porsche cancelled most other manufacturers’ test stages in Austin before the WEC went into a six-week summer break.

“Both Tests have received more information about the results of the WEC Races. Everything is fun, says Urs Kuratle, Porsche-Leiter Werksmotorsport LMDh. The fans are looking forward to an exciting decision about their future friends. I was very proud of the fact that both Porsche 963 des Werksteams and the three Baugleichen Autos unserer Kundenmannschaften were also known for their work.”

Toyota on the favorite paper type in the US

As a winning opponent on the 5.513 kilometer long Kurs, Toyota is gilded. The Japanese have won the Races in Sao Paulo by Sebastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley and Ryo Hirakawa in their second season victory – and that in the highest dominant way. In the lead race, the lead of the #8 Toyota GR010 Hybrid is more than a minute on the second places Lotterer/Estre/Vanthoor. If Toyota does not have technical problems with solving problems, it will be a double problem.

Toyota’s dominant Auftritt in the Balance of Performance for Austin has not caused any problems. At 1,065 kilograms, the GR010 is the most powerful car in Starterfeld, a power of 9 kW (12 hp) Leistungsabzug. Since it is a hypercar with a power of 500 kW in these seasons, Toyota will be supplied with a power of 497 kW (675 hp).

Trotzdem can become the Japanese rightful owner of a first attempt in Austin: the Toyota GR010 gold-plated car with the best performance and can deal a huge blow to a bigger hit. “In Austin it is so bad, so who is the Test letzten Monat”, says Sebastien Buemi, who has a fuhr in Sao Paulo on 25. WEC-Sieg. “Das Reifen-Management has become a herausvorderung. If we are in Sao Paulo are said, it is the Stärken who teams pay.”

Ferrari not favorite in Austin

The Repairer was very careful at the end of July when he had the opportunity to perform a Michelin test, with the medium and heart tests being carried out, as a result of which the new pavement would be asphalted as a permanent Bodenwellen Herr. Of course it works on the enormously important Reifen-Management of ours. “We could do better with an aggressive setup,” said Ferrari’s Langstrecken chief Ferdinando Cannizzo. “Wir müssen den Einfluss des Asphalts new bewerten.”

Ferrari is in Austin on the rebound, after the Red – and the Yellow from AF Corse – in Sao Paulo, with a big chance of being at the back of the pack. Sports car boss Antonello Coletta hates a race on a “fair camp” while Rennen commits a foul and criticizes the Balance of Performance criticism. The 499P prototypes dared to unload 5 kilograms for Austin and weigh 10 kilos as the Toyota. With Ausnahme von BMW and Lamborghini lost all repairs and performance.

I am Ferrari-Lager gab man sich for the Austin-Rennen is skeptical. “Der Circuit de l’America liest unserem Auto besser than Sao Paulo”, where Alessandro Pier Guidi was in a press conference. “I think I have been given the chance to also have a chance and that is more likely. I don’t think I will be the favorite. I will be one of the best, one of the possibilities of cars to go.”

Next WEC punk for Mick Schumacher and Co.?

Porsche, Toyota and Ferrari use the Meisterschaft to set a new example for the restoration of statistics in WM-Kampf. Endless evidence: Alpine, BMW, Peugeot, Cadillac and Lamborghini have collected 95 points – Ferrari alone has 109 points more on the account.

From the reign of the WEC new entry, Alpine is lauded as a positive surprise. Mick Schumacher and his teammate Nicolas Lapierre met Matthieu Vaxiviere in Sao Paulo with the first WM punk erobert, who used the Schwesterauto at eleven Zählern-steht. One of the first punks will certainly be the BMW trio Marco Wittmann/Raffaele Marciello/Dries Vanthoor. The car builder from Munich achieved his first top-5 result in Austin.