WEC Start Phase in Austin: Kubica führt Ferrari-Trio an

Wild start and Ferrari three-way lead at the WEC 6-hour race in Austin, Texas. After the first hour and 27 laps of Robert Kubica, in the private #83 AF Corse Ferrari (Kubica, Shwartzman, Ye) from the second position the war began. Pole-setter Antonio Giovinazzi in #51 Ferrari 499P (Pier Guidi, Giovinazzi, Calado) led the start and his ex-Formel-1 driver Kubica in round 19 after one of the last races.

Before both Ferraris go to the race free at 13:00 German time (20:00 German time) the goal is: Le Mans slayer Miguel Molina takes the win in #50 Ferrari (Fuoco, Molina, Nielsen) from Kämpfen during the Vordermänner and improves from five to the finish. Ferrari is looking at the 2024 season races, which follow the first round of the Formel training: A few hours before the WEC start, Charles Leclerc will be over the Heimrennen van Italië in Monza.

Molina in Luck, Ferdinand Habsburg in Bad Luck: The Austrian in his #36 Alpine A424 (Habsburg, Milesi, Chatin) suffered a driving penalty due to a collision with Earl Bamber’s #2 Cadillac V-Series.R. The Caddy Pilot was born in the starting position on P7, where the P4 started in Habsburg after the Zwangs-Boxenstop and the end of the field period during the war. Saturday is not the best qualifying experience in WEC debut year… I am #36 Alpine run with Mick Schumacher in the Teamcollege Matthieu Vaxiviere at the start, the field is soft from P13 to Rank 16 back.

Staurohr-Abdeckung vergessen: Drama about #5 Porsche

A drama has emerged from the Platz and was started by Fred Makowiecki in #5 Porsche 963 (Campbell, Christensen, Makowiecki). The Franzose must come after the starting run and the Box, while the Porsche-Crew-kurioserweise hatte hatte, the green Abdeckung at Staurohr on the Dach of the prototypes they develop. A Seltener agent of the Mannschaft from Zuffenhausen, who supports the WM-Wertung in the Langstrecken-WM-anführt.

Of all the Trubel that both BMW M Hybrid V8 of the Münchner Autobauers benefited from: Startfahrer Marco Wittmann in #15 (Dries Vanthoor, Marciello, Wittmann) and Rene Rast in #20 Schwesterauto (Sheldon van der Linde, Rast, Frijns) held themselves geschickt aus jeglichem Drama heraus and fuhren on the Platzen four and funf.

A second set behind the #7 Toyota GR010 Hybrid (Conway, Kobayashi, De Vries) with Mike Conway at Steuer. The Brit is in the development phase of a spectacle of the Dreikampf against the Cadillac and Nico Müllers #93 Peugeot 9X8 during. The Swiss has to make a bomb start – from P11 back to P6 – both opponents are defeated. Stoffel Vandoorne in the Schweizer-Peugeot suffered damage after a start collision with the Jota-Porsche of Will Stevens and has to steer the box.

Lamborghini the secret winner of the starting phase

The eighth plate is one of the first of the first examples of the number 12 Jota-Porsche with Will Stevens, Nico Müller in Peugeot and a small LMDh-Lamborghini in the field. Edoardo Mortara explains his Italian prototypes that the battle and the stumte of 18. and lets the starting place within a few runs in the Top-10. The WM-Spitzenreiter Andre Lotterer, Kevin Estre and Laurens Vanthoor in #6 Porsche came on startingplatz 14 now one position nach previous.

In the LMGT3 category, pole-setter Ian James in the #27 Aston Martin Vantage GT3 of Heart of Racing was taken ahead of the Lamborghini-Damen trio Sarah Bovy, Rahel Frey and Michelle Gatting. The #92 Manthey-Porsche with starting driver Alexander Malykhin lost a position and field on the Platz as zurück. Das Schwesterauto remained on a zwölfter Stelle. The #46 BMW M4 GT3 was a superstar Valentino Rossi who drove with Ahmad Al-Harthy in eighth place, while Schwesterauto took the top position.