Welcome to the week in sports cars, part of the Marshall podcast collection.

And back in the UK, after the FIWC finale, it'll be myself, and my colleague Stephen Kilby

for this week's Flappy Gums edition.

But before we get into that, we're going to say, as we always do,

thanks to our little backers for this podcast from the Justice Brothers and from

Toronto motorsports.com.

Stephen, just literally off the plane from the overnight flight from Bahrain, so apologies

for any little bit of croakiness and tidiness in the voice.'s been quite the weekend um on and off track all sorts of stuff going on some of which we can talk about

some of which we can't talk about yet um we need to talk about the racing first because it's a

conclusion to a world championship season that has seen Ferrari claim the big titles in Hypercar after a season that started very strongly indeed for the prancing horse they're formtailed off towards the end and a fairly extraordinary results against the

run of season form in Bahrain for the 8th hour finale.

Let's talk about the race first in Hypercar.

I don't think we could say anything other than the dominance of Toyota.

It's called that 1-2 was a surprise after what we've seen for the previous races this year.

Yeah, they are very good at that circuit of Bahrain.

They've won it nine consecutive times now that race.

2016 was the last time they were beaten.

Yeah, which is, I mean, fair enough, it's not been the deepest field for a number of those years, but still,

the GRI 10 in particular in recent years has always been good there.

The BOP changes were

interesting. I think they hobbled a couple of cars more than others,

but it didn't...

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