WEC 8 Hours of Bahrain 2024 Review: Toyota Steals Title On Dramatic Finish

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🗓️ 6 November 2024

⏱️ 49 minutes

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It was a furious charge at the end of the race from Sebastien Buemi that led the #8 Toyota Gazoo Racing team of himself, Brendon Hartley, and Ryo Hirakawa to not only take a dramatic victory at WEC's Championship finale at the 8 Hours of Bahrain but also winning the Manufacturer's Championship in the process, preventing a clean sweep of the titles for Porsche. Kevin Turner and Gary Watkins sit down for the last time this season and discuss the thrilling finale that decided the race. The duo also talks about the crowning of the Drivers Champions in Porsche's #6 crew of Andre Lotterer, Kevin Estre, and Laurens Vanthoor and the shock demotion of Ferrari off the podium for a bizarre rule breach on tyres used over the weekend, promoting Peugeot onto the podium as a result. There's also the latest news on the reports that Lamborghini could be scaling back their Sportscar commitments in 2025 with rumours of an IMSA switch imminent, as well as a full review of LMGT3 as the #55 AF Corse Ferrari team took victory. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0	From Auditport magazine, Alderspot.com, I'm Kevin Turner, and this is the Allersport Podcast.
0:11.6	Well, fantastic and very close World Endurance Championship season finally came to an end in the Bahrain eight hours last weekend.
0:22.4	And it was quite a fitting and dramatic finish to the race as well as Toyota snatched a victory and the manufacturer's
0:27.7	championship right at the end of the final race of the season. And just having got off the plane
0:32.3	from Bahrain is our sports car guru, Gary Watkins. Welcome, Gary, back to the other sport podcast. Was that
0:39.7	as a fitting conclusion to a good wex season, do you think? Well, absolutely. It was phenomenal.
0:46.2	One of those great championship finale is I'm going to put it up there in all the ones I've covered
0:51.2	in my 30 plus years of writing about sports car racing and other stuff,
0:56.6	we could maybe talk about what I think my favourite one is a bit later.
1:01.5	But yeah, it was just so dramatic.
1:03.5	We fought Toyota around of it, but Sebastian Buehmi came back and took the win that Toyota needed.
1:13.1	It was a sort of win or bust situation for them.
1:15.8	A winner takes all situation because the gap was relatively slender at the top of the manufacturer's rankings.
1:23.9	Yes, just to make that clear, it's the manufacturer's challenge that we were talking about.
1:27.4	So Toyota, by the number eight's championship that we're talking about.
1:37.0	So Toyota, by the number eight car winning, picked Porsche by just two points to take that title and continue their streak, which looked like it might go.
1:42.6	But of course, the driver's championship was a much harder gig for both Toyota and Ferrari to capture. And so Porsche, Andrew Lottor, Kevin Estuary and Lawrence Vantor did hold on to that title, despite not
1:48.0	having a particularly good race in the end, good result, but they
1:51.7	held on to win the championship. So very much like in Formula One, we've got
1:56.1	different team winning one championship to the drivers one. So,
2:00.7	yeah, nice split hon us there. So,
2:03.4	so Gary, tell us a little bit about how, so 90 minutes, two hours from the end of the race.
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