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WEC Lone Star Le Mans Review - Ferrari Beats Toyota In Tight Finale

Autosport F1 & Motorsport

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4723 Ratings

🗓️ 4 September 2024

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Summary

This past weekend the World Endurance Championship headed to Austin, Texas for Lone Star Le Mans at the Circuit of the Americas. And across an epic 6 Hours, the AF Corse #83 Ferrari of Yifei Yi, Robert Kubica and Robert Shwartzman held off the #7 Toyota Gazoo Racing team of Kamui Kobayashi, Nick De Vries and Mike Conway to win by just 1.7 seconds, marking Ferrari’s first win in WEC outside of Le Mans since returning to full-time competition, and the sixth different winner in WEC in 2024.  Kevin Turner sits down on this edition of the Autosport Podcast with Gary Watkins to break down how it was the Yellow Ferrari that came out on top, the controversial crash caused by Sebastien Buemi that led to penalty points on his license, and the state of the midfield in WEC with Fuji less than a fortnight away. There’s also a full review of the LMGT3 class as the Heart of Racing Aston Martin team continued their excellent track record on home soil.  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

From Orderswildercomment, Autortball Magazine, I'm Kevin Turner and this is the Alltersport Podcast.

0:10.0

Well, we've just had round six of the world in June. As Chanchit, the Lone-style Le Mans in Austin. And on the very same day that Charles DeClerc won the Italian Grand Prix,

0:22.2

there was more Ferrari joy just a few hours later as Robert Kubaker, Robert Schwarzen and Yiff E,

0:26.9

E, won in the, wow, it's all sort of a privateer car, but it's not really, it's the satellite

0:31.2

car. It's a bit it's a yellow Ferrari, so that's good. We all like that. And joining me to talk about that dramatic race, actually,

0:38.4

because it was right in the balance to the very end, only a winning margin of 1.8 seconds over the

0:43.4

number 7 Toyota. And the man who watched it all is joining me now, still out there. Hi, Garrow.

0:49.0

Watkins. How are you doing? Not too bad. Yeah, it was absolutely an exciting race.

0:54.6

And a little bit of history made, as you mentioned, that satellite car following up on the victory for Skadaria, Ferrari, Formula One team at Monza.

1:07.0

And that that is a first, we think, that Ferrari have won two World Championship,

1:13.5

NIA World Championship races on the same day.

1:16.2

That's what they're saying.

1:17.7

And I did a hell of a lot of looking back through records during some of the little

1:24.2

downtimes during the race, just to see if I could find another time

1:30.1

when any manufacturer actually has won a World Championship

1:33.7

sports car race and an F and a championship F1 race on the same day.

1:38.7

And I got through deep into the 60s

1:42.3

and I couldn't find anything.

1:43.8

And of course, what we shouldn't

1:45.0

forget that in those days, there were far fewer Formula One races, you know, and sometimes

1:52.3

not many sports car races at all. So the chances of clash were much smaller in those days.

1:59.1

But it is, I, it is a little, it's,

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