1812 km of Qatar – H8: Valentino Rossi on the provisional LMGT3 podium

• A few hours before the finish of the 1812 km of Qatar, the opening round of the WEC 2024, the ranking hardly varies in the two categories.
• Porsche still leads the way in the Hypercars with the official No. 6 entrusted to the trio Kevin Estre-Laurens Vanthoor-André Lotterer
• Peugeot is heading towards the best result of the 9X8, which is the last appearance without a rear wing. The #93 of Mikkel Jensen-Nico Mueller-Jean-Eric Vergne occupies second place, ahead of the customer Porsche #12 (Will Stevens-Norman Nato-Callum Ilott) fielded by JOTA.
• The positions have more or less stabilized at all levels of the platoon. Cadillac is fourth with its No. 2 V-Series.R, ahead of the second official Porsche, No. 5.
• The “third” Ferrari 499P n°83 remains the highest ranked Hypercar in the world. Maranello.
• Toyota remains far from the mark with its GR010 n°7 (8th) and n°8 (13th).
• In the second half of the Hypercar table, we also find the BMW M Hybrid V8s of Team WRT (14th and 15th)
• Note that Mick Schumacher made a small excursion in the gravel behind the wheel of theAlpine A424 n°36 which it shares with Nicolas lapierre and Matthieu Vaxiviere.
• The #51 Ferrari (which lost its rear wing at the start of the race), the #63 Lamborghini (which made its first official outing in competition), and the #94 Peugeot (victim of a battery problem) close the march of a category where only the Tipo-6 of Isotta Fraschini has given up.

Rossi and WRT on the provisional podium

• In the new LMGT3 category of the WEC, Valentino Rossi, who teams up with Ahmad Al Harthy and Maxime Martin, climbed into 3rd position at the wheel of the No. 4 BMW M3 GT46 fielded by Team WRT.
• The No. 911 Porsche 3 GT3 R LMGT92 from the Manthey PureRxcing team (Aliaksandr Malykhin-Joel Sturm-Klaus Bachler) still occupies the lead in the category.
• THEAston Martin n°27 Heart of Racing Team (Ian James-Daniel Mancinelli-Alex Riberas) is ranked second.