6 hours of Spa-H+5: Toyota enters the last hour in the lead

One hour before the finish of the 6 Hours of Spa, Toyota has victory in his sights in the Ardennes with the TS050 Hybrid n°8 by Nakajima – Buemi –Davidson, while a few drops of rain appeared in Belgium.

The Japanese LM P1 regained control of the race, after seeing the Porsche 919 Hybrid n°2 Brendon Hartley, who was leading, forced to return to the pits to change the front cover after contact with theAlpine A470 n°36 by Romain Dumas.

The No. 050 Toyota TS7 Hybrid Conway - Kobayashi also got back in front of the #919 Porsche 2 Hybrid and is 32″ from first place, one second ahead of the #2, which made an additional stop since the start.

The Porsche 919 Hybrid n°1 of Lotterer – Jani – Tandy remains 4th ahead of the third Toyota TS050 Hybrid n°9 of Sarrazin – Stone – Kunimoto, and the ENSO CLM P1/01 of Team ByKolles.

In LM P2, Alex Lynn (Oreca 07 n°26 – G-Drive) has a good lead over Ho-Pin Tung (Oreca 07 n°38 – Jackie Chan DC Racing) before entering the last hour of the race. The Oreca 07 n°31 – Vaillante Rebellion Cheers – Senna – Canal lost a lot of time during its last stop after an intervention on the Var LM P2, and is now third in front of the sister car n°13 of Beche – Piquet – Heinemeier-Hansson.

Internal struggle at Ferrari

Which Ferrari 488 #71 or #51 will win the 6 Hours of Spa? This is the question at the edge of the last hour of the race as the two Italian GTs crushed the event.

Sam Bird maintains the advantage over Alessandro Pier Guidi, while Stefan Mücke places the No. 66 Ford GT of Chip Ganassi Racing Team UK more than a minute behind. Andy Priaulx follows in fourth position in the category ahead of the two Porsche 911 RSRs and the two Aston Martin Vantage.

In GTE Am, Aston Martin retains the lead with the #98 of Dalla Lana – Lamy – Lauda, ​​which maintains its large lead over the #911 Porsche 77 RSR – Dempsey-Proton Racing of Dienst – Cairoli – Ried.

Ranking after five hours