Porsche achieves the double at the 6h of Mexico

Porsche est resté intouchable aux 6 Heures de Mexico avec ses 919 Hybrid qui ont offert à la marque de Stuttgart un nouveau doublé. La n°2 de Bernhard-Bamber-Hartley s’est offert une 3e victoire consécutive cette saison en terminant avec 7s d’avance sur la n°1 de Jani-Lotterer-Tandy qui a perdu le contact avec la voiture soeur en raison d’un drive through pour vitesse excessive dans les stands.

The Toyota TS050 Hybrid n’ont pas été en mesure de suivre les Porsche, les LMP1 japonaises terminant à un tour des vainqueurs. La n°8 de Buemi-Davidson-Nakajima completes the podium ahead of the n°7 of Conway-Kobayashi-Perez. The #8 crew now finds itself 41 points behind the winners at the top of the Championship while Porsche now has a 46,5 point lead over Toyota.

Rebellion stands out in LMP2

In LMP2, it’s the No. 31 Vaillante Rebellion from Canal-Cheers-Senna who dominated the category by taking the lead from the start with Bruno Senna starting from 3rd position. If Ben Hanley took first place in the No. 24 CEFC Manor TRS Racing, the latter finally completed the podium behind theAlpine A470 of Stone-Menezes-negrao. The top five was completed by the G-Drive Racing of Rusinov-Thiriet-Lynn and the second Vaillante Rebellion of Beche-Heinemeier Hansson-Piquet Jr.

Aston Martin winner in GTE Pro

Nicki Thiim and Marco Sorensen took victory in GTE Pro with the No. 95 Aston Martin Vantage, winning by less than 10 seconds against the Ferrari n°51 by Davide Rigon and Sam Bird. The F488 GTE may have finished ahead of the Vantage at the checkered flag, but the AF Corse car received a 10s penalty for excessive speed under “full course yellow”. The 911 RSR of Frédéric Makowiecki and Richard Lietz completed the category podium, one lap behind the winners. In GTE Am, victory went to the No. 77 Porsche of Dempsey Proton Racing from Ried-Cairoli-Dienst.

Discover the analysis of the 6 Hours of Mexico carried out by our special correspondent in issue 2130 of AUTOhebdo, available from Monday evening in digital version on all platforms, and from Wednesday on newsstands.