Toyota sees victory at Spa

Toyota est à une heure d’une nouvelle victoire en WEC in this Super-Season, after spending a good part of the fifth hour of racing under safety car regime.

The snow made a comeback at 17:45 p.m., forcing race management to deploy the Safety Car as conditions became too complicated on the track.

We have had snow, rain, sun and now comes the hail! Safety car is deployed. #WEC #6HSPA pic.twitter.com/mP3Pgcc3TJ

— WEC (@FIAWEC) May 4, 2019

A sequence where Bruno Senna (R13 n°1 – Rebellion Racing) notably made a mistake while attacking the Raidillon. The green flag was finally waved 1h14′ from the finish, freeing the peloton onto a very tricky track.

Currently, Fernando Alonso maintains his No. 050 Toyota TS8 Hybrid at the forefront with still a lap margin over Thomas Laurent (R13 No. 3 – Rebellion Racing), who overtook the BR1 No. 11 – SMP Racing of Vitaly Petrov, just after the restart debates.

DragonSpeed ​​came to take the lead in the LM P2 category, Pastor Maldonado having put the No. 07 Oreca 31 in front. Nicolas lapierre (Alpine A470 n°36 – Signatech Alpine) and the No. 07 Oreca 38 – Jackie Chan DC Racing of Gabriel Aubry.

Maxime Martin, with an authoritarian overtake on Davide Rigon (Ferrari 488 n°71) has replaced Aston Martin and the #97 Vantage in the lead in GTE Pro just after the race restarted. Rigon will then lose two places to the benefit of the two BMW M8s #82 and #81 of Felix da Costa and Catsburg.

Le GTE Am a vu un bouleversement de sa hiérarchie avec la prise de pouvoir de la Porsche 911 RSR n°77 – Dempsey-Proton Racing de Ricardo Pera. A noter la sortie