WEC – Benoît Tréluyer: “Finish with a victory”

Certainly the titles are played. Certainly, Benoît Tréluyer and his acolytes André Lotterer and Marcel Fässler ceded their world champion crown to their stablemates Loïc duval, Tom Kristensen and Allan McNish. But if the 2013 season did not smile as much on the Frenchman as the previous one, he will not only have bad memories, far from it, and will endeavor this weekend in Bahrain to finish on a good note. “We will keep beautiful images of this campaign, He says. Our second place at Silverstone acquired after a great fight during the opening round, our victory at Spa on the land where André grew up (Lotterer. Editor’s note), those of Interlagos in Brazil and Shanghai in China, but there was also a lot of bad luck? At Le Mans, especially! Ending with a victory would allow us to approach the winter break in the best conditions and to definitively turn our backs on bad luck. Mechanics, engineers, drivers, team, everyone did an excellent job and no one has any complaints. For me who had never believed in the luck factor until then, I changed my mind during the season! The puncture at the start of the race in Shanghai could have condemned us, but we didn't give up. Currently, all three of us are over-motivated. »
 
Winners last year of the first edition of the 6 Hours of Bahrain, the native of Alençon could see himself doing it again this year, and thus pocketing a fourth success this season. ?I discovered the route last year and I was pleasantly surprised, continues Benoît Tréluyer. Le dessin est intéressant. Le tracé correspond mieux à la R18 que celui de Shanghai où nous avons malgré tout réussi à être compétitifs, mais le choix des pneus va être important. La température va également jouer un rôle. Il va falloir effectuer les bons choix en termes de pneus et de réglages aérodynamiques pour être capables d?évoluer dans la bonne fenêtre d?exploitation. Toyota a bien progressé au cours des derniers mois et la lutte promet d?être encore très serrée ! »

And all the more so since all the titles have already been awarded in LM P1, the two Audi R18 e-tron quattros, like the two Toyota TS030 Hybrids, will have no other objective than to finish the season on a victory.