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Program and entrants for the 8 Hours of Bahrain
Alpine and Toyota will fight for the title in Bahrain (Photo Joao Filipe / DPPI)
The 2022 World Championship seasonEndurance FIA ends this weekend with the sixth and final round of this exercise, the 8 Hours of Bahrain.
The action on the track will begin on Thursday, November 10 on the Sakhir circuit with Free Practice 1 at 12:15 p.m. in the Kingdom of Bahrain (10:15 a.m. French time). The second driving session will take place at 17:30 p.m. the same day (15:30 p.m. in France).
The third and final Free Practice session of the year will take place on Friday November 11 at 11:00 a.m. (9:00 a.m. in France) before qualifying which will begin at 16:50 p.m. (14:50 p.m. in France) with the GTs and continue at 17:10 p.m. (15:10 p.m. in France) with the prototypes.
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Finally, the 8 Hours of Bahrain will begin on Saturday at 14:00 p.m. in Sakhir for a finish at 22:00 p.m. (12:00 p.m. – 20:00 p.m. in France). A race which will be decisive for the title since the Toyota No. 8 (Sébastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley, Ryo Hirakawa) and theAlpine No. 36 (Andre Negro, Matthieu Vaxiviere) are tied on points at the top of the standings. 37 cars are expected for the event, including the Swiss Nico Müller who will sit behind the wheel of the car for the first time. Peugeot 9X8 n°94.
Find the list of entrants HERE
While the season will officially end on Saturday, Sunday will be reserved for the Rookie Test. We will notably find the French Lilou Wadoux there in Hypercar or Dorian Pin in LM P2.
Program for the 8 2022 Hours of Bahrain
Jeudi 10 November
Free Practice 1: 12h15
Free Practice 2: 17h30
Friday, November 11
Free Practice 3: 11h00
Qualifying 1 (GT): 16:50
Qualifications 2 (prototypes): 17:10
Saturday, November 12
Race: 14:00 a.m.
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Valentin GLO
Journalist. Endurance reporter (WEC, IMSA, ELMS, ALMS) and sometimes F1 or IndyCar.
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Jean-Yves Hubert
08/11/2022 at 02:30 a.m.
The times are not very clear unless the earth has started to rotate in the other direction?! "Free Practice 1 at 10:15 a.m. in the Kingdom of Bahrain (12:15 p.m. French time)" For me it's the opposite... 12:15 p.m. in Bahrain and 10:15 a.m. in France!