Bahrain 8H – H3: Toyota still dominates, Alpine traced back

After three hours of racing in Sakhir and as night begins to fall, the Toyota nº8 (Buemi, Nakajima, Hartley) still dominates the last round of the season with a ten-second margin over the sister car. Delayed by a mechanical problem in the first hour, theAlpine A480 – Gibson moved up to 12th place with Andre Negro driving.

Third place overall is occupied by an LM P2, that of the team leading the championship, the Tean WRT (Frijns, Habsburg, Milesi). Racing Team Nederland (van Eerd, van der Garde, van Uitert) leads the Pro-Am with second position in the category. JOTA nº28 (Gelael, Vandoorne, Blomqvist) is third.

In GTE Pro, the Porsche RSR 911 – 19 nº91 (Bruni, Lietz, Makowiecki) was in the lead ahead of AF Corse nº52 (Serra, Molina) before going to the pits. The two cars fighting for the title, the Porsche GT Team nº92 (Estre, Jani, Christensen) and the AF Corse nº51 (Calado, Pier Guidi) occupy third and fourth places. Cetilar Racing (Lacorte, Sernagiotto, Fuoco) is back at the top of the GTE Am ahead of Kessel Racing (Kimura, Jensen, Andrews) and the AF Corse nº54 (Flohr, Castellacci, Fisichella).