FIA WEC from Silverstone Round 1 Gallery and Video

Over the Easter bank holiday the FIA World Endurance Championship returned for the 2017 season. Round 1 was at Silverstone as per usual, and we were there to see the action trackside. With Audi gone, it’s a straight fight between Porsche and Toyota this year and it looks like it will be a good one.

The new LMP2 cars impressed, first they sound amazing with there Gibson V8’s and second look the part, with some good close racing while the speeds are up. GTE is shaping up to be a good class, but it would seem the BOP is a little out as Aston Martin Racing seem to have been limited a little too much compared the Ford’s, Ferraris’s and new Porsche’s.

As always the racing was close, and the fights in both LMP1 and GTE AM came down to the final 15 minutes of a 6 hour race. Have a watch of the trackside video, check out the gallery below, and watch out for out Trackside post for the British GT championship.

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Cla # Drivers Car Class Laps Time 1 8 A nthony Davidson

Kazuki Nakajima

Sébastien Buemi Toyota TS050 Hybrid LMP1 197 6:00’33.211 2 2 Timo Bernhard

Brendon Hartley

Earl Bamber Porsche 919 Hybrid LMP1 197 6:00’39.384 3 1 Andre Lotterer

Neel Jani

Nick Tandy Porsche 919 Hybrid LMP1 197 6:01’20.167 4 38 Oliver Jarvis

Ho-Pin Tung

Thomas Laurent Oreca 07 LMP2 184 6:01’34.465 5 31 Bruno Senna

Julien Canal

Nicolas Prost Oreca 07 LMP2 184 6:01’53.841 6 28 François Perrodo

Emmanuel Collard

Matthieu Vaxivière Oreca 07 LMP2 184 6:01’55.733 7 36 Nicolas Lapierre

Gustavo Menezes

Matt Rao Alpine A470 LMP2 183 6:00’58.224 8 26 Roman Rusinov

Pierre Thiriet

Alex Lynn Oreca 07 LMP2 183 6:01’30.471 9 24 Jean-Eric Vergne

Jonathan Hirschi

Tor Graves Oreca 07 LMP2 183 6:02’06.299 10 25 V italy Petrov

Simon Trummer

Roberto Gonzalez Oreca 07 LMP2 182 6:01’08.160 11 37 David Cheng

Tristan Gommendy

Alex Brundle Oreca 07 LMP2 182 6:01’19.950 12 13 Nelson Piquet Jr.

David Heinemeier Hansson

Mathias Beche Oreca 07 LMP2 172 6:00’45.562 13 67 Pipo Derani

Harry Tincknell

Andy Priaulx Ford GT LMGTE PRO 171 6:01’28.070 14 51 James Calado

Alessandro Pier Guidi Ferrari 488 GTE LMGTE PRO 171 6:01’43.674 15 91 Richard Lietz

Frédéric Makowiecki Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE PRO 171 6:01’54.655 16 66 Stefan Mücke

Olivier Pla

Billy Johnson Ford GT LMGTE PRO 171 6:01’55.561 17 71 Sam Bird

Davide Rigon Ferrari 488 GTE LMGTE PRO 170 6:00’41.094 18 95 Marco Sorensen

Nicki Thiim

Richie Stanaway Aston Martin Vantage LMGTE PRO 170 6:01’24.847 19 97 Darren Turner

Jonathan Adam

Daniel Serra Aston Martin Vantage LMGTE PRO 168 6:01’26.459 20 61 Matt Griffin

Mok Weng Sun

Keita Sawa Ferrari 488 GTE LMGTE AM 166 6:01’40.106 21 98 Pedro Lamy

Paul Dalla Lana

Mathias Lauda Aston Martin Vantage V8 LMGTE AM 166 6:01’41.874 22 77 Christian Ried

Matteo Cairoli

Marvin Dienst Porsche 911 RSR (991) LMGTE AM 166 6:02’05.421 23 7 Kamui Kobayashi

Mike Conway

Jose Maria Lopez Toyota TS050 Hybrid LMP1 159 6:01’21.629 24 86 Michael Wainwright

Ben Barker

Nick Foster Porsche 911 RSR (991) LMGTE AM 143 6:00’38.856

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