Toyota holds a comfortable lead halfway through Bahrain WEC finale with Alpine failing to put up a fight and Peugeot suffering more technical problems. Full report:
The #7 Toyota GR010 Hybrid of Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi and Jose Maria Lopez sits 2.4s clear in front after being ordered to pass the sister car of Brendon Hartley, Sebastien Buemi and Ryo Hirakawa in the fourth hour of the race.
The #93 Peugeot would drop to third in the first round of pitstops due to a fractionally slower pitstop, making it a Toyota 1-2 at the front of the field with the #8 entry remaining ahead of #7. Alpine has had an underwhelming run in what’s the last outing of the A480-Gibson LMP1 car, with the French manufacturer failing to make any serious inroads after qualifying fifth and last in the Hypercar class.
The FCY was deployed because the #93 Peugeot that had qualified on the front row suffered a gearbox issue just before the end of hour 2. A charging stint from three-time DTM champion Rene Rast propelled the #31 WRT Oreca car into the LMP2 lead two hours and 30 minutes into the race.
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