WEC 8 Hours of Bahrain
FIA World Endurance Championship
The WEC has established itself as one of the premier championships under the International Automobile Federation (FIA) and the leading global series for endurance racing. It attracts countless stars in motorsport, and it continues to grow in popularity every year, with races taking place in eight countries across four continents.
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Peugeot TotalEnergies set pace in WEC third practice
Peugeot TotalEnergies set pace in WEC third practice
Peugeot TotalEnergies powered to the top of the times today in the third and final World Endurance Championship (WEC) Free Practice session in the 2024 WEC 8 Hours of Bahrain, powered by Bapco Energies, taking place at Bahrain International Circuit (BIC) in Sakhir.
The Peugeot #93 crew of Mikkel Jensen, Nico Muller, and Jean-Eric Vergne set the fastest lap in the 60-minute session, following the lead of teammates Stoffel Vandoorne, Paul Di Resta, and Loic Duval who were quickest during the weekend’s opening Free Practice on Thursday.
Jensen-Muller-Vergne had a top lap time of one minute 49.443 seconds, going 0.219 seconds ahead of AF Corse’s #83 crew of Robert Kubica, Robert Shwartzman, and Yifei Yi.
Third on the timesheet were the #63 Lamborghini Iron Lynx trio of Edoardo Mortara, Mirko Bortolotti, and Daniil Kvyat, who were 0.571s off the leader’s pace.
The three overall fastest in the session are competing in the WEC’s Hypercar category.
Leading the LMGT3 class were Manthey PureRxcing’s #92 triumvirate of Joel Sturm, Aliaksandr Malykhin, Klaus Bachler with a best lap of 2:03.987.
Akkodis ASP Team’s #78 Conrad Laursen, Arnold Robin, and Kelvin van der Linde followed, while Vista AF Corse’s #55 trio of Simon Mann, Francois Heriau, and Alessio Rovera were third.
The WEC field will now battle in qualifying to set their grid positions for Saturday’s main event – the highly anticipated final race of the 2024 FIA WEC season.
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