Photo: Paren Raval
Following post-race scrutineering, both Toyota TS050-Hybrids were disqualified from the 6 Hours of Silverstone after finishing 1 -2 on the track.
The #91 Porsche GT Team Porsche 911 RSR, driven by Richard Lietz and Gianmaria Bruni was also excluded.
Concerning the exclusion of the #7 and #8 Toyotas, Decision No 25 from the Stewards of the Meeting declared that; “The Technical Delegates measured the vertical deflection of the front part of the skid under a 2500 N load. The deflection was to be 9mm on both sides of the front part of the skid block. The measurement was witnessed by the competitors’ technical representative John Litjens and he confirmed to the stewards that the measurement was done correctly.”
The decision promoted the two Rebellion Racing Rebellion R13s to first and second place, with the #3 entry, piloted by Mathias Beche, Thomas Laurent and Gustavo Menezes taking the win and the sister #1 car, with the driver line up of Neel Jani and André Lotterer, moving into second place. The final podium position is now occupied by the #17 SMP Racing BR Engineering BR1.
The LMP2 results still stood, with a 1 -2 for Jackie Chan DC Racing, its #38 ORECA 07 piloted by Ho-Pin Tung, Gabriel Aubry and Stéphane Richelmi winning the class by just 1.971 seconds from the sister #37 entry driven by Jazeman Jaafar, Weiron Tan and Nabil Jeffri. Completing the top three in the LMP2 category was the #36 Signatech Alpine Matmut Alpine A470 with the driver line-up of Nicolas Lapierre, André Negrão and Pierre Thiriet.
The #51 AF Corse Ferrari F488 GTE of Alessandro Pier Guidi and James Calado took the win in the LNGTE Pro and, after the disqualification of the #91 car for ground clearance issues, the #67 Ford Chip Ganassi team UK Ford GT moved up to second place with the #91 Porsche in third.
Porsche won the LMGTE Am category with the #77 Dempsey-Proton Porsche 911 RSR taking the chequered flag 46.878 seconds ahead of the #90 TF Sport Aston Martin Vantage.
Round Four of the 2018/19 FIA World Endurance Championship takes place at Fuji International Speedway on October 12.