Ferrari has secured the 2025 FIA Hypercar World Endurance Championship Drivers’ and Producers’ titles in immediately’s 8 Hours of Bahrain, the finale of this yr’s eight-event marketing campaign
In its third season within the FIA WEC’s high tier, the legendary Italian marque has been the benchmark all year long within the Hypercar class, profitable the opening 4 races with its 499P prototype to ascertain a bonus that none of its rivals was in the end in a position to overcome.
The consequence marks the Prancing Horse’s first international endurance racing triumph within the high class since lifting the laurels within the World Sportscar Championship greater than half a century in the past, in 1972, ending a commanding 75 factors forward of closest competitor Toyota within the Producers’ classification.
To finish Ferrari’s pleasure, its three crews locked out the highest three positions within the Drivers’ standings. Courtesy of a fourth-place end in Bahrain, Antonio Giovinazzi, James Calado and Alessandro Pier Guidi clinched the crown behind the wheel of the #51 Ferrari AF Corse entry, having led the best way since triumphing on dwelling turf at Imola again in April.
The runner-up honours went to 24 Hours of Le Mans winners Robert Kubica, Phil Hanson and Yifei Ye within the privately-run #83 AF Corse 499P, with the #50 Ferrari AF Corse crew of Antonio Fuoco, Nicklas Nielsen and Miguel Molina taking third.
TOYOTA EXTENDS OUTSTANDING BAHRAIN RECORD
Toyota entered this weekend’s Bapco Energies 8 Hours of Bahrain staring down the barrel of a winless FIA World Endurance Championship marketing campaign for the primary time in a decade. Courtesy of a peerless efficiency in Sakhir, the Japanese producer banished that prospect in positive trend.
Toyota could also be FIA WEC’s most profitable producer by some margin, however the 2025 season has been a difficult one for the model. Heading to Bahrain Worldwide Circuit, neither of its crews had stood on any step of the rostrum this yr, not to mention the highest one. This night, they occupied the highest two.
Having locked out the entrance row of the grid in qualifying 24 hours earlier, Toyota’s pair of GR010 Hybrid Hypercars dominated proceedings within the desert over the course of a compelling eight-hour contest that started in daylight and concluded after darkish.
The pole-sitting #7 Hypercar, piloted by Kamui Kobayashi, Mike Conway and Nyck de Vries, led nearly all of the race, in the end taking the chequered flag slightly below 20 seconds forward of the sister #8 automobile shared by Sébastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley and Ryō Hirakawa.
MANTHEY BAGS TITLE AS AKKODIS ASP TAKES SECOND WIN OF SEASON
The Akkodis ASP Lexus group secured its second win of the 2025 season on the Bapco Energies 8 Hours of Bahrain, however solely after a tense finale during which the French-entered squad’s victory gave the impression to be underneath severe risk within the closing levels.
Whereas the Akkodis ASP group added Bahrain to its maiden 6 Hours of São Paulo win in July, a fourth-place end confirmed the Manthey 1stPhorm squad of Richard Lietz, Ryan Hardwick and Riccardo Pera as each 2025 LMGT3 Drivers’ and Groups’ champions.
