WEC 6 Hours of Austin: The Presentation in Numbers
Fifth race of the season, the 6 Hours of Austin will have their sixth edition. So far, Toyota has never won in Texas.
Lone Star Le Mans, 6 Hours of COTA or 6 Hours of Austin… Whatever the name. The Texas event will host its sixth edition on Sunday, replacing the Sao Paulo round. Deprived of the two Ginettas in LMP1, it welcomes the support of Dragonspeed in LMP2 and Corvette in GTE-Pro. 30 cars will compete over a compact weekend. Practice and qualifying will all take place on Saturday, while the race will be held on Sunday. A brief presentation in numbers.
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Toyota has never won the 6 Hours of Austin. Among the circuits on the schedule this season, it’s the only one that eludes them. In the history of the WEC, they are also missing victories at the Nurburgring and Mexico (2015 to 2017). Rebellion hasn’t won it either, so the winner will definitely be new.
0.276
In 2017, the winning Porsche (Timo Bernhard, Brendon Hartley, Earl Bamber) finished ahead of the sister car by 0.276 seconds at the finish line, marking the smallest recorded gap in Austin. That year, all four LMP1 cars were within 45 seconds of each other at the end.
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Only one American driver has won the 6 Hours of Sebring, Gustavo Menezes. Competing with Rebellion this year, he won the LMP2 category in 2016 and 2017 with Alpine.
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Corvette will participate for the first time in the 6 Hours of Austin, in GTE-Pro. It will also be the WEC debut of the new C8.R.
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DragonSpeed returns to the WEC in LMP2 for the first time since Le Mans 2019. The team had finished the season in third place with a victory at Spa.
1:47.052
The fastest lap in the race was set by the Frenchman Loic Duval in 2016, driving an Audi.
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The 6 Hours of Austin 2017 began a series of two consecutive victories for the Ferrari 51 of Alessandro Pier Guidi and James Calado. It is the last car in GTE to have achieved this feat. (@WECdata)
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The LMP1 category will have three cars at the 6 Hours of Austin. The smallest number of entries in the top category in the history of the WEC.
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Timo Bernard and Brendon Hartley won the 6 Hours of Austin three consecutive times between 2015 and 2017, driving for Porsche. Paul Dalla Lana and Pedro Lamy have achieved three victories in four years, with Aston Martin Racing in GTE-Am.
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Porsche is the most victorious manufacturer with three wins in Austin (2015 to 2017). In LMP2, Alpine and G-Drive share the record with two victories. In GTE-Pro, Aston Martin, winner in 2013 and 2014, leads, just like in GTE-AM.
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Four American drivers are participating in the race: Gustavo Menezes (Rebellion), Mark Patterson (High Class), Colin Braun (Dragon Speed), and Ben Keating (Team Project 1). Menezes and Keating have both won this season, in Shanghai and Bahrain respectively. Colin Braun will be racing his first WEC race.
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AF Corse’s Ferraris have reached the podium in five editions of the 6 Hours of Austin, with a double podium on three occasions.
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In LMP2, the last seven WEC races, spanning two seasons, have seen seven different winners. The last double winner: Jackie Chan DC Racing, at the 6 Hours of Shanghai and the 1000 Miles of Sebring during the 2018/2019 super season. Diversity.
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Eleven drivers competing this year have already won the 6 Hours of Austin, either overall or in their category. (Conway, Turner, Dalla Lana, Hartley, Menezes, Senna, Lapierre, Pier Guidi, Calado, Lietz, M.Christensen). Brendon Hartley (overall) and Paul Dalla Lana (in GTE-Am) with their three victories are the most successful. Gustavo Menezes has won twice with Alpine, as has Nicolas Lapierre, who has since moved to Cool Racing. In GTE-Am, Matthias Lauda has also won twice with Aston Martin.
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With the reclassification of the Ferrari AF Corse No. 51 at the 4 Hours of Shanghai, announced last week, the number 51 becomes the first to win twenty races in WEC. It has always been carried by the Ferrari AF Corse. (@WECdata)
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The 6 Hours of Austin will be the fiftieth 6-hour race in the history of the WEC. (@WECdata)
305.9
In 2015, Lucas Di Grassi set the speed record for the 6 Hours of Austin on Audi, at 305.9 km/h.
1,059
In 2017, the victorious Porsche driven by Timo Bernhard, Brendon Hartley, and Earl Bamber covered 192 laps and 1,059 kilometers, a record for the 6 Hours of Austin.
Le point TV
As usual, the practice sessions are not broadcast. The qualifying sessions will be live on Motorsport.tv and on the WEC streaming platform from Saturday night to Sunday at 12:40 am. The race can also be watched on Eurosport, starting at 7 pm.
