( Motorsport-Total. com)– The 6 hours of the World Endurance Championship (WEC) at Spa-Francorchamps practically took a bad taste. The Jota Team LMP2 mechanic was struck by Richard Westbrook throughout the last rest stop of the # 2 Cadillac (Bamber/Lynn/Westbrook).
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A Jota mechanic was struck by a Cadillac at the WEC in Spa
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The service technician, whom Jota calls “Richard,” was struck and needed to be transferred to a medical center by paramedics. From there he was required to the medical facility as it was presumed that he had actually broken his ankle. Jota reported on social networks, Richard left with swellings and was released from the health center on Sunday night to Monday.
The crash topped a strong line-up for the very first independently gotten in vehicle in the WEC. Jota Sport had actually simply gotten the Porsche 963 a couple of days prior to the race and utilized the race as the very first test of the automobile. The reality that Antonio Felix da Costa, Will Stevens and Yifei Ye right away took 6th location went beyond all expectations.
” We took the cars and truck simply a couple of days prior to this race weekend and went all in. The reality that we had the ability to end up the 6-hour race under these conditions with no problems on the technical side is good,” states Porsche works driver Antonio Felix da Costa.
” The group did a fantastic task. We could not press the cars and truck to the limitation– our objective was to finish as lots of laps as possible and gather as much information as possible. Now we evaluate whatever, we do tests and after that we pedal more difficult at Le Mans.”
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The outcomes of the video games were truly of secondary value to the group– it was everything about reaching the goal and getting as much experience as possible. Appropriately, Jota-Porsche with beginning number 38 began on damp tires to be on the safe side.
The next stop to change to slicks was the only challenge in the race. At the end, both Glickenhaus and Peugeots were ahead by one lap.
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” The truth that the cars and truck didn’t get a scratch demonstrates how well my colleagues and I had the ability to deal with this cold and tough conditions. It was our very first race (in the hypercar class) however we have actually currently revealed speed,” states Yifei yea.
It is likewise worth keeping in mind that Jota drove the fastest Porsche963 Yes, 2: 05.427 minutes on lap 66 was 0.790 seconds much faster than the fastest lap of the works # 6 Porsche (Estre/Lotterer/Vanthoor) and even 1.376 seconds quicker than the fastest lap of the # 5 works Porsche (Cameron/Christensen/Makowiecki)
Team manager Dieter Gass mentioned an “psychological and satisfying” weekend at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. “Sixth location in the very first race is more than we imagined. None of our chauffeurs had actually done a single lap in this vehicle prior to the weekend. Excellent task! I’m happy to be part of the Jota group!”
As a tip: Dieter Gass is the previous Head of Audi Motorsport.
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