Wangan Weekly-
Motorsport fever spreads across the island in November, with racers from all over the world, including former Bahrain resident Sébastien Buemi, taking part in the Bapco Energy Bahrain 8 Hours, the final round of this year’s FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC). Participate in. ).
Buemi, who is scheduled to visit Bahrain this month with his wife Jennifer and three children Jules, 7, Theo, 5, and 5-month-old Hugo, is looking forward to racing again at the Bahrain International Circuit. I’m looking forward to… He still calls home. “We have raced in Bahrain many times, so we know the track very well,” said the 34-year-old Swiss driver of Toyota Gazoo Racing in the No. 8 Toyota GR010 Hybrid.
“It will be a very special race in Bahrain and in this championship because we will be racing during the day and finishing at night.”
The huge motorsport spectacle, to be held from November 2nd to 4th, will include the Hypercar FIA World Endurance Drivers Championship, which mathematically has the potential to be won by four different crews, and the LMP2 team and Includes the Drivers’ Championship. Team WRT, Europol Competition and United Autosport will be in the top three. Bahrain will also form the final event for the LMP2 and GTE Am classes, meaning WEC from 2024 will consist of two categories: hypercars and all-new GT3 cars.
“This will be the first year that so many manufacturers are involved in hypercars. Hypercars are clearly the top category with Ferrari, Peugeot, Cadillac, Porsche and Toyota,” Buemi said. “Next year will be one of the best championships with the most manufacturers participating, with the arrival of Alpine, Lamborghini and BMW,” as Buemi said, adding that his new WEC Hyper, a top-class endurance race Multiple manufacturers are currently participating in the car class.
WEC replaced the LMP1 category with the Hypercar class in 2021 and hasn’t looked back since. Buemi’s Toyota team has been competing in the FIA WEC since the first season and remains committed to the world championship for sports car prototypes. However, the Japanese manufacturer jumped on the hypercar bandwagon relatively early on, taking second place at the inaugural FIA Hypercar World Endurance Championship in 2021.
Mr. Buemi has been with his uncle Humbert, president of Buemi & Sons and honorary consul general of Switzerland for the Kingdom of Bahrain since February 2013, his aunt Sylvia, and cousins Frederic (27 years old) and Steve (25 years old). Excited to stay in Budaiya. If you’re a car enthusiast and haven’t watched the race before, you should definitely check it out. The Red Bull Racing test and reserve driver added: “We would love for people to come and discover racing.”
“If you have never attended this race before, this is a great event with lots of fun activities for kids and families.
I think it would be great if people could get to know, learn and discover WEC and the racing world in general. At the WEC’s official launch event, Sheikh Salman bin Isa Al Khalifa, Chief Executive Officer of BIC, said: “WEC offers fans a fantastic combination of world championship racing, exciting entertainment and family-friendly fun. We will provide something,” he said. “With an open paddock and a fantastic line-up of cars including Ferraris and Porsches debuting in the hypercar category, the Spirit of Le Mans is back in full force in Bahrain,” he said.
“It is a great honor to host the WEC season finale for the fourth year in a row and we would like to thank WEC and its partners for trusting us to host this great opportunity where we can celebrate the series’ 2023 champions. Masu.”