TOYOTA EXCLUDED FROM SILVERSTONE WEC

WHERE: SILVERSTONE WHEN: AUGUST 19 Following Porsche’s withdrawal from the World Endurance Championship at the end of last year, Toyota only had itself to beat this superseason. Yes, there were a number of privateer outfits in the LMP1 class with rewritten rules aimed at achieving increased parity – but in reality they were still miles off the Japanese manufacturer.

Toyota was even able to finally shake off its Le Mans 24 Hours curse and take a 1-2 in this year’s event. But at Silverstone Toyota did manage to beat itself. Everything seemed to go well enough as the TS050 HYBRIDS took another regulation 1-2 but both were later excluded after failing skidblock deflection tests.

Instead it was the Rebellion team that was able to claim the 1-2 honour, with victory going to the R13-gibson of Gustavo Menezes, Thomas Laurent and Mathias Beche.

And Toyota will just have to wait for next season to see if it can take a clean sweep.