The FIA WEC returned to Brazil at the Interlagos circuit after ten years. Toyota dominated qualifying and took the #8 Toyota for victory in the race.
After the start of the race, Toyota #7 held on to the lead, but technical problems slowed it down and Toyota #8 got into the lead, which subsequently drove dominantly to win. They were joined on the podium by a pair of Porsches #6 and #5. The fourth position was taken by Toyota #8, which started with Pole Position, but due to technical problems it fell to the tail and then managed to reach P4, the fifth and sixth places then belong to the pair of Ferraris, P5- #51 and P6- #50. Team Jota with Porsche P7, Peugeot #93 can be satisfied, because thanks to P8 they managed to score a lot of points, P9 BMW #15 and Alpine #36 completes the top ten.
In the LMGT3 Category, Porsche team Mathey Purerxcing #92 won, the second position belongs to the Heart of Racing team #27 and the third position to United Autosport #95, Iron Dames, who led the race for a long time and started from Pole Position, finally had to retire due to technical problems.
The FIA WEC will continue on September 1 at the COTA circuit in Texas.
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