Brendon Hartley

So they gained an extra seven points on, well, at least a few others.

So Brendan Hartley, Rio Hirakawa and Sebastian Buemi lead the Drivers' Championship on 89 points.

Alpina are going to be there or thereabouts, though, Peter Mackay, because their car's fourth and seventh places with the A424.

100 starts in WEC in this car with this team, how does it feel?

Hansen slotted through into second position down at turn five.

And that moment for Junker Dea thinking, I've almost made the corner, but then skittering its way at very slow speed, frustrating speed for Junker Dea, entirely off the road.

the applause from Brendan Hartley amongst others that his man gets in front and some rather glum faces down in the Genesis garage they've still got certainly one car that's performing very well and that is Andre Lotre running in third position but the rejoining Juncker Dea has fallen back to 16th place it's not quite the rear of hypercar because the The Habsburg machine has had to work its way through from the early spin as well.

So certainly plenty happening.

So Rene Rast, Robin Frijns from the 20 BMW are on 75 points.

Kevin Magnussen, Raffaele Marcello are six points fewer than that on 69. and they run in the 15 car but yeah because they're further back than their teammates and they are a total of 10 points adrift of the Kobayashi, Conway and De Vries Toyota but it's the fact that Toyota in car seven are running in second so are on course for 18 whereas for fifth place what do you get 10 so it's too big a gap and sadly for them from a driver's perspective 83 doesn't help them out either because they do score driver's points it's just that the 83 doesn't score manufacturers yeah they need the rain to come like you say and they need Toyota not to react too well to it but at the moment I mean Toyota's decision-making has been absolutely on point and the thing is the Toyota's been pretty fast in the in the wet weather as well Brendan Hartley said had the day been wet we were pretty confident because the car has been very stable regardless of condition and therefore if it changes as it has done through the race a little not as much as we were expecting but Toyota just have the best overall package this weekend and that is perfectly timed when they're trying to win a title.

It is, yeah.

And the thing is, is that you can make a poor decision with one of the cars as long as you don't do it with both.

But the rest would maybe need to, as you say, put a little splash in when they went to get the wet tyres.

But that would cost valuable seconds in a battle like this.

so total driving time so far this afternoon for Ryo Hirokawa he's done a little over an hour and 15 minutes Buemi's been at the wheel for an hour and 47 and we obviously had time as well for the middle driver who was Brendan Hartley he did a couple of stints so Buemi enjoying his 100th race in the World Endurance Championship and it could be a race win more importantly it could be a manufacturer's championship across both cars it could also mean that we're down to just two crews that could still take the drivers championship at Monza they would be separated by 17 points going into that final round but far from decided between the two heading for the temple of speed in Italy so on course at the moment the 92 porsche crew in gt to be within 20 points of the 33 corvette where did 33 rejoin seventh but we were expecting maxine martin to probably fall behind nikki katzberg to give katzberg the sixth place points back again and then it's a question of how far up charlie eastwood might be able to get because they also freshened up his tires i noticed during the last pit stop so uh brand new Goodyears that they were keeping in reserve for the Ulstermann the carnage at the start of the race you might be able to hear in the background not missing any real-time further contact thankfully but the the opening few corners of action certainly supplied us with plenty to talk about not least with Dani Junker-Dea from the lead of the race running off the road and through the stones at turn five still this combination of well different ways to attack the race for toyota last time in the cars of rio hirikawa and nick de vries were freshened up for their tires all round mediums for nick and a halfway mixture for rio hirikawa with mediums on the left and softs on the right whereas the chasing Alpine and Ferraris of Victor Martins and Antonio Fuoco go with just the single soft tyre on the front right corner otherwise mediums and Victor Martins is in a slightly false position as things stand because he'll be due in in the next one-fifth of a stint he's down to 18% energy now Antonio Fuoco will also be due some fuel as well before the Toyotas so that could be an advantage to Robert Kubica pretty sure that the two Ferraris 1583 had pitted on similar laps so quite why there's now that discrepancy between the fuel load the amount of energy between those two 499ps I'm struggling to remember there might be an obvious reason PMAC but Fawoka is going to have to come in about two-thirds earlier than Robert Kubica that could promote the Ferrari up as high as third actually the number 83 Ferrari into a podium position

Yeah, they've got good energy on board as well.

It's still F1 and we move on.

Good news for Brendon Hartley in the WEC, the Six Hours of Fuji.

The number eight Toyota won the race and Toyota's first race win at home for three years.

More importantly, it put them at the top of the pile in the WEC championship, 10 points ahead of the number seven car, and man, was he happy.

Yes

... got it very loose indeed, and Brendan Hartley, no second invitation required, dives through in the Toyota.

So these are both out laps, aren't they, for these cars, on, uh, tires that will be probably brand-new as well.

Brendan Hartley actually not shown on brand-new tires, but I would imagine that he's been given a fresh set certainly on one side, and there's an element then of the tires building temperature.

But Brendan Hartley is renowned for being able to turn the tires on very quickly indeed.

For a long time, he was the chosen qualifying driver, although Ryo Hirakawa has generally taken that role up.

We, we will not know who was due to qualify the Toyotas at their home race yesterday because, of course, that didn't, it didn't happen.

But the hospitality is sold out without a question above the pit lane, viewing all of these Toyota stops.