Toyota, Porsche celebrate WEC title success at Spa
The first titles of the 2018-19 FIA World Endurance Championship season w♑ere settled on Saturday at the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps as Toyota and Porsche toasted their successes.
Toyota entered the penultimate round of the season with the LMP1 teams' championship all but sewn up, with second-placed Rebellion Racing requi𝕴ring a 15-point gain to merely keep the title race al♛ive to the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

The first titles of the 2018-19 FIA World Endurance Championship season were settled on Saturday at the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps as Toyota and Porsche toasted th⛎eir successes.
Toyota entered the penultimate round of the season with the LMP1 teams' championship all but sewn up, with second-placed Rebellion Racing requiring a 15-point gain to merely keep the title race alive to the 24 Hoꦑurs of Le Mans.
Despite seeing the #7 Toyota TS050 Hybrid lose four laps in the pits to an electrical issue that meant it could only finish sixth, the #8 Toyota crew of Fernando Alonso, Sebastien Buemi and Kazuki Nakajima managed to cl♓inch their fourth win of the campaign to wrap up the teams' title with one race to spare.
"The team has done a great job," Toyota 🥃Gazoo Racing team director Rob Leupen said. "For us it’s been nice, it has been good. It started very well last year for us here, and continued into Le Mans. We would like to continue into another race.
"We still have one championship to win. Car 7 and Car 8 will fight on the drivers’ championship, so for us it was interesting, it’s great to do this. A lot of competition in the team but in a very nice, fair way, and for Toyota, I think an a🀅mazing season.
"Let’s go for a second Le Mans. It will be very difficult. But wಌe’ll go for it and we’ll definitely enjoy it."
"The most important thing probably today was securing the constructors’ championship, and I’m extremely happy forꦑ Toyota Gazoo that we did enough points to become world champions in the constructors’," added Fernando Alonso.
"A massive w🔯ell done to everyone in the team. It’s bee🐻n an amazing super season so far for all of us, and hopefully in Le Mans we can have the last nice touch on these races."
It marks Toyota's second major WEC teams' title following its manufacturers' championship win in 2014. The manufacturers' title was replaced by the LMP1 teams' cha♎mpi𝔉onship for the 2018-19 season due to the absence of multiple manufacturers in the class.

Porsche managed to wrap up its second world endurance👍 GTE manufacturers🐈' championship with one race to spare as it maintained its 100 percent podium record through the 2018-19 super season.
While Kevin Estre and Michael Christensen could only finish third in the #92 Porsche 911 RSR, with the sister #91 entry dropping down the orde💯r after a post-race penalty, the result was enough to give t✃he German marque the title.
It marks Porsche's second GTE title, its first coming in 2015, and breaks the two-season championship streak enjo๊yed by Ferrari through it🐷s AF Corse factory team.
"Winning the championship, which is in a ha꧙rd fight like this with five manufacturers, we are really proud of," Porsche GT director of motorsports Pascal Zurlinden said.
"With the hard work back at the factory, from our teꦬam and from our drivers, then it’s a great achi✤evement.
"After wi💙nning Le M🔴ans last year, we are still looking forward to the next big race which is coming in a few weeks."
The drivers' champions👍hip in all four classes remain up for grabs heading to Le Mans, as do the team titles in LM💙P2 and GTE-Am.