WEC – CoTA Facts and Figures

We’ve set up collectively some intriguing facts and figures referring to the occasion, the WEC and the three.4-mile circuit shut to Austin.

1. The predominant ever FIA World Patience Championship trail changed into held in the USA at Sebring, Florida in March 2012.  In 2013 the date of the North American round changed into moved to September and the trail will more than doubtless be held at the Circuit of the Americas.
2. The occasion changed into named the Lone Star Le Mans in 2014.  The WEC trail is the 6 Hours of Circuit of The Americas.
3. The 2020 Lone Star Le Mans occasion replaces the 6 Hours of Sao Paulo (BRA) on the time table.
4. Audi received the predominant three FIA WEC races held in the USA.  Tom Kristensen / Dindo Capello / Allan McNish received the 12 Hours of Sebring in 2012, Tom Kristensen / Loic Duval / Allan McNish received at the Circuit of The Americas in 2013 and Marcel Fässler / Andre Lotterer / Benoit Tréluyer received in 2014.
5. The 2015 trail changed into received by the eventual World Patience Champions in the no17 Porsche 919 Hybrid Mark Webber, Brendon Hartley and Timo Bernhard.  The trio repeated the grab in 2016 and in 2017 the Porsche received again with Hartley and Bernhard being joined by Earl Bamber after Mark Webber retired at the cease of the 2016 season.
6. Aston Martin received every the LMGTE Official and Am classes in 2013, 2014 and 2016, while Paul Dalla Lana, Pedro Lamy and Mathias Lauda added but every other GTE AM grab for the British crew in 2017, the third COTA class victory for Dalla Lana and Lamy.  In 2015 the no91 Porsche Team Manthey of Richard Lietz and Michael Christensen took victory in the LMGTE Official class, while the SMP Racing Ferrari 458 Italia of Victor Shaytar, Andrea Bertolini and Aleksey Basov took the grab in LMGTE Am. Ferrari received the GTE PRO combat in 2017, with inaugural GT World Champions James Calado and Alessandro Pier Guidi a hit the six hour trail.
7. G Power Racing and Signatech Alpine luxuriate in shared the LMP2 pole characteristic in Texas.  The Russian crew secured pole in 2013, 2014 and 2015, while the French crew took the cease predicament in 2016 and 2017.
8. G Power Racing secured the cease step of the LMP2 podium from pole characteristic in 2013 and 2015, while the no47 KCMG Oreca-Nissan took victory in 2014.  Signatech Alpine had two lights-to-flag victories in 2016 and 2017.
9. The LMP2 grid will consist of American crew Dragonspeed which received the LMP2 class at the Daytona 24 Hours ultimate month.
10. Three of the four WEC lap records (LMP2, LMGTE PRO and LMGTE AM) date support to the predominant 6 Hours of COTA in 2013, while the LMP1 lap file changed into broken by Loïc Duval in 2016.
11. LAP RECORDS

12. 30 WEC autos will compete in Texas, representing 10 varied international locations – CHE, JPN, USA, GBR, NLD, DNK, FRA, CHN, ITA, DEU
13. 81 drivers may be on the grid at CoTA, from 24 international locations – ARG, AUS, AUT, BEL, BRA, CAN, CHE, DEU, DNK, ESP, FRA, GBR, IRL, ITA, JPN, MCO, MEX, NOR, NLD, NZL, PRT, SWE, TUR, USA.
14. The Circuit of the Americas is mainly the most intriguing FIA-certified Grade 1 monitor in america.
15. The Circuit of The Americas monitor is a 3.4-mile circuit monitor with capacity for 120,000 followers and an elevation replace of 133 feet / 40.5m. 
16. Construction of the monitor began in January 2011
17. The predominant lap of the finished circuit changed into performed by legendary US racer Mario Andretti.
18. The monitor is 20-turn, counterclockwise and attracts inspiration from basically the most intriguing circuits across the realm. There’s a steep, uphill trail into the hairpin Flip 1, which has changed into the venue’s signature nook. Turns 3 by map of 6 be aware now not dissimilar to Silverstone’s excessive-trail Maggotts/Becketts; Turns 12 by map of 15 give a nod to Hockenheim’s stadium piece.
19. Construction of the 375-acre Circuit of The Americas venture worth approximately $400 million in non-public investment and create approximately 1,700 construction jobs.
20. The 25 storey Statement Tower changed into designed by Austin-based Miró Rivera Architects and supplies some friendly views of the circuit, the Texas countryside and Austin skyline.