WEC – 8 HOURS OF BAHRAIN Preview

Before every little thing the 2020 8 Hours of Bahrain turned into as soon as going to be Round 4 of the 2020/21 season nonetheless with the advent of the Covid19 pandemic the 2020 8 Hours of Bahrain is now the season finale of the 2019/20 season. 

Located in the desert, the Bahrain Worldwide Circuit provides a particular venture for the drivers and teams in a hunch that will enact after the solar devices over the Gulf. 

ENTRY LIST

CLICK HERE for the entry checklist for the 2020 8 Hours of Bahrain

RACE WINNERS

 LAP RECORDS

FIA WEC TIMETABLE

Thursday, 11 November​

08: 30 – 12: 30       ​​Scrutineering

17: 30 – 19: 00 ​​      Free Be aware #1 

Friday, 13 November​

09: 00 – 10: 30       Free Be aware #2

13: 45 – 14: 45 ​​      Free Be aware #3 

18: 00 – 18: 20​ ​      Qualifying – LMGTE-PRO/LMGTE-AM

18: 30 – 18: 50​ ​      Qualifying – LMP1/LMP2

19: 00​ ​​                  Qualifying Press Convention

Saturday, 14 November

14: 00 – 22: 00 ​​      RACE: 8 Hours of Bahrain

22: 15​​​                   Post-hunch Press Convention

FIA OFFICIALS

Eduardo Freitas             FIA Trot Director

Michael Schwagerl        FIA Worldwide Steward

Tim Mayer                    FIA Worldwide Steward

Marek Nawarecki          FIA Coordinator

Manuel Leal                  FIA Technical Delegate

Jacques Tropenat          FIA Clinical Delegate

Jeff Carter                     FIA Media Delegate

Cristobal Lopera            Chief timekeeper

Yannick Dalmas             FIA Driver Adviser

FACTS AND FIGURES

1. The longest 6 Hour hunch turned into as soon as held in 2016 with the no8 Audi R18 ending 201 laps, the first time the hunch distance had exceeded 200 laps.  In 2019 the hunch length turned into as soon as prolonged to eight hours and the no7 Toyota TS050 carried out 257 laps or 1390.88km.
2. Audi won in 2012 and 2016, Toyota in 2013, 2014, 2017 and 2019 and Porsche in 2015.
3. ORECA dangle won six of the seven LMP2 races:  Pecom Racing in 2012, G-Drive Racing in 2013 and 2016, KCMG in 2014, Insurrection Racing in 2017 and United Autosports in 2019.  Ligier won in 2015 with G-Drive Racing.
4. Ferrari won LMGTE Pro four instances, from 2012 to 2014 with Toni Vilander winning all three events.  The Finn won in 2012 with Giancarlo Fisichella and in 2013 and 2014 with Gianmaria Bruni. In 2017 Davide Rigon and Sam Rooster won for the ‘Prancing Horse’  Porsche won in 2015 with victory for Patrick Pilet and Fred Makowiecki, whereas Aston Martin were victorious in 2016 and 2019 with Nicky Thiim and Marco Sorensen.
5. Porsche and Aston Martin dangle shared the LMGTE Am class honours.  Porsche won in 2012, 2016 and 2019 whereas Aston Martin took the class consume in 2013, 2014, 2015 and 2017.
6. Mike Conway, Nicki Thiim and Sam Rooster are the finest drivers to consume the hunch in Bahrain in two completely different lessons. In 2013 Conway won LMP2 with G-Drive Racing.  In 2014 he won in LMP1 with Toyota. Thiim won the LMGTE Am class in 2013 and 2014 and the LMGTE Pro class in 2016 and 2019, all with Aston Martin Racing.  Sam Rooster won LMP2 in 2015 with G-Drive Racing and LMGTE Pro with AF Corse Ferrari in 2017.
7. Drivers who dangle won in Bahrain three or extra instances

8. The recent quickest hunch lap file is held by Lucas Di Grassi (Audi) who scheme a 1m41.511 in November 2016

BAHRAIN INTERNATIONAL CIRCUIT

9. Opened in 2004, the Bahrain Worldwide Circuit turned into as soon as in-constructed 16 months and cost $150 million.
10. The Bahrain Worldwide Circuit is 5.412km / 3.362 miles in length.
11. The circuit has 15 turns (9 beautiful and 6 left).
12. Length of birth up/enact straight is 1,090 m.
13. Circuit floodlighting – turning evening into day.  A little bit of the floodlight diagram turned into as soon as partially frail all the scheme thru the 2013 6 Hours of Bahrain and turned into as soon as fully operational for the 2014 hunch. 
    • 495 gentle poles erected alongside the note
    • Each and each pole 10 to 45 metres in top
    • 5,000 lights
    • Extra than 500km of cabling

THE KINGDOM OF BAHRAIN

14. The Kingdom of Bahrain is an archipelago of 35 islands masking 780 sq. kilometres, making Bahrain the third smallest nation in Asia after the Maldives and Singapore, and has a population of 1.3 million.
15. Bahrain is the discipline of the frail land of the Dilmun civilisation. Bahrain turned into as soon as one of many earliest areas to remodel to Islam in 628 AD. Following a length of Arab rule, Bahrain turned into as soon as occupied by the Portuguese in 1521, who in turn were expelled in 1602 by Shah Abbas I of the Safavid dynasty below the Persian Empire.  In 1783, the Bani Utbah clan captured Bahrain from Nasr Al-Madhkur and it has since been ruled by the Al Khalifa royal household, with Ahmed al Fateh as Bahrain’s first hakim.
16. Bahrain turned into as soon as a British protectorate from 1880 except 1971, when the Kingdom modified into fair.
17. Causeways hyperlink essentially the most most notable island with two other islands and with its closest neighbour, Saudi Arabia.
18. In Arabic, Bahrayn is the twin rate of bahr (“sea”), so al-Bahrayn manner “the 2 seas”.
19. Bahrain World Substitute Centre is the first skyscraper on the earth to integrate wind mills into its earn. Each and each turbine is 29m in diameter and their capacity is 675kw of wind vitality production.
20. Bahrain’s flag frail to be the largest flag on the earth, atmosphere a Guinness world file in 2004 at 169.5m long and 97.1m huge. The 5 crimson ingredients signify the 5 pillars of Islam.

FIA WORLD ENDURANCE CHAMPIONSHIP CLASSIFICATIONS

The provisional classifications for the whole Championship will also be came all the scheme thru on the next LINK