🗣️'It’s a normal race and nothing happens [to Toyota], the best we can hope for is P3.' Andre Negrao believes that the FIAWEC points-leading Alpine has no chance of victory at Fuji due to changes to the Balance of Performance ⬇️
Toyota dominated the two 90-minute sessions on its home turf ahead of the penultimate race of the 2022 WEC season, locking out the top two spots with its pair of GR010 HYBRID LMH cars.- and also failed to beat the best of the Peugeot 9X8s earlier in the morning session.for the first WEC event in Japan in three years, which has granted both Toyota and Peugeot a weight reduction while taking away 39bhp from Alpine’s Gibson engine.
“We knew since we won at Monza that the BoP would change, and that it would be much more difficult for us,” Negrao told Autosport. “It’s a six-hour race, a lot can happen, but if it’s a normal race and nothing happens [to Toyota], the best we can hope for is P3. Also now we have Peugeot that can take away points from us.”
The second of the two GR010 HYBRIDs, the #7 entry piloted by Kamui Kobayashi, Jose Maria Lopez and Mike Conway, retired from the Sebring opener won by Alpine and sits 30 points off the lead with little possibility of defending its 2021 crown.With Alpine's chances of a victory at Fuji appearing slim, Negrao hopes that the outfit doesn’t lose too much ground in Japan to remain in the title hunt in Bahrain, where 38 points will be awarded to the winning crew instead of the usual 25.
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