Ferrari may have won the sports car race that matters most, but Toyota's GR010 has won every other race it entered this year.
For the past five years, Toyota has run effectively unopposed in an FIA World Endurance Championship with no other major manufacturers in the top class of prototype racing. That changed when Ferrari, Porsche, Peugeot, and Cadillac all joined the grid full-time this year, but Toyota's record in the series did not. With a win in today's WEC season finale in Bahrain, Toyota has completed yet another championship season.
While all five manufacturers led at times during the 24 Hours of Le Mans, most WEC rounds have looked like today's race at Bahrain: A runaway win for Toyota, with Ferraris successfully holding off Porsches a few minutes behind. Next season, those four manufacturers will face BMW M Hybrid V8s run in Europe for the first time by new factory partner Team WRT, a new factory entry from Lamborghini, and a Peugeot program set to introduce an updated 9X8 racer.
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