HAPPY BIRTHDAY: To 2017 #WEC (📸) LMP2 champion Bruno Senna 🇧🇷

Senna is a unique figure in the series, as the only driver to win in all four major classes - with Aston Martin Racing, RGRSport and REBELLION Racing, whilst becoming one of only 24 drivers to win 10+ races in the process.

DID YOU KNOW? 2022 is the first #WEC season since 2015 in which no LMP2 team has won 3️⃣ races in a row.

2016: Signatech and G-Drive
2017: Rebellion
2018/19: Jackie Chan DC
2019/20: United Autosports
2021: WRT

Four #WEC races in Bahrain staged unique overall podium orders, which have never occurred since 🇧🇭

2012: Audi - Audi - Strakka
2013: Toyota - Audi - G-Drive
2016: Audi - Audi - Porsche
2020: Toyota - Toyota - Jackie Chan DC

10 British drivers won in #WEC (📸) GTE Pro, the most of any nation. This group won for Aston Martin, Corvette, Ferrari & Ford.

Nick Tandy came closest for Porsche (P2 at Silverstone 2014).

Tom Blomqvist (P2 at Fuji 2018) & Alexander Sims (P2 at Sebring 2019) closest for BMW.

.Porsche Motorsport (📸) customer team Project 1 Motorsport won in GTE Am at both of their first two #8hBahrain races, in 2019 and 2020.

Both lineups featured Larry ten Voorde, in only his 2nd and 4th #WEC races. Sweet.

2022 is the 7th consecutive season in which both #WEC (📸) GTE Pro and Am Drivers’ titles will be claimed at the final round.

The last/only season to see either class’ title secured before the final race was 2014, when Bruni/Vilander & Heinemeier Hansson/Poulsen won in Bahrain.

The six races in Bahrain prior to 2019 saw only two 1-2 finishes, by Audi, on the first visit in 2012, and their last #WEC race in 2016.

The past four races however have seen Toyota (📸) finish 1-2 every year, including at the last-ever LMP1 race in 2020.

Of the 12 #WEC circuits a Corvette Motorsport (📸) has competed at, Bahrain is one of only two at which the marque has never achieved a podium finish, alongside Mexico.

The best result for a Corvette Racing in Bahrain came in 2012, with Larbre Competition finishing 4th in GTE Am.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY: To Hypercar driver Pipo Derani 🇧🇷

Derani’s 29th and most recent #WEC (📸) appearance came at #6hMonza 2022. 13 of those races ended with a podium - across LMP2 with G-Drive Racing and Extreme Speed Motorsports, GTE Pro with Ford Performance 🥇, and LMP1 for REBELLION Racing.

The 2022 #WEC season has seen 209 entrants over the five races thus far, a 9% increase from the 191 cars which competed by this stage of 2021.

Despite the increase in competition, the percentage of DNFs has dropped from 13% (24 cars), to 10% (21 cars) over the same period.

31 - WRT - W Racing Team’s win at #6hFuji was the 10th victory in LMP2 by cars wearing number #31. Fuji was WRT’s fifth win, with REBELLION Racing winning four times, and DragonSpeed once with the number.

Only numbers #26 (17 wins) and #38 (11 wins) have seen more LMP2 success.

#6hFuji 2022 saw Mike Conway and KAMUI KOBAYASHI record a 2nd-place finish for the 15th time each, matching Gianmaria Bruni and Sebastien Buemi’s P2 totals for the record-most in #WEC .

📸: TOYOTA GAZOO Racing WEC

Current LMP2 leaders Roberto González Valdes and Antonio Felix da Costa have shared a car at the last four races in Bahrain, alongside current #WEC (📸) commentator Anthony Davidson.

Their #38 finished on the podium at all four of these races.

2019 - P2
2020 - P2
2021 - P3
#8hBahrain 2021 - P2

Porsche (📸) left Bahrain 2015 with the #WEC GTE Pro Drivers’, Teams’ & Manufacturers titles, having ended the season with a win in the class.

It would have to wait 939 days for the next GTE Pro victory, and since then the marque has scored another 10 wins - the most in class.