Cadillac claimed their first victory within the FIA World Endurance Championship with a dominant 1-2 end in Sao Paulo in six hours.
No. 12 Cadillac v-Sequence.R was run by Jota and shared by Alex Lynn and shared by Norman NATO and Will Stevens.
With Ferrari and Toyota not featured close to the entrance, the race shortly advanced right into a three-way battle between the 2 Cadillacs and Julian Andrauer and Michael Christensen’s fifth Porsche Penske Motorsport 963.
Andrauer began the lightning bolt to take the Porsche lead from second on the grid, and Stevens fell to 3rd in pole sitter No. 12 Cadillac after being handed a drive-through penalty for a tire breach. This led to Bamber’s second promotion in automobile quantity 38.
By the tip of the second hour, each Cadillacs had rolled up Andrauer. Nevertheless, Bamber finally handed Porsche and have become muscular to Sennas, placing No. 38 Cadillac in entrance.
Simply earlier than Reid modified palms, Stevens arrived early within the pit, and with an undercut, Lynn was no. It was newly put in on a 12 Cadillac and jumped in entrance of 38 vehicles.
No. 38 retained gas benefit at that stage, however each vehicles stopped inside one another’s laps at the beginning of the ultimate time, successfully locking into No. 12 monitor place.
NATO took the automobile house earlier than Bullday and sealed off the Common Motors 1-2 end. The victory additionally marked Jota’s second WEC victory, following final 12 months’s six-hour Spa victory on the buyer Porsche 963.
Andrauer made the ultimate push within the ultimate levels, however needed to accept third place with one of the best Porsche. Three vehicles had been completed with lead laps.
Lawrence Vantor and Kevin Esther’s sixth Porsche climbed from seventh to 4th on the grid, overcoming a five-second penalty for a pit lane breaches.
Sheldon van der Linde, Rene Raast and Marco Wittman have recovered from a drive-through penalty for a full-course yellow violation. Van der Linde sealed his place with lower than 10 minutes left, overtaking Loic Duval’s 94 Peugeot 9×8 to show 4.
Duval, together with teammates Mar Jacobsen and Stoffel Vandorn, took the French maker’s greatest results of the season, sixth place. Peugeot, quantity 93, Jean Eric Bargne, Paul Di Retta and Mickel Jensen, completed with Peugeot’s double-point end, following in seventh place.
Ferrari’s profitable streak at WEC in 2025 led to Brazil. Le Mans Prize-winning No. 83 499p was personally chosen as AF Corse completed eighth within the hypercar class.
Mick Schumacher took No. 36, ALPM A424, which he shared with Frederick Makoviekki and Jules Goonon, to ninth place, with the ultimate level going to No. 99 Yoko Porsche with Nico Barone, Neil Jani and Nico Pino.
The very best of the Manufacturing facility Ferrari LMH vehicles was the quantity 51st entry main the championships of Alessandro Piaggidi, James Carad and Antonio Giovinazzi.
The No. 50 Ferrari declined on the twelfth after contacting Benkeating’s No. 33 Corvette Z06.GT3.
Toyota was hit much more than the Ferrari. Each the GR010 hybrids got here out from the purpose for a couple of laps on the 14th and fifteenth, a 12 months after final 12 months’s dominant victory.
Lexus Triumphs for LMGT3
Toyota struggled with the hypercar, however its sister model Lexus delivered dominant efficiency with the LMGT3. Pushed by Jose Maria Lopez, Clemens Schmidt and Razvan Umbrelescu, the 87 ASP Lexus RC F GT3 gained greater than half-hour of sophistication victory.
Umbrarescu handed the pole-sitting No. 10 racing spirit of Anthony McIntosh’s Leman Aston Martin Vantage GT3 at the beginning, and didn’t look again on the entrance main all through the race.
The victory was by no means questioned, however the second struggle was livid on the end. Charlie Eastwood misplaced Michelle Gatting to safe runner-up place within the 81 TF Sport Corvette Z06 GT3.R.
House favorite Eduardo Barrichello additionally cleared the gutting to 3rd place with MacIntosh and Valentin Husse Clotte, No. 10, Aston Martin.
Gatting completed fourth within the 85 Iron Dams Porsche 911 GT3 R, together with Sarabovi and Seria Martin.
Take a look at the total outcomes of the WEC Sao Paulo race right here
