A turnaround here in Bahrain, with a penalty for the #51 Ferrari 499P. The reason, Ferrari AF Corse used two extra tires while – as a reminder – each Hypercar competitor has available, for qualifying and the race, a total of 26 tires.
The college thus decided to inflict by decision no. 40 two Stop & Gos of two minutes (one per tire) on the car of Alessandro Pier Guidi / James Calado / Antonio Giovinazzi, i.e. 4’55” penalty, transformed into 2 laps removed plus 1’10″890 on the race time. Which pushes the latter back to last place in the Hypercar category.
Consequently, in addition to the rise of the Porsche n°5 – Porsche Penske of Makowiecki – Christensen – Campbell in second position, the Peugeot 9X8 n°93 of the trio Mikkel Jensen / Jean-Eric Vergne / Nico Müller offers itself an unexpected podium but welcome, she who had seen the “box” slip away a few minutes from the goal in Qatar, scene of the inaugural round of the 2024 season.
This is the second podium signed by the 9X8 since its competition debut, the first for the 2024 version equipped with a rear wing.
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