The Bahrain 8 Hours, the final act of the 2025 FIA WEC, will see the number 51 499P crewed by championship leaders Alessandro Pier Guidi, James Calado and Antonio Giovinazzi start from seventh place. The sister car, number 50, fielded by the Ferrari \u2013 AF Corse team and shared by Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina and Nicklas Nielsen, will line up 11th.\u00a0One position further back will be the number 83 499P entered by private team AF Corse and driven by official Ferrari driver Yifei Ye together with Robert Kubica and Phil Hanson, who lie second in the World Drivers\u2019 standings.<\/p>\n
The race, decisive for the world titles, will get underway at 2 p.m. local time on Saturday, 8 November.<\/p>\n
Qualifying.\u00a0In the first timed session, contested on a dry track with air and asphalt temperatures of around 29\u00b0C and 34\u00b0C respectively, Giovinazzi qualified the number 51 car, stopping the clocks at 1\u201947\u201d949 \u2013 a time worth eighth place, +0\u201d659 off the leaders \u2013 securing access to the Hyperpole.<\/p>\n
Fuoco\u2019s run with the number 50 499P was more affected by traffic on the track: by just 39 thousandths of a second the Italian driver \u2013 whose best lap was 1\u201948\u201d176 \u2013 missed out on the top ten. Fuoco took a spot on the sixth row of the starting grid, as did Robert Kubica, 12th with the number 83 499P. The Pole\u2019s best time was 1\u201948\u201d186.<\/p>\n
Hyperpole.\u00a0In the decisive session to determine the top ten positions, Antonio Giovinazzi improved on his previous best, completing a lap of the Sakhir circuit in 1\u201947\u201d726 \u2013 0\u201d900 off pole position, which earned him seventh on the grid.<\/p>\n
Programme.\u00a0The Bahrain 8 Hours, eighth and final round of the World Endurance Championship, will start at 2 p.m. on Saturday, 8 November.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The Bahrain 8 Hours, the final act of the 2025 FIA WEC, will see the number 51 499P…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":120821,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[9],"tags":[9342,76802,76803,14302,34114,31611,85,46,105],"class_list":["post-120820","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-sports","tag-9342","tag-499p","tag-8-hours-of-bahrain","tag-ferrari","tag-fia-wec","tag-hypercar","tag-il","tag-israel","tag-sports"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120820","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120820"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120820\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/120821"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120820"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120820"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/il\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120820"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}