Date: 11th September 2022
Location: Fuji, Japan
Official Classification:
1st | #8 TOYOTA GAZOO Racing (Buemi/Hirakawa/Hartley) | 232 Laps |
2nd | #7 TOYOTA GAZOO Racing (Conway/Kobayashi/Lopez) | +1:08.382 |
3rd | #36 Alpine ELF Team (Negrao/Lapierre/Vaxiviere) | +2 Laps |
4th | #93 Peugeot Total Energies (DiResta/Jensen/Vergne) | +7 Laps |
5th | #31 WRT (Galael/Frijns/Vanthoor) | +7 Laps |
6th | #38 JOTA (Gonzalez/Da Costa/Stevens) | +8 Laps |
Brendon Hartley – #8 TOYOTA GAZOO Racing GR010:
“We had an amazing car today and the race was incredibly smooth; it doesn’t often happen like that. On our car we saw the track temperatures were likely to be high so we went a different direction on set-up and it worked, we were a bit quicker than the sister car. Séb did a strong first stint then I was able to build a gap and Ryo drove well at the end. It was one of those races where everything just worked perfectly. Big thanks to the engineering team and the mechanics; as a crew we were very strong. Now the World Championship fight comes down to Bahrain, which is pretty cool.”
Drivers’ Championship Positions after Round 5:
=1st | Brendon Hartley | 121 |
=1st | Sébastien Buemi | 121 |
=1st | Ryo Hirakawa | 121 |
=1st | André Negrão | 121 |
=1st | Matthieu Vaxiviere | 121 |
=1st | Nicolas Lapierre | 121 |
3rd | Jose Maria Lopez | 95 |
3rd | Kamui Kobayashi | 95 |
3rd | Mike Conway | 95 |
Hypercar World Championship Positions after Round 5:
1st | Toyota Gazoo Racing | 147 |
2nd | Alpine Elf Matmut | 121 |
3rd | Glickenhaus Racing | 70 |