Text & Images: Rick Kiewiet Toyota left the inaugural 6 Hours of Barcelona with a one-two finish and the 2026 Hypercar Manufacturers’ World Championship, its eighth title in 14 seasons. The #8 Toyota TR010 Hybrid of Sébastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley and Ryo Hirakawa won by 0.583 seconds from the sister #7 car, in a race that started wet and dried out. In LMGT3, the #92 The Bend Manthey Porsche of Yasser Shahin, Riccardo Pera and Richard Lietz took a dominant win, which keeps t

Text & Images: Rick Kiewiet Genesis has its first pole position in the FIA World Endurance Championship. Mathys Jaubert put the #17 Genesis GMR-001 on top of the Hypercar order for the 6 Hours of Barcelona, and at his age he is also the youngest driver ever to start a WEC race from pole. Toyota’s #8 TR010 was second, with the second Genesis in third. In LMGT3, Tom Fleming delivered pole for Garage 59 after arriving at the Circuit de Barcelona-Catalunya only on Saturday mornin