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The 2014 6 Hours of Silverstone was an
endurance
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sports car racing event held at the
Silverstone Circuit near
Silverstone,
England
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on 17–20 April 2014. The event served as the opening round of the
2014 World Endurance Championship, and overall race winners were awarded the annual
Tourist Trophy by the
Royal Automobile Club
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.
Toyota
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became the first Japanese manufacturer to win
Silverstone's endurance race, with
Anthony Davidson
Anthony Denis Davidson (born 18 April 1979) is a British former racing driver, currently working as an analyst for the Sky Sports F1 television channel, as part of the commentary team for WEC TV, as colour commentator for the F1 series of vide ...
,
Sébastien Buemi
Sébastien Olivier Buemi (born 31 October 1988) is a Swiss professional racing driver, who competes in the FIA Formula E Championship for Envision Racing. He competed for Scuderia Toro Rosso in Formula One from 2009 to 2011. After leaving Formula ...
, and
Nicolas Lapierre leading the team's second
TS040 Hybrid to a 1–2 finish. The race, which had run under mixed weather conditions, was stopped in the final half-hour of competition due to heavy rains and not restarted.
Porsche, making their return to the
prototype categories with the debuting
919 Hybrid, completed the overall race podium with third place. Accidents ended the race of both
Audi R18 e-tron quattro
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cars after the World Champions had started strongly.
Rebellion Racing
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's
Nicolas Prost
Nicolas "Nico" Jean Prost (born 18 August 1981) is a French professional racing driver. He most recently raced in the FIA Formula E Championship before quitting the series. Also, he was a longstanding racer in the FIA World Endurance Championshi ...
,
Nick Heidfeld
Nick Lars Heidfeld (born 10 May 1977) is a German professional racing driver.
Despite scoring regular podium finishes in with Williams Grand Prix Engineering, Williams, and in and with BMW in Formula One, BMW Sauber, Heidfeld never won a rac ...
, and
Mathias Beche
Mathias Beche (born 28 June 1986 in Geneva) is a Swiss professional racing driver. He finished eighth overall and second in the LMP2 class of the 2012 24 Hours of Le Mans and is the reigning champion of the European Le Mans Series in the LMP2 clas ...
were the only team to reach the finish in the LMP1-L category, while
G-Drive Racing's
Morgan-
Nissan won the LMP2 class. Lock-out 1–2 victories were also earned by
Porsche in LMGTE Pro and British marque
Aston Martin in LMGTE Am.
Qualifying results
Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.
Race
Race result
Class winners in bold.
See also
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2014 4 Hours of Silverstone
The 4 Hours of Silverstone was an endurance motor race held at the Silverstone Circuit near Silverstone, England on 18–19 April 2014, and served as the opening round of the 2014 European Le Mans Series, and the first race under the series' new ...
References
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