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The 2023 Bapco Energies 8 Hours of Bahrain was an endurance
The 2023 Bapco Energies 8 Hours of Bahrain was an endurance sportscar racing
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event held on 4 November 2023, as the seventh and final round of the 2023 FIA World Endurance Championship
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. It was the twelfth running of the event
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, and the fifth running in an extended 8 hours format.
Background
On 26 October 2023, the FIA published the Balance of Performance (BoP) for the Hypercar and LMGTE AM classes. In Hypercar, theCadillac
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and Porsche
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both lost 7 kilograms of weight. They also both lost 1 MJ of maximum stint energy. For all other cars in the class, the BoP remained the same as it was during the Fuji round. In LMGTE Am, the Aston Martin
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received a fuel tank increase of 2 litres and an 0.04 increase in engine power. The Corvette
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received a fuel tank decrease of 2 litres, and a decrease of 0.6 mm for the maximum size of the air restrictor. For the Porsche
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and Ferrari
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, the BoP remained the same as it was during the Fuji round.
Entry list
There were 36 cars entered into the event: 12 Hypercars, 11 LMP2 cars, and 13 LMGTE Am cars. In Hypercar, Ryan Briscoe replaced João Paulo de Oliveira in the No. 4 Floyd Vanwall Racing Team machine. Furthermore, Nico Müller returned to the No. 94 Peugeot TotalEnergies machine, after missing the Fuji round due to an injury. In LMP2, Mirko Bortolotti returned to the No. 63 Prema Racing machine, and Tom Blomqvist returned to the No. 23 United Autosports machine. In LMGTE Am, Franck Dezoteux joined the No. 21AF Corse
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machine, with Liam Talbot replacing Satoshi Hoshino in the No. 777 D'Station Racing machine. Furthermore, Esteban Masson
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joined the No. 57 Kessel Racing
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He was born in Lugano and died in Montagnola following a long illness.
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machine, replacing Ritomo Miyata
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E ...
, whilst Daniel Serra
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He won 3 ti ...
also returned after missing the previous two rounds.
Schedule
Free practice
* Only the fastest car in each class is shown.Qualifying
Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.Race
The minimum number of laps for classification (70% of overall winning car's distance) was 174 laps. Class winners are in bold and .References
Bahrain
Bahrain ( ; ; ar, البحرين, al-Bahrayn, locally ), officially the Kingdom of Bahrain, ' is an island country in Western Asia. It is situated on the Persian Gulf, and comprises a small archipelago made up of 50 natural islands and an ...
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