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Toyota Motorsport and drivers Anthony Davidson and Sebastien Buemi take their first World Endurance Championship titles.
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5 teams started at least one FIA WEC race in 2014, 4 started all of them (Audi, Porsche, Toyota and Rebellion) with the Lotus LMP team starting 5.
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6 different makes of car started races (the five above plus Rebellion’s Lolas at Silverstone).
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4 different makes of engine featured (Audi, Porsche, Toyota and AER) with three different hybrid systems in the LMP1-Hs, and three different engine configurations too, V4 Turbo, V6 TDI and normally aspirated V8.
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We had 12 different race cars on WEC grids this season racing under 10 different numbers, 3 x Audi #1,2 & 3, 2 x Porsche #14 & 20, 2 x Toyota #7 & 8, 2 x Rebellion (Lola and Rebellion R-Ones #11 & 12, 1 x Lotus CLM AER #9)
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All three factory teams won races in 2014.
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Toyota won 5 races (4 wins for the #8, 1 for #7), Audi won twice (both for the #2 car) and Porsche once (#14)
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Toyota scored four pole positions (3 for #8, 1 for #7) with Porsche also scoring four (the #14 Porsche scoring three poles and the #20 one).
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The #8 Toyota only finished off the podium once all season (Bahrain).
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The #8 and #7 Toyotas, and the #12 Rebellion were the only LMP1 cars to score at every round in the overall drivers' points standings.
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32 different drivers scored in the Drivers World Championship in 2014.
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Porsche’s two driver squads stayed stable through the whole season as did the #2 Audi.
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The #1 Audi saw Marc Gené sub for the injured Loïc Duval at Le Mans, the #8 Toyota lost Nicolas Lapierre after COTA, the #7 Toyota saw Mike Conway substitute for Kazuki Nakajima three times.
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Three further drivers were entered in WEC races but neither raced nor scored (Simon Trummer, Nathanaël Berthon and Oliver Jarvis).
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Swiss drivers finished 1st, 2nd and third in the 2014 points standings, Seb Buemi winning the title ahead of MarcelFässler and Neel Jani!
LMP1-L
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Only Rebellion won races in LMP1-L, the #12 crew taking five with the sister #13 winning three times.
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The #12 crew finished a season best fourth overall twice, at Silverstone with the Lola Toyota and at Le Mans with the Rebellion R-One.
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Only Shanghai saw all three LMP1-Ls finish the race.
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The best result for the #9 Lotus CLM came on its debut at COTA with second.
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The #13 Rebellion crew did not finish a race until winning at Fuji.
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Rebellion stayed with the same crews all season.
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The #12 crew finished 10th overall in the Drivers World Championship scoring the same points total as the #20 Porsche crew but losing out to a better overall best finish for the Porsche.
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The CLM’s AER V6 is the first non hybrid turbo engine in LMP1 in the WEC.
WEC Records
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Audi is still the Manufacturer with the most overall wins in the WEC over its three-year history (12), Toyota though now has 11, with Porsche a single win.
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Marcel Fässler, André Lotterer and Benoît Tréluyer now have a WEC record 8 overall race wins, Nicolas Lapierre has 6 victories and 2014 World Champions Sébastien Buemi and Anthony Davidson have 5 along with Alex Wurz. Tom Kristensen finishes his career with 4 together with Loïc Duval and Allan McNish.
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18 different drivers have now taken at least one overall WEC race win. Romain Dumas is the only driver with a race win for two different factory teams, a win apiece for Audi (Spa 2012), and Porsche (Interlagos 2014).
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Mike Conway and Stéphane Sarrazin are the only men with race wins in both LMP1 and LMP2 – Marc Gené has had an LMP1 win and a podium in LMP2, Mathias Beche has won in LMP2 and LMP1-L.
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The all-time top points scorers in the WEC are now the 2014 #2 Audi crew: Marcel Fässler, André Lotterer and Benoît Tréluyer with 448.75 points, overhauling Tom Kristensen’s total during the 2014 season (438).
Graham Goodwin / dailysportscar.com
