#6hCOTA 2024 staged the 250th victory across major #WEC classes by cars running Michelin Motorsport tyres. 🛞 91 overall wins (66 in LMP1, 25 in Hypercar) 🛞 9 LMP2 wins 🛞 73 GTE Pro wins 🛞 77 GTE Am wins 📸: FIAWEC/DPPI

4⃣ Cadillac recorded its best finish of 2024 at #6hCOTA, with P4 overall. The Chip Ganassi Racing (📸) Cadillac #WEC era ends with two home rounds, at Sebring 2023 and COTA 2024, for P4 finishes at both by #2.

🔟 Ferrari Hypercar (📸) is the 6th team to achieve 10 overall #WEC podiums, after Audi, TOYOTA GAZOO Racing WEC, Porsche LMP1 Team, Rebellion and Alpine Endurance Team. 🥇🥇🥈🥈🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉🥉

1 - The Heart of Racing #27 is the first #WEC LMGT3 car to win a race from pole position, and the first car in any class to convert pole to victory in 2024. This win was Aston Martin's first since #6hFuji 2022, which also started from pole.

Hypercar has produced as many new winning teams in the 2024 #WEC season - Porsche Penske, Hertz Team Jota and AF Corse, than its first three seasons combined - Toyota (2021), Alpine (2022) and Ferrari AF Corse (2023). 📸: FIAWEC/DPPI

2⃣ BMW M Motorsport (📸) achieved its first #WEC podium at #6hFuji back in 2018, when Antonio Felix da Costa and Tom Blomqvist drove the #82 M8 GTE to P2 in GTE Pro.

.KAMUI KOBAYASHI achieved his 46th total #WEC podium finish at #6hCOTA, overtaking Nico Lapierre for the new 4th-most podiums in the series. Kobayashi sits behind only Toyota #7 teammate Mike Conway, and #8 teammates Sebastien Buemi and Brendon Hartley. 📸: TOYOTA GAZOO Racing WEC

3⃣ Ferrari 499P (13 races, 32 starts since 2023) became the 9th top-class car to win three #WEC races overall at #6hCOTA, and sits on three victories alongside the Audi R18 (10 r, 21 s in 2012 & 2016) and the Rebellion R13 (15 r, 25 s between 2018 & 2020). 📸: Ferrari Hypercar

#6hCOTA polesitter Antonio Giovinazzi returns to the site of his #WEC debut next, as the Italian's maiden appearance came at #6hFuji in 2016. Giovinazzi drove Extreme Speed Motorsports' #30 Ligier JS P2 🐔 to P4 in LMP2 alongside Giedo van der Garde & Sean Gelael. 📸: Adrenal Media

🗻 A pair of Japanese drivers finished 3rd in #WEC GTE Am at #6hFuji in both 2022 - D’station Racing's Tomonobu Fujii & Satoshi Hoshino, and 2023 - Kessel Racing's Ritomo Miyata 宮田莉朋 & Takeshi Kimura. 📸: Focus Pack Media

🤩 #6hFuji 2015 saw Hollywood star Patrick Dempsey become a #WEC race-winner in GTE Am, for the eponymous, Proton Competition-run Porsche Motorsport (📸) squad. Dempsey's first podium in the series came earlier in the same season at #LeMans24 (P2). Dreamy.

#6hFuji 2024 will mark Brendon Hartley's 34th #WEC race for Toyota, or the same numbers of starts he made with Porsche LMP1 Team. 3⃣4⃣ With Porsche: 23 podiums, one Le Mans win & two world titles 3⃣3⃣ With Toyota: 25 podiums, two Le Mans wins, two world titles 📸: TOYOTA GAZOO Racing WEC

💯 WRT - W Racing Team (📸) has a 100% win rate in #6hFuji, dominating #WEC LMP2 by Robin Frijns, Dries Vanthoor & Sean Gelael in 2022, and Rui Andrade, Louis Delétraz & Robert Kubica in 2023.

🔟 The Heart of Racing's first #WEC victory at #6hCOTA 2024 was Aston Martin's 10th at this venue, becoming only the second GT marque to record 10 victories at a single circuit, after Ferrari at Spa. 📸: FIAWEC/DPPI

AF Corse's Robert Kubica recorded the fastest speed of the weekend at #6hCOTA, for the second time this #WEC season. 🇺🇸 316.0 kmh 🇮🇹 323.4 kmh 📸: FIAWEC/DPPI

⭐️ Toyota’s Sebastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley & Kazuki Nakajima delivered arguably the greatest performance in #WEC history at #6hFuji 2019, in front of TOYOTA GAZOO Racing WEC’s home fans 🇯🇵

#6hFuji 2023 was only the 7th #WEC race to produce a 100% finish rate. All 36 starters across Hypercar, LMP2 and GTE Am passed the chequered flag 🏁 📸: Focus Pack Media

6⃣ #6hFuji 2016 staged the first win in #WEC by a car wearing the number #6, for Toyota's first victory in 701 days, whilst Porsche Penske recorded the second such victory at the 2024 season-opener in Qatar. 📸: TOYOTA GAZOO Racing WEC

54 - Ferrari Races (📸) won GTE Am at #6hFuji twice - in 2017 and 2023, both by its #54 car. The 2023 race-winning crew of Davide Rigon, Thomas Flohr and FrancescoCastellacci return to Japan on the back of a DNF in COTA.

All three Ferrari Hypercar 499Ps have won a #WEC race, and as it stands, every driver to have raced the car has won in it - Antonio Giovinazzi, Ale Pier Guidi, James Calado, Nicklas Nielsen, Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina, Robert Kubica, Robert Shwartzman & Yifei Ye 叶一飞 📸: FIAWEC/DPPI