Kévin Estre, André Lotterer and Laurens Vanthoor have secured the drivers' world championship crown at the final round of this season's FIA World Endurance Championship WEC. At the eight-hour race in Bahrain, the trio crossed the finish line eleventh in their hybrid prototype – enough to claim the title.
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00:00Saturday here in Bahrain, it's going to be a tough one obviously coming down for the
00:15championship for the six car and for the manufacturers championship so for sure it will be an exciting
00:20race.
00:21I think all the pressure is for sure on the six car so for us it's business as usual,
00:25we see what we can do at the end.
00:27This is the prize we want to achieve, it's still a race to be done, it can be either
00:31a beautiful day or a horrible day but I'm betting on the beautiful one.
00:35The first step, especially the first lap was quite difficult you know, I think for an eight
01:00hour race in the first lap people were racing far too hard and I was just trying to avoid
01:04contact early on.
01:06In the second stint, undercut a little bit and then we had really fantastic pace towards
01:10the end of the stint and coming back at P4 so a great start, still a long race to go
01:14and yeah let's see what happens.
01:15I think we had a good stint with me, a good double stint, came back to I think P8, Andre
01:24did a mega job, now there was a safety car so everybody is bunched up together, two hours
01:30to go, we're P5, seven seconds off the lead so, so far so good but it's quite an intense race.
01:35Celebrations air from the crew of Car 6, they are the FIA World Endurance Champions.
01:52What's the season for Porsche?
01:57World champion, champion of the world in the FIA World Endurance Championship, unbelievable
02:04season and really proud to be part of this team, Porsche Penske and so very proud of
02:10what we achieved.
02:11We were very united and solid throughout the whole year, today was not the best race but
02:17doesn't matter we won the world championship and we can celebrate this.
02:20At this moment you don't realise because you're overwhelmed but look back at those pictures
02:24and those videos and the rest of my life they will be, will always be in my memory for the
02:28rest of my life, that's true.
02:30It doesn't get much better than that.