WEC Full Access from the Bapco Energies 8 Hours of Bahrain – the eighth and final round of the 2025 FIA World Endurance Championship campaign earlier this month – is now available to watch for subscribers of the FIA WEC App.
Offering fans a fascinating insight into the stars of the show, WEC Full Access covers everything from team briefings to heated mid-race discussions. It is the ultimate behind-the-scenes series, documenting the most private areas of the FIA WEC paddock.
Against a dramatic desert backdrop, titles were decided over the course of eight hours of breathless on-track action in Bahrain, with the post-race celebrations interspersed by fond farewells.
From the crucial pre-event track walk – as competitors establish their bearings and find out what has changed since they were last on-site in Sakhir – to drivers’ race day preparations, WEC Full Access doesn’t leave a single stone unturned in this fascinating flashback to a championship-defining weekend.
Join the protagonists on the starting grid as tensions rise before lights-out, then jump into the cockpit and settle into the driving seat for a fast-and-frantic opening lap, as everybody jostles energetically for position with no quarter asked and absolutely none given – followed by a frenetic three-way fight for honours in the LMGT3 category in the closing stages.
As ever in WEC Full Access, multiple on-board camera angles put fans right at the heart of the exhilarating action, while the spotlight is similarly shone on pit-stops, driver changes and behind-closed-doors debriefs.
Aston Martin was one brand to experience disappointment in Bahrain, walking away with a lingering sense of what might have been. Marco Sørensen’s post-qualifying frustration was palpable, and then in the race, team-mate Alex Riberas unleashed a heroic performance to carve his way from fifth to first – another milestone achievement for the ever-improving Valkyrie Hypercar – only for a drive-through penalty for a Virtual Safety Car transgression to scupper what looked likely to be a breakthrough result.
In his last professional outing prior to hanging up his helmet, former Formula 1 World Champion Jenson Button also encountered ill-fortune as he clashed with VISTA AF Corse’s Thomas Flohr – sending the Ferrari 296 LMGT3 spearing spectacularly into the barriers and incurring the #38 Cadillac crew a 30-second stop-and-go penalty.
There were further emotional goodbyes in the Porsche Penske Motorsport pit, while over at Toyota, there was joy and jubilation. Following a fallow season as defending Manufacturers’ champion, the much-decorated Japanese carmaker delivered a knockout one-two finish around a circuit where it has frequently excelled.
If Toyota’s triumph prompted relief – banishing the unpalatable prospect of a first winless campaign in FIA WEC since 2015 – then the scene at Ferrari was one of exultation, as the Prancing Horse clinched its first global endurance racing crown in more than half-a-century.
Characteristic of the manner of the Italian marque’s success was the message sent to Antonio Giovinazzi mid-race that the #51 crew didn’t need to beat the Toyotas to secure the spoils. The Italian’s response – mere moments later – was to attack and pass the #8 GR010 Hybrid for second, as he and driving partners James Calado and Alessandro Pier Guidi grabbed the bull by the horns to seal the deal with a true champions’ drive.
Accompanied by expert analysis from 2014 FIA World Endurance Champion-turned-official series commentator Anthony Davidson, make sure you re-live all of the highlights from the Bapco Energies 8 Hours of Bahrain via the final instalment of this season’s WEC Full Access series, which can be viewed exclusively on the FIA WEC App. It will subsequently be published on the championship’s YouTube channel on Monday, 1 December at 20:00 CEST.
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