WEC Full Access from the 6 Hours of Fuji – round seven of the 2025 FIA World Endurance Championship campaign last 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.
From lights-out to chequered flag, the 2025 edition of the 6 Hours of Fuji – the championship’s milestone 100th race – unquestionably packed a punch. As entertaining as it was unpredictable, it ended with a wholly unexpected winner and a result that prolonged the chase for the coveted crown all the way to the Bahrain season finale.
Fuji Speedway is a special place on the FIA WEC calendar, bringing together some of the most passionate motor racing fans on the planet and regularly serving up sizeable doses of drama around its demanding 4.563km layout. The latest event was no exception.
Following the traditional pre-race pageantry and tactic talks, join the drivers on-board over the course of an intense opening lap. With its immersive camera angles, WEC Full Access unfailingly puts viewers right at the heart of the action, as Hypercars slice their way incisively past the LMGT3 traffic and competitors engage in frenetic fights for position.
There were stories of delight and despair throughout the high-calibre field in Japan. The #007 Aston Martin Valkyrie got involved in its fair share of scrapes, with both Harry Tincknell and team-mate Tom Gamble finding themselves caught up in collisions on an otherwise hugely successful and promising weekend for the famous British carmaker.
Having endured a tough season as defending champions, Toyota appeared to be in the mix to maintain its stunning rostrum run on home soil, only for a rare strategic mistake by the Japanese manufacturer to drop its #7 hybrid Hypercar from the lead down to 13th place.
Qualifying pace-setter Cadillac was another to come away disappointed, with WEC Full Access capturing the moment when an ill-timed safety car intervention – prompted by Raffaele Marciello’s crashed BMW – dashed the American marque’s hopes for a second victory from three rounds.
Alpine, by contrast, looked to be out for the count early on, with delays for both of its cars leaving them a long way down the order. The #35 A424’s race seemed to be unravelling when Ferdinand Habsburg clipped the rear of Sébastien Buemi’s Toyota in a dice over ninth place, but another neutralisation towards the end of the fourth hour brought the French prototype back into play.
A bold and decisive late roll of the dice by Alpine Endurance Team then catapulted the car piloted by Habsburg, Paul-Loup Chatin and Charles Milesi to the front of the field, with the latter maintaining that advantage through to the finish to send the squad into post-race rapture.
There were no such celebrations on this occasion for championship leaders Ferrari, who never truly featured in the fight for honours in Japan, but the Prancing Horse continues to hold the upper hand heading into the eagerly-anticipated title-deciding showdown in Sakhir on 6-8 November.
That will be an event you certainly don’t want to miss, but in the meantime, make sure to re-live all of the highlights from the 6 Hours of Fuji via the penultimate 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 tonight (Monday, 27 October) at 20:00 CEST.
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