2012 Fuji 6 Hours

The victorious Toyota TS030 Hybrid at the finish line

The overall winners Nicolas Lapierre , Kazuki Nakajima and Alexander Wurz

The second-placed Audi R18 e-tron quattro driven by André Lotterer , Benoît Tréluyer and Marcel Fässler at the pit stop

The 2012 6 Hours of Fuji , also 6 Hours of Fuji, Fuji Speedway , took place on October 14th at Fuji Speedway and was the seventh round of the FIA World Endurance Championship of that year.

Before the race

The race at Fuji Speedway was the penultimate round of the 2012 FIA World Endurance Championship . The world championship season began in March with the Sebring 12-hour race . The event on the traditional and uneven track in Sebring marked the beginning of the new sports car racing series . Audi achieved a double victory with the two Audi R18 TDIs . Allan McNish , Tom Kristensen and Rinaldo Capello won ahead of their team-mates Timo Bernhard , Romain Dumas and Loïc Duval . The following 6-hour race at Spa-Francorchamps saw an Audi one-two-three.

The 24-hour race at Le Mans also ended with a triple success for the Audis. The Toyota TS030 Hybrid made its debut in Le Mans and subsequently became an equal competitor to the R18 TDI. After Audi's victory at Silverstone , a Toyota won the first time in São Paulo . The last race before the world championship race in Fuji was the 6-hour race in Bahrain , which ended with another one-two for Audi.

The race

Fuji was the home race for the Toyota racing team, so the expectations of success at the race weekend were correspondingly high. Kazuki Nakajima was already able to meet these requirements during training when he set the fastest time in the qualification in the TS030 Hybrid with the number 7 in 1: 27.499 minutes. On race day, too, the Toyota proved to be the fastest vehicle in the field. Up to the last hour of the race, Nakajima, Nicolas Lapierre and Alexander Wurz had a 50-second lead over the Audi from Lotterer, Tréluyer and Fässler. Since the Toyota engine again consumed more fuel than the Audi diesel engines , a last refueling stop was necessary just before the end, which reduced the lead of the leading Toyota to a few seconds. At the finish, the victorious TS030 Hybrid had a lead of 4 seconds over the second-placed Audi R18 e-tron quattro.

The LMP2 class was won by John Martin , Tor Graves and Shinji Nakano in the Oreca 03 . Richard Lietz and Marc Lieb won the GTE-Pro class in the Porsche 997 GT3 RSR . The amateur GT class ended with the success of Julien Canal , Patrick Bornhauser and Pedro Lamy in the Chevrolet Corvette C6 ZR1 .

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	LMP1	7th	Toyota Racing	Alexander Wurz Nicolas Lapierre Kazuki Nakajima	Toyota TS030 Hybrid	233
2	LMP1	1	Audi Sport Team Joest	André Lotterer Benoît Tréluyer Marcel Fässler	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	233
3	LMP1	2	Audi Sport Team Joest	Tom Kristensen Allan McNish	Audi R18 e-tron quattro	233
4th	LMP1	12	Rebellion Racing	Nicolas Prost Neel Jani	Lola B12 / 60	227
5	LMP1	22nd	JRM	David Brabham Karun Chandhok Peter Dumbreck	HPD ARX-03a	226
6th	LMP1	21st	Strakka Racing	Nick Leventis Danny Watts Jonny Kane	HPD ARX-03a	226
7th	LMP1	13	Rebellion Racing	Andrea Belicchi Harold Primacy	Lola B12 / 60	225
8th	LMP2	25th	ADR delta	John Martin Tor Graves Shinji Nakano	Oreca 03	220
9	LMP2	44	Starworks Motorsport	Vicente Potolicchio Ryan Dalziel Stéphane Sarrazin	HPD ARX-03b	219
10	LMP2	24	OAK Racing	Matthieu Lahaye Olivier Pla Jacques Nicolet	Morgan LMP2	219
11	LMP2	49	Pecom Racing	Luís Pérez Companc Pierre Kaffer Nicolas Minassian	Oreca 03	216
12	LMP2	32	lotus	Vitantonio Liuzzi Kevin Weeda James Rossiter	Lola B12 / 80	177
13	LMP2	29	Gulf Racing Middle East	Jean-Denis Delétraz Keiko Ihara Fabien Giroix	Lola B12 / 80	214
14th	LMP2	41	Greaves Motorsport	Christian Zugel Ricardo González Elton Julian	Zytek Z11SN	212
15th	LMP2	23	Signatech Nissan	Jordan Tresson Franck Mailleux Olivier Lombard	Oreca 03	211
16	LMP1	15th	Oak Racing	Bertrand Baguette Dominik Kraihamer Takuma Satō	OAK Pescarolo 01	210
17th	GTE Pro	77	Felbermayr-Proton team	Richard Lietz Marc Lieb	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	207
18th	GTE Pro	51	AF Corse	Giancarlo Fisichella Gianmaria Bruni	Ferrari 458 Italia	206
19th	GTE Pro	97	Aston Martin Racing	Stefan Mücke Darren Turner	Aston Martin Vantage V8	206
20th	GTE Pro	71	AF Corse	Andrea Bertolini Olivier Beretta	Ferrari 458 Italia	206
21st	GTE Am	50	Larbre Compétition	Julien Canal Patrick Bornhauser Pedro Lamy	Chevrolet Corvette C6 ZR1	204
22nd	GTE Am	57	Krohn Racing	Tracy Krohn Niclas Jönsson Michele Rugolo	Ferrari 458 Italia	203
23	GTE Am	88	Felbermayr-Proton team	Christian Ried Gianluca Roda Paolo Ruberti	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	202
24	GTE Am	70	Larbre Compétition	Christophe Bourret Jean-Philippe Belloc Pascal Gibon	Chevrolet Corvette C6 ZR1	199
25th	GTE Am	55	JWA-Avila	Kenji Kobayashi Joël Camathias Paul Daniels	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	196
Disqualified
26th	LMP2	26th	Signatech Nissan	Pierre Ragues Nelson Panciatici Roman Rusinov	Oreca 03	213
Failed
27	LMP2	31	lotus	Thomas Holzer Mirco Schultis	Lola B12 / 80	139

Only in the entry list

No further reports are known for this race.

Class winner

class	driver	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
LMP1	Alexander Wurz	Nicolas Lapierre	Kazuki Nakajima	Toyota TS030 Hybrid	Overall victory
LMP2	John Martin	Gate Graves	Shinji Nakano	Oreca 03	Rank 8
GTE Pro	Marc Lieb	Richard Lietz		Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Rank 17
GTE Am	Patrick Bornhauser	Julien Canal	Pedro Lamy	Chevrolet Corvette C6-ZR1	Rank 21

Racing data

• Registered: 27
• Started: 27
• Valued: 25
• Race classes: 4
• Spectators: 32,000
• Race day weather: dry
• Route length: 4.563 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 6:00: 42.920 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 233
• Total distance of the winning team: 1063.170 km
• Winner's average: 176.800 km / h
• Pole position: Kazuki Nakajima - Toyota TS030 Hybrid (# 7) - 1: 27.499 = 187.700 km / h
• Fastest race lap: Kazuki Nakajima - Toyota TS030 Hybrid (# 7) - 1: 28.088 = 186.600 km / h
• Racing series: 7th round of the 2012 FIA World Endurance Championship

Web links

Commons : 6 Hours of Fuji  - Collection of pictures, videos and audio files

• Race results

Previous race 6 Hours of Bahrain 2012

FIA World Endurance Championship

Successor to the 6-hour race of Shanghai 2012