REBELLION’S WIN NOT AS EASY AS IT LOOKS

Rebellion Racing looked as though it had things more or less to itself at the head of the paltry three-car LMP1 field at Austin. But the claim of drivers Bruno Senna, Gustavo Menezes and Norman Nato that it wasn’t that easy was supported by Toyota. The solo Rebellion-Gibson R-13 ended up winning the six-hour race by an ostensibly comfortable 51.5 seconds as the two Toyotas struggled in the face of success handicaps in excess of two seconds per lap. But the second win of the season for the Swiss entrant required some serious fuel saving along the way to avoid a late splash-and-dash stop. That would have brought the second-placed Toyota TS050 HYBRID shared by Sebastien Buemi, Kazuki Nakajima and Brendon Hartley into the picture. The Japanese manufacturer was pretty sure it…

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