AGGRESSIVE Racing! _ Bapco Energies 8 Hours of Bahrain 2025 _ FIA WEC.

Master of the Racetrack
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This is the 60 Mercedes coming back up the order.
How far have they got up to now?
This is passing Team WRT's Kelvin van der Linde for 13th position.
That's cycling back after their pit stop.
I think that means they are going to need a splash at the end of this race.
I haven't responded to your insult when I was too busy eating this delicious
coconut mousse from Cadillac Hurst in Chota.
Yeah, that didn't work at all, did it?
The McLaren coming by.
This is United also's boss, Marino Sato.
This is not actually in this battle.
It is a lap ahead of this duo.
Yes, it is.
Looks like Amelio Hart is not getting back in.
No, I'm guessing not.
No, fully relaxed.
Back with Daniil Hunkadea.
Sixth position for Hunkadea.
And still right behind the 31 car of Augusto Farfus.
I'm rather hoping these hypercars might hold up Farfus.
So far the traffic has broken well for Augusto,
but that's what he needs, Hunkadea,
is for Farfus to have to be on the brakes where he doesn't need to be
and then to allow the Corvette to have a run at him.
Unfortunately, it could have been in a bit of a straighter position.
The problem is at Turn 7, as it opens up,
it's just a little bit too quick.
It means that you get that turbulence from the car in front
and you can't carry the speed you want to.
He's thinking about the inside of Turn 10.
Goes for it!
Oh, and his contact!
It was too late.
It was a bit too late, but...
Oh, I don't know how they're going to see that one
down in the stewards' room.
He's flashing him because he feels like
Farfus turned in on him.
But it was a little bit late, I thought.
Now he's going to have a go again.
Farfus stayed on.
Hunkadea didn't get an advantage.
So he pops it down the inside.
Yeah, and Farfus knew what he was doing as well.
I think that's why Hunkadea flashed the light to him.
Racing incident.
It was a dive bomb.
It was a late lunge, but Farfus knew what he was doing.
That's why he turned in so early.
That's not the normal racing line into Turn 10.
Danny had a look there inside Turn 12.
That didn't work, but he's got his finger
on the flasher button.
He's saying, basically, stop turning in on me.
I'm putting my nose in and you're just
turning in purposely early.
But I don't think he's getting quite
enough of his car alongside.
You can take the boy out of the touring car.
You can't take the touring car out of the boy.
Augusto Farfus hanging on from Danny Hunkadea.
Anthony here now, surely.
It's only a matter of time, isn't it?
He's going to try again.
Here he goes.
Looking down the inside.
Thinks about it.
Maybe tries to sell him a bit of a dummy.
But Farfus is too wise for that.
A little bit of a kiss there
And they've run up towards Turn 4 now.
They're so evenly matched in straight line speed.
Hunkadella knows he's got to do it on the brakes.
Can't do it into Turn 4 that time around.
It's going to be potentially into Turn 8 again.
But this is what I mean.
It's brilliant stuff between these two.
Even coming to blows, they've managed
to keep the car in the right direction
and not lose too much time from it.
This is like rugby players.
They know it's part of the game
and they're just getting on with it.
Look how Farfus didn't go all the way
to the edge of the track
before turning into Turn 8.
It's great.
It's almost like they're reading
each other's minds in this situation.
You know as the car in front
what you would do
if you were the car behind
and vice versa.
Yet once again,
that tight line going into Turn 10.
It gives him a bad exit look
and he knows it.
He's pushing him,
pushing him all the way
to the edge of the track
to the point where
Junkedea can't do anything about it.
So he gets a few more
aggressive flashes.
Door open very nicely there
for Kubica
but now Junkedea
throws it up the inside
into Turn 11
but it's going to leave him
slow up the hill
and Farfus comes back.
He's saying
that's P1 for me, mate.
Yes, indeed.
Out the window.
Is it Daytona all over again?
It's the Tommy Milner salute.
It is.
I didn't know you could...
How did he get his arm out the window?
Special arm.
And that was with Augusto Farfus as well.
It was indeed.
It was like deja vu.
It's a special arm
fitted to Corvette windows
that you pull a little string
and it flaps out.
Let's hope he doesn't
make the same offer on t-shirts
that nearly bankrupted Tommy.
Smiles from the boys
at TF Sport
and from WRT as well.
And do you know
they're all
enthusiastic racers.
They love this stuff.
Of course you love it
a little bit more
if your guy comes out on top
but you love it nonetheless.
