The 2024 6 Hours of Fuji was an

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event held on 15 September 2024, as the seventh of eight rounds of the

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. It was the eleventh running of the

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in its current format in the World Endurance Championship.

Background

The event was announced on 9 June 2023, during the

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weekend, with the race being held in every WEC season, except the 2020 and 2021 seasons due to the

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Entry list

36 cars entered the race: 18 in Hypercar and 18 in LMGT3. The only changes from the

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entry list are

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replacing

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in the No. 35 Alpine, and

Christian Ried Christian Ried (born 24 February 1979) is a German former racing driver and the team principal of Proton Competition. He last competed in the FIA World Endurance Championship, racing for Iron Lynx in the #61 Mercedes-AMG GT3. Career Ried's fathe ...

replacing

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in the No. 88 Ford.

Schedule

Practice

Three practice session were held: two were held on Friday, and one was held on Saturday. The sessions on Friday morning and Friday afternoon lasted 90 minutes, and the session on Saturday morning lasted 40 minutes, after being scheduled to last 60 minutes.

Practice 1

The first practice session started at 11:00 JST on Friday.

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topped the sheets with a lap time of 1 minute, 30.561 seconds in his No. 6 Porsche Penske Motorsport Porsche, 0.010 seconds quicker than second-placed

Ryō Hirakawa is a Japanese racing driver who is currently competing for Toyota Gazoo Racing in the FIA World Endurance Championship. He was Super GT GT500 champion in 2017 Super GT Series, 2017, and finished runner-up in Super Formula Championship, Super For ...

in the No. 8

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Toyota.

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rounded out the top three in the No. 50

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Ferrari, 0.543 seconds behind Vanthoor.

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was quickest in his No. 95

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McLaren in LMGT3, with a lap time of 1:40.528.

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set an identical fastest lap time in the No. 55 Vista AF Corse Ferrari, with

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in the sister No. 54 Ferrari 0.265 seconds behind both Sato and Rovera. The session saw one red flag: the No. 95 McLaren stopped at turn 10 after contact with the No. 2 Cadillac Racing Cadillac. * Note: Only the fastest car in each class is shown.

Practice 2

The second practice session started at 15:30 JST on Friday, with

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quickest in the No. 15 BMW M Team WRT BMW: he set a lap of 1 minute, 29.577 seconds. Vanthoor's lap was 0.009 seconds quicker than that of Matt Campbell in the No. 5 Porsche, with

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claiming third place in the No. 2 Cadillac. LMGT3 was topped by Rovera in the No. 55 Ferrari, with a lap time of 1:40.682. Hiroshi Koizumi was second in the No. 82

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Corvette, 0.169 seconds slower. The top three was rounded out by

Franck Perera Franck Perera (born 21 March 1984 in Montpellier, France) is a professional race car driving, driver and a Lamborghini, Lamborghini Squadra Corse factory driver. Career In 2006, Perera drove in the GP2 Series for the DAMS team, after four years o ...

in the No. 60

Iron Lynx Iron Lynx Motorsport Lab is an Italian auto racing team founded by Andrea Piccini, Deborah Mayer, Claudio Schiavoni and Sergio Pianezzola. The team is based in Cesena, Emilia-Romagna. They primarily participate in sports car racing, and are a sis ...

Lamborghini. * Note: Only the fastest car in each class is shown.

Final practice

The third and final practice session started at 10:20 JST on Saturday. Hirakawa topped the timing sheets in the No. 8 Toyota with a lap time of 1:29.621. Lynn was second in the No. 2 Cadillac, 0.086 seconds slower, with Fuoco rounding out the top three in the No. 50 Ferrari. François Heriau topped the LMGT3 cars in the No. 55 Ferrari, with a lap of 1 minute, 41.206 seconds. Rigon was in second in the sister Ferrari, 0.107 seconds slower, with Arnold Robin rounding out the top three. The session was red-flagged after 40 minutes due to curbing issues in turn 1. * Note: Only the fastest car in each class is shown.

Qualifying

Qualifying results

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winners in each class are marked in bold.

Race

Race results

The minimum number of laps for classification (70% of overall winning car's distance) was 149 laps. Class winners are in bold and .

Official recordings

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References

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