It seemed only right to congratulate Bruno Famin, Alpine’s vice-president of motorsport, on the marque’s first World Endurance Championship victory with its A424 LMDh. Your correspondent stuck out his hand on seeing him after the race at Fuji on Sunday, and quipped: “I didn’t see that one coming!” His reply? “Me neither.”
To say that victory for Charles Milesi, Paul-Loup Chatin and Ferdinand Habsburg in the Fuji 6 Hours was unexpected is an understatement. It didn’t look likely after they qualified down in ninth, nor after the first named of the drivers in the #35 entry ran into the back of Sebastien Buemi’s Toyota on lap 11 of the race.
