Last weekend, Porsche finally chalked up a Hypercar victory in the World Endurance Championship in 2025. The rain that fell for the majority of the Lone Star Le Mans six-hour race at Austin on Sunday had a lot to do with that. And then there was the clash between the winning factory Penske Porsche 963 LMDh shared by Kevin Estre, Laurens Vanthoor and Matt Campbell, and the Ferrari that had looked well set at the top of the leaderboard for a couple of hours in the middle of the race.
The contest turned on a coming together between Estre and Alessandro Pier Guidi aboard the championship-leading Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercar with an hour and 45 minutes remaining. The Frenchman, winner of last year’s Hypercar drivers’ title with Vanthoor and Andre Lotterer, moved into the lead as the race went green after the fifth of six safety cars to punctuate a chaotic encounter that also included a red flag.
