Just eight and a bit seconds. That was Ferrari’s margin of victory at the end of the Sunday’s Imola round of the World Endurance Championship. Or to put it another way, around about half the advantage of 16s the 499P Le Mans Hypercar shared by James Calado, Antonio Giovinazzi and Alessandro Pier Guidi enjoyed over the best non-Ferrari at the end of the opening hour.
Ferrari kind of dominated the Imola 6 Hours, just as it had done over 10 hours in the opening round of the championship in Qatar in February. The 499P was the fastest thing around the Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari during the race as it had been on the way to blocking out the front row in qualifying. The #51 car led 171 of the 212 laps and sat atop the leaderboard at the end of five of the six hours.
