GENESIS MAGMA RACING SEES POSITIVES AMONG LESSONS LEARNED IN BRAZIL

• Genesis Magma Racing’s two GMR-001 Hypercars completed the 6 Hours of São Paulo with out technical points, a significant pre-race purpose for the crew

• Despite attaining the milestone, neither automotive was capable of rating factors after falling down the order with penalties in a busy first a part of the race on the distinctive Interlagos circuit

• The crew heads into the FIA WEC summer season break, getting ready to refocus its efforts to proceed the progress proven by means of the primary half of its debut racing season

SAO PAULO, July 12, 2026 — Genesis Magma Racing can take priceless classes and expertise from the 6 Hours of São Paulo, the primary fly-away occasion in its debut season within the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC). Both GMR-001 Hypercars confirmed sturdy reliability to finish a race with out technical points for the primary time, however penalties and small errors restricted the outcomes the crew might obtain.

Strategy Showed Potential; Cut Short by Penalties

In a busy first stint, the issue of racing by means of visitors on the WEC calendar’s shortest monitor was clear. Both Genesis Magma Racing entries, began by André Lotterer and Daniel Juncadella, misplaced floor navigating across the GT-class runners. More expensive, nevertheless, had been the early penalties collected by each vehicles, together with a drive-through for the #19, that dropped them down the order.

In response, the crew selected to increase the stints of each vehicles. The vitality benefit gained noticed each vehicles stand up the order as they had been among the many final vehicles to pit. Lotterer briefly assumed the lead in a fleeting GMR-001 Hypercar 1-2 earlier than pitting to finish the opening drivers’ double stints after simply over two hours.

As the race ran with out the interruption of something extra disruptive than a brief Full Course Yellow, nevertheless, the crew was by no means capable of profit from the nice technique regardless of the flawless reliability of each vehicles. The potential for rain, as clouds lowered across the circuit within the remaining two hours of the race, largely held off — even because the GMR-001 Hypercar’s Two-Line design headlights solid an more and more outstanding beam.

The #17 crew was unable to make up for the time misplaced within the first half of the race, regardless of the selection to shorten Mathys Jaubert’s second stint to put in house hero Pipo Derani. Derani — the one Brazilian driver within the prime class — pushed all the best way to the checkered flag on his house monitor, although might solely be rewarded with a fifteenth place end.

After a powerful center stint from Mathieu Jaminet, the place the #19 automotive once more climbed as excessive as second, Paul-Loup Chatin took the ultimate double stint for the trio nonetheless ready for his or her first WEC factors. The crew’s technique introduced him to the pits for the ultimate time with 45 minutes remaining, and although a number of the groups working forward had been compelled into an additional, late, cease, it was not sufficient to permit Chatin to realize any locations from thirteenth.

Though the crew was at all times conscious of the problem of the distinctive Interlagos monitor, to go away Brazil and not using a second haul of factors is a irritating finish to the weekend. Both GMR-001 Hypercars confirmed sturdy tempo through the Free Practice and Qualifying periods, together with when Mathieu Jaminet topped Friday afternoon’s FP2 earlier than he certified the #19 entry seventh on Saturday.