He was tremendously unlucky with his f1 decisions, but being a LeMans/WEC AND an F1 champion is much more glorious than piling up F1 title after F1 title under very similar conditions, specially when you car runs 1 second faster than the competition and even the second driver is doing well ...His F1 comeback, pushing that Aston Martin to great heights (as much as it could...) is also a remarkable feat.

@@jaguatiricaimediata5305 his greatness is seen in how he can take a mid tier aston martin and make it run near the top. And he has been doing it for season after season. He reminds me of the great f1 drivers of old. Of the 70s-80s

He spent every year since 2008 in shit cars. I do feel sad for his bad luck in choosing teams. He gets a bad car almost everytime.

​@@aadixum younger drivers got all the offers for the good cars. he didn't choose bad teams, he was stuck with them.

Can confirm now

Literally

@@geekdiggynot true, he got offers from Red Bull as well as Mercedes, but F1 is a gamble when there are regulation changes. McLaren promised him a title winning car, so he went there…

Engineer 314 Congrats on the hollow victory.

McBaron Congrats on making Toyota look good.

I wish he would try Indy500 again. Triple crown babyyyyyyy

Ehem Group b and kubica

The only things that makes racing exciting period for me are crashes and onboard footages.

Lol

Aged well

And Comeback to Formula 1. 🤣

2 podiums in a row 🎉

@@sidharthpk8645 make it 8 in a single season, best one since 2013

Fitting that his fellow countryman win the race. Both of them legends in their respective sports!

Alonso saved him mate !! Champ for a reason

Nah actually No

@@snifey7694 lmao

Pls no, Toyota sucks

They won’t !! Toyota made it clear that F1 stupid and annoying regulations lead to the exit

Lexus will come.

alan4444555 Is the "attention span" becoming a meme?

It's really exciting to watch actually. Constant overtakes even within the classes themselves and it's really interesting to see the race unfold. There's always something dramatic going on too, like how a car with a flat tire will make it home if at all and how much they'll drop in the race. There's also the night bits which are just lovely to watch. Edit: I usually watch F1. This race is more interesting for 24 hours than F1 is for anything in between the first and last couple laps and the pitstops.

More of a sad reality...

still more interesting than last month's Monaco and Canada Grand Prix combined

My point!...

Also, the nose fell off before it hit the DragonSpeed car.

Why wouldn't they have? High end racing like WEC isn't about having a good battle. It's about advertising your product and proving it's better than your competitor's product. Most people, when they hear about Toyota's victory at Le Mans, aren't going to check the full results or the car/driver lineup to see there were no other hybrids, they'll just think "Wow, Toyota won a 24 hour race so their car must be really good" and the next time they're shopping for a car, there's a higher likelihood that they'll subconsciously buy a Toyota instead of some other brand. It may not seem like much, but even if just a thousand people (out of 7+ billion) end up buying something like a Camry because of it, Toyota will still get more than $25 million of extra revenue.

it doesn't matter, Toyota battle to win this race for 20 years, 20 YEARS!!! it was more like an inner battle than a battle against other lmp1 cars.

They needed a w at Le Mans

Because the Prius needs some marketing.

I agree. This is like winning at the paralympics as an olympian.

yupp... u see the other car brake before he passes

of course its team orders because '' Fernando is faster than you, can you confirm you understood that message?'' He was 2 seconds faster and recovered the 2 min disadvantage that they had at night.

There's a blue flag though...

2 seconds faster at night.

Se que fue mas rapido por la noche, no hay dudas de que recorto tiempo como un animal despues de la penalizacion a Buemi. Pero me sorprende la forma en la que lo sobrepaso en el minuto que destaque, se vio como si el nro 7 lo hubiera dejado pasar sin mas. Tal vez fue impresion mia nada mas

It's because a win on indy 500 is required for the triple crown

I don't know about winning all of that in one year. I think you mean throughout their career.

Hill became World champion in 68 & also won Monaco GP His Indy was in 66 & Le mans in 72 the triple is winning Monaco in year you win the Championship. Graham won Indy as a rookie as Alonso won the 24 hours as a rookie so for Alonso to equal Hill he needs not only to win Indy but another Monaco in a Championship year. I have followed motor racing since 1961 and I believe Alonso is easily the best F1 driver - his weakness is in teams he races for or timing of his moves.

@@ArchitectPage this guy knows

from India too.

Из Беларуси

MrZillaman73 Toyota got extremely close in 2016, Toyota has proved it can race and surpass Porsche and Audi

Soy boy. Toyota would have smoked them this time