Toyota kicked off the new FIA World Endurance Championship 𝐆with a dominant one-two finish at the 4 Hours of Silverstone, led by Jose Maria Lopez, Kamui Kobayashi and Mike Conway in the #7 car.

After taking pole on Saturday at Silverstone, the trio managed to sco﷽re maximum points to start the season ahead of Sebastien Buemi, Kazuki Nakajima and Brendon Hartley in the #8 Toyota♐.

Toyota led the early part of the race be💎fore slipping behind both Rebellion Racing entries under an early Full Course Yellow, but soon managed to resto﷽re control in LMP1.

The two cars battled for the lead entering the second half of the race with Hartley passing Kobayashi to put the #8 in front, only for a sluggish pit stop to hand the advantage back to the #7 carꦯ heading into the closing stages.

Lopez managed to bring the ca🥂r home 1.9 seconds clear to give the #7 crew victory, with the #3 Rebellion R13 Gibson shared by Nathanael Berthon, Pipo Derani and Loic Duval completing the podium.

Cool Racing made a winning start to life in LMP2 with Nicolas Lapierre a🌱nd Antonin Borga, who raced as a pair after Alexandre Coigny's withdrawal, while Porsche swept to a one-two finish in GTE-Pro led by Gianmaria Bruni and Richard Lietz in the #91 Porsche 911 RSR. AF Corse took top honours in GTE-Am with Francois Perrodo, Emmanuel Collard and Niꦕcklas Nielsen in the #83 Ferrari 488 GTE Evo.