The World Endurance Championship’s six-hour race at Fuji Speedway came down to a tense sprint to the finish between Ryo Hirakawa’s Toyota and Victor Martins’ Alpine. The contest concluded in the final five minutes of the event, held this weekend at the Japanese circuit.

RaceFans reported the battle on Sept. 27, 2026, at 14:49. The article was written by Keith Collantine, who founded RaceFans in 2005, when the site was called F1 Fanatic. Collantine, a lifelong motor sport fan and former motoring journalist, began running the site full-time in 2010 to focus on his passion for racing.

The report appeared alongside links to other World Endurance Championship coverage. Those items included a report that the series cancelled its Qatar season-opener because of the US-Iran war, news that Porsche will end its Hypercar programme after three seasons, and comments from Mercedes chief Toto Wolff and Max Verstappen about Balance of Performance. It also linked to coverage of Norris testing McLaren’s MCL-HY WEC hypercar at Algarve.

Based on reporting by RaceFans.