Aston Martin top both classes in final practice at 6 Hours of Fuji
27th September 2025Aston Martin topped final practice at the World Endurance Championship’s 6 Hours of Fuji, with the British car manufacturer topping both Hypercar and LMGT3 classifications.
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The morning started with the final hour of free practice, ahead of qualifying, at the Fuji Speedway, with one hour left for the teams and crews to prepare their cars for the main event.
FP3 did not go off without a hitch as the LMGT3 #77 Proton Competition Ford Mustang was stuck out on track with mechanical issues at turn one, triggering a full course yellow.
So how did the field finish at the end of practice?
Hypercar
Aston Martin’s #007 Valkyrie topped the final hour of practice, their first time at the top of a WEC session, in their rookie season, with a time of 1m 29.492s after 32 laps completed. The British manufacturer was marginally ahead of both Cadillac Hertz Team Jota cars, as #38 and #12 finished second and third, a maximum of 0.031s behind.
The sister Aston Martin, #009, was best of the rest down in fourth, 0.126s off the pace of its counterpart.
Peugeot’s #94 rounded out the top five, in fifth, whilst the other #93 car occupied eighth in the overall standings. It left the #20 BMW and #35 Alpine to fill the void in sixth and seventh, respectively.
Toyota’s #8 GR10 hypercar finished ninth ahead of the privateer #83 Ferrari 499P, AF Corse, in 10th. Only 0.451 seconds separated the crews inside the top 10.
LMGT3
Aston Martin’s #27 Vantage, driven by the Heart of Racing Team, topped the timing boards ahead of the United Autosports #59 McLaren as the TF Sport Corvette completed the top three, 0.237s behind.
United Autosports’ #95 McLaren completed the McLaren sandwich, in fourth, ahead of Iron Lynx’s #60 Mercedes, which occupied fifth.
Ferrari’s AF Corse sandwiched the remainder of the top 10 with the #54 and #21 Vista AF Corse cars occupying sixth and 10th, respectively. It left the #85 Iron Dames Porsche, #78 Akkodis ASP Lexus and #77 Proton Competition Mustang to fill in the gap, in seventh, eighth and ninth, in order.
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