Autosport Top 50 of 2023: #16 Brendon Hartley
1st in FIA World Endurance Championship (Hypercar), 2nd in Le Mans 24 Hours and 2nd in Daytona 24 Hours
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This was another strong year for Brendon Hartley. He was up there among the fastest of the Toyota drivers – it was nip and tuck between him and Kamui Kobayashi for that honour in the WEC – in a year when he became a four-time world title winner.
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He was probably at his best at Le Mans: his charge after lunch on Sunday aboard the #8 GR010 HYBRID gave his Japanese employer more than a sniff of a sixth straight Le Mans victory. The only blot on his copybook was his qualifying off exiting the pits at Spa, though a ban on tyre warmers and single-digit temperatures were mitigating factors.
Photo by: Shameem Fahath
Hartley scored his fourth world title with a top notch year
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