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How Toyota was deposed by Rebellion and the rules

The World Endurance Championship's much-debated success handicap rules achieved their expected outcome for the first time in China, with Toyota defeated in a 'straight' fight. Our in-depth race analysis explains how it unfolded

Another World Endurance Championship race, another walkover. Only this time it wasn't Toyota that dominated but Rebellion Racing.

Bruno Senna, Gustavo Menezes and Norman Nato swept to a one-minute victory for the Swiss entrant over just four hours of racing at Shanghai on a day when the heavily penalised Japanese cars were unable to race with the best of the LMP1 privateers.

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Author Gary Watkins

Gary Watkins has, for reasons best known to himself, devoted all his working life to covering sportscar racing. This season is his 33rd as a motorsport journalist, during which time he has reported on major long-distance events on four continents and approaching 80 24-hour races. He reckons a degree in political philosophy makes him well qualified for covering the sometimes Machiavellian world of international sportscars.

Gary, who also writes for Motor Sport, Autocourse, RACER and others, lives in Surbiton close to the former workshops of the Cooper Formula 1 team but spends more time on the road than at home for most of the year.