The major factor in Lexus’ first WEC victory in Sao Paulo

Auto Sport Promotion Lexas Squad seized an opportunity offered by the introduction of a young world endurance championship class win by the introduction of a new Goodyer LMGT3 tire in Interlagos to claim a win.

The team’s boss Jerome Policland has revealed that the ASP started preparing for the occasion that last November with a comprehensive testing program on the new hard-compound Goodyer.

The ASP identified the introduction of tires in Brazil as the best opportunity for a square win for Lexus RC FGT3, struggling with a tire fall on the Goodyer medium used since the introduction of LMGT 3 in 2024.

“I saw as our big opportunity to win the race because we knew that Goodyer would bring a new tire for the first time,” Jose Maria Lopez, Clemens Schmid and Razan Petru Umbresku, after Nessport.com, said that #87 car won LMGT3 on Sunday.

“We first tested a new tire in a stop in Bahrain last year (after the conclusion of WEC in November). Then we did two days in Qatar and two days in the spa, both times to drive a car medium and a car to back-to-back.

“I am not sure that any other team has done so much test on the new tire. But it gave us knowledge to get the right set-up for Interlagos.”

Policland suggested that the medium-compound Goodyer did not give Lexus any chance to win or win.

It is also with a lift in performance from RCF this year, including a first -class podium in Imola in April and a pole position in the spa.

“We have gained momentum since the beginning of the season, but in Le Mans in 24 hours we struggle on the tire and in all the other races in the other,” police reported that 13 started in Le Mans as a driver.

“There is no way to win on the medium because we always see that the temperature of the tire goes up on the front aunt and we lose the grip.

“With hard, the difference is night and day.”

At the launch of tires in Brazil, Mike McGragger, head of Goodyer’s Head of End of Endurance Racing EMEA, reported that the new tires have been developed to allow “frequent speeds during several stints”.

Policland revealed that he was not expecting to win again this year with RC FGT3, even when the Goodyer selects hard tires, he brings into each event as a single option.

The latest campus, correctly known as Goodyer Eagle Hard, will be served as an alternative to Fuji in the middle, in the next round of the Championship in Austin in September and then at the conclusion of Bahrain in November.

Policland reported that the conditions in those two races were likely to be very hot compared to Brazil and also highlighted the impact of the abrasive nature of the Bahrain track on tire wear.

“I hope we can fight for the podium, but to win another race I think it would be difficult,” he said.

The speed of speed for lexus in 2025 has resulted in a resulting change in set-up philosophy. The ASP went to a Steifer set-up, which “” intensified the car, but did not change the fall, “the police said.