Toyota kicked off the new FIA World Endurance Championship with a dominant one-two finish at the 4 Hours of Silverstone, led by J🃏ose Maria Lopez, Kamui Kobayashi and Mike Conway in the #7 car.

After taking pole on Saturday at Silverstone, the trio managed to score maximum points t🐼o start the season aheaꦦd of Sebastien Buemi, Kazuki Nakajima and Brendon Hartley in the #8 Toyota.

Toyota led the early part of the race before slippi🐽ng behind both Rebellion Racing entries under an early Full Course Yellow, but soon managed to restore contro🧜l in LMP1.

The two cars battled for the lead entering the second half of the race with Hartley passing Kobayashi to put the #8 in🦩 front, only for a sluggish pit stop to hand the advantage back to the #7 car heading into the closing stages.

Lopez managed to bring the car home 1.9 seconds clear to give the #7 crew victory, with the #3 Rebellion R13 Gibson shared by Nathanꦜael Berthon, Pipo Derani and Loic Duval com👍pleting the podium.

Cool Racing made a winning start to life in LMP2 with Nicolas Lapierre and Antonin Borga, who raced as a pair after Alexandre Coigny's withdrawal, while Porsche swept to a one-two finish in GTE-Pro led by Gianmaria Bruni and Richard Lietz in the #91 Porsche 911 RSR. AF Corse took top honours in GTE-Am with Fr🌃ancois Perrodo, Emmanuel Collard and Nicklas Nielsen in♕ the #83 Ferrari 488 GTE Evo.