Ferrari's 6 Hours of Fuji never developed into a fight at the front. The #51 499P was the manufacturer's best finisher in 10th, the #83 AF Corse entry came home 12th and the #50 retired before the finish.
With qualifying cancelled because of the weather, the three 499Ps started outside the top 10 based on combined free-practice times. Ferrari split its tyre approach at the start in an attempt to recover track position, but repeated neutralisations made it difficult to build the race around those choices.
James Calado, Alessandro Pier Guidi and Antonio Giovinazzi brought the #51 home 10th. Ferrari reported a 10-second post-race penalty for two contacts during the middle part of the race, leaving the crew 26.443 seconds behind the winner in the final classification.
The #83 of Yifei Ye, Phil Hanson and Robert Kubica finished 12th, one lap down. Ferrari said the timing of a Safety Car period worked against the yellow AF Corse 499P during the middle stages.
The #50 of Antonio Fuoco, Miguel Molina and Nicklas Nielsen suffered two separate setbacks. A problem during a pit stop in the third hour cost time, before a technical issue forced Molina to stop the car at the side of the circuit with less than two hours remaining.
Ferrari's own post-race assessment was unusually direct. Team management acknowledged that some strategic choices had not worked and that reliability also contributed to the result.
After Fuji, Ferrari listed the #51 crew seventh in the drivers' standings on 59 points, 40 behind the leader. The #50 crew was ninth on 54 points, while Ferrari remained third in the manufacturers' championship on 115 points, 54 off the lead.
The result turns the final rounds into a recovery exercise after the momentum of Ferrari's previous victory in Austin.
