Le Mans 24h: Glickenhaus fastest in second practice
Glickenhaus Racing led the way in second practice for the Le Mans 24 Hours as Romain Dumas outpaced the two Toyotas on Wednesday night.
Photo by: Rainier Ehrhardt
Dumas posted a 3m28.900s at the wheel of the #708 Glickenhaus 007 LMH to beat the best of the Toyota GR010 Hybrids, the #8 machine of Brendon Hartley, by 0.348 seconds.
The best time in the two-hour night session was around 1.7s slower than the time Kamui Kobayashi set in the #7 Toyota in first qualifying.
Mike Conway put the #7 car third in the order with a best effort of 3m29.748s, exactly half a second down on the sister Toyota.
Glickenhaus' #709 entry was fourth-fastest in the hands of Ryan Briscoe, albeit 2.5s down on Dumas' benchmark, followed by the solo Alpine A480-Gibson LMP1 driven by Matthieu Vaxiviere.
LMP2 was topped by Rene Rast at the wheel of the best of the three WRT-run Oreca 07-Gibsons.
Rast posted a 3m33.119s to eclipse the early benchmark set by United Autosports man Filipe Albuquerque to the tune of a little over two tenths.
IMSA WeatherTech SportsCar Championship star Ricky Taylor was third-fastest in the Cool Racing Oreca, ahead of Robert Kubica in the Prema car and Richard Mille Racing's Charles Milesi.
Williams Formula 1 reserve Jack Aitken was sixth-fastest for Algarve Pro Racing and best of the Pro/Am runners.
Corvette Racing led the way in the GTE Pro ranks as Nicky Catsburg set a best effort of 3m53.492s early on in the quicker of the American marque's pair of C8.Rs, the #63 car.
Next up was the best of the factory Porsche 911 RSR-19s, the #91 example of Frederic Makowiecki, with the #64 Corvette of Tommy Milner a mere three hundredths further back in third.
The quickest Ferrari 488 GTE Evo was the privateer Riley Motorsports entry in fourth with Felipe Fraga at the wheel, ahead of the #92 Porsche of Kevin Estre and the two works AF Corse-entered Ferraris.
Danish racer Mikkel Pedersen set the time to beat in the GTE Am ranks at the wheel of the Team Project 1 Porsche.
Two cars involved in earlier accidents did not set a time during the session, the #45 Algarve Pro Racing that had earlier been crashed by Steven Thomas and the #93 Proton Competition Porsche in which Michael Fassbender suffered a shunt.
In a relatively incident-free session, Inter Europol Competition's #43 entry stopped along the start/finish straight with a suspension problem, while the #21 AF Corse Ferrari of Christoph Ulrich needed rescuing from the gravel following an off at Arnage.
Cla | Nº | Driver | Car / Engine | Time | Gap |
1 | 708 | Olivier Pla Romain Dumas Pipo Derani |
Glickenhaus/Pipo | 3'28.900 | |
2 | 7 | Mike Conway Kamui Kobayashi José María López |
Toyota | 3'29.164 | 0.264 |
3 | 8 | Sébastien Buemi Brendon Hartley Ryo Hirakawa |
Toyota | 3'29.248 | 0.348 |
4 | 709 | Ryan Briscoe R.Westbrook Franck Mailleux |
Glickenhaus/Pipo | 3'31.440 | 2.540 |
5 | 36 | André Negrão Nicolas Lapierre M.Vaxivière |
Alpine/Gibson | 3'32.592 | 3.692 |
6 | 31 | Sean Gelael Robin Frijns René Rast |
ORECA/Gibson | 3'33.119 | 4.219 |
7 | 22 | Phil Hanson F.Albuquerque Will Owen |
ORECA/Gibson | 3'33.382 | 4.482 |
8 | 32 | Rolf Ineichen Mirko Bortolotti Dries Vanthoor |
ORECA/Gibson | 3'33.399 | 4.499 |
9 | 37 | Yifei Ye Ricky Taylor Niklas Krütten |
ORECA/Gibson | 3'33.473 | 4.573 |
10 | 9 | Robert Kubica Louis Delétraz Lorenzo Colombo |
ORECA/Gibson | 3'33.559 | 4.659 |
11 | 41 | Rui Andrade F.Habsburg Norman Nato |
ORECA/Gibson | 3'33.641 | 4.741 |
12 | 1 | Lilou Wadoux Sébastien Ogier Charles Milesi |
ORECA/Gibson | 3'33.692 | 4.792 |
13 | 47 | Sophia Flörsch John Falb Jack Aitken |
ORECA/Gibson | 3'33.785 | 4.885 |
14 | 48 | Paul Lafargue Paul-Loup Chatin Patrick Pilet |
ORECA/Gibson | 3'34.115 | 5.215 |
15 | 13 | P.Cimadomo Mathias Beche T.van der Helm |
ORECA/Gibson | 3'34.270 | 5.370 |
16 | 24 | Rodrigo Sales Matthew Bell Ben Hanley |
ORECA/Gibson | 3'34.589 | 5.689 |
17 | 5 | Dane Cameron Emmanuel Collard Felipe Nasr |
ORECA/Gibson | 3'34.645 | 5.745 |
18 | 38 | Roberto González A.F.da Costa Will Stevens |
ORECA/Gibson | 3'34.773 | 5.873 |
19 | 43 | David H.Hansson Fabio Scherer P.Fittipaldi |
ORECA/Gibson | 3'34.793 | 5.893 |
20 | 44 | Miro Konopka Bent Viscaal Tristan Vautier |
ORECA/Gibson | 3'34.804 | 5.904 |
21 | 34 | J.Smiechowski Alex Brundle E.Gutiérrez |
ORECA/Gibson | 3'34.957 | 6.057 |
22 | 65 | Julien Canal Nicolas Jamin Job van Uitert |
ORECA/Gibson | 3'34.971 | 6.071 |
23 | 3 | Laurents Hörr Jean Glorieux A.Cougnaud |
ORECA/Gibson | 3'35.133 | 6.233 |
24 | 83 | François Perrodo Nicklas Nielsen Alessio Rovera |
ORECA/Gibson | 3'35.313 | 6.413 |
25 | 28 | Oliver Rasmussen Ed Jones J.Aberdein |
ORECA/Gibson | 3'35.314 | 6.414 |
26 | 23 | Alex Lynn Oliver Jarvis Josh Pierson |
ORECA/Gibson | 3'35.362 | 6.462 |
27 | 30 | Richard Bradley Memo Rojas Reshad De Gerus |
ORECA/Gibson | 3'35.383 | 6.483 |
28 | 10 | Nico Müller Ryan Cullen S.Bourdais |
ORECA/Gibson | 3'35.711 | 6.811 |
29 | 35 | J-B.Lahaye Matthieu Lahaye François Heriau |
ORECA/Gibson | 3'37.960 | 9.060 |
30 | 39 | Eric Trouillet Sebastien Page David Droux |
ORECA/Gibson | 3'39.269 | 10.369 |
31 | 27 | C.Crespo Michael Jensen Steven Palette |
Ligier/Gibson | 3'40.964 | 12.064 |
32 | 63 | Antonio García Jordan Taylor Nicky Catsburg |
Chevrolet | 3'53.492 | 24.592 |
33 | 91 | Gianmaria Bruni Richard Lietz F.Makowiecki |
Porsche | 3'53.669 | 24.769 |
34 | 64 | Nick Tandy Tommy Milner Alexander Sims |
Chevrolet | 3'53.699 | 24.799 |
35 | 74 | Felipe Fraga Sam Bird S.van Gisbergen |
Ferrari | 3'54.019 | 25.119 |
36 | 92 | M.Christensen Kévin Estre Laurens Vanthoor |
Porsche | 3'54.158 | 25.258 |
37 | 52 | Miguel Molina Antonio Fuoco Davide Rigon |
Ferrari | 3'54.925 | 26.025 |
38 | 51 | A.P.Guidi James Calado Daniel Serra |
Ferrari | 3'55.143 | 26.243 |
39 | 46 | Matteo Cairoli M.O.Pedersen Niki Leutwiler |
Porsche | 3'55.629 | 26.729 |
40 | 88 | Fred Poordad Maxwell Root Jan Heylen |
Porsche | 3'55.729 | 26.829 |
41 | 98 | Paul Dalla Lana Nicki Thiim David Pittard |
Aston Martin | 3'55.941 | 27.041 |
42 | 85 | Rahel Frey Michelle Gatting Sarah Bovy |
Ferrari | 3'55.999 | 27.099 |
43 | 777 | Satoshi Hoshino Tomonobu Fujii Charlie Fagg |
Aston Martin | 3'56.035 | 27.135 |
44 | 54 | Thomas Flohr F.Castellacci Nick Cassidy |
Ferrari | 3'56.108 | 27.208 |
45 | 56 | Brendan Iribe Ollie Millroy Ben Barnicoat |
Porsche | 3'56.151 | 27.251 |
46 | 77 | Christian Ried Seb Priaulx Harry Tincknell |
Porsche | 3'56.257 | 27.357 |
47 | 60 | C.Schiavoni A.Balzan R.Giammaria |
Ferrari | 3'56.470 | 27.570 |
48 | 57 | Takeshi Kimura Mikkel Jensen F.Schandorff |
Ferrari | 3'56.505 | 27.605 |
49 | 99 | Andrew Haryanto A.Picariello Martin Rump |
Porsche | 3'56.536 | 27.636 |
50 | 80 | Matteo Cressoni G.Fisichella Richard Heistand |
Ferrari | 3'56.560 | 27.660 |
51 | 33 | Ben Keating H.Chaves Jr. Marco Sørensen |
Aston Martin | 3'56.637 | 27.737 |
52 | 21 | Simon Mann Christoph Ulrich Toni Vilander |
Ferrari | 3'56.679 | 27.779 |
53 | 79 | Cooper MacNeil Julien Andlauer Thomas Merrill |
Porsche | 3'56.780 | 27.880 |
54 | 75 | Pierre Ehret Christian Hook Nicolás Varrone |
Ferrari | 3'56.935 | 28.035 |
55 | 55 | Duncan Cameron Matt Griffin David Perel |
Ferrari | 3'57.165 | 28.265 |
56 | 71 | Franck Dezoteux Pierre Ragues Gabriel Aubry |
Ferrari | 3'57.456 | 28.556 |
57 | 86 | Mike Wainwright Ben Barker Riccardo Pera |
Porsche | 3'57.640 | 28.740 |
58 | 61 | Louis Prette Jr. Conrad Grunewald Vincent Abril |
Ferrari | 3'57.652 | 28.752 |
59 | 59 | Alexander West Côme Ledogar Marvin Klein |
Ferrari | 3'57.961 | 29.061 |
60 | 66 | R.van der Zande Mark Kvamme Jason Hart |
Ferrari | 4'00.566 | 31.666 |
61 | 45 | Steven Thomas James Allen Rene Binder |
ORECA/Gibson | - | - |
62 | 93 | M.Fassbender Matt Campbell Z.Robichon |
Porsche | - | - |
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