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WEC Silverstone
Audi fastest again in wet Silverstone FP3
Audi World Endurance Championship star Andre Lotterer set the best time in a wet Free Practice 3 session at Silverstone this morning.
Edited: Apr 11, 2015, 10:00 AM
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The three-time Le Mans winner, driving the #7 Audi R18 e-tron quattro that he shares with Benoit Treluyer and Marcel Fassler, set a 1m52.094s in the damp conditions at the very end of the session as a faint dry line started to emerge.
Audi enjoyed a significant advantage for most of the session, but in the dying moments Toyota's Kazuki Nakajima got to within 0.674s of Lotterer.
There was plenty of finding the limits from the 29-car field as they explored the wet Silverstone track during the 60-minute session. The most significant incidents befell the #2 Toyota TS 040 HYBRID driven by Mike Conway and the Signatech Alpine of Nelson Panciatici.
While Conway emerged unscathed from the Luffield gravel trap, Panciatici was stuck at Stowe after a spin beached the LMP2 car for the last 12 minutes of running.
The two Porsche 919 Hybrids placed third and fourth with the #18 car frustrated to not be able to catch up on lost time from yesterday, when they suffered a driveshaft issue that kept them in the pits for the first hour of session one.
In LMP2, Pipo Derani once again starred in the G-Drive Racing Ligier-Nissan as he set a 2m05.786s lap in the final moments of the session to usurp the Strakka Racing run Dome S103 Nissan.
The Strakka team, based close to the track eventually placed third, as the Oreca 05 driven by Matt Howson posted a late lap to claim second for the KCMG team.
The #92 Porsche Team Manthey emerged quickest in the LMGTE Pro class with Frederic Makowiecki posting a 2m13.665. Second was the #95 Aston Martin Racing entry, driven by Christoffer Nygaard.
Emmanuel Collard set the best LMGTE Am time of 2m16.396s in the AF Corse Ferrari 458 Italia that he shares with Francois Perrodo and Rui Aguas.
The qualifying sessions are scheduled to get underway at 12.00 local time.
Pos Drivers Team Time Gap Laps 1 Marcel Fassler
Andre Lotterer
Benoît Tréluyer Audi 1'52.094 27 2 Anthony Davidson
Sebastien Buemi
Kazuki Nakajima Toyota 1'52.768 0.674 25 3 Romain Dumas
Neel Jani
Marc Lieb Porsche 1'56.430 4.336 26 4 Timo Bernhard
Mark Webber
Brendon Hartley Porsche 1'56.593 4.499 25 5 Alexander Wurz
S.Sarrazin
Mike Conway Toyota 1'56.781 4.687 24 6 Lucas di Grassi
Loic Duval
Oliver Jarvis Audi 1'57.687 5.593 24 7 Gustavo Yacamán
Luis Derani
Ricardo González Ligier/Nissan 2'04.835 12.741 24 8 Simon Trummer
Vitantonio Liuzzi
Christian Klien CLM/AER 2'05.769 13.675 21 9 Matt Howson
Richard Bradley
Nick Tandy ORECA/Nissan 2'07.287 15.193 21 10 Nick Leventis
Danny Watts
Jonny Kane Dome/Nissan 2'07.672 15.578 20 11 Roman Rusinov
Julien Canal
Sam Bird Ligier/Nissan 2'10.596 18.502 24 12 N.Panciatici
Paul-Loup Chatin
V.Capillaire Alpine/Nissan 2'11.932 19.838 16 13 Patrick Pilet
F.Makowiecki Porsche 2'13.665 21.571 14 14 C.Nygaard
Marco Sorensen
Nicki Thiim Aston Martin 2'13.712 21.618 21 15 Richard Lietz
M.Christensen Porsche 2'13.846 21.752 17 16 Davide Rigon
James Calado Ferrari 2'14.611 22.517 16 17 Gianmaria Bruni
Toni Vilander Ferrari 2'14.835 22.741 14 18 Darren Turner
Stefan Mücke Aston Martin 2'14.865 22.771 23 19 Alex MacDowall
Fernando Rees
Richie Stanaway Aston Martin 2'16.001 23.907 19 20 Francois Perrodo
Emmanuel Collard
Rui Aguas Ferrari 2'16.396 24.302 21 21 Patrick Dempsey
Patrick Long
Marco Seefried Porsche 2'17.186 25.092 22 22 F.Castellacci
Roald Goethe
Stuart Hall Aston Martin 2'17.604 25.510 20 23 Gianluca Roda
Paolo Ruberti
Kristian Poulsen Chevrolet 2'17.991 25.897 18 24 Christian Ried
K.Al Qubaisi
Klaus Bachler Porsche 2'18.701 26.607 20 25 Jacques Nicolet
Jean-Marc Merlin
Erik Maris Ligier/Nissan 2'18.954 26.860 19 26 Paul Dalla Lana
Pedro Lamy
Mathias Lauda Aston Martin 2'19.069 26.975 18 27 Scott Sharp
Ryan Dalziel
David Hansson HPD 0 28 Ed Brown
Jon Fogarty
David Brabham HPD 0 29 Viktor Shaitar
Andrea Bertolini
Aleksey Basov Ferrari 0
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