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Fuji WEC: Toyota stays on top in second practice
Toyota maintained its position at the head of the leaderboard in second practice for this weekend's Fuji round of the FIA World Endurance Championship.
Jamie Klein
Edited: Sep 9, 2022, 9:16 PM
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The Japanese marque once again locked out the top two places in an incident-free 90-minute session on Friday afternoon, with Kamui Kobayashi setting the fastest time aboard the #7 Toyota GR010 Hybrid.
Kobayashi set what proved to be the benchmark time of 1m29.948s at the start of the session, going more than a second quicker than Sebastien Buemi had managed in the sister #8 Toyota in the morning.
Brendon Hartley was 0.225s off the pace of Kobayashi in the #8 machine, which is Toyota's better-placed car in the drivers' standings.
The quicker of Peugeot's two new 9X8 Le Mans Hypercars, the #94 car, was third-fastest in the hands of Loic Duval.
His best time of 1m31.194s was three tenths quicker than either Peugeot had managed in FP1, but left the French marque 1.246s away from the top spot.
The points-leading Alpine A480 grandfathered LMP1 car was fourth-fastest in the hands of Nicolas Lapierre, 1.414s off the pace, followed by the #93 Peugeot in which Jean-Eric Vergne set the best time.
JOTA's pair of Oreca 07s topped the LMP2 division, with Antonio Felix da Costa's early effort of 1m32.351s putting the #38 car at the head of the order.
The sister #28 car of Ed Jones was just 0.142s back in second, followed by the best of the United Autosports Orecas, the #22 car, in the hands of Filipe Albuquerque.
Nicklas Nielsen put the Pro/Am AF Corse Oreca fourth-fastest ahead of the WRT Oreca of Robin Frijns in fifth.
Ferrari maintained the advantage in GTE Pro as the #51 488 GTE Evo once again topped the class.
Alessandro Pier Guidi's best time of 1m37.682s put him 0.164s up on the best of the Porsche 911 RSR-19s, the #91 car in which Gianmaria Bruni set the best time in the final few minutes of the session.
The #92 Porsche was third-fastest with Kevin Estre at the wheel, followed by the #52 Ferrari of Miguel Molina and the solo Corvette C8.R of Tommy Milner, who ended up 0.769s off the pace.
Iron Dames Ferrari driver Michelle Gatting was fastest in GTE Am on a 1m39.170s, which was 0.015s faster than both the sister Iron Lynx Ferrari of ex-Formula 1 racer Giancarlo Fisichella and the TF Sport Aston Martin Vantage GTE of Marco Sorensen, which set identical times.
Practice for the 6 Hours of Fuji continues on Saturday morning at 10.20am local time (GMT +9) ahead of qualifying at 2.40pm.
Fuji WEC - Second practice results:
Cla # Drivers Car Class Time Gap 1 7 Mike Conway
Kamui Kobayashi
Jose Maria Lopez
Toyota GR010 - Hybrid HYPERCAR 1'29.948 2 8 Sébastien Buemi
Brendon Hartley
Ryo Hirakawa
Toyota GR010 - Hybrid HYPERCAR 1'30.173 0.225 3 94 Loic Duval
Gustavo Menezes
James Rossiter
Peugeot 9X8 HYPERCAR 1'31.194 1.246 4 36 Andre Negrao
Nicolas Lapierre
Matthieu Vaxiviere
Alpine A480 HYPERCAR 1'31.362 1.414 5 93 Paul di Resta
Mikkel Jensen
Jean-Eric Vergne
Peugeot 9X8 HYPERCAR 1'31.539 1.591 6 38 Roberto Gonzalez
Antonio Felix da Costa
Will Stevens
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'32.351 2.403 7 28 Oliver Rasmussen
Ed Jones
Jonathan Aberdein
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'32.493 2.545 8 22 Philip Hanson
Filipe Albuquerque
Will Owen
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'32.510 2.562 9 83 François Perrodo
Nicklas Nielsen
Alessio Rovera
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'32.642 2.694 10 31 Sean Gelael
Robin Frijns
Dries Vanthoor
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'32.788 2.840 11 41 Rui Andrade
Ferdinand Habsburg
Norman Nato
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'32.906 2.958 12 9 Robert Kubica
Louis Deletraz
Lorenzo Colombo
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'32.978 3.030 13 10 Renger van der Zande
Ryan Cullen
Sébastien Bourdais
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'33.054 3.106 14 23 Alex Lynn
Oliver Jarvis
Josh Pierson
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'33.069 3.121 15 34 Jakub Smiechowski
Alex Brundle
Esteban Gutierrez
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'33.419 3.471 16 1 Lilou Wadoux
Paul-Loup Chatin
Charles Milesi
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'33.773 3.825 17 45 Steven Thomas
James Allen
Rene Binder
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'33.854 3.906 18 35 Jean Baptiste Lahaye
Matthieu Lahaye
François Heriau
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'35.512 5.564 19 51 Alessandro Pier Guidi
James Calado
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE PRO 1'37.682 7.734 20 91 Gianmaria Bruni
Richard Lietz
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE PRO 1'37.846 7.898 21 92 Michael Christensen
Kevin Estre
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE PRO 1'37.892 7.944 22 52 Miguel Molina
Antonio Fuoco
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE PRO 1'38.019 8.071 23 64 Tommy Milner
Nick Tandy
Chevrolet Corvette C8.R LMGTE PRO 1'38.451 8.503 24 85 Rahel Frey
Michelle Gatting
Sarah Bovy
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 1'39.170 9.222 25 60 Claudio Schiavoni
Matteo Cressoni
Giancarlo Fisichella
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 1'39.185 9.237 26 33 Ben Keating
Henrique Chaves Jr.
Marco Sorensen
Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE AM 1'39.185 9.237 27 54 Thomas Flohr
Francesco Castellacci
Davide Rigon
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 1'39.267 9.319 28 46 Matteo Cairoli
Mikkel Pedersen
Nicolas Leutwiler
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE AM 1'39.335 9.387 29 86 Michael Wainwright
Riccardo Pera
Benjamin Barker
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE AM 1'39.346 9.398 30 71 Franck Dezoteux
Pierre Ragues
Gabriel Aubry
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 1'39.408 9.460 31 777 Satoshi Hoshino
Tomonobu Fujii
Charlie Fagg
Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE AM 1'39.451 9.503 32 77 Christian Ried
Sebastian Priaulx
Harry Tincknell
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE AM 1'39.572 9.624 33 98 Paul Dalla Lana
David Pittard
Nicki Thiim
Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE AM 1'39.625 9.677 34 56 Takeshi Kimura
Ollie Millroy
Ben Barnicoat
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE AM 1'39.748 9.800 35 88 Fred Poordad
Patrick Lindsey
Jan Heylen
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE AM 1'39.832 9.884 36 21 Simon Mann
Christoph Ulrich
Toni Vilander
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 1'39.917 9.969 View full results
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