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WEC Fuji
Fuji WEC: Webber puts Porsche on top in second practice
Porsche asserted itself over LMP1 rivals Audi and Toyota in second practice for the WEC 6 Hours of Fuji, as Mark Webber set the quickest time.
Jamie Klein
Edited: Oct 14, 2016, 12:02 PM
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The session got off to a dramatic start as a spin for the #7 Audi R18 e-tron quattro of Andre Lotterer brought out the red flags almost immediately, as the German hit the barriers and lost a large chunk of his front-left bodywork in the process.
Proceedings resumed some 10 minutes later, with Webber wasting little time in hitting the tarmac and setting what would prove to be the day's benchmark time, a 1m24.074, in the #1 Porsche 919 Hybrid.
That was enough to beat the #8 Audi of Oliver Jarvis by 0.894s, while the #7 car - in the hands of Lotterer after his early drama - set a time of 1m25s dead to seal third.
Behind was the #2 Porsche, which set a best time of 1m25.078s relatively late on in the hands of Marc Lieb to end up fourth fastest.
Both Toyotas were late improvers as well, although the #5 and #6 TS050 Hybrids still ended up fifth and sixth, Kazuki Nakajima setting the Japanese marque's best time of 1m25.657s.
The #6 car's session came to a slightly early end, as Kamui Kobayashi stopped out on track at Turn 14 with just over three minutes to run with a suspected engine problem.
Rebellion once again had the measure of sole LMP1-L class rival ByKolles, the #13 R-One lapping some 5.5s off the pace of the leading Porsche.
RGR Sport and Ford top classes
The LMP2 class was topped by the #43 RGR Sport by Morand Ligier, which set an early benchmark in the baby prototype category of 1m31.909s courtesy of Filipe Albuqerque.
Second was the #26 G-Drive Oreca driven by Alex Brundle, eight tenths back, followed by the leading Manor, the #44 Oreca, of Roberto Merhi.
Ford confirmed its earlier pace in the GTE-Pro class as Stefan Mucke led the way in the #66 car with a best effort of 1m38.743s.
The German was followed by the two AF Corse Ferraris, which demoted the sister #67 Ford to fourth.
Although Aston Martin continued to struggle for pace with its Pro cars, the British marque topped the Am category as the #98 machine set a best time of 1m40.112s.
Second practice results:
Cla#DriversCarClassTimeGap 1 1 
Mark Webber
Timo Bernhard
Brendon Hartley Porsche 919 Hybrid LMP1 1'24.074 2 8 
Lucas di Grassi
Loic Duval
Oliver Jarvis Audi R18 LMP1 1'24.968 0.894 3 7 Andre Lotterer
Marcel Fassler
Benoit Tréluyer Audi R18 LMP1 1'25.000 0.926 4 2 Romain Dumas
Neel Jani
Marc Lieb Porsche 919 Hybrid LMP1 1'25.078 1.004 5 5 Anthony Davidson
Kazuki Nakajima
Sébastien Buemi Toyota TS050 Hybrid LMP1 1'25.657 1.583 6 6 Stéphane Sarrazin
Kamui Kobayashi
Mike Conway Toyota TS050 Hybrid LMP1 1'25.702 1.628 7 13 Alexandre Imperatori
Dominik Kraihamer
Matheo Tuscher Rebellion R-One LMP1 1'29.653 5.579 8 4 Simon Trummer
Oliver Webb
Pierre Kaffer CLM P1/01 LMP1 1'30.515 6.441 9 43 Bruno Senna
Ricardo Gonzalez
Filipe Albuquerque Ligier JS P2 LMP2 1'31.909 7.835 10 26 Will Stevens
Roman Rusinov
Alex Brundle Oreca 05 LMP2 1'32.742 8.668 11 44 
Roberto Merhi
Richard Bradley
Matthew Rao Oreca 05 LMP2 1'32.747 8.673 12 42 Jonny Kane
Lewis Williamson Gibson 015S LMP2 1'32.948 8.874 13 30 
Giedo van der Garde
Sean Gelael
Antonio Giovinazzi Ligier JS P2 LMP2 1'32.971 8.897 14 35 Paul-Loup Chatin
Ho-Pin Tung
David Cheng Alpine A460 LMP2 1'33.076 9.002 15 36 Nicolas Lapierre
Gustavo Menezes
Stéphane Richelmi Alpine A460 LMP2 1'33.274 9.200 16 37 Vitaly Petrov
Viktor Shaytar
Kirill Ladygin BR01 LMP2 1'33.364 9.290 17 31 Pipo Derani
Ryan Dalziel
Chris Cumming Ligier JS P2 LMP2 1'33.393 9.319 18 45 Shinji Nakano
Tor Graves
Alex Lynn Oreca 05 LMP2 1'33.675 9.601 19 27 Maurizio Mediani
Nicolas Minassian
Mikhail Aleshin BR01 LMP2 1'34.006 9.932 20 66 Stefan Mücke
Olivier Pla Ford GT LMGTE PRO 1'38.743 14.669 21 51 Gianmaria Bruni
James Calado Ferrari 488 GTE LMGTE PRO 1'38.935 14.861 22 71 Sam Bird
Davide Rigon Ferrari 488 GTE LMGTE PRO 1'39.012 14.938 23 67 Harry Tincknell
Andy Priaulx Ford GT LMGTE PRO 1'39.219 15.145 24 95 
Marco Sorensen
Nicki Thiim Aston Martin Vantage V8 LMGTE PRO 1'39.547 15.473 25 97 Darren Turner
Richie Stanaway Aston Martin Vantage V8 LMGTE PRO 1'39.548 15.474 26 77 Richard Lietz
Michael Christensen Porsche 911 RSR (2016) LMGTE PRO 1'39.577 15.503 27 98 Pedro Lamy
Paul Dalla Lana
Mathias Lauda Aston Martin Vantage V8 LMGTE AM 1'40.112 16.038 28 50 Pierre Ragues
Ricky Taylor
Yutaka Yamagishi Chevrolet Corvette C7-Z06 LMGTE AM 1'40.401 16.327 29 88 David Heinemeier Hansson
Patrick Long
Khaled Al Qubaisi Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 1'40.414 16.340 30 86 Michael Wainwright
Adam Carroll
Ben Barker Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 1'41.124 17.050 31 78 Christian Ried
Wolf Henzler
Joel Camathias Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 1'41.286 17.212 32 83 François Perrodo
Emmanuel Collard
Rui Aguas Ferrari F458 Italia LMGTE AM 1'41.414 17.340
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