Monza WEC: Glickenhaus fastest in FP3, Peugeot close behind

Romain Dumas followed up on his quickest time in the opening 90-minute practice period on Friday by propelling the solo Glickenhaus 007 LMH to the head of the Hypercar pack just over halfway through Saturday afternoon's one-hour session.  

Dumas went from sixth to first in the Hypercar class times during a three-lap run, a 1m36.813s giving him a margin of two tenths over Mikkel Jensen’s #93 Peugeot 9X8. 

The pair of Peugeots had blocked out the top two positions from early in the session until the improvement from Dumas, Jensen’s 1m37.020s just shading the 1m37.085s from Gustavo Menezes in the #94 car. 

Brendon Hartley ended up fourth in the best of the Toyotas with a 1m37.301s in the #8 GR010 Hybrid, which put him more than two tenths up on Kamui Kobayashi’s 1m37.546s in #7 car.

The Signatech-run Alpine A480 brought up the rear of the Hypercar class with a 1m37.644s from Nicolas Lapierre, who was still within eight tenths of the pace.

Jonathan Aberdein took top spot in LMP2 for JOTA ahead of the two WRT entries. 

The South African jumped to first in the class times with a 1m38.904s aboard the #28 Oreca 07-Gibson, giving him a margin of two tenths over the 1m39.097s set by Robin Frijns in the #31 WRT entry.

That in turn which was five hundredths clear of the 1m39.147s recorded by Ferdinand Habsburg in the team’s #41 Realteam by WRT-branded car. 

Charles Milesi was only three thousandths behind in fourth position courtesy of a 1m39.150s in the Richard Mille Racing Oreca run by Signatech, while James Allen and Robert Kubica rounded out the top six in class aboard their respective Orecas run by Algarve Pro Racing and Prema. 

The three manufacturers in GTE Pro were separated by less than two tenths at the end of the session. 

Nick Tandy ended up fastest for Corvette Racing, his 1m45.902s aboard the solo C8.R giving him a margin of almost exactly one tenth over Michael Christensen in the best of the Manthey-run factory Porsche 911 RSR-19s.

The Dane’s 1m46.000s was in turn four hundredths up on the fastest of the two AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE Evos in which Alessandro Pier Guidi got down to a 1m46.041s. 

The other works Ferrari took fourth in GTE Pro in Antonio Fuoco’s hands, while Gianmaria Bruni was fifth in the second of the two Porsches.

Nick Cassidy went fastest in GTE Am right at the end of the session in the #54 AF Corse Ferrari. His 1m47.676s pushed the Dempsey-Proton Porsche in which Harry Tincknell had earlier managed a 1m47.823s down to second position. 

Qualifying for Sunday’s Monza 6 Hours, round four of the 2022 WEC, begins at 17:30 local time on Saturday.

WEC 6 Hours of Monza - Third practice results:

Cla	#	Drivers	Car	Class	Time	Gap
1	708	Olivier Pla Romain Dumas Pipo Derani	Glickenhaus 007 LMH	HYPERCAR	1'36.813
2	93	Paul di Resta Mikkel Jensen Jean-Eric Vergne	Peugeot 9X8	HYPERCAR	1'37.020	0.207
3	94	Loic Duval Gustavo Menezes James Rossiter	Peugeot 9X8	HYPERCAR	1'37.085	0.272
4	8	Sébastien Buemi Brendon Hartley Ryo Hirakawa	Toyota GR010 - Hybrid	HYPERCAR	1'37.301	0.488
5	7	Mike Conway Kamui Kobayashi Jose Maria Lopez	Toyota GR010 - Hybrid	HYPERCAR	1'37.546	0.733
6	36	Andre Negrao Nicolas Lapierre Matthieu Vaxiviere	Alpine A480	HYPERCAR	1'37.644	0.831
7	28	Oliver Rasmussen Edward Jones Jonathan Aberdein	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'38.904	2.091
8	31	Sean Gelael Robin Frijns René Rast	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'39.097	2.284
9	41	Rui Andrade Ferdinand Habsburg Norman Nato	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'39.147	2.334
10	1	Lilou Wadoux Paul-Loup Chatin Charles Milesi	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'39.150	2.337
11	45	Steven Thomas James Allen Rene Binder	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'39.250	2.437
12	9	Robert Kubica Louis Deletraz Lorenzo Colombo	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'39.265	2.452
13	23	Alex Lynn Oliver Jarvis Josh Pierson	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'39.511	2.698
14	22	Philip Hanson Filipe Albuquerque Will Owen	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'39.528	2.715
15	38	Roberto Gonzalez Antonio Felix da Costa Will Stevens	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'39.581	2.768
16	34	Jakub Smiechowski Alex Brundle Esteban Gutierrez	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'39.582	2.769
17	83	François Perrodo Nicklas Nielsen Alessio Rovera	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'39.603	2.790
18	44	Miro Konopka Tijmen van der Helm Mathias Beche	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'39.803	2.990
19	10	Nico Müller Ryan Cullen Sébastien Bourdais	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'39.838	3.025
20	35	Jean Baptiste Lahaye Matthieu Lahaye François Heriau	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'40.998	4.185
21	64	Tommy Milner Nick Tandy	Chevrolet Corvette C8.R	LMGTE PRO	1'45.902	9.089
22	92	Michael Christensen Kevin Estre	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE PRO	1'46.000	9.187
23	51	Alessandro Pier Guidi James Calado	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE PRO	1'46.041	9.228
24	52	Miguel Molina Antonio Fuoco	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE PRO	1'46.114	9.301
25	91	Gianmaria Bruni Richard Lietz	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE PRO	1'47.243	10.430
26	54	Thomas Flohr Francesco Castellacci Nick Cassidy	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	1'47.676	10.863
27	77	Christian Ried Sebastian Priaulx Harry Tincknell	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM	1'47.823	11.010
28	60	Claudio Schiavoni Matteo Cressoni Giancarlo Fisichella	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	1'47.834	11.021
29	85	Rahel Frey Michelle Gatting Sarah Bovy	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	1'48.027	11.214
30	777	Satoshi Hoshino Tomonobu Fujii Charlie Fagg	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	1'48.101	11.288
31	86	Michael Wainwright Riccardo Pera Benjamin Barker	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM	1'48.121	11.308
32	33	Ben Keating Henrique Chaves Jr. Marco Sorensen	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	1'48.154	11.341
33	21	Simon Mann Christoph Ulrich Toni Vilander	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	1'48.192	11.379
34	71	Franck Dezoteux Pierre Ragues Gabriel Aubry	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	1'48.227	11.414
35	88	Fred Poordad Patrick Lindsey Jan Heylen	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM	1'48.249	11.436
36	56	Brendan Iribe Ollie Millroy Ben Barnicoat	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM	1'48.278	11.465
37	46	Matteo Cairoli Mikkel Pedersen Nicolas Leutwiler	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM	1'48.368	11.555
38	98	Paul Dalla Lana David Pittard Nicki Thiim	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	1'48.753	11.940
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