Nurburgring WEC: Lopez sets pace for Toyota in FP3
Toyota took the top spots in final free practice for this weekend's World Endurance Championship round at the Nurburgring.
#7 Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota TS050 Hybrid: Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi, Jose Maria Lopez
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Jose Maria Lopez went fastest in the 60-minute session with a 1m38.969s lap aboard the #7 Toyota TS050 Hybrid.
That was three tenths slower than Brendon Hartley's fastest lap of the weekend so far for Porsche in yesterday's second practice period.
Lopez's time was just under half a second faster than the second Toyota, in which Kazuki Nakajima posted a 1m39.396s right at the start of the session.
Porsche filled out positions three and four with its pair of high-downforce 919 Hybrids, Timo Bernhard's 1m40.635s just edging out Neel Jani's 1m40.767s in the sister car.
The Anglo-Swiss Rebellion team was quickest in LMP2 for the second time of the weekend with Bruno Senna.
The Brazilian posted a 1m46.017s at the end of the session in the team's #31 Oreca, which missed the second period of practice on Friday afternoon.
Senna's time put him a couple of tenths up on Nelson Panciatici in the best of the Signatech Alpines, which ended up on a 1m46.221s.
Ford claimed top spot in GTE Pro courtesy of a 1m54.585s from Olivier Pla in the best of the Ganassi-run Ford GTs.
That was nearly four tenths quicker than second-place Davide Rigon in the #71 AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE.
Matteo Cairoli was fastest in GTE Am for the Dempsey Proton Porsche team.
Free practice 3 results
Cla | # | Drivers | Car | Class | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 7 | Kamui Kobayashi Mike Conway Jose Maria Lopez |
Toyota TS050 Hybrid | LMP1 | 1'38.969 | |
2 | 8 | Anthony Davidson Kazuki Nakajima Sébastien Buemi |
Toyota TS050 Hybrid | LMP1 | 1'39.396 | 0.427 |
3 | 2 | Timo Bernhard Brendon Hartley Earl Bamber |
Porsche 919 Hybrid | LMP1 | 1'40.635 | 1.666 |
4 | 1 | Andre Lotterer Neel Jani Nick Tandy |
Porsche 919 Hybrid | LMP1 | 1'40.767 | 1.798 |
5 | 31 | Bruno Senna Julien Canal Filipe Albuquerque |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'46.017 | 7.048 |
6 | 35 | Nelson Panciatici Pierre Ragues Andre Negrao |
Alpine A470 | LMP2 | 1'46.221 | 7.252 |
7 | 38 | Oliver Jarvis Ho-Pin Tung Thomas Laurent |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'46.341 | 7.372 |
8 | 25 | Vitaly Petrov Simon Trummer Roberto Gonzalez |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'46.385 | 7.416 |
9 | 13 | Pipo Derani David Heinemeier Hansson Mathias Beche |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'46.739 | 7.770 |
10 | 28 | François Perrodo Emmanuel Collard Matthieu Vaxivière |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'46.753 | 7.784 |
11 | 36 | Nicolas Lapierre Gustavo Menezes Matt Rao |
Alpine A470 | LMP2 | 1'46.868 | 7.899 |
12 | 37 | David Cheng Tristan Gommendy Alex Brundle |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'47.015 | 8.046 |
13 | 26 | Roman Rusinov Pierre Thiriet Ben Hanley |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'47.506 | 8.537 |
14 | 24 | Roberto Merhi Jonathan Hirschi Tor Graves |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'47.706 | 8.737 |
15 | 4 | Marco Bonanomi Oliver Webb Dominik Kraihamer |
ENSO CLM P1/01 | LMP1 | 1'47.750 | 8.781 |
16 | 34 | Nigel Moore Philip Hanson |
Ligier JSP 217 | LMP2 | 1'49.585 | 10.616 |
17 | 66 | Stefan Mücke Olivier Pla |
Ford GT | LMGTE PRO | 1'54.875 | 15.906 |
18 | 71 | Toni Vilander Davide Rigon |
Ferrari 488 GTE | LMGTE PRO | 1'55.221 | 16.252 |
19 | 51 | James Calado Alessandro Pier Guidi |
Ferrari 488 GTE | LMGTE PRO | 1'55.326 | 16.357 |
20 | 67 | Harry Tincknell Andy Priaulx |
Ford GT | LMGTE PRO | 1'55.439 | 16.470 |
21 | 91 | Richard Lietz Frédéric Makowiecki |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE PRO | 1'55.673 | 16.704 |
22 | 92 | Michael Christensen Kevin Estre |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE PRO | 1'56.066 | 17.097 |
23 | 77 | Christian Ried Matteo Cairoli Marvin Dienst |
Porsche 911 RSR (991) | LMGTE AM | 1'56.882 | 17.913 |
24 | 54 | Francesco Castellacci Miguel Molina Thomas Flohr |
Ferrari 488 GTE | LMGTE AM | 1'57.108 | 18.139 |
25 | 98 | Pedro Lamy Paul Dalla Lana Mathias Lauda |
Aston Martin Vantage V8 | LMGTE AM | 1'57.123 | 18.154 |
26 | 95 | Marco Sorensen Nicki Thiim |
Aston Martin Vantage | LMGTE PRO | 1'57.208 | 18.239 |
27 | 97 | Darren Turner Jonathan Adam Daniel Serra |
Aston Martin Vantage | LMGTE PRO | 1'57.280 | 18.311 |
28 | 86 | Michael Wainwright Ben Barker Nick Foster Jr. |
Porsche 911 RSR (991) | LMGTE AM | 1'57.379 | 18.410 |
29 | 61 | Matt Griffin Mok Weng Sun Keita Sawa |
Ferrari 488 GTE | LMGTE AM | 1'58.274 | 19.305 |
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