Practice report
WEC Spa-Francorchamps
Porsche leads all in wet FP2
On a treacherous track, Porsche topped the time sheets in the second WEC free practice session for this weekend's 6 Hours of Spa.
Edited: Apr 30, 2015, 7:14 PM
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As per the first session, the track was fully wet and times at the end of the session were over 10 seconds slower than the earlier 90-minute session, in which Porsche also came out on top.
The #19 Porsche 919 Hybrid of Nico Hulkenberg, Earl Bamber and Nick Tandy emerged fastest with a 2m25.495s lap as all the teams continued to tentatively explore wet set-ups. Earl Bamber set the best time in the third entered Porsche.
Timo Bernhard’s time of 2m25.984 in the #17 Porsche 919 Hybrid ensured a 1-2 for the Weissach-based manufacturer. Only Andre Lotterer in the #7 Audi R18 e-tron quattro denied Porsche a 1-2-3.
LMP2 leaders
Strakka Racing continued to use their superior Michelin wet tyres to maximum effect at Spa and again set the best LMP2 class time. Danny Watts completed a 2m34.370s lap to head the JOTA Sport Gibson-Nissan of Harry Tincknell, Mitch Evans and Simon Dolan by half a second.
GTE classes
Porsche again confirmed its superiority in wet conditions as they again topped the timing screens. This time it was the #92 Porsche Team Manthey 911 RSR fastest with Richard Lietz setting a 2m37.058s lap to beat the No.99 Aston Martin Racing entry driven by Kiwi racer Richie Stanaway.
The AF Corse Ferrari 458 Italia of Emmanuel Collard, Francois Perrodo and Rui Aguas claimed honours in LMGTE Am, with Aguas completing the fastest time on a 2m41.645s.
Those not taking part
Several entries did not take part in the session, including both of the casualties from this morning’s incident between the #1 Toyota TS 040 HYBRID and the #8 Audi. Toyota face an all-night effort to ready a new while Audi is working on the rear of the car which took the brunt of the collision.
Joining these two on the sidelines were the #30 Tequila Patron ESM and #35 Oak Racing Ligiers.
A final 60-minute Free Practice session takes place tomorrow afternoon before qualifying at 18.00 local time.
Pos Drivers Car Time/Gap 1 Nico Hulkenberg
Earl Bamber
Nick Tandy Porsche 2m25.495 2 Timo Bernhard
Mark Webber
Brendon Hartley Porsche 0.489 3 Marcel Fassler
Andre Lotterer
Benoit Treluyer Audi 0.688 4 Romain Dumas
Neel Jani
Marc Lieb Porsche 1.226 5 Filipe Albuquerque
Marco Bonanomi
Rene Rast Audi 2.561 6 Alexander Wurz
Stephane Sarrazin
Mike Conway Toyota 3.237 7 Nick Leventis
Danny Watts
Jonny Kane Dome/Nissan 8.875 8 Simon Dolan
Mitchell Evans
Harry Tincknell Gibson/Nissan 9.352 9 Roman Rusinov
Julien Canal
Sam Bird Ligier/Nissan 11.076 10 Gustavo Yacaman
Pipo Derani
Ricardo Gonzalez Ligier/Nissan 11.143 11 Frederic Makowiecki
Richard Lietz Porsche 11.563 12 Alex MacDowall
Fernando Rees
Richie Stanaway Aston Martin 11.861 13 Darren Turner
Stefan Mucke
Rob Bell Aston Martin 11.933 14 Gianmaria Bruni
Toni Vilander Ferrari 12.222 15 Sven Muller
Kevin Estre Porsche 12.722 16 Davide Rigon
James Calado Ferrari 12.806 17 Christopher Nygaard
Marco Sorensen
Jonathan Adam Aston Martin 12.974 18 Pierre Ragues
Oliver Webb
Zoel Amberg Morgan/SARD 14.357 19 François Perrodo
Emmanuel Collard
Rui Aguas Ferrari 16.150 20 Gianluca Roda
Paolo Ruberti
Kristian Poulsen Chevrolet 16.303 21 Patrick Dempsey
Patrick Long
Marco Seefried Porsche 16.454 22 Duncan Cameron
Matt Griffin
Alex Mortimer Ferrari 17.056 23 Francesco Castellacci
Roald Goethe
Stuart Hall Aston Martin 17.516 24 Simon Trummer
Vitantonio Liuzzi
Christian Klien CLM/AER 17.662 25 Paul Dalla Lana
Pedro Lamy
Mathias Lauda Aston Martin 17.838 26 Christian Ried
Khalid Al Qubaisi
Klaus Bachler Porsche 19.527 27 Ed Brown
Johannes van Overbeek
Jon Fogarty Ligier/HPD 20.327 28 Nelson Panciatici
Paul-Loup Chatin
Vincent Capillaire Alpine/Nissan 21.000
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