Practice report
WEC Spa-Francorchamps
Porsche tops wet opening Spa practice
Porsche topped the times in the first practice session for Saturday's second round of the World Endurance Championship at Spa.
Edited: Apr 30, 2015, 7:14 PM
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In wet conditions, Marc Lieb set a time of 2m16.616s in the #18 Porsche 919 Hybrid to head the reigning champion Toyota squad.
The Japanese team's session was punctuated by a sizeable accident for Kazuki Nakajima, who hit the back of Oliver Jarvis' Audi R18 e-tron quattro on the Kemmel straight.
The Japanese driver was taken first to the circuit's medical centre and then to the local hospital for precautionary checks.
The session was stopped after Nico Hulkenberg got his first public running in the third Porsche 919 Hybrid that he shares with Nick Tandy and Earl Bamber this weekend, the Force India driver finishing the session in fourth place.
In LMP2, the Strakka Racing Dome led the way on a 2m32.672s lap, with Jonny Kane setting the lap early in the session.
The all-new ESM Ligiers completed 30 laps during the session as they continue to explore the cars which were completed earlier in the week at Magny-Cours.
Porsche also emerged at the front in both the LMGTE Pro and LMGTE Am classes.
The #91 Porsche Team Manthey car crewed by new recruits Sven Muller and Kevin Estre led with a 2m36.065s, while in the Am division it was the Abu Dhabi-Proton 911 RSR at the top of the class with a 2m39.885s, set by Klaus Bachler.
The forecast for the rest of the meeting is currently mixed, with Saturday currently stating the chance of showers around the Ardennes region.
Pos Drivers Car Time/Gap 1 Romain Dumas
Neel Jani
Marc Lieb Porsche 2m16.616 2 Anthony Davidson
Sebastien Buemi
Kazuki Nakajima Toyota 0.501 3 Timo Bernhard
Mark Webber
Brendon Hartley Porsche 0.693 4 Nico Hulkenberg
Earl Bamber
Nick Tandy Porsche 1.541 5 Filipe Albuquerque
Marco Bonanomi
Rene Rast Audi 3.721 6 Lucas di Grassi
Loic Duval
Oliver Jarvis Audi 4.936 7 Alexander Wurz
Stephane Sarrazin
Mike Conway Toyota 5.616 8 Marcel Fassler
Andre Lotterer
Benoit Treluyer Audi 7.241 9 Nick Leventis
Danny Watts
Jonny Kane Dome/Nissan 16.056 10 Simon Dolan
Mitchell Evans
Harry Tincknell Gibson/Nissan 17.271 11 Gustavo Yacaman
Pipo Derani
Ricardo Gonzalez Ligier/Nissan 17.330 12 Roman Rusinov
Julien Canal
Sam Bird Ligier/Nissan 18.588 13 Sven Muller
Kevin Estre Porsche 19.449 14 Nelson Panciatici
Paul-Loup Chatin
Vincent Capillaire Alpine/Nissan 19.836 15 Pierre Ragues
Oliver Webb
Zoel Amberg Morgan/SARD 19.890 16 Frederic Makowiecki
Richard Lietz Porsche 20.050 17 Gianmaria Bruni
Toni Vilander Ferrari 20.082 18 Alex MacDowall
Fernando Rees
Richie Stanaway Aston Martin 20.093 19 Darren Turner
Stefan Mucke
Rob Bell Aston Martin 20.532 20 Matt Howson
Richard Bradley
Nicolas Lapierre ORECA/Nissan 20.687 21 Davide Rigon
James Calado Ferrari 20.947 22 Christopher Nygaard
Marco Sorensen
Nicki Thiim Aston Martin 21.952 23 Christian Ried
Khalid Al Qubaisi
Klaus Bachler Porsche 23.269 24 Paul Dalla Lana
Pedro Lamy
Mathias Lauda Aston Martin 23.843 25 Duncan Cameron
Matt Griffin
Alex Mortimer Ferrari 23.943 26 Viktor Shaitar
Andrea Bertolini
Aleksey Basov Ferrari 24.417 27 Simon Trummer
Vitantonio Liuzzi CLM/AER 24.890 28 Francois Perrodo
Emmanuel Collard
Rui Aguas Ferrari 24.910 29 Gianluca Roda
Paolo Ruberti
Kristian Poulsen Chevrolet 26.208 30 Francesco Castellacci
Roald Goethe
Stuart Hall Aston Martin 26.753 31 Patrick Dempsey
Patrick Long
Marco Seefried Porsche 26.893 32 Ed Brown
Johannes van Overbeek
Jon Fogarty Ligier/HPD 27.779 33 Scott Sharp
Ryan Dalziel
David Hansson Ligier/HPD 27.824 34 Jacques Nicolet
Jean-Marc Merlin
Erik Maris Ligier/Nissan 29.152
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