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Shanghai WEC: Hartley keeps Porsche on top in final practice
Brendon Hartley set the fastest-ever LMP1 lap at Shanghai on Saturday as he turned in a 1m42.799s lap with the Porsche 919 Hybrid he shares with Mark Webber and Timo Bernhard.
Edited: Oct 31, 2015, 8:33 AM
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The Kiwi outpaced the sister Porsche driven by Marc Lieb as teams simulated qualifying runs before concentrating on race pace in the second half of the 90-minute session.
Hartley, Webber and Bernhard hold a one-point advantage over Audi’s Andre Lotterer, Benoit Treluyer and Marcel Fassler as they head into qualifying.
Audi was second with the #7 entry driven by Treluyer, 0.7s up on Loic Duval in the #8 R18 e-tron quattro.
The #7 Audi started the session on old tyres and completed its qualifying simulation, much later than its rivals. The gap between Audi and Porsche for qualifying appears to be around the two second mark.
Toyota Racing continued to annex the fifth and sixth positions with Sebastien Buemi heading Alex Wurz in the pair of Toyota TS 040 HYBRID LMP1 cars
The session saw one Full Course Yellow, which was deployed after twenty minutes when Julien Canal crashed his G-Drive Ligier on the quick right-hander coming onto the back straight. The Frenchman clattered the wall on the inside, damaging the front left corner and rear deck of the car.
While there was frustration for that side of the G-Drive garage, there was satisfaction in the other as Pipo Derani claimed the fastest lap in the #28 car. The Brazilian set a best lap of 1m52.453s to head the Strakka Gibson of Danny Watts by a huge margin of 1.6s.
Ferrari led both of the GT classes with Gianmaria Bruni enjoying a clear lead in the Pro class with the AF Corse Ferrari 458 Italia he shares with Toni Vilander. The rapid Italian had a 0.421s gap over the #92 Porsche Team Manthey 911 RSR driven by Frederic Makowiecki.
Makowiecki's teammate Patrick Pilet took over for the final 25 minutes of the session and survived a collision with Pierre Kaffer’s CLM P1/01 LMP1 car.
The LMGTE Am class had the SMP Racing Ferrari hold an advantage. Surprisingly, it was the team's Bronze-categorised driver Aleksey Basov who posted the fastest lap of 2m04.688s. The Russian’s time was a couple of tenths up on Pat Long’s in the Dempsey-Proton Porsche.
Practice results:
PosDriverTeamCarTimeGap 1 
Mark Webber
Brendon Hartley
Timo Bernhard Porsche Team Porsche 919 Hybrid 1:42.799 1:42.799 2 Marc Lieb
Romain Dumas
Neel Jani Porsche Team Porsche 919 Hybrid 1:43.919 +1.120 3 Andre Lotterer
Benoit Tréluyer
Marcel Fassler Audi Sport Team Joest Audi R18 e-tron quattro '15 1:44.956 +2.157 4 Loic Duval
Oliver Jarvis
Lucas di Grassi Audi Sport Team Joest Audi R18 e-tron quattro '15 1:45.645 +2.846 5 Anthony Davidson
Kazuki Nakajima
Sébastien Buemi Toyota Racing Toyota TS040 Hybrid 1:46.365 +3.566 6 
Alexander Wurz
Mike Conway
Stéphane Sarrazin Toyota Racing Toyota TS040 Hybrid 1:46.530 +3.731 7 Alexandre Imperatori
Mathéo Tuscher
Dominik Kraihamer Rebellion Racing Rebellion R-One 1:49.321 +6.522 8 Pipo Derani
Gustavo Yacaman
Ricardo Gonzalez G-Drive Racing Ligier JS P2 1:52.453 +9.654 9 Pierre Kaffer
Simon Trummer Team ByKolles CLM P1/01 1:53.940 +11.141 10 Jonny Kane
Nick Leventis
Danny Watts Strakka Racing Gibson 015S 1:54.054 +11.255 11 Matthew Howson
Nick Tandy
Richard Bradley KCMG ORECA 05 1:54.245 +11.446 12 Nelson Panciatici
Paul-Loup Chatin
Tom Dillmann Signatech Alpine Alpine A450b 1:54.398 +11.599 13 
David Heinemeier Hansson
Ryan Dalziel
Scott Sharp Extreme Speed Motorsports Ligier JS P2 1:54.459 +11.660 14 
Roman Rusinov
Sam Bird
Julien Canal G-Drive Racing Ligier JS P2 1:54.477 +11.678 15 Ed Brown
Jon Fogarty
Johannes van Overbeek Extreme Speed Motorsports Ligier JS P2 1:55.809 +13.010 16 Oliver Webb
Chris Cumming
Pierre Ragues Team SARD Morand Morgan LMP2 Evo '15 1:55.892 +13.093 17 Alex Brundle
Ho-Pin Tung
David Cheng Pegasus Racing Morgan LMP2 1:57.231 +14.432 18 
Toni Vilander
Gianmaria Bruni AF Corse Ferrari F458 Italia 2:02.747 +19.948 19 Frédéric Makowiecki
Patrick Pilet Porsche Team Manthey Porsche 911 RSR 2:03.168 +20.369 20 Davide Rigon
James Calado AF Corse Ferrari F458 Italia 2:03.177 +20.378 21 Alex MacDowall
Richie Stanaway
Fernando Rees Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin Vantage V8 2:03.434 +20.635 22 Richard Lietz
Michael Christensen Porsche Team Manthey Porsche 911 RSR 2:03.561 +20.762 23 Jonathan Adam
Darren Turner Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin Vantage V8 2:04.482 +21.683 24 Aleksey Basov
Andrea Bertolini
Viktor Shaitar SMP Racing Ferrari F458 Italia 2:04.688 +21.889 25 Patrick Long
Patrick Dempsey
Marco Seefried Dempsey Racing - Proton Porsche 911 RSR 2:04.899 +22.100 26 
Pedro Lamy
Paul Dalla Lana
Mathias Lauda Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin Vantage V8 2:05.355 +22.556 27 Gianluca Roda
Paolo Ruberti
Nicolai Sylvest Larbre Compétition Chevrolet Corvette C7.R 2:05.908 +23.109 28 Emmanuel Collard
Rui Aguas
François Perrodo AF Corse Ferrari F458 Italia 2:06.087 +23.288 29 Liam Griffin
Francesco Castellacci
Stuart Hall Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin Vantage V8 2:06.612 +23.813 30 
Khaled Al Qubaisi
Christian Ried
Klaus Bachler Abu Dhabi-Proton Racing Porsche 911 RSR 2:07.572 +24.773 31 Mathias Beche
Nicolas Prost Rebellion Racing Rebellion R-One 2:09.011 +26.212
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