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WEC Silverstone
Silverstone WEC: Rebellion leads Toyota in FP1
Rebellion Racing topped the timesheets in the opening practice session of the 2019/20 FIA World Endurance Championship season at Silverstone, beating Toyota by over four tenths of a second.
Jamie Klein
Edited: Sep 1, 2019, 9:02 AM
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Norman Nato set the fastest time at the wheel of the #1 Rebellion R-13-Gibson with less than 10 minutes to go in the 90-minute session, a 1m38.860s.
That was 0.420s up on the quickest Toyota, the #8 TS050 Hybrid, which set a 1m38.280s in the hands of Sebastien Buemi, while the sister #7 car was third-fastest thanks to a late effort of 1m39.431s set by Kamui Kobayashi.
Despite running 54kg heavier than they did in the 2018 Silverstone race, the Toyotas were still 0.7s faster than they were in FP1 last year, helped by the British track's recent resurfacing.
Rebellion's second car, the #3, was fourth, 0.858s off the pace with ex-Audi LMP1 driver Loic Duval at the wheel, while the best of the Ginetta G60-LT-P1s was fifth.
One-time Le Mans 24 Hours winner Guy Smith set the British marque's best time of 1m40.618s, but the #5 Ginetta failed to set a timed lap, completing only three installation laps due to persistent gear selection problems.
LMP2 was led by United Autosports, with Filipe Albuquerque setting the class benchmark of 1m43.066s early on in the squad's newly-acquired Oreca 07.
That was enough to beat Nicolas Lapierre's benchmark in the Cool Racing Oreca by 0.404s, while third-fastest was the Racing Team Nederland Oreca in the hands of Job van Uitert, who is substituting for Nyck de Vries this weekend.
Michelin locked out the top three in LMP2, with the best of the Goodyear runners, the #37 Jackie Chan DC Racing, ending up fourth.
Gianmaria Bruni left it late to send Porsche to the top of the GTE Pro class times with a lap of 1m55.766s in the new 911 RSR-19.
That demoted the #51 Ferrari 488 GTE driven by James Calado to second, while Aston Martin made it three different marques in the top three courtesy of Marco Sorensen in the #95 Vantage GTE.
TF Sport's new-generation Aston Martin topped the order in GTE Am with factory driver Jonathan Adam at the wheel, ahead of the works Vantage of Darren Turner.
Elsewhere in Am, there has been a driver change in the #56 Project 1 Porsche, with German youngster David Kolkmann substituting for David Heinemeier Hansson, whose wife is expected to give birth imminently.
It's understood however that there remains a chance Heinemeier Hansson could race alongside teammates Egidio Perfetti and Matteo Cairoli.
The session was delayed by 20 minutes due to a heavy crash at Stowe for Carlin driver Jack Manchester in the preceding European Le Mans Series session.
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Session results:
Cla # Drivers Car Class Time Gap 1 1 Bruno Senna
Gustavo Menezes
Norman Nato
Rebellion R13 LMP1 1'38.860 2 8 Sébastien Buemi
Kazuki Nakajima
Brendon Hartley
Toyota TS050 Hybrid LMP1 1'39.280 0.420 3 7 Mike Conway
Kamui Kobayashi
Jose Maria Lopez
Toyota TS050 Hybrid LMP1 1'39.431 0.571 4 3 Nathanael Berthon
Pipo Derani
Loic Duval
Rebellion R13 LMP1 1'39.718 0.858 5 6 Michael Simpson
Oliver Jarvis
Guy Smith
Ginetta G60-LT-P1 LMP1 1'40.618 1.758 6 22 Philip Hanson
Filipe Albuquerque
Paul di Resta
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'43.066 4.206 7 42 Nicolas Lapierre
Antonin Borga
Alexandre Coigny
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'43.470 4.610 8 29 Frits van Eerd
Giedo van der Garde
Job Van Uitert
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'43.776 4.916 9 37 Ho-Pin Tung
Gabriel Aubry
Will Stevens
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'43.953 5.093 10 36 Thomas Laurent
Andre Negrao
Pierre Ragues
Alpine A470 LMP2 1'44.188 5.328 11 38 Roberto Gonzalez
Antonio Felix da Costa
Anthony Davidson
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'44.497 5.637 12 33 Mark Patterson
Kenta Yamashita
Anders Fjordbach
Oreca 07 LMP2 1'45.367 6.507 13 47 Roberto Lacorte
Andrea Belicchi
Giorgio Sernagiotto
Dallara P217 LMP2 1'46.182 7.322 14 91 Gianmaria Bruni
Richard Lietz
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE PRO 1'55.766 16.906 15 51 James Calado
Alessandro Pier Guidi
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE PRO 1'56.069 17.209 16 95 Marco Sorensen
Nicki Thiim
Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE PRO 1'56.361 17.501 17 97 Alex Lynn
Maxime Martin
Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE PRO 1'56.390 17.530 18 71 Davide Rigon
Miguel Molina
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE PRO 1'56.426 17.566 19 92 Michael Christensen
Kevin Estre
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE PRO 1'56.445 17.585 20 90 Salih Yoluc
Charles Eastwood
Jonathan Adam
Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE AM 1'56.611 17.751 21 98 Paul Dalla Lana
Darren Turner
Ross Gunn
Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE AM 1'57.190 18.330 22 70 Motoaki Ishikawa
Olivier Beretta
Kei Cozzolino
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 1'57.251 18.391 23 56 Egidio Perfetti
David Kolkmann
Matteo Cairoli
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 1'57.429 18.569 24 57 Ben Keating
Felipe Fraga
Jeroen Bleekemolen
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 1'57.482 18.622 25 77 Christian Ried
Matt Campbell
Riccardo Pera
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 1'57.827 18.967 26 83 François Perrodo
Emmanuel Collard
Nicklas Nielsen
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 1'57.976 19.116 27 54 Thomas Flohr
Francesco Castellacci
Giancarlo Fisichella
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 1'58.031 19.171 28 88 Thomas Preining
Gianluca Giraudi
Ricardo Sanchez
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 1'58.040 19.180 29 86 Michael Wainwright
Andrew Watson
Benjamin Barker
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 1'58.541 19.681 30 62 Bonamy Grimes
Johnny Mowlem
Charles Hollings
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 1'58.618 19.758 31 5 Charles Robertson
Ben Hanley
Egor Orudzhev
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