Spa WEC: Penske LMP2 leads Glickenhaus in second practice

Ex-Formula 1 racer Nasr posted a best time of 2m04.443s at the wheel of the #5 Penske Oreca 07-Gibson on Friday morning to make it a second session in a row topped outright by an LMP2 car.

The Brazilian's benchmark was more than a second faster than the time with which WRT's Robin Frijns paced first practice on Thursday.

Making it a one-two on the overall leaderboard for US entrants was Glickenhaus driver Olivier Pla, who topped the four-car Hypercar division with a 2m04.464s in the boutique marque's solo 007 LMH.

Third-fastest was the best of the two Toyota GR010 Hybrids, the #8 car, which topped the times early on with a 2m04.692s in the hands of Brendon Hartley - 0.249s off the pace set by Nasr.

The sister #7 Toyota was sixth-fastest with Jose Maria Lopez setting a 2m05.128s.

Splitting the two Japanese cars were the second- and third-fastest LMP2 runners, with the #23 United Autosports Oreca of Oliver Jarvis leading the Prema machine of Louis Deletraz.

United's second car, driven by Filipe Albuquerque, was fourth in the LMP2 standings and seventh overall, followed by the two JOTA Orecas, led by the #38 machine with Will Stevens driving.

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The fourth and final hypercar entry, the Alpine A480 grandfathered LMP1 car, was 10th overall and a little more than a second off the pace in the hands of Andre Negrao.

Leading the way in the LMP2 Pro/Am subclass was the AF Corse Oreca of Alessio Rovera.

Porsche once again topped the times in the GTE Pro division, as Michael Christensen narrowly improved on the best time set in FP1 with a best effort of 2m14.366s in the #92 911 RSR-19.

Ferrari this time ended up second and third in class with its AF Corse-run 488 GTE Evos, James Calado putting the #51 machine just a tenth of a second ahead of Antonio Fuoco in the #52 car.

Corvette Racing's solo C8.R was fifth in class with Spa debutant Tommy Milner at the wheel.

An early lap of 2m15.604s from Matteo Cairoli was enough to top the GTE Am class for the Project 1 Porsche squad ahead of Seb Priaulx in the Dempsey-Proton Racing Porsche.

The session was halted with around seven minutes remaining owing to debris on track.

One more WEC practice session takes place at Spa on Friday afternoon at 2pm local time ahead of qualifying at 6.20pm.

WEC 6 Hours of Spa - FP2 results:

Cla	#	Drivers	Car	Class	Time	Gap
1	5	Dane Cameron Emmanuel Collard Felipe Nasr	Oreca 07	LMP2	2'04.443
2	708	Olivier Pla Romain Dumas Pipo Derani	Glickenhaus 007 LMH	HYPERCAR	2'04.464	0.021
3	8	Sébastien Buemi Brendon Hartley Ryo Hirakawa	Toyota GR010 - Hybrid	HYPERCAR	2'04.692	0.249
4	23	Alex Lynn Oliver Jarvis Josh Pierson	Oreca 07	LMP2	2'04.821	0.378
5	9	Robert Kubica Louis Deletraz Lorenzo Colombo	Oreca 07	LMP2	2'05.020	0.577
6	7	Mike Conway Kamui Kobayashi Jose Maria Lopez	Toyota GR010 - Hybrid	HYPERCAR	2'05.128	0.685
7	22	Philip Hanson Filipe Albuquerque Will Owen	Oreca 07	LMP2	2'05.294	0.851
8	38	Roberto Gonzalez Antonio Felix da Costa Will Stevens	Oreca 07	LMP2	2'05.389	0.946
9	28	Oliver Rasmussen Ed Jones Jonathan Aberdein	Oreca 07	LMP2	2'05.450	1.007
10	36	Andre Negrao Nicolas Lapierre Matthieu Vaxiviere	Alpine A480	HYPERCAR	2'05.477	1.034
11	83	François Perrodo Nicklas Nielsen Alessio Rovera	Oreca 07	LMP2	2'05.507	1.064
12	34	Jakub Smiechowski Alex Brundle Esteban Gutierrez	Oreca 07	LMP2	2'05.710	1.267
13	45	Steven Thomas James Allen Rene Binder	Oreca 07	LMP2	2'06.115	1.672
14	41	Rui Andrade Ferdinand Habsburg Norman Nato	Oreca 07	LMP2	2'06.138	1.695
15	10	Nico Müller Ryan Cullen Sébastien Bourdais	Oreca 07	LMP2	2'06.312	1.869
16	31	Sean Gelael Robin Frijns René Rast	Oreca 07	LMP2	2'06.662	2.219
17	1	Lilou Wadoux Sébastien Ogier Charles Milesi	Oreca 07	LMP2	2'08.565	4.122
18	35	Jean Baptiste Lahaye Matthieu Lahaye François Heriau	Oreca 07	LMP2	2'09.086	4.643
19	92	Michael Christensen Kevin Estre	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE PRO	2'14.366	9.923
20	51	Alessandro Pier Guidi James Calado	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE PRO	2'14.967	10.524
21	52	Miguel Molina Antonio Fuoco	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE PRO	2'15.060	10.617
22	91	Gianmaria Bruni Richard Lietz	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE PRO	2'15.222	10.779
23	64	Tommy Milner Nick Tandy	Chevrolet Corvette C8.R	LMGTE PRO	2'15.576	11.133
24	46	Matteo Cairoli Mikkel Pedersen Nicolas Leutwiler	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM	2'15.604	11.161
25	77	Christian Ried Sebastian Priaulx Harry Tincknell	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM	2'16.240	11.797
26	60	Claudio Schiavoni Matteo Cressoni Giancarlo Fisichella	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	2'16.260	11.817
27	71	Franck Dezoteux Pierre Ragues Gabriel Aubry	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	2'16.486	12.043
28	86	Michael Wainwright Riccardo Pera Benjamin Barker	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM	2'16.651	12.208
29	33	Ben Keating Henrique Chaves Jr. Marco Sorensen	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	2'16.804	12.361
30	54	Thomas Flohr Francesco Castellacci Nick Cassidy	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	2'16.839	12.396
31	98	Paul Dalla Lana David Pittard Nicki Thiim	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	2'16.885	12.442
32	777	Satoshi Hoshino Tomonobu Fujii Charlie Fagg	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	2'17.016	12.573
33	88	Fred Poordad Patrick Lindsey Jan Heylen	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM	2'17.361	12.918
34	85	Rahel Frey Michelle Gatting Sarah Bovy	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	2'17.377	12.934
35	21	Simon Mann Christoph Ulrich Toni Vilander	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	2'17.674	13.231
36	44	Miro Konopka Tijmen van der Helm Bent Viscaal	Oreca 07	LMP2	2'17.744	13.301
37	56	Brendan Iribe Ollie Millroy Ben Barnicoat	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM	2'17.998	13.555
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