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Spa WEC: Penske LMP2 leads Glickenhaus in second practice
Factory Porsche driver Felipe Nasr topped the times in second practice for this weekend's Spa FIA World Endurance Championship round aboard Team Penske's LMP2 car.
Jamie Klein
Edited: May 6, 2022, 1:20 PM
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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 View full results
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