Practice report
WEC Spa-Francorchamps (2019)
Spa WEC: Alonso tops wet, disrupted second practice
Fernando Alonso topped the times for Toyota in a rain-affected second free practice session ahead of this weekend's Spa round of the FIA World Endurance Championship.
Gary Watkins
Edited: May 2, 2019, 5:00 PM
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The Spaniard posted a 2m19.483s just before the 90-minute session was interrupted by the third of four red flags, which coincided with the rain intensifying.
Alonso's time in the #8 Toyota TS050 Hybrid put him more than a second up on the sister car driven by Mike Conway, who ended up second on 2m20.865s.
The SMP Racing squad, which had been fastest in dry conditions during opening practice, ended up third in the times with a 2m21.429s from Vitaly Petrov aboard the #11 BR Engineering BR1.
SMP's second BR1, in which Sergey Sirotkin set the pace in the morning session, didn't post a time after Stephane Sarrazin aquaplaned off the track approaching the fast Blanchimont left-hander early in the session.
The two Rebellion-Gibson R-13s ended up fourth and fifth in the hands of Neel Jani and Gustavo Menezes respectively.
Jani's 2m22.853s put him more than two seconds up on his teammate.
The ByKolles team's revised ENSO CLM P1/01, now powered by a Gibson V8 engine, topped the times early on in Tom Dillmann's hands, but end up in sixth position.
Pastor Maldonado ended up fastest in LMP2 aboard DragonSpeed's Oreca 07.
His 2m27.682s set on Michelin tyres was more than a second and a half up on the second-placed TDS Oreca of Matthieu Vaxiviere on Dunlops.
Marco Sorensen led the way in GTE Pro for Aston Martin.
The Dane posted a 2m32.648s aboard the #95 Aston Martin Vantage GTE early in the session, which put him just over two tenths up on Gianmaria Bruni's factory Porsche 911 RSR.
The second Aston was less than a tenth back in third with Alex Lynn driving.
The AF Corse Ferrari squad took fourth and fifth positions in class with Sam Bird and Alessandro Pier Guidi driving.
GTE Am was led by the Proton Dempsey Porsche driven by Matt Campbell.
Second practice results:
Cla # Drivers Car Class Time 1 8 Sébastien Buemi
Kazuki Nakajima
Fernando Alonso
Toyota TS050 Hybrid LMP1 2'19.483 2 7 Mike Conway
Kamui Kobayashi
Jose Maria Lopez
Toyota TS050 Hybrid LMP1 2'20.865 3 11 Mikhail Aleshin
Vitaly Petrov
Stoffel Vandoorne
BR Engineering BR1 LMP1 2'21.429 4 1 Neel Jani
Andre Lotterer
Bruno Senna
Rebellion R13 LMP1 2'22.853 5 3 Nathanael Berthon
Thomas Laurent
Gustavo Menezes
Rebellion R13 LMP1 2'25.199 6 4 Tom Dillmann
Oliver Webb
Paolo Ruberti
ENSO CLM P1/01 LMP1 2'25.222 7 31 Roberto Gonzalez
Pastor Maldonado
Anthony Davidson
Oreca 07 LMP2 2'27.682 8 28 François Perrodo
Matthieu Vaxiviere
Norman Nato
Oreca 07 LMP2 2'29.295 9 38 Ho-Pin Tung
Gabriel Aubry
Stéphane Richelmi
Oreca 07 LMP2 2'29.430 10 26 Roman Rusinov
Job Van Uitert
Jean-Eric Vergne
Aurus 01 LMP2 2'29.541 11 29 Frits van Eerd
Giedo van der Garde
Nyck de Vries
Dallara P217 LMP2 2'29.584 12 36 Nicolas Lapierre
Andre Negrao
Pierre Thiriet
Alpine A470 LMP2 2'30.570 13 37 David Heinemeier Hansson
Jordan King
Will Stevens
Oreca 07 LMP2 2'30.729 14 95 Marco Sorensen
Nicki Thiim
Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE PRO 2'32.648 15 91 Richard Lietz
Gianmaria Bruni
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE PRO 2'32.898 16 97 Alex Lynn
Maxime Martin
Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE PRO 2'32.917 17 71 Davide Rigon
Sam Bird
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE PRO 2'33.058 18 50 Erwin Creed
Romano Ricci
Nicholas Boulle
Ligier JSP 217 LMP2 2'33.109 19 51 Alessandro Pier Guidi
James Calado
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE PRO 2'33.306 20 92 Michael Christensen
Kevin Estre
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE PRO 2'33.331 21 67 Andy Priaulx
Harry Tincknell
Ford GT LMGTE PRO 2'33.887 22 77 Christian Ried
Riccardo Pera
Matt Campbell
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 2'34.093 23 66 Stefan Mücke
Olivier Pla
Ford GT LMGTE PRO 2'34.395 24 70 Motoaki Ishikawa
Olivier Beretta
Eddie Cheever III
Ferrari 488 GTE LMGTE AM 2'34.851 25 82 Augusto Farfus
Antonio Felix da Costa
BMW M8 GTE LMGTE PRO 2'35.223 26 81 Martin Tomczyk
Nick Catsburg
BMW M8 GTE LMGTE PRO 2'35.494 27 86 Michael Wainwright
Benjamin Barker
Thomas Preining
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 2'35.911 28 54 Thomas Flohr
Francesco Castellacci
Giancarlo Fisichella
Ferrari 488 GTE LMGTE AM 2'37.158 29 56 Jörg Bergmeister
Patrick Lindsey
Egidio Perfetti
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 2'37.834 30 90 Salih Yoluc
Euan Hankey
Charles Eastwood
Aston Martin Vantage LMGTE AM 2'38.112 31 61 Luis Perez Companc
Matteo Cressoni
Matthew Griffin
Ferrari 488 GTE LMGTE AM 2'38.189 32 98 Paul Dalla Lana
Pedro Lamy
Mathias Lauda
Aston Martin Vantage LMGTE AM 2'38.476 33 88 Gianluca Roda
Giorgio Roda
Matteo Cairoli
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 2'39.746 34 17 Stéphane Sarrazin
Egor Orudzhev
Sergey Sirotkin
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