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WEC Spa-Francorchamps
Spa WEC: Rebellion tops shortened third practice
Rebellion Racing maintained its stranglehold on the top of the timesheets in a shortened final practice session for this weekend's Spa World Endurance Championship round.
Gary Watkins
Edited: Aug 14, 2020, 1:32 PM
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Gustavo Menezes sat at the top of the classification with the fastest time of the event so far in the solo Rebellion R-13 when the red flags came out halfway through the one-hour session.
A drain cover had detached itself from the kerbing at Turn 14, and after efforts to effect a quick fix the session was called off with just over 10 minutes left on the clock.
Menezes eclipsed his second session best with a 2m00.035s at the start of FP3 and then dipped under the two-minute barrier with a 1m59.605s on his next lap.
That put the Rebellion, which is running in high-downforce specification at Spa, four tenths up on the two Toyota TS050 Hybrids, which were separated by three hundredths in second and third positions.
Mike Conway and Kazuki Nakajima both undertook qualification simulations right at the start of the session in their low-downforce Toyotas, the Briton coming out on top with a 2m00.043s.
Nakajima ended up just behind on a 2m00.089s after his first flying lap and then failed to improve after staying out.
The ByKolles ENSO CLM P1/01 brought up the rear of the four-car LMP1 class with Tom Dillmann's 2m02.089s, an improvement of nearly 1.5s over its previous best.
Racing Team Nederland ended up fastest in LMP2 with a 2m03.170s from Giedo van der Garde aboard its TDS Racing-run Oreca.
Paul di Resta was nearly half a second behind in the United Autosports entry, while Nicolas Lapierre took third for Cool Racing in a clean sweep of the top three for Michelin-shod Orecas.
Top Goodyear runner was the JOTA Sport Oreca in which Anthony Davidson ended up over two seconds off the pace.
Michael Christensen ended up fastest in GTE Pro by nearly a second in his factory Porsche 911 RSR-19. The Dane posted a 2m14.558s, which was just over a tenth quicker than Maxime Martin's class best for Aston Martin in second free practice.
Alessandro Pier Guidi was second-fastest in the final session with a 2m15.539s aboard his AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE, which put him six tenths up on teammate Davide Rigon in third.
Gianmaria Bruni took fourth in the second factory Porsche ahead of the two Aston Martin Vantage GTEs, the slower of which was outpaced by Nicklas Nielsen in the GTE Am class-topping AF Corse Ferrari.
Session results:
Cla # Drivers Car Class Time Gap 1 1 Bruno Senna
Gustavo Menezes
Norman Nato
Rebellion R13 LMP1 1'59.605 2 7 Mike Conway
Kamui Kobayashi
Jose Maria Lopez
Toyota TS050 Hybrid LMP1 2'00.043 0.438 3 8 Sébastien Buemi
Kazuki Nakajima
Brendon Hartley
Toyota TS050 Hybrid LMP1 2'00.089 0.484 4 4 Tom Dillmann
Bruno Spengler
Oliver Webb
ENSO CLM P1/01 LMP1 2'02.688 3.083 5 29 Frits van Eerd
Giedo van der Garde
Job Van Uitert
Oreca 07 LMP2 2'03.170 3.565 6 22 Philip Hanson
Filipe Albuquerque
Paul di Resta
Oreca 07 LMP2 2'03.631 4.026 7 42 Nicolas Lapierre
Antonin Borga
Alexandre Coigny
Oreca 07 LMP2 2'05.290 5.685 8 38 Roberto Gonzalez
Antonio Felix da Costa
Anthony Davidson
Oreca 07 LMP2 2'05.322 5.717 9 35 Nobuya Yamanaka
Nick Foster Jr.
Roberto Merhi
Ligier JSP 217 LMP2 2'05.754 6.149 10 36 Thomas Laurent
Andre Negrao
Pierre Ragues
Alpine A470 LMP2 2'06.230 6.625 11 33 Mark Patterson
Kenta Yamashita
Anders Fjordbach
Oreca 07 LMP2 2'08.238 8.633 12 37 Ho-Pin Tung
Ryan Cullen
Will Stevens
Oreca 07 LMP2 2'11.704 12.099 13 92 Michael Christensen
Kevin Estre
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE PRO 2'14.558 14.953 14 51 James Calado
Alessandro Pier Guidi
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE PRO 2'15.539 15.934 15 71 Davide Rigon
Miguel Molina
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE PRO 2'16.173 16.568 16 91 Gianmaria Bruni
Richard Lietz
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE PRO 2'16.598 16.993 17 95 Marco Sorensen
Nicki Thiim
Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE PRO 2'16.628 17.023 18 83 François Perrodo
Emmanuel Collard
Nicklas Nielsen
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 2'16.833 17.228 19 97 Alex Lynn
Maxime Martin
Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE PRO 2'16.890 17.285 20 90 Salih Yoluc
Charles Eastwood
Jonathan Adam
Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE AM 2'17.351 17.746 21 88 Gianluca Giraudi
Ricardo Sanchez
Lucas Legeret
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 2'17.407 17.802 22 57 Ben Keating
Felipe Fraga
Jeroen Bleekemolen
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 2'17.439 17.834 23 77 Christian Ried
Riccardo Pera
Matt Campbell
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 2'17.472 17.867 24 86 Michael Wainwright
Andrew Watson
Benjamin Barker
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 2'17.566 17.961 25 56 Egidio Perfetti
Laurents Hörr
Matteo Cairoli
Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 2'17.618 18.013 26 62 Bonamy Grimes
Johnny Mowlem
Charles Hollings
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 2'17.885 18.280 27 98 Paul Dalla Lana
Augusto Farfus
Ross Gunn
Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE AM 2'18.266 18.661 28 54 Thomas Flohr
Francesco Castellacci
Giancarlo Fisichella
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 2'19.494 19.889 29 47 Roberto Lacorte
Andrea Belicchi
Giorgio Sernagiotto
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