WEC Sebring 1000 Miles: Alpine fastest in FP2, Toyota hit by penalty
Alpine claimed the top spot in second free practice for the opening round of the FIA World Endurance Championship at Sebring on Friday.
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The Alpine A480-Gibson grandfathered LMP1 sat at the head of the classification for the majority of the session on Wednesday afternoon.
Andre Negrao went quickest with a 1m50.845s early on in the one-hour practice period, before Matthieu Vaxiviere improved by three tenths in the closing minutes.
The Frenchman got down to a 1m50.512s, which was still some way short of the 1m49.738s with which he had topped the Hypercar class classification in the opening session.
Vaxiviere’s afternoon mark gave the Alpine a half second margin over the two United Autosports LMP2 Orecas, which ended up second and third overall in the hands of Paul di Resta and Filipe Albuquerque.
Albuquerque sat second in the times with a 1m51.058s until right at the end when di Resta got down to a 1m51.040s in his Oreca to take the top spot in P2.
The #8 Toyota GR010 Hybrid had been second until a 1m51.015s set by Brendon Hartley early on was wiped out for a pitlane speeding infringement. That demoted to car to fifth position with a 1m51.380s, also set by Hartley, behind the Realteam by WRT Oreca of Ferdinand Habsburg on a 1m51.244s.
Sixth place went to Prema Powerteam’s Oreca courtesy of a 1m51.395s from Robert Kubica.
The second WRT P2 entry ended up seventh with a 1m51.446s from Rene Rast, while Jose Maria Lopez was eighth in the second Toyota with a 1m53.503s.
The Glickenhaus 007 LMH, which had been fastest in FP1 in Romain Dumas’s hands, ended up down in 14th position more than a second and a half off the pace with a 1m52.479s from Ryan Briscoe.
#92 Porsche GT Team Porsche 911 RSR - 19: Michael Christensen, Kevin Estre
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Porsche heads GTE Pro from Corvette
The #92 Porsche 911 RSR-19 again headed the GTE Pro times, this time with Michael Christensen at the wheel. He posted a 1m58.448s to end up less than one hundredth of a second clear of Nick Tandy in the solo Chevrolet Corvette C8.R.
The Briton’s 1m58.580s put him four tenths clear of the second Porsche in which Richard Lietz set a best lap of 1m58.889s, which was almost identical to teammate Gianmaria Bruni’s mark from session one.
The two AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE Evos again brought up the rear and failed to break the two-minute mark.
WEC debutant David Pittard ended up quickest in GTE Am in the Northwest AMR Aston Martin. The Briton’s time of 2m00.029s in the Prodrive-run Vantage GTE put him just over a tenth up on fellow countryman Harry Tincknell in the best of the Dempsey Proton Porsches.
Practice continues on Thursday with the final of the three 60-minute practice sessions at 11:55am local time before qualifying for Friday’s Sebring 1000 Miles begins at 7:00pm.
Practice times:
Cla | # | Drivers | Car | Class | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 36 |
Andre Negrao
Nicolas Lapierre Matthieu Vaxiviere |
Alpine A480 | HYPERCAR | 1'50.512 | |
2 | 23 |
Paul di Resta
Oliver Jarvis Josh Pierson |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'51.040 | 0.528 |
3 | 22 |
Philip Hanson
Filipe Albuquerque Will Owen |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'51.058 | 0.546 |
4 | 41 |
Rui Andrade
Ferdinand Habsburg Norman Nato |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'51.244 | 0.732 |
5 | 8 |
Sébastien Buemi
Brendon Hartley Ryo Hirakawa |
Toyota GR010 - Hybrid | HYPERCAR | 1'51.380 | 0.868 |
6 | 9 |
Robert Kubica
Louis Deletraz Lorenzo Colombo |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'51.395 | 0.883 |
7 | 31 |
Sean Gelael
Robin Frijns René Rast |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'51.446 | 0.934 |
8 | 7 |
Mike Conway
Kamui Kobayashi Jose Maria Lopez |
Toyota GR010 - Hybrid | HYPERCAR | 1'51.503 | 0.991 |
9 | 38 |
Roberto Gonzalez
Antonio Felix da Costa Will Stevens |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'51.683 | 1.171 |
10 | 28 |
Oliver Rasmussen
Ed Jones Jonathan Aberdein |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'51.783 | 1.271 |
11 | 5 |
Dane Cameron
Emmanuel Collard Felipe Nasr |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'52.047 | 1.535 |
12 | 35 |
Jean Baptiste Lahaye
Matthieu Lahaye François Heriau |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'52.142 | 1.630 |
13 | 83 |
François Perrodo
Nicklas Nielsen Alessio Rovera |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'52.343 | 1.831 |
14 | 708 |
Olivier Pla
Romain Dumas Ryan Briscoe |
Glickenhaus 007 LMH | HYPERCAR | 1'52.479 | 1.967 |
15 | 34 |
Jakub Smiechowski
Fabio Scherer Esteban Gutierrez |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'52.752 | 2.240 |
16 | 10 |
Nico Müller
Ryan Cullen Mike Rockenfeller |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'53.772 | 3.260 |
17 | 1 |
Lilou Wadoux
Sébastien Ogier Charles Milesi |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'53.976 | 3.464 |
18 | 45 |
Steven Thomas
James Allen Rene Binder |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'54.144 | 3.632 |
19 | 44 |
Miro Konopka
Mathias Beche Tijmen van der Helm |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'56.085 | 5.573 |
20 | 92 |
Michael Christensen
Kevin Estre |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE PRO | 1'58.488 | 7.976 |
21 | 64 |
Tommy Milner
Nick Tandy |
Chevrolet Corvette C8.R | LMGTE PRO | 1'58.580 | 8.068 |
22 | 91 |
Gianmaria Bruni
Richard Lietz |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE PRO | 1'58.889 | 8.377 |
23 | 98 |
Paul Dalla Lana
David Pittard Nicki Thiim |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 2'00.029 | 9.517 |
24 | 77 |
Christian Ried
Sebastian Priaulx Harry Tincknell |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 2'00.181 | 9.669 |
25 | 56 |
Brendan Iribe
Ollie Millroy Ben Barnicoat |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 2'00.367 | 9.855 |
26 | 52 |
Miguel Molina
Antonio Fuoco |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE PRO | 2'00.416 | 9.904 |
27 | 21 |
Simon Mann
Christoph Ulrich Toni Vilander |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 2'00.533 | 10.021 |
28 | 51 |
Alessandro Pier Guidi
James Calado |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE PRO | 2'00.559 | 10.047 |
29 | 71 |
Franck Dezoteux
Pierre Ragues Gabriel Aubry |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 2'00.621 | 10.109 |
30 | 60 |
Claudio Schiavoni
Matteo Cressoni Giancarlo Fisichella |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 2'00.866 | 10.354 |
31 | 33 |
Ben Keating
Florian Latorre Marco Sorensen |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 2'01.143 | 10.631 |
32 | 777 |
Satoshi Hoshino
Tomonobu Fujii Charlie Fagg |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 2'01.424 | 10.912 |
33 | 88 |
Fred Poordad
Patrick Lindsey Julien Andlauer |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 2'01.546 | 11.034 |
34 | 85 |
Rahel Frey
Michelle Gatting Sarah Bovy |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 2'01.883 | 11.371 |
35 | 54 |
Thomas Flohr
Francesco Castellacci Nick Cassidy |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 2'01.899 | 11.387 |
36 | 46 |
Matteo Cairoli
Mikkel Pedersen Nicolas Leutwiler |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 2'02.234 | 11.722 |
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