Le Mans 24h: Alpine splits the Toyotas in FP4
Alpine split the Toyotas in the final practice ahead of this weekend's Le Mans 24 Hours, the blue riband round of the FIA World Endurance Championship.
Nicolas Lapierre got within three tenths of Kazuki Nakajima's time-topping Toyota during the fourth period of free practice that followed the Hyperpole qualifying session.
Nakajima set the pace from the beginning of Thursday evening's night session in the #8 Toyota GR010 Hybrid, ending up on a 3m27.994s.
Lapierre posted an improvement with 40 minutes to go, getting down to a 3m28.280s aboard the Alpine A480. Pole winner Kamui Kobayashi improved to a 3m29.567s late in the session but remained third in the #7 Toyota.
Ryan Briscoe ended up fastest of the two Glickenhaus 007 LMHs with a 3m30.309s.
Franco Colapinto took LMP2 honours in the G-Drive Racing's lead entry. The Argentinian took the top spot with 3m31.414s set early in the session aboard his Aurus-badged Oreca 07-Gibson.
That put him nearly half a second up on Job van Uitert's 3m31.862sin the TDS-run Racing Team Nederland Oreca.
Filipe Albuquerque claimed third spot for United Autosports ahead of Gabriel Aubry's Panis Racing-run PR1/Mathiasen Oreca.
#79 Weathertech Racing Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE Pro, Cooper MacNeil, Earl Bamber, Laurens Vanthoor
Photo by: Paul Foster
WeatherTech Porsche heads GTE Pro
Laurens Vanthoor, older brother of class pole winner Dries, led the way in GTE Pro for the privateer WeatherTech Racing Porsche squad.
The Belgian's 3m48.246s aboard the Proton-run WeatherTech Porsche 911 RSR-19 put him a second clear of Gianmaria Bruni in the only factory Porsche to take part in the session.
Bruni's 3m49.334s had leapfrogged him to the top of the times ahead of the two Chevrolet Corvette C8.Rs halfway through the session. Antonio Garcia ended up third with a 3m49.406s ahead of Alexander Sims, who was just behind on 3m49.684s.
The pole-winning HubAuto Porsche claimed fifth in Maxime Martin's hands ahead of the two AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE Evos.
GTE Am honours went to the AF Ferrari of Nicklas Nielsen, who was just over a tenth up on Optimum-run Inception Racing Ferrari in Ben Barnicoat's hands.
The session was halted 15 minutes before its two-hour duration was complete when Ollie Millroy put the Inception Ferrari in the barriers at the Ford Chicane.
Fifty-eight of the 62 cars entered for the race took part in FP4. Those missing included the #92 factory Porsche crashed by Kevin Estre during Hyperpole qualifying.
Track action resumes at Le Mans at 1130 local time with the 15-minute warm-up session ahead of the 1600 race start of the 89th edition of the 24 Hours.
Le Mans 24 Hours - FP4 results
Cla | # | Drivers | Car | Class | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 8 |
Sébastien Buemi
Kazuki Nakajima Brendon Hartley |
Toyota GR010 - Hybrid | HYPERCAR | 3'27.994 | |
2 | 36 |
Andre Negrao
Nicolas Lapierre Matthieu Vaxiviere |
Alpine A480 | HYPERCAR | 3'28.280 | 0.286 |
3 | 7 |
Mike Conway
Kamui Kobayashi Jose Maria Lopez |
Toyota GR010 - Hybrid | HYPERCAR | 3'29.567 | 1.573 |
4 | 709 |
Ryan Briscoe
Richard Westbrook Romain Dumas |
Glickenhaus 007 LMH | HYPERCAR | 3'30.309 | 2.315 |
5 | 26 |
Roman Rusinov
Franco Colapinto Nyck de Vries |
Aurus 01 | LMP2 | 3'31.414 | 3.420 |
6 | 29 |
Frits van Eerd
Giedo van der Garde Job Van Uitert |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'31.862 | 3.868 |
7 | 22 |
Philip Hanson
Fabio Scherer Filipe Albuquerque |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'32.006 | 4.012 |
8 | 24 |
Patrick Kelly
Gabriel Aubry Simon Trummer |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'32.209 | 4.215 |
9 | 38 |
Roberto Gonzalez
Antonio Felix da Costa Anthony Davidson |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'32.223 | 4.229 |
10 | 41 |
Robert Kubica
Louis Deletraz Ye Yifei |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'32.324 | 4.330 |
11 | 28 |
Sean Gelael
Stoffel Vandoorne Tom Blomqvist |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'32.377 | 4.383 |
12 | 70 |
Esteban Garcia
Loic Duval Norman Nato |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'32.744 | 4.750 |
13 | 34 |
Jakub Smiechowski
Renger van der Zande Alex Brundle |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'33.209 | 5.215 |
14 | 31 |
Robin Frijns
Ferdinand Habsburg Charles Milesi |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'33.238 | 5.244 |
15 | 32 |
Nico Jamin
Jonathan Aberdein Manuel Maldonado |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'33.366 | 5.372 |
16 | 48 |
Paul Lafargue
Paul-Loup Chatin Patrick Pilet |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'34.135 | 6.141 |
17 | 82 |
Ryan Cullen
Oliver Jarvis Felipe Nasr |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'34.310 | 6.316 |
18 | 65 |
Julien Canal
Will Stevens James Allen |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'34.332 | 6.338 |
19 | 20 |
Dennis Andersen
Ricky Taylor Marco Sorensen |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'34.366 | 6.372 |
20 | 25 |
John Falb
Roberto Merhi Rui Andrade |
Aurus 01 | LMP2 | 3'34.409 | 6.415 |
21 | 49 |
Anders Fjordbach
Jan Magnussen Kevin Magnussen |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'34.701 | 6.707 |
22 | 23 |
Paul di Resta
Alex Lynn Wayne Boyd |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'34.899 | 6.905 |
23 | 30 |
Rene Binder
Memo Rojas Tristan Gommendy |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'35.017 | 7.023 |
24 | 1 |
Tatiana Calderon
Sophia Flörsch Beitske Visser |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'35.462 | 7.468 |
25 | 21 |
Henrik Hedman
Ben Hanley Juan Pablo Montoya |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'35.875 | 7.881 |
26 | 708 |
Pipo Derani
Franck Mailleux Olivier Pla |
Glickenhaus 007 LMH | HYPERCAR | 3'36.178 | 8.184 |
27 | 39 |
Vincent Capillaire
Arnold Robin Maxime Robin |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'36.604 | 8.610 |
28 | 44 |
Miro Konopka
Oliver Webb Matej Konopka |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 3'43.383 | 15.389 |
29 | 74 |
James Winslow
John Corbett Tom Cloet |
Ligier JSP 217 | LMP2 | 3'44.020 | 16.026 |
30 | 79 |
Cooper MacNeil
Earl Bamber Laurens Vanthoor |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE PRO | 3'48.246 | 20.252 |
31 | 84 |
Takuma Aoki
Nigel Bailly Matthieu Lahaye |
Oreca 07 | INNOVATIVE CAR | 3'48.747 | 20.753 |
32 | 91 |
Gianmaria Bruni
Richard Lietz Frédéric Makowiecki |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE PRO | 3'49.334 | 21.340 |
33 | 63 |
Antonio Garcia
Jordan Taylor Nick Catsburg |
Chevrolet Corvette C8.R | LMGTE PRO | 3'49.603 | 21.609 |
34 | 64 |
Tommy Milner
Nick Tandy Alexander Sims |
Chevrolet Corvette C8.R | LMGTE PRO | 3'49.684 | 21.690 |
35 | 72 |
Dries Vanthoor
Alvaro Parente Maxime Martin |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE PRO | 3'50.886 | 22.892 |
36 | 51 |
Alessandro Pier Guidi
James Calado Côme Ledogar |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE PRO | 3'51.473 | 23.479 |
37 | 83 |
François Perrodo
Nicklas Nielsen Alessio Rovera |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 3'51.561 | 23.567 |
38 | 71 |
Brendan Iribe
Ollie Millroy Ben Barnicoat |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 3'51.692 | 23.698 |
39 | 99 |
Harry Tincknell
Vutthikorn Inthrapuvasak Florian Latorre |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 3'51.736 | 23.742 |
40 | 18 |
Andrew Haryanto
Alessio Picariello Marco Seefried |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 3'51.758 | 23.764 |
41 | 66 |
Thomas Neubauer
Rodrigo Sales Jody Fannin |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 3'51.838 | 23.844 |
42 | 98 |
Paul Dalla Lana
Nicki Thiim Marcos Gomes |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 3'52.053 | 24.059 |
43 | 46 |
Dennis Olsen
Anders Buchardt Robby Foley |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 3'52.268 | 24.274 |
44 | 77 |
Christian Ried
Jaxon Evans Matt Campbell |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 3'52.311 | 24.317 |
45 | 52 |
Daniel Serra
Miguel Molina Sam Bird |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE PRO | 3'52.821 | 24.827 |
46 | 80 |
Matteo Cressoni
Rino Mastronardi Callum Ilott |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 3'52.900 | 24.906 |
47 | 57 |
Takeshi Kimura
Scott Andrews Mikkel Jensen |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 3'52.928 | 24.934 |
48 | 47 |
Roberto Lacorte
Giorgio Sernagiotto Antonio Fuoco |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 3'53.299 | 25.305 |
49 | 54 |
Thomas Flohr
Giancarlo Fisichella Francesco Castellacci |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 3'53.415 | 25.421 |
50 | 388 |
Pierre Ehret
Christian Hook Jeroen Bleekemolen |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 3'53.437 | 25.443 |
51 | 56 |
Egidio Perfetti
Matteo Cairoli Riccardo Pera |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 3'53.525 | 25.531 |
52 | 86 |
Michael Wainwright
Benjamin Barker Tom Gamble |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 3'53.560 | 25.566 |
53 | 88 |
Julien Andlauer
Dominique Bastien Lance David Arnold |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 3'54.202 | 26.208 |
54 | 85 |
Rahel Frey
Sarah Bovy Michelle Gatting |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 3'54.517 | 26.523 |
55 | 777 |
Satoshi Hoshino
Tomonobu Fujii Andrew Watson |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 3'54.808 | 26.814 |
56 | 55 |
Duncan Cameron
David Perel Matthew Griffin |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 3'54.843 | 26.849 |
57 | 60 |
Claudio Schiavoni
Paolo Ruberti Raffaele Giammaria |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 3'55.421 | 27.427 |
58 | 69 |
Robert Renauer
Ralf Bohn Rolf Ineichen |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 3'56.899 | 28.905 |
59 | 17 |
Dwight Merriman
Thomas Laurent Ryan Dalziel |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | ||
60 | 33 |
Ben Keating
Dylan Pereira Felipe Fraga |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | ||
61 | 92 |
Kevin Estre
Neel Jani Michael Christensen |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE PRO | ||
62 | 95 |
John Hartshorne
Ollie Hancock Ross Gunn |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | ||
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