Audi fastest again in wet Silverstone FP3
Audi World Endurance Championship star Andre Lotterer set the best time in a wet Free Practice 3 session at Silverstone this morning.
Photo by: Daniel James Smith
The three-time Le Mans winner, driving the #7 Audi R18 e-tron quattro that he shares with Benoit Treluyer and Marcel Fassler, set a 1m52.094s in the damp conditions at the very end of the session as a faint dry line started to emerge.
Audi enjoyed a significant advantage for most of the session, but in the dying moments Toyota's Kazuki Nakajima got to within 0.674s of Lotterer.
There was plenty of finding the limits from the 29-car field as they explored the wet Silverstone track during the 60-minute session. The most significant incidents befell the #2 Toyota TS 040 HYBRID driven by Mike Conway and the Signatech Alpine of Nelson Panciatici.
While Conway emerged unscathed from the Luffield gravel trap, Panciatici was stuck at Stowe after a spin beached the LMP2 car for the last 12 minutes of running.
The two Porsche 919 Hybrids placed third and fourth with the #18 car frustrated to not be able to catch up on lost time from yesterday, when they suffered a driveshaft issue that kept them in the pits for the first hour of session one.
In LMP2, Pipo Derani once again starred in the G-Drive Racing Ligier-Nissan as he set a 2m05.786s lap in the final moments of the session to usurp the Strakka Racing run Dome S103 Nissan.
The Strakka team, based close to the track eventually placed third, as the Oreca 05 driven by Matt Howson posted a late lap to claim second for the KCMG team.
The #92 Porsche Team Manthey emerged quickest in the LMGTE Pro class with Frederic Makowiecki posting a 2m13.665. Second was the #95 Aston Martin Racing entry, driven by Christoffer Nygaard.
Emmanuel Collard set the best LMGTE Am time of 2m16.396s in the AF Corse Ferrari 458 Italia that he shares with Francois Perrodo and Rui Aguas.
The qualifying sessions are scheduled to get underway at 12.00 local time.
Pos | Drivers | Team | Time | Gap | Laps |
1 | Marcel Fassler Andre Lotterer Benoît Tréluyer |
Audi | 1'52.094 | 27 | |
2 | Anthony Davidson Sebastien Buemi Kazuki Nakajima |
Toyota | 1'52.768 | 0.674 | 25 |
3 | Romain Dumas Neel Jani Marc Lieb |
Porsche | 1'56.430 | 4.336 | 26 |
4 | Timo Bernhard Mark Webber Brendon Hartley |
Porsche | 1'56.593 | 4.499 | 25 |
5 | Alexander Wurz S.Sarrazin Mike Conway |
Toyota | 1'56.781 | 4.687 | 24 |
6 | Lucas di Grassi Loic Duval Oliver Jarvis |
Audi | 1'57.687 | 5.593 | 24 |
7 | Gustavo Yacamán Luis Derani Ricardo González |
Ligier/Nissan | 2'04.835 | 12.741 | 24 |
8 | Simon Trummer Vitantonio Liuzzi Christian Klien |
CLM/AER | 2'05.769 | 13.675 | 21 |
9 | Matt Howson Richard Bradley Nick Tandy |
ORECA/Nissan | 2'07.287 | 15.193 | 21 |
10 | Nick Leventis Danny Watts Jonny Kane |
Dome/Nissan | 2'07.672 | 15.578 | 20 |
11 | Roman Rusinov Julien Canal Sam Bird |
Ligier/Nissan | 2'10.596 | 18.502 | 24 |
12 | N.Panciatici Paul-Loup Chatin V.Capillaire |
Alpine/Nissan | 2'11.932 | 19.838 | 16 |
13 | Patrick Pilet F.Makowiecki |
Porsche | 2'13.665 | 21.571 | 14 |
14 | C.Nygaard Marco Sorensen Nicki Thiim |
Aston Martin | 2'13.712 | 21.618 | 21 |
15 | Richard Lietz M.Christensen |
Porsche | 2'13.846 | 21.752 | 17 |
16 | Davide Rigon James Calado |
Ferrari | 2'14.611 | 22.517 | 16 |
17 | Gianmaria Bruni Toni Vilander |
Ferrari | 2'14.835 | 22.741 | 14 |
18 | Darren Turner Stefan Mücke |
Aston Martin | 2'14.865 | 22.771 | 23 |
19 | Alex MacDowall Fernando Rees Richie Stanaway |
Aston Martin | 2'16.001 | 23.907 | 19 |
20 | Francois Perrodo Emmanuel Collard Rui Aguas |
Ferrari | 2'16.396 | 24.302 | 21 |
21 | Patrick Dempsey Patrick Long Marco Seefried |
Porsche | 2'17.186 | 25.092 | 22 |
22 | F.Castellacci Roald Goethe Stuart Hall |
Aston Martin | 2'17.604 | 25.510 | 20 |
23 | Gianluca Roda Paolo Ruberti Kristian Poulsen |
Chevrolet | 2'17.991 | 25.897 | 18 |
24 | Christian Ried K.Al Qubaisi Klaus Bachler |
Porsche | 2'18.701 | 26.607 | 20 |
25 | Jacques Nicolet Jean-Marc Merlin Erik Maris |
Ligier/Nissan | 2'18.954 | 26.860 | 19 |
26 | Paul Dalla Lana Pedro Lamy Mathias Lauda |
Aston Martin | 2'19.069 | 26.975 | 18 |
27 | Scott Sharp Ryan Dalziel David Hansson |
HPD | 0 | ||
28 | Ed Brown Jon Fogarty David Brabham |
HPD | 0 | ||
29 | Viktor Shaitar Andrea Bertolini Aleksey Basov |
Ferrari | 0 |
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