Bahrain WEC: Toyotas separated by a tenth in final practice
The two Toyotas were separated by one tenth in final practice for the last round of the 2019/20 FIA World Endurance Championship in Bahrain on Saturday.
Photo by: Toyota Racing
Brendon Hartley topped the times aboard the #8 Toyota TS050 Hybrid in the opening minutes of the 60-minute session with a 1m43.557s.
The #7 entry with Mike Conway at the wheel was held in the pits for five minutes for a yellow-flag infringement in FP2 and then posted 1m43.659s, just 0.102s slower than the sister car.
It was the second time in the three session of practice that the #8 Toyota had set the pace, despite carrying a 0.54s performance penalty under the LMP1 success handicap system.
Kazuki Nakajima had a brief spin in the #8 Toyota during the session.
Jackie Chan DC Racing led the way in LMP2 courtesy of a 1m48.598s from Will Stevens in the team's Oreca 07.
That put the JOTA-run entry a couple of tenths up on the United Autosports Oreca in which Phil Hanson got down to a 1m48.810s.
The Signatech Alpine Oreca took third in the class times with Thomas Laurent, who posted a 1m49.134s, while Antonio Felix da Costa ended up fourth in the Oreca run under the JOTA Sport banner with a 1m49.767s.
Porsche led the way in GTE Pro for the first time of the Bahrain meeting. Michael Christensen ended up fastest in the best of the factory Porsche 911 RSR-19s with a 1m56.790s laps set early in the session.
That put the Dane nearly a second up on the second-placed Aston Martin Vantage GTE in which Nicki Thiim managed a 1m57.709s.
James Calado was third fastest for Ferrari to make it three manufacturers in the top three. The Brit set a 1m57.964s in the best of the AF Corse-run Ferrari 488 GTE Evos.
A 1m58.321s put Maxime Martin fourth in the second Aston.
The GTE Am division was led by the Aston Martin Racing entry in which Ross Gunn posted a 1m57.947s. Nicklas Nielsen was second in class in the #83 AF-run Ferrari.
Qualifying for the eighth round of the 2019/20 WEC campaign begins at 6:00pm local time.
FP3 results:
Cla | # | Drivers | Car | Class | Laps | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 8 |
Sébastien Buemi
Kazuki Nakajima Brendon Hartley |
Toyota TS050 Hybrid | LMP1 | 32 | 1'43.557 | |
2 | 7 |
Mike Conway
Kamui Kobayashi Jose Maria Lopez |
Toyota TS050 Hybrid | LMP1 | 27 | 1'43.659 | 0.102 |
3 | 37 |
Ho-Pin Tung
Gabriel Aubry Will Stevens |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 28 | 1'48.598 | 5.041 |
4 | 22 |
Philip Hanson
Filipe Albuquerque Paul di Resta |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 24 | 1'48.810 | 5.253 |
5 | 36 |
Thomas Laurent
Andre Negrao Pierre Ragues |
Alpine A470 | LMP2 | 24 | 1'49.134 | 5.577 |
6 | 38 |
Roberto Gonzalez
Antonio Felix da Costa Anthony Davidson |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 25 | 1'49.767 | 6.210 |
7 | 47 |
Roberto Lacorte
Andrea Belicchi Giorgio Sernagiotto |
Dallara P217 | LMP2 | 29 | 1'51.208 | 7.651 |
8 | 29 |
Frits van Eerd
Giedo van der Garde Nyck de Vries |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 27 | 1'51.336 | 7.779 |
9 | 92 |
Michael Christensen
Kevin Estre |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE PRO | 22 | 1'56.790 | 13.233 |
10 | 95 |
Marco Sorensen
Nicki Thiim |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE PRO | 22 | 1'57.709 | 14.152 |
11 | 98 |
Paul Dalla Lana
Richard Westbrook Ross Gunn |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 25 | 1'57.947 | 14.390 |
12 | 51 |
James Calado
Daniel Serra |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE PRO | 26 | 1'57.964 | 14.407 |
13 | 97 |
Richard Westbrook
Maxime Martin |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE PRO | 23 | 1'58.321 | 14.764 |
14 | 83 |
François Perrodo
Emmanuel Collard Nicklas Nielsen |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 26 | 1'58.510 | 14.953 |
15 | 71 |
Davide Rigon
Miguel Molina |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE PRO | 27 | 1'58.514 | 14.957 |
16 | 91 |
Gianmaria Bruni
Richard Lietz |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE PRO | 27 | 1'58.552 | 14.995 |
17 | 77 |
Christian Ried
Riccardo Pera Dennis Olsen |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 23 | 1'59.012 | 15.455 |
18 | 86 |
Michael Wainwright
Alessio Picariello Benjamin Barker |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 24 | 1'59.027 | 15.470 |
19 | 56 |
Egidio Perfetti
Larry ten Voorde Jörg Bergmeister |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 26 | 1'59.054 | 15.497 |
20 | 57 |
Ben Keating
Dylan Pereira Jeroen Bleekemolen |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 22 | 1'59.208 | 15.651 |
21 | 90 |
Salih Yoluc
Charles Eastwood Jonathan Adam |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 26 | 1'59.808 | 16.251 |
22 | 88 |
Khaled Al Qubaisi
Jaxon Evans Marco Holzer |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 28 | 1'59.934 | 16.377 |
23 | 62 |
Bonamy Grimes
Kei Cozzolino Colin Noble Jr. |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 27 | 2'00.047 | 16.490 |
24 | 54 |
Thomas Flohr
Francesco Castellacci Giancarlo Fisichella |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 27 | 2'00.195 | 16.638 |
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