Monza WEC: Lopez secures Toyota clean sweep in practice
Toyota blocked out the top two positions in final free practice for Sunday's Monza round of the FIA World Endurance Championship.
Watch: 6 Hours of Monza: Qualifying Highlights
Jose Maria Lopez maintained his monopoly of the top spot in the times aboard the #7 Toyota GR010 Hybrid with a 1m36.137s set during a qualification simulation right at the start of the one-hour session.
Brendon Hartley ended up a second slower with a 1m37.208s in the #8 Toyota after encountering traffic at the first chicane on the opening lap of his qualifying sim.
That still put the Kiwi nearly half a second up on the third-placed Glickenhaus 007 LMH.
Olivier Pla posted a 1m37.659s in the #708 car to just edge out the Alpine A480-Givson grandfathered LMP1 car in which Nicolas Lapierre managed a 1m37.747s.
The second Glickenhaus was a further two tenths back with a 1m38.009s set by Romain Dumas.
Stoffel Vandoorne ended up quickest in LMP2 aboard the fastest of the JOTA team's pair of Oreca 07s. The Belgian's 1m38.910s was two tenths quicker than Filipe Albuquerque's 1m39.126s aboard the United Autosports Oreca.
Felipe Nasr took third position in the Risi Competizione team's Oreca with a 1m39.211s, while Ben Hanley claimed fourth for DragonSpeed on 1m39.273s.
Gianmaria Bruni was quickest on home ground for Porsche in GTE Pro. The Italian's 1m46.253s lap in the #91 Porsche 911 RSR was more than three tenths up on second-placed Alessandro Pier Guidi.
A 1m46.589s from the Ferrari driver just edged out teammate Miguel Molina's 1m46.663s in the second of the AF Corse-run Ferrari 488 GTE Evos. Neel Jani took fourth in the second of the works Porsches.
Ferrari factory driver Nicklas Nielsen was quickest in GTE Am for AF Corse.
Two cars failed to take part in the final session of practice after incidents in Saturday's morning session.
The #60 Iron Lynx GTE Am Ferrari driven by Claudio Schiavoni triggered a three-car incident on the run to the Ascari Chicane after the chequered flag had fallen in FP2.
The Inception Racing Ferrari went off at Ascari earlier in the second session with Brendan Iribe at the wheel and has been withdrawn from the race.
Qualifying for Sunday's Monza 6 Hours, round three of the 2021 WEC, begins at 6pm local time.
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FP3 Results:
Cla | Drivers | Car | Class | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 |
Mike Conway
Kamui Kobayashi Jose Maria Lopez |
Toyota GR010 - Hybrid | HYPERCAR | 1'36.137 | |
2 |
Sébastien Buemi
Kazuki Nakajima Brendon Hartley |
Toyota GR010 - Hybrid | HYPERCAR | 1'37.208 | 1.071 |
3 |
Pipo Derani
Gustavo Menezes Olivier Pla |
Glickenhaus 007 LMH | HYPERCAR | 1'37.659 | 1.522 |
4 |
Andre Negrao
Nicolas Lapierre Matthieu Vaxiviere |
Alpine A480 | HYPERCAR | 1'37.747 | 1.610 |
5 |
Romain Dumas
Franck Mailleux Richard Westbrook |
Glickenhaus 007 LMH | HYPERCAR | 1'38.009 | 1.872 |
6 |
Sean Gelael
Stoffel Vandoorne Tom Blomqvist |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'38.910 | 2.773 |
7 |
Philip Hanson
Fabio Scherer Filipe Albuquerque |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'39.126 | 2.989 |
8 |
Ryan Cullen
Oliver Jarvis Felipe Nasr |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'39.211 | 3.074 |
9 |
Henrik Hedman
Juan Pablo Montoya Ben Hanley |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'39.273 | 3.136 |
10 |
Roberto Gonzalez
Antonio Felix da Costa Anthony Davidson |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'39.392 | 3.255 |
11 |
Jakub Smiechowski
Renger van der Zande Alex Brundle |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'39.669 | 3.532 |
12 |
Frits van Eerd
Paul-Loup Chatin Nyck de Vries |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'39.707 | 3.570 |
13 |
Esteban Garcia
Loic Duval Norman Nato |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'39.847 | 3.710 |
14 |
Robin Frijns
Ferdinand Habsburg Charles Milesi |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'39.857 | 3.720 |
15 |
Tatiana Calderon
Sophia Flörsch |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'40.731 | 4.594 |
16 |
Jan Magnussen
Anders Fjordbach Dennis Andersen |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'41.138 | 5.001 |
17 |
Miro Konopka
Oliver Webb Matej Konopka |
Ligier JSP 217 | LMP2 | 1'45.042 | 8.905 |
18 |
Gianmaria Bruni
Richard Lietz |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE PRO | 1'46.253 | 10.116 |
19 |
Alessandro Pier Guidi
James Calado |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE PRO | 1'46.589 | 10.452 |
20 |
Daniel Serra
Miguel Molina |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE PRO | 1'46.663 | 10.526 |
21 |
Kevin Estre
Neel Jani |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE PRO | 1'46.984 | 10.847 |
22 |
François Perrodo
Nicklas Nielsen Alessio Rovera |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 1'47.080 | 10.943 |
23 |
Egidio Perfetti
Matteo Cairoli Riccardo Pera |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 1'47.167 | 11.030 |
24 |
Andrew Haryanto
Marco Seefried Alessio Picariello |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 1'47.331 | 11.194 |
25 |
Roberto Lacorte
Giorgio Sernagiotto Antonio Fuoco |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 1'47.365 | 11.228 |
26 |
Ben Keating
Dylan Pereira Felipe Fraga |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 1'47.520 | 11.383 |
27 |
Thomas Flohr
Francesco Castellacci Giancarlo Fisichella |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 1'47.608 | 11.471 |
28 |
Dennis Olsen
Anders Buchardt Maxwell Root |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 1'47.641 | 11.504 |
29 |
Rahel Frey
Michelle Gatting Sarah Bovy |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 1'47.652 | 11.515 |
30 |
Michael Wainwright
Benjamin Barker Tom Gamble |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 1'47.685 | 11.548 |
31 |
Christian Ried
Jaxon Evans Matt Campbell |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 1'47.757 | 11.620 |
32 |
Pierre Ehret
Christian Hook Jeroen Bleekemolen |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 1'47.871 | 11.734 |
33 |
Satoshi Hoshino
Tomonobu Fujii Andrew Watson |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 1'48.085 | 11.948 |
34 |
Paul Dalla Lana
Augusto Farfus Marcos Gomes |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 1'48.284 | 12.147 |
35 |
Christoph Ulrich
Simon Mann Toni Vilander |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 1'48.323 | 12.186 |
36 |
Claudio Schiavoni
Andrea Piccini Matteo Cressoni |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | ||
37 |
Brendan Iribe
Ollie Millroy Ben Barnicoat |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | ||
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