Mexico WEC: Lotterer tops FP1 for Porsche

Andre Lotterer set a 1m27.026s to improve on teammate Neel Jani's 1m27.652s in the closing minutes of a session that began on a wet circuit. 

That put the German six tenths up on the sister Porsche in which Earl Bamber subsequently posted a 1m27.675s. 

The best of the Toyotas was a shade over a second off the pace in the hands of Mike Conway, who improved to a 1m28.029s shortly before the chequered flag. 

That put him a second clear of Sebastien Buemi in the second Toyota.  

Alpine tops LMP2

Nicolas Lapierre was fastest in LMP2 in the Signatech Alpine squad's solo Oreca-Gibson 07 on a 1m34.556s set late in the session to eclipse team-mate Gustavo Menezes' 1m34.715s.

The #13 Rebellion Racing Oreca was second fastest on a 1m34.932s set by Mathias Beche.

Third fastest was the second of the Rebellion cars in which Bruno Senna recorded a 1m35.213s. 

Ferrari beats BoP changes in GTE

Ferrari was fastest in GTE despite a double hit under the automatic Balance of Performance rules in the form of a 5kg weight penalty and a decrease in turbo boost across its torque curve. 

The Italian marque's rivals have all been given performance breaks with a 2kg decrease in minimum weight and more power.

James Calado set a 1m41.10s in the #51 AF Corse factory Ferrari 488 GTE, which gave him a margin of seven hundredths over Frederic Makowiecki in the best of the Porsche 911 RSRs. 

Nicki Thiim was third fastest for Aston Martin in the best of the Vantage GTEs on a 1m41.297s.

Matteo Cairoli was fastest in GTE Am in the Dempsey-Proton Porsche 911 RSR.

Results:

Pos.	#	Drivers	Car	Class	Time	Gap
1	1	Andre Lotterer   Neel Jani   Nick Tandy	Porsche 919 Hybrid	LMP1	1'27.026
2	2	Timo Bernhard   Brendon Hartley   Earl Bamber	Porsche 919 Hybrid	LMP1	1'27.675	0.649
3	7	Kamui Kobayashi   Mike Conway   Jose Maria Lopez	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	LMP1	1'28.029	1.003
4	8	Anthony Davidson   Kazuki Nakajima   Sébastien Buemi	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	LMP1	1'29.131	2.105
5	36	Nicolas Lapierre   Andre Negrao   Gustavo Menezes	Alpine A470	LMP2	1'34.556	7.530
6	13	Nelson Piquet Jr.   David Heinemeier Hansson  Mathias Beche	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'34.932	7.906
7	31	Bruno Senna   Julien Canal   Nicolas Prost	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'35.213	8.187
8	26	Roman Rusinov   Pierre Thiriet   Alex Lynn	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'35.506	8.480
9	25	Vitaly Petrov   Simon Trummer   Roberto Gonzalez	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'35.687	8.661
10	24	Jean-Eric Vergne   Ben Hanley   Matt Rao	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'35.774	8.748
11	38	Oliver Jarvis   Ho-Pin Tung   Thomas Laurent	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'36.171	9.145
12	28	François Perrodo   Emmanuel Collard   Matthieu Vaxiviere	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'36.191	9.165
13	37	David Cheng   Tristan Gommendy   Alex Brundle	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'36.432	9.406
14	51	James Calado   Alessandro Pier Guidi	Ferrari 488 GTE	LMGTE PRO	1'41.101	14.075
15	91	Richard Lietz   Frédéric Makowiecki	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE PRO	1'41.177	14.151
16	95	Marco Sorensen   Nicki Thiim	Aston Martin Vantage	LMGTE PRO	1'41.297	14.271
17	71	Sam Bird   Davide Rigon	Ferrari 488 GTE	LMGTE PRO	1'41.322	14.296
18	92	Michael Christensen   Kevin Estre	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE PRO	1'41.413	14.387
19	66	Stefan Mücke   Olivier Pla	Ford GT	LMGTE PRO	1'41.716	14.690
20	67	Harry Tincknell   Andy Priaulx	Ford GT	LMGTE PRO	1'41.943	14.917
21	97	Darren Turner   Jonathan Adam   Daniel Serra	Aston Martin Vantage	LMGTE PRO	1'42.011	14.985
22	77	Christian Ried   Matteo Cairoli   Marvin Dienst	Porsche 911 RSR (991)	LMGTE AM	1'42.469	15.443
23	86	Michael Wainwright   Ben Barker   Nick Foster Jr.	Porsche 911 RSR (991)	LMGTE AM	1'42.576	15.550
24	98	Pedro Lamy   Paul Dalla Lana   Mathias Lauda	Aston Martin Vantage	LMGTE PRO	1'42.923	15.897
25	54	Francesco Castellacci   Miguel Molina   Thomas Flohr	Ferrari 488 GTE	LMGTE AM	1'43.127	16.101
26	61	Matt Griffin   Mok Weng Sun   Keita Sawa	Ferrari 488 GTE	LMGTE AM	1'43.353	16.327