Shanghai WEC: Toyota stays on top in second practice
Toyota remained in control of the timesheets in second practice for this weekend's Shanghai FIA World Endurance Championship round.
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The pace in the afternoon session was slower than it was in first practice, meaning Sebastien Buemi's 1m54.768s set on intermediate tyres in the #8 Toyota TS050 Hybrid stood as the day's fastest.
In FP2, it was the #7 car that led the way, as Jose Maria Lopez jumped to the top of the timesheets right at the end of the a session in which the LMP1 runners used only wet tyres.
His 2m02.259s eclipsed Kazuki Nakajima's 2m02.504s in the #8 Toyota by a couple of tenths, while Thomas Laurent was a further tenth and a half behind in the #3 Rebellion R-13.
Late improvements by Andre Lotterer in the #1 Rebellion and Jenson Button in the best of the SMP Racing BR Engineering BR1s put them fourth and fifth, ahead of the #17 SMP BR1 of Egor Orudzhev.
The #10 DragonSpeed BR1 and the #4 ByKolles ENSO CLM P1/01 rounded out the LMP1 order.
LMP2 was once again topped by Jazeman Jaafar in the #37 Jackie Chan DC Racing Oreca, as the Malaysian knocked the Signatech Alpine from top of the times right at the end of the session.
Jaafar's 2m10.869s was slower than his FP1 best, but was enough to edge out Andre Negrao in the Signatech car by a scant 0.027s.
Matthieu Vaxiviere put the TDS Racing Oreca third in class, a further eight tenths back.
James Calado was quickest in the GTE Pro class in his AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE, his best time of 2m14.315s coming shortly before an off at Turn 2 that caused a full-course yellow.
That was some way off the 2m09.830s set by BMW driver Martin Tomczyk in FP1 on slick tyres, however.
Antonio Felix da Costa was second in the afternoon the best of the BMW M8 GTEs, followed by Maxime Martin in the top Aston Martin Vantage GTE.
Corvette Racing's one-off C7.R entry was fifth, up two places from the morning session.
Giancarlo Fisichella put the Spirit of Race Ferrari 488 GTE at the top of the order in GTE Am, five seconds down on the best time recorded in FP1 by the TF Sport Aston Martin.
Session results:
Pos. | No. | Drivers | Car | Class | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 7 | Kamui Kobayashi Mike Conway Jose Maria Lopez |
Toyota TS050 Hybrid | LMP1 | 2'02.259 | |
2 | 8 | Fernando Alonso Kazuki Nakajima Sébastien Buemi |
Toyota TS050 Hybrid | LMP1 | 2'02.504 | 0.245 |
3 | 3 | Mathias Beche Thomas Laurent Gustavo Menezes |
Rebellion R13 | LMP1 | 2'02.673 | 0.414 |
4 | 1 | Andre Lotterer Bruno Senna Neel Jani |
Rebellion R13 | LMP1 | 2'02.935 | 0.676 |
5 | 11 | Jenson Button Vitaly Petrov Mikhail Aleshin |
BR Engineering BR1 | LMP1 | 2'03.648 | 1.389 |
6 | 17 | Stéphane Sarrazin Matevos Isaakyan Egor Orudzhev |
BR Engineering BR1 | LMP1 | 2'04.588 | 2.329 |
7 | 10 | Renger van der Zande Ben Hanley James Allen |
BR Engineering BR1 | LMP1 | 2'04.696 | 2.437 |
8 | 4 | Oliver Webb Tom Dillmann James Rossiter |
ENSO CLM P1/01 | LMP1 | 2'06.744 | 4.485 |
9 | 37 | Nabil Jeffri Weiron Tan Jazeman Jaafar |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'10.869 | 8.610 |
10 | 36 | Nicolas Lapierre Pierre Thiriet Andre Negrao |
Alpine A470 | LMP2 | 2'10.896 | 8.637 |
11 | 28 | Loic Duval François Perrodo Matthieu Vaxiviere |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'11.746 | 9.487 |
12 | 50 | Enzo Guibbert Romano Ricci Erwin Creed |
Ligier JSP 217 | LMP2 | 2'12.112 | 9.853 |
13 | 29 | Giedo van der Garde Nyck de Vries Frits van Eerd |
Dallara P217 | LMP2 | 2'12.156 | 9.897 |
14 | 38 | Ho-Pin Tung Stéphane Richelmi Gabriel Aubry |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'12.162 | 9.903 |
15 | 31 | Anthony Davidson Pastor Maldonado Roberto Gonzalez |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'12.499 | 10.240 |
16 | 51 | James Calado Alessandro Pier Guidi |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE PRO | 2'14.315 | 12.056 |
17 | 82 | Antonio Felix da Costa Tom Blomqvist |
BMW M8 GTE | LMGTE PRO | 2'14.964 | 12.705 |
18 | 97 | Maxime Martin Alex Lynn |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE PRO | 2'14.983 | 12.724 |
19 | 95 | Nicki Thiim Marco Sorensen |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE PRO | 2'15.454 | 13.195 |
20 | 64 | Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner |
Chevrolet Corvette C7R | LMGTE PRO | 2'16.222 | 13.963 |
21 | 92 | Michael Christensen Kevin Estre |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE PRO | 2'16.250 | 13.991 |
22 | 66 | Stefan Mücke Olivier Pla |
Ford GT | LMGTE PRO | 2'16.568 | 14.309 |
23 | 54 | Giancarlo Fisichella Francesco Castellacci Thomas Flohr |
Ferrari 488 GTE | LMGTE AM | 2'16.835 | 14.576 |
24 | 61 | Matthew Griffin Mok Weng Sun Keita Sawa |
Ferrari 488 GTE | LMGTE AM | 2'16.878 | 14.619 |
25 | 81 | Nick Catsburg Martin Tomczyk |
BMW M8 GTE | LMGTE PRO | 2'17.025 | 14.766 |
26 | 71 | Sam Bird Davide Rigon |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE PRO | 2'17.162 | 14.903 |
27 | 91 | Gianmaria Bruni Richard Lietz |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE PRO | 2'17.578 | 15.319 |
28 | 86 | Michael Wainwright Benjamin Barker Thomas Preining |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 2'17.799 | 15.540 |
29 | 67 | Harry Tincknell Andy Priaulx |
Ford GT | LMGTE PRO | 2'17.863 | 15.604 |
30 | 90 | Jonathan Adam Salih Yoluc Charles Eastwood |
Aston Martin Vantage | LMGTE AM | 2'17.904 | 15.645 |
31 | 70 | Olivier Beretta Eddie Cheever III Motoaki Ishikawa |
Ferrari 488 GTE | LMGTE AM | 2'18.558 | 16.299 |
32 | 88 | Matteo Cairoli Riccardo Pera Khaled Al-Qubaisi |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 2'18.610 | 16.351 |
33 | 56 | Jörg Bergmeister Patrick Lindsey Egidio Perfetti |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 2'20.235 | 17.976 |
34 | 98 | Pedro Lamy Paul Dalla Lana Mathias Lauda |
Aston Martin Vantage | LMGTE AM | 2'21.333 | 19.074 |
35 | 77 | Christian Ried Matt Campbell Julien Andlauer |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | no time | - |
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