Shanghai WEC: Kobayashi puts Toyota on top in FP3
Toyota stood at the top of the times when final free practice for this weekend's Shanghai round of the FIA World Endurance Championship was cut short.
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Kamui Kobayashi was fastest in the #7 Toyota TS050 Hybrid on 1m44.888s when the red flags came out with just under 20 minutes of the one-hour session left to run.
The lattice-work concrete inside the corner curbs started to break up at Turn 3, causing debris to be deposited on the track.
Sebastien Buemi was second fastest on a 1m45.166s in the the #8 Toyota when the stoppage came.
The two Porsches were third and fourth fastest, Brendon Hartley's 1m45.529s in the #2 919 Hybrid leading the way for the German manufacturer.
Hartley subsequently pitted early on after experiencing gearshift problems, the car staying in the garage undergoing repairs for the remainder of the session.
G-Drive Racing Oreca-Gibson 07 shared by Nico Muller, Roman Rusinov and Leo Roussel led the LMP2 class with a 1m50.162s.
That put him nearly nine tenths up on the best of the Rebellion Orecas driven by Bruno Senna, Nicolas Prost and Julien Canal.
Aston Martin ended the curtailed session fastest in GTE Pro, as Marco Sorensen became the first GTE driver to break the two-minute barrier with a 1m59.836s aboard the best of the Aston Martin Vantage GTEs.
That was enough to put him six tenths up on the #67 Ganassi Ford GT of Andy Priaulx and Harry Tincknell, which ended up on a 2m00.451s.
Miguel Molina was fastest in his Spirit of Race Ferrari 488 in the GTE Am class.
Shanghai, WEC FP3
Pos. | # | Drivers | Car | Class | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 7 | Kamui Kobayashi Mike Conway Jose Maria Lopez |
Toyota TS050 Hybrid | LMP1 | 1'44.888 | |
2 | 8 | Anthony Davidson Kazuki Nakajima Sébastien Buemi |
Toyota TS050 Hybrid | LMP1 | 1'45.166 | 0.278 |
3 | 2 | Timo Bernhard Brendon Hartley Earl Bamber |
Porsche 919 Hybrid | LMP1 | 1'45.529 | 0.641 |
4 | 1 | Andre Lotterer Neel Jani Nick Tandy |
Porsche 919 Hybrid | LMP1 | 1'46.223 | 1.335 |
5 | 26 | Roman Rusinov Leo Roussel Nico Müller |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'50.162 | 5.274 |
6 | 31 | Bruno Senna Julien Canal Nicolas Prost |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'50.195 | 5.307 |
7 | 38 | Oliver Jarvis Ho-Pin Tung Thomas Laurent |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'50.665 | 5.777 |
8 | 13 | Nelson Piquet Jr. David Heinemeier Hansson Mathias Beche |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'50.751 | 5.863 |
9 | 36 | Nicolas Lapierre Andre Negrao Gustavo Menezes |
Alpine A470 | LMP2 | 1'51.088 | 6.200 |
10 | 25 | Vitaly Petrov Simon Trummer Roberto Gonzalez |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'51.307 | 6.419 |
11 | 24 | Jean-Eric Vergne Ben Hanley Matt Rao |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'51.673 | 6.785 |
12 | 37 | David Cheng Tristan Gommendy Alex Brundle |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'52.074 | 7.186 |
13 | 28 | François Perrodo Emmanuel Collard Matthieu Vaxiviere |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'53.612 | 8.724 |
14 | 95 | Marco Sorensen Nicki Thiim |
Aston Martin Vantage | LMGTE PRO | 1'59.836 | 14.948 |
15 | 67 | Harry Tincknell Andy Priaulx |
Ford GT | LMGTE PRO | 2'00.451 | 15.563 |
16 | 92 | Michael Christensen Kevin Estre |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE PRO | 2'00.575 | 15.687 |
17 | 51 | James Calado Alessandro Pier Guidi |
Ferrari 488 GTE | LMGTE PRO | 2'01.098 | 16.210 |
18 | 66 | Stefan Mücke Olivier Pla |
Ford GT | LMGTE PRO | 2'01.289 | 16.401 |
19 | 71 | Sam Bird Davide Rigon |
Ferrari 488 GTE | LMGTE PRO | 2'01.343 | 16.455 |
20 | 91 | Richard Lietz Frédéric Makowiecki |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE PRO | 2'01.361 | 16.473 |
21 | 97 | Darren Turner Jonathan Adam |
Aston Martin Vantage | LMGTE PRO | 2'01.861 | 16.973 |
22 | 54 | Francesco Castellacci Miguel Molina Thomas Flohr |
Ferrari 488 GTE | LMGTE AM | 2'01.924 | 17.036 |
23 | 61 | Matt Griffin Mok Weng Sun Keita Sawa |
Ferrari 488 GTE | LMGTE AM | 2'01.992 | 17.104 |
24 | 98 | Pedro Lamy Paul Dalla Lana Mathias Lauda |
Aston Martin Vantage | LMGTE AM | 2'02.223 | 17.335 |
25 | 77 | Christian Ried Matteo Cairoli Marvin Dienst |
Porsche 911 RSR (991) | LMGTE AM | 2'03.065 | 18.177 |
26 | 86 | Khaled Al Qubaisi Ben Barker Nick Foster |
Porsche 911 RSR (991) | LMGTE AM | 2'03.524 | 18.636 |
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