Spa WEC: Penske LMP2 leads Glickenhaus in second practice
Factory Porsche driver Felipe Nasr topped the times in second practice for this weekend's Spa FIA World Endurance Championship round aboard Team Penske's LMP2 car.
Photo by: FIA WEC
Ex-Formula 1 racer Nasr posted a best time of 2m04.443s at the wheel of the #5 Penske Oreca 07-Gibson on Friday morning to make it a second session in a row topped outright by an LMP2 car.
The Brazilian's benchmark was more than a second faster than the time with which WRT's Robin Frijns paced first practice on Thursday.
Making it a one-two on the overall leaderboard for US entrants was Glickenhaus driver Olivier Pla, who topped the four-car Hypercar division with a 2m04.464s in the boutique marque's solo 007 LMH.
Third-fastest was the best of the two Toyota GR010 Hybrids, the #8 car, which topped the times early on with a 2m04.692s in the hands of Brendon Hartley - 0.249s off the pace set by Nasr.
The sister #7 Toyota was sixth-fastest with Jose Maria Lopez setting a 2m05.128s.
Splitting the two Japanese cars were the second- and third-fastest LMP2 runners, with the #23 United Autosports Oreca of Oliver Jarvis leading the Prema machine of Louis Deletraz.
United's second car, driven by Filipe Albuquerque, was fourth in the LMP2 standings and seventh overall, followed by the two JOTA Orecas, led by the #38 machine with Will Stevens driving.
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The fourth and final hypercar entry, the Alpine A480 grandfathered LMP1 car, was 10th overall and a little more than a second off the pace in the hands of Andre Negrao.
Leading the way in the LMP2 Pro/Am subclass was the AF Corse Oreca of Alessio Rovera.
Porsche once again topped the times in the GTE Pro division, as Michael Christensen narrowly improved on the best time set in FP1 with a best effort of 2m14.366s in the #92 911 RSR-19.
Ferrari this time ended up second and third in class with its AF Corse-run 488 GTE Evos, James Calado putting the #51 machine just a tenth of a second ahead of Antonio Fuoco in the #52 car.
Corvette Racing's solo C8.R was fifth in class with Spa debutant Tommy Milner at the wheel.
An early lap of 2m15.604s from Matteo Cairoli was enough to top the GTE Am class for the Project 1 Porsche squad ahead of Seb Priaulx in the Dempsey-Proton Racing Porsche.
The session was halted with around seven minutes remaining owing to debris on track.
One more WEC practice session takes place at Spa on Friday afternoon at 2pm local time ahead of qualifying at 6.20pm.
WEC 6 Hours of Spa - FP2 results:
Cla | # | Drivers | Car | Class | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 5 |
Dane Cameron
Emmanuel Collard Felipe Nasr |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'04.443 | |
2 | 708 |
Olivier Pla
Romain Dumas Pipo Derani |
Glickenhaus 007 LMH | HYPERCAR | 2'04.464 | 0.021 |
3 | 8 |
Sébastien Buemi
Brendon Hartley Ryo Hirakawa |
Toyota GR010 - Hybrid | HYPERCAR | 2'04.692 | 0.249 |
4 | 23 |
Alex Lynn
Oliver Jarvis Josh Pierson |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'04.821 | 0.378 |
5 | 9 |
Robert Kubica
Louis Deletraz Lorenzo Colombo |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'05.020 | 0.577 |
6 | 7 |
Mike Conway
Kamui Kobayashi Jose Maria Lopez |
Toyota GR010 - Hybrid | HYPERCAR | 2'05.128 | 0.685 |
7 | 22 |
Philip Hanson
Filipe Albuquerque Will Owen |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'05.294 | 0.851 |
8 | 38 |
Roberto Gonzalez
Antonio Felix da Costa Will Stevens |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'05.389 | 0.946 |
9 | 28 |
Oliver Rasmussen
Ed Jones Jonathan Aberdein |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'05.450 | 1.007 |
10 | 36 |
Andre Negrao
Nicolas Lapierre Matthieu Vaxiviere |
Alpine A480 | HYPERCAR | 2'05.477 | 1.034 |
11 | 83 |
François Perrodo
Nicklas Nielsen Alessio Rovera |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'05.507 | 1.064 |
12 | 34 |
Jakub Smiechowski
Alex Brundle Esteban Gutierrez |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'05.710 | 1.267 |
13 | 45 |
Steven Thomas
James Allen Rene Binder |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'06.115 | 1.672 |
14 | 41 |
Rui Andrade
Ferdinand Habsburg Norman Nato |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'06.138 | 1.695 |
15 | 10 |
Nico Müller
Ryan Cullen Sébastien Bourdais |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'06.312 | 1.869 |
16 | 31 |
Sean Gelael
Robin Frijns René Rast |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'06.662 | 2.219 |
17 | 1 |
Lilou Wadoux
Sébastien Ogier Charles Milesi |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'08.565 | 4.122 |
18 | 35 |
Jean Baptiste Lahaye
Matthieu Lahaye François Heriau |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'09.086 | 4.643 |
19 | 92 |
Michael Christensen
Kevin Estre |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE PRO | 2'14.366 | 9.923 |
20 | 51 |
Alessandro Pier Guidi
James Calado |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE PRO | 2'14.967 | 10.524 |
21 | 52 |
Miguel Molina
Antonio Fuoco |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE PRO | 2'15.060 | 10.617 |
22 | 91 |
Gianmaria Bruni
Richard Lietz |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE PRO | 2'15.222 | 10.779 |
23 | 64 |
Tommy Milner
Nick Tandy |
Chevrolet Corvette C8.R | LMGTE PRO | 2'15.576 | 11.133 |
24 | 46 |
Matteo Cairoli
Mikkel Pedersen Nicolas Leutwiler |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 2'15.604 | 11.161 |
25 | 77 |
Christian Ried
Sebastian Priaulx Harry Tincknell |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 2'16.240 | 11.797 |
26 | 60 |
Claudio Schiavoni
Matteo Cressoni Giancarlo Fisichella |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 2'16.260 | 11.817 |
27 | 71 |
Franck Dezoteux
Pierre Ragues Gabriel Aubry |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 2'16.486 | 12.043 |
28 | 86 |
Michael Wainwright
Riccardo Pera Benjamin Barker |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 2'16.651 | 12.208 |
29 | 33 |
Ben Keating
Henrique Chaves Jr. Marco Sorensen |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 2'16.804 | 12.361 |
30 | 54 |
Thomas Flohr
Francesco Castellacci Nick Cassidy |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 2'16.839 | 12.396 |
31 | 98 |
Paul Dalla Lana
David Pittard Nicki Thiim |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 2'16.885 | 12.442 |
32 | 777 |
Satoshi Hoshino
Tomonobu Fujii Charlie Fagg |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 2'17.016 | 12.573 |
33 | 88 |
Fred Poordad
Patrick Lindsey Jan Heylen |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 2'17.361 | 12.918 |
34 | 85 |
Rahel Frey
Michelle Gatting Sarah Bovy |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 2'17.377 | 12.934 |
35 | 21 |
Simon Mann
Christoph Ulrich Toni Vilander |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 2'17.674 | 13.231 |
36 | 44 |
Miro Konopka
Tijmen van der Helm Bent Viscaal |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'17.744 | 13.301 |
37 | 56 |
Brendan Iribe
Ollie Millroy Ben Barnicoat |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 2'17.998 | 13.555 |
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