Spa WEC: Alpine edges Toyota in second practice

Andre Negrao set the fastest time of the 90-minute session on Friday morning at the wheel of the Signatech-run Alpine A480 of 2m03.396s, around seven tenths up on Thursday's fastest time.

The first part of the session was led by Toyota thanks to Brendon Hartley's time of 2m03.431s in the #8 GR010 Hybrid, more than a second faster than the best of the Japanese marque's all-new Hypercars had managed in FP1.

That was eclipsed by Negrao by only 0.035s just shy of the 40-minute mark, with no further changes to the top of the leaderboard for the remainder of the session.

United Autosports once again led the LMP2 class after setting the fastest time overall in FP1, but Filipe Albuquerque's fastest time of 2m03.733s in the team's Oreca 07 was more than three tenths off the outright pace.

Nyck de Vries also broke the 2m04s barrier in the #26 G-Drive Racing Aurus-branded Oreca on a 2m03.979s to go second in the LMP2 class and fourth overall.

Two more LMP2s were next up in the overall order - the Inter Europol Competition Oreca of Alex Brundle and the second G-Drive Aurus of Roberto Merhi - with the second of the Toyota Hypercars going seventh-fastest overall and slowest of the three cars in the top division.

Jose Maria Lopez's early laptime of 2m04.717s put the #7 GR010 Hybrid around 1.3s off the pace.

Completing the top 10 overall were three more LMP2 Orecas the WRT car of Robin Frijns, the High Class Racing entry of Jan Magnussen, and the DragonSpeed machine of Ben Hanley.

Ferrari led the way in the GTE Pro class, with James Calado setting the best time of 2m13.552s in the #51 488 GTE Evo, slightly slower than the quickest of the Porsches in FP1.

Gianmaria Bruni put the #91 Porsche second in class on a 2m13.794s, followed by Daniel Serra in the #52 Ferrari on a 2m13.943s.

Corvette Racing's solo C8.R was the slowest car of the five in class, almost 1.5s off the pace.

Kiwi racer Jaxon Evans set the fastest time of 2m14.170s in the GTE Am division in his Dempsey-Proton Racing Porsche, edging out AF Corse Ferrari man Giancarlo Fisichella and Iron Lynx Ferrari driver Matteo Cressoni.

The WEC Spa 6 Hours starts on Saturday May 1 at 1.30pm CET, with practice and qualifying scheduled on Thursday and Friday. All sessions of the event will be streamed live on Motorsport.tv. 

Practice results:

Cla	#	Drivers	Car	Class	Time	Gap
1	36	Andre Negrao Nicolas Lapierre Matthieu Vaxiviere	Alpine A480	HYPERCAR	2'03.396
2	8	Sébastien Buemi Kazuki Nakajima Brendon Hartley	Toyota GR010 - Hybrid	HYPERCAR	2'03.431	0.035
3	22	Philip Hanson Fabio Scherer Filipe Albuquerque	Oreca 07	LMP2	2'03.733	0.337
4	26	Roman Rusinov Franco Colapinto Nyck de Vries	Aurus 01	LMP2	2'03.979	0.583
5	34	Jakub Smiechowski Renger van der Zande Alex Brundle	Oreca 07	LMP2	2'04.230	0.834
6	25	John Falb Rui Andrade Roberto Merhi	Aurus 01	LMP2	2'04.710	1.314
7	7	Mike Conway Kamui Kobayashi Jose Maria Lopez	Toyota GR010 - Hybrid	HYPERCAR	2'04.717	1.321
8	31	Robin Frijns Ferdinand Habsburg Charles Milesi	Oreca 07	LMP2	2'05.287	1.891
9	20	Jan Magnussen Anders Fjordbach Dennis Andersen	Oreca 07	LMP2	2'05.940	2.544
10	21	Henrik Hedman Juan Pablo Montoya Ben Hanley	Oreca 07	LMP2	2'06.291	2.895
11	70	Esteban Garcia Loic Duval Norman Nato	Oreca 07	LMP2	2'06.574	3.178
12	38	Roberto Gonzalez Antonio Felix da Costa Anthony Davidson	Oreca 07	LMP2	2'06.694	3.298
13	24	Patrick Kelly Gabriel Aubry Simon Trummer	Oreca 07	LMP2	2'06.713	3.317
14	28	Sean Gelael Stoffel Vandoorne Tom Blomqvist	Oreca 07	LMP2	2'06.969	3.573
15	29	Frits van Eerd Giedo van der Garde Job Van Uitert	Oreca 07	LMP2	2'07.205	3.809
16	1	Tatiana Calderon Sophia Flörsch Beitske Visser	Oreca 07	LMP2	2'09.290	5.894
17	44	Miro Konopka Tom Jackson Darren Burke	Ligier JSP 217	LMP2	2'10.188	6.792
18	51	Alessandro Pier Guidi James Calado	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE PRO	2'13.552	10.156
19	91	Gianmaria Bruni Richard Lietz	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE PRO	2'13.794	10.398
20	52	Daniel Serra Miguel Molina	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE PRO	2'13.943	10.547
21	92	Kevin Estre Neel Jani	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE PRO	2'14.151	10.755
22	77	Christian Ried Jaxon Evans Matt Campbell	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM	2'14.170	10.774
23	54	Thomas Flohr Francesco Castellacci Giancarlo Fisichella	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	2'14.222	10.826
24	60	Claudio Schiavoni Andrea Piccini Matteo Cressoni	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	2'14.419	11.023
25	88	Andrew Haryanto Marco Seefried Alessio Picariello	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM	2'14.450	11.054
26	83	François Perrodo Nicklas Nielsen Alessio Rovera	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	2'14.655	11.259
27	777	Satoshi Hoshino Tomonobu Fujii Andrew Watson	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	2'15.082	11.686
28	63	Antonio Garcia Oliver Gavin	Chevrolet Corvette C8.R	LMGTE PRO	2'15.152	11.756
29	47	Roberto Lacorte Giorgio Sernagiotto Antonio Fuoco	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	2'15.168	11.772
30	56	Egidio Perfetti Matteo Cairoli Riccardo Pera	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM	2'15.283	11.887
31	98	Paul Dalla Lana Augusto Farfus Marcos Gomes	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	2'15.413	12.017
32	85	Rahel Frey Katherine Legge Manuela Gostner	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	2'15.776	12.380
33	86	Michael Wainwright Benjamin Barker Tom Gamble	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM	2'15.949	12.553
34	33	Ben Keating Dylan Pereira Felipe Fraga	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	2'16.265	12.869
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