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Fuji WEC: Audi fastest in Friday practice

Audi ended up with the quickest times of the day in the opening two sessions of free practice ahead of Sunday's sixth round of the World Endurance Championship at Fuji

Anthony Davidson was fastest for Toyota in practice one in the morning, but Audi took the top two spots on the timesheets in the faster afternoon session.

Loic Duval was half a second quicker than team-mate Marcel Fassler in the two Audi R18 e-tron quattros. The Frenchman set his best lap of 1m27.333s in the closing minutes of the session to leapfrog Fassler.

Prior to Duval's lap, the two Audis and the two Toyota TS030 HYBRIDs had been separated by just over three tenths of a second.

Stephane Sarrazin set the fastest Toyota lap of the two sessions with a 1m27.977s, which was four thousandths ahead of Kazuki Nakajima in the sister car.

The LMP2 order was led by Mike Conway in the best of the G-Drive/Delta-ADR ORECA-Nissan 03s.

The Briton's time of 1m32.662s was half a second ahead of nearest challenger Bjorn Wirdheim in the Greaves Motorsport Zytek-Nissan Z11SN run at Fuji under the Gainer International banner.

Aston Martin driver Frederic Makowiecki's first-session lap of 1m39.548s was the fastest time of the day in GTE Pro. That put him exactly three tenths ahead of team-mate Richie Stanaway, who topped the times in second practice.

Paolo Ruberti was quickest in GTE Am aboard the Proton Competition Porsche 911 GT3-RSR.

Practice one:

Pos  Cl     Drivers                         Team/Car                Time
 1.  P1     Lotterer/Treluyer/Fassler       Audi                    1m28.438s
 2.  P1     Kristensen/Duval/McNish         Audi                    1m28.676s
 3.  P1     Davidson/Buemi/Sarrazin         Toyota                  1m28.777s
 4.  P1     Wurz/Lapierre/Nakajima          Toyota                  1m28.962s
 5.  P1     Belicchi/Beche                  Rebellion Lola-Toyota   1m30.654s
 6.  P2     Rusinov/Martin/Conway           Delta-ADR ORECA-Nissan  1m33.619s
 7.  P2     Bradley/Koizumi/Matsuda         KCMG Morgan-Nissan      1m34.142s
 8.  P2     Perez Companc/Minassian/Kaffer  Pecom ORECA-Nissan      1m34.580s
 9.  P2     Graves/Walker/Nakano            Delta-ADR ORECA-Nissan  1m34.729s
10.  P2     Hiranaka/Ueda/Wirdheim          Greaves Zytek-Nissan    1m34.810s
11.  P2     Pla/Heinemeier Hansson/Brundle  OAK Morgan-Nissan       1m35.009s
12.  P2     Weeda/Rossiter/Liuzzi           Lotus                   1m35.639s
13.  P2     Holzer/Kraihamer/Charouz        Lotus                   1m35.744s
14.  P2     Baguette/Gonzalez/Plowman       OAK Morgan-Nissan       1m36.029s
15.  P2     Nicolet/Ihara                   OAK Morgan-Nissan       1m36.166s
16.  GTE P  Turner/Mucke/Makowiecki         Aston Martin            1m39.548s
17.  GTE P  Bergmeister/Pilet               Manthey Porsche         1m40.335s
18.  GTE P  Lamy/Stanaway                   Aston Martin            1m40.793s
19.  GTE P  Lieb/Lietz                      Manthey Porsche         1m40.923s
20.  GTE P  Bruni/Fisichella                AF Ferrari              1m40.947s
21.  GTE P  Kobayashi/Vilander              AF Ferrari              1m41.088s
22.  GTE A  Narac/Vernay/Palttala           Imsa Porsche            1m41.902s
23.  GTE A  Nygaard/Poulsen/Senna           Aston Martin            1m41.939s
24.  GTE A  Ried/Roda/Ruberti               Proton Porsche          1m42.047s
25.  GTE A  Hall/Campbell-Walter/Adam       Aston Martin            1m42.236s
26.  GTE A  Potolicchio/Aguas/Rigon         8Star Ferrari           1m42.497s
27.  GTE A  Gerber/Griffin/Cioci            AF Ferrari              1m42.587s
28.  GTE A  Krohn/Jonsson/Mediani           Krohn Ferrari           1m42.622s
29.  GTE A  Bornhauser/Canal/Rees           Larbre Corvette         1m42.937s

Practice two:

Pos  Cl     Drivers                         Team/Car                Time
 1.  P1     Kristensen/Duval/Mcnish         Audi                    1m27.333s
 2.  P1     Lotterer/Treluyer/Fassler       Audi                    1m27.865s
 3.  P1     Davidson/Buemi/Sarrazin         Toyota                  1m27.977s
 4.  P1     Wurz/Lapierre/Nakajima          Toyota                  1m27.981s
 5.  P1     Belicchi/Beche                  Rebellion Lola-Toyota   1m30.080s
 6.  P2     Rusinov/Martin/Conway           Delta-ADR ORECA-Nissan  1m32.662s
 7.  P2     Hiranaka/Ueda/Wirdheim          Greaves Zytek-Nissan    1m33.228s
 8.  P2     Pla/Heinemeier Hansson/Brundle  OAK Morgan-Nissan       1m33.463s
 9.  P2     Perez Companc/Minassian/Kaffer  Pecom ORECA-Nissan      1m33.501s
10.  P2     Baguette/Gonzalez/Plowman       OAK Morgan-Nissan       1m33.714s
11.  P2     Bradley/Koizumi/Matsuda         KCMG Morgan-Nissan      1m33.985s
12.  P2     Graves/Walker/Nakano            Delta-ADR ORECA-Nissan  1m34.021s
13.  P2     Weeda/Rossiter/Liuzzi           Lotus                   1m35.289s
14.  P2     Nicolet/Ihara                   OAK Morgan-Nissan       1m35.672s
15.  P2     Holzer/Kraihamer/Charouz        Lotus                   1m35.769s
16.  GTE P  Lamy/Stanaway                   Aston Martin            1m39.848s
17.  GTE P  Bruni/Fisichella                AF Ferrari              1m40.154s
18.  GTE P  Lieb/Lietz                      Manthey Porsche         1m40.159s
19.  GTE P  Turner/Mucke/Makowiecki         Aston Martin            1m40.518s
20.  GTE P  Bergmeister/Pilet               Manthey Porsche         1m40.655s
21.  GTE A  Ried/Roda/Ruberti               Proton Porsche          1m40.707s
22.  GTE A  Narac/Vernay/Palttala           Imsa Porsche            1m41.389s
23.  GTE A  Hall/Campbell-Walter/Adam       Aston Martin            1m41.663s
24.  GTE A  Gerber/Griffin/Cioci            AF Ferrari              1m41.722s
25.  GTE A  Bornhauser/Canal/Rees           Larbre Corvette         1m42.015s
26.  GTE A  Potolicchio/Aguas/Rigon         8Star Ferrari           1m42.015s
27.  GTE A  Nygaard/Poulsen/Senna           Aston Martin            1m42.117s
28.  GTE A  Krohn/Jonsson/Mediani           Krohn Ferrari           1m42.481s
29.  GTE P  Kobayashi/Vilander              AF Ferrari

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