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Spa WEC: Porsche heads second Friday practice

Porsche topped the times in final free practice for Saturday's Spa round of the World Endurance Championship with Marc Lieb at the wheel of the #14 919 Hybrid

The German ended the two-hour session held in dry conditions with a 1m59.887s lap, which put him seven tenths up on second-fastest Sebastien Buemi at the wheel of the best of the Le Mans-spec Toyota TS040 HYBRIDs.

Third fastest was the quickest of the Audi R18 e-tron quattros, Andre Lotterer ending up a further tenth back on a 2m00.738s

Stephane Sarrazin (Toyota), Lucas di Grassi (Audi) and Mark Webber (Porsche) filled out places four to six on the timesheets.

The additional Audi on the entry at Spa, which is running in low-downforce Le Mans configuration unlike its two sister cars, ended up seventh on 2m02.620s in the hands of Filipe Albuquerque.

Olivier Pla was fastest in the OAK Racing-run G-Drive Morgan-Nissan in the LMP2 division, his 2m08.673s bettering Kirill Ladygin's best in the SMP ORECA-Nissan 03 by four tenths.

Gianmaria Bruni held sway for Ferrari in GTE Pro with a 2m18.913s.

The time was only two tenths quicker than the GTE Am best set by Klaus Bachler in the Proton Competition Porsche 911 RSR and six tenths up on team-mate Davide Rigon in the second-place Pro entry.

Qualifying for the Spa 6 Hours starts at 7:20pm local time on Friday evening.

Pos  Cl     Drivers                     Team/Car           Time       Cl gap
 1.  P1     Dumas/Jani/Lieb             Porsche            1m59.887s
 2.  P1     Davidson/Lapierre/Buemi     Toyota             2m00.638s  +0.751s
 3.  P1     Fassler/Lotterer/Treluyer   Audi               2m00.638s  +0.851s
 4.  P1     Wurz/Sarrazin/Nakajima      Toyota             2m01.292s  +1.405s
 5.  P1     Di Grassi/Duval/Kristensen  Audi               2m01.454s  +1.567s
 6.  P1     Bernhard/Webber/Hartley     Porsche            2m01.620s  +1.733s
 7.  P1     Albuquerque/Bonanomi        Audi               2m02.347s  +2.460s
 8.  P2     Rusinov/Pla/Canal           OAK Morgan-Nissan  2m08.673s
 9.  P2     Ladygin/Shaitar/Ladygin     SMP ORECA-Nissan   2m09.100s  +0.427s
10.  P2     Dolan/Tincknell/Gene        Jota Zytek-Nissan  2m09.552s  +0.879s
GT pacesetters:
14.  GTE P  Bruni/Vilander              AF Ferrari         2m18.913s
15.  GTE A  Ried/Bachler/Al Qubaisi     Proton Porsche     2m19.151s

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