Shanghai WEC: Toyota heads both practice sessions
Toyota headed both sessions of free practice on the opening day of the Shanghai World Endurance Championship meeting
Sebastien Buemi ended up quickest in the morning session with a 1m49.833s lap in the #8 Toyota TS040 HYBRID before team-mate Anthony Davidson improved on the time in the afternoon.
Davidson ended up on a 1m49.134s set before rain started to fall 20 minutes into the session, which was eventually stopped with 17 minutes after the rainfall intensified.
The #7 Toyota was second fastest in the two 90-minute sessions, Stephane Sarrazin ending up on 1m50.981s in the morning and Alex Wurz putting in a 1m49.806s in the afternoon.
The Toyota drivers maintained their dominance once the rain started, setting times quicker than their rivals from Audi and Porsche.
The two Audis R18 e-tron quattros were third and fourth in each of the sessions.
Tom Kristensen set the best Audi time of the day in the afternoon, his 1m50.195s lap putting him half a second up on Marcel Fassler.
Fastest Porsche time of the day was Timo Bernhard's 1m51.801s aboard the #20 919 Hybrid set in the afternoon.
The OAK-run G-Drive Ligier-Nissan JSP2 was quickest in LMP2 in both sessions in the hands of Roman Rusinov.
The Russian's best of the day of 1m57.053s put him four tenths up on Ryan Dalziel in the best of the Extreme Speed Motorsports HPD-Honda ARX-03bs.
The GTE class was headed by an Am car in both sessions: Pedro Lamy went fastest for Aston Martin Racing in the opening period before Paolo Ruberti ended up quickest in the AF Corse-run Ferrari in the second.
Gianmaria Bruni recorded the best GTE Pro time of the day in the morning session.
PRACTICE ONE
Pos | Class | Driver | Team | Car | Time |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | LMP1 | A.Davidson, S.Buemi | Toyota Racing | Toyota | 1m49.833s |
2 | LMP1 | A.Wurz, S.Sarrazin, K.Nakajima | Toyota Racing | Toyota | 1m50.981s |
3 | LMP1 | M.Fassler, A.Lotterer, B.Treluyer | Audi Sport Team Joest | Audi | 1m52.249s |
4 | LMP1 | L.di Grassi, L.Duval, T.Kristensen | Audi Sport Team Joest | Audi | 1m52.615s |
5 | LMP1 | T.Bernhard, M.Webber, B.Hartley | Porsche Team | Porsche | 1m53.084s |
6 | LMP1 | R.Dumas, N.Jani, M.Lieb | Porsche Team | Porsche | 1m54.631s |
7 | LMP1 | N.Prost, N.Heidfeld, M.Beche | Rebellion Racing | Rebellion/Toyota | 1m54.786s |
8 | LMP1 | D.Kraihamer, A.Belicchi, F.Leimer | Rebellion Racing | Rebellion/Toyota | 1m56.891s |
9 | LMP2 | R.Rusinov, O.Pla, J.Canal | G-Drive Racing | Ligier/Nissan | 1m57.147s |
10 | LMP2 | S.Sharp, R.Dalziel, R.Gonzalez | Extreme Speed Motorsports | HPD | 1m57.917s |
11 | LMP2 | M.Howson, R.Bradley, A.Imperatori | KCMG | ORECA/Nissan | 1m58.119s |
12 | LMP2 | S.Zlobin, N.Minassian, M.Mediani | SMP Racing | ORECA/Nissan | 1m58.781s |
13 | LMP2 | D.Cheng, H-Pin Tung, M.Patterson | Oak Racing | Morgan/Judd | 1m58.822s |
14 | LMP2 | K.Ladygin, V.Shaytar, A.Ladygin | SMP Racing | ORECA/Nissan | 1m59.504s |
15 | LMP2 | E.Brown, J.van Overbeek, D.Brabham | Extreme Speed Motorsports | HPD | 2m01.487s |
16 | LMP1 | P.Kaffer, L.Auer | Lotus/AER | 2m02.627s | |
17 | GTE Am | P.D.Lana, P.Lamy, C.Nygaard | Aston Martin Racing | Aston Martin | 2m06.056s |
18 | GTE Pro | G.Bruni, T.Vilander | AF Corse | Ferrari | 2m06.153s |
19 | GTE Pro | F.Makowiecki, P.Pilet | Porsche Team Manthey | Porsche | 2m06.463s |
20 | GTE Pro | J.Bergmeister, R.Lietz | Porsche Team Manthey | Porsche | 2m06.473s |
21 | GTE Pro | D.Turner, S.Mucke | Aston Martin Racing | Aston Martin | 2m06.791s |
22 | GTE Am | K.Poulsen, D.H.Hansson, R.Stanaway | Aston Martin Racing | Aston Martin | 2m06.981s |
23 | GTE Pro | D.Rigon, J.Calado | AF Corse | Ferrari | 2m07.069s |
24 | GTE Am | G.Roda, P.Ruberti, M.Cressoni | 8 Star Motorsports | Ferrari | 2m07.189s |
25 | GTE Pro | A.MacDowall, D.O'Young, F.Rees | Aston Martin Racing | Aston Martin | 2m07.357s |
26 | GTE Am | C.Ried, W.Henzler, K.Al Qubaisi | Proton Competition | Porsche | 2m07.449s |
27 | GTE Am | F.Perrodo, E.Collard, M.Vaxiviere | Prospeed Competition | Porsche | 2m07.889s |
PRACTICE TWO
Pos | Class | Driver | Team | Car | Time |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | LMP1 | A.Davidson, S.Buemi | Toyota Racing | Toyota | 1m49.134s |
2 | LMP1 | A.Wurz, S.Sarrazin, K.Nakajima | Toyota Racing | Toyota | 1m49.806s |
3 | LMP1 | L.di Grassi, L.Duval, T.Kristensen | Audi Sport Team Joest | Audi | 1m50.195s |
4 | LMP1 | M.Fassler, A.Lotterer, B.Treluyer | Audi Sport Team Joest | Audi | 1m50.706s |
5 | LMP1 | T.Bernhard, M.Webber, B.Hartley | Porsche Team | Porsche | 1m51.801s |
6 | LMP1 | R.Dumas, N.Jani, M.Lieb | Porsche Team | Porsche | 1m52.293s |
7 | LMP1 | N.Prost, N.Heidfeld, M.Beche | Rebellion Racing | Rebellion/Toyota | 1m55.367s |
8 | LMP2 | R.Rusinov, O.Pla, J.Canal | G-Drive Racing | Ligier/Nissan | 1m57.053s |
9 | LMP2 | S.Sharp, R.Dalziel, R.Gonzalez | Extreme Speed Motorsports | HPD | 1m57.495s |
10 | LMP2 | E.Brown, J.van Overbeek, D.Brabham | Extreme Speed Motorsports | HPD | 1m58.145s |
11 | LMP2 | S.Zlobin, N.Minassian, M.Mediani | SMP Racing | ORECA/Nissan | 1m58.468s |
12 | LMP2 | M.Howson, R.Bradley, A.Imperatori | KCMG | ORECA/Nissan | 1m58.725s |
13 | LMP1 | P.Kaffer, L.Auer | Lotus/AER | 1m59.142s | |
14 | LMP2 | K.Ladygin, V.Shaytar, A.Ladygin | SMP Racing | ORECA/Nissan | 2m00.690s |
15 | LMP2 | D.Cheng, H-Pin Tung, M.Patterson | Oak Racing | Morgan/Judd | 2m01.696s |
16 | GTE Am | G.Roda, P.Ruberti, M.Cressoni | 8 Star Motorsports | Ferrari | 2m04.528s |
17 | GTE Am | F.Perrodo, E.Collard, M.Vaxiviere | Prospeed Competition | Porsche | 2m05.223s |
18 | GTE Pro | D.Turner, S.Mucke | Aston Martin Racing | Aston Martin | 2m06.193s |
19 | GTE Pro | F.Makowiecki, P.Pilet | Porsche Team Manthey | Porsche | 2m06.537s |
20 | GTE Am | C.Ried, W.Henzler, K.Al Qubaisi | Proton Competition | Porsche | 2m06.847s |
21 | GTE Pro | A.MacDowall, D.O'Young, F.Rees | Aston Martin Racing | Aston Martin | 2m06.925s |
22 | GTE Pro | G.Bruni, T.Vilander | AF Corse | Ferrari | 2m07.153s |
23 | GTE Pro | D.Rigon, J.Calado | AF Corse | Ferrari | 2m07.209s |
24 | GTE Am | K.Poulsen, D.H.Hansson, R.Stanaway | Aston Martin Racing | Aston Martin | 2m07.467s |
25 | GTE Am | P.D.Lana, P.Lamy, C.Nygaard | Aston Martin Racing | Aston Martin | 2m07.590s |
26 | GTE Pro | J.Bergmeister, R.Lietz | Porsche Team Manthey | Porsche | 2m08.015s |
27 | LMP1 | D.Kraihamer, A.Belicchi, F.Leimer | Rebellion Racing | Rebellion/Toyota | 2m09.299s |
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