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Austin WEC: Brendon Hartley leads Porsche 1-2 in third practice

Porsche again blocked out the top two positions in final free practice ahead of Friday afternoon's qualifying session for the Austin World Endurance Championship round

Brendon Hartley went fastest in the 60-minute session with a 1m46.435s, which put him three tenths up on the sister Porsche 919 Hybrid in which Neel Jani set a 1m46.781s.

Audi, which had split the Porsches in the second session, took third position with a 1m47.436s from Loic Duval.

That was seven tenths quicker than the second R18 e-tron quattro, which ended up fourth with Andre Lotterer's 1m48.207s.

The Toyota TS040 HYBRIDs again ended up fifth and sixth in the hands of Mike Conway and Sebastien Buemi, with times more than two-and-a-half seconds off the pace.

The Signatech Alpine squad was fastest in the LMP2 division with its ORECA-Nissan 03R.

Paul-Loup Chatin's best time of 1m56.178s put him half a tenth up on Nicolas Lapierre in the KCMG ORECA-Nissan 05.

Porsche led the way in GTE Pro with Patrick Pilet.

His session best of 2m05.134s aboard his Manthey-run 911 RSR was two tenths quicker than a late lap from Gianmaria Bruni in the best of the AF Corse Ferrari 458 Italias.

GTE Am was led by Aston Martin Racing driver Pedro Lamy.

THIRD PRACTICE TIMES:

Pos Class Driver Team Car Time Gap
1 LMP1 T.Bernhard, M.Webber, B.Hartley Porsche Team Porsche 1m46.435s -
2 LMP1 R.Dumas, N.Jani, M.Lieb Porsche Team Porsche 1m46.781s 0.346s
3 LMP1 L.di Grassi, L.Duval, O.Jarvis Audi Sport Team Joest Audi 1m47.436s 1.001s
4 LMP1 M.Fassler, A.Lotterer, B.Treluyer Audi Sport Team Joest Audi 1m48.207s 1.772s
5 LMP1 A.Wurz, S.Sarrazin, M.Conway Toyota Racing Toyota 1m49.112s 2.677s
6 LMP1 A.Davidson, S.Buemi, K.Nakajima Toyota Racing Toyota 1m49.221s 2.786s
7 LMP1 N.Prost, M.Beche, N.Heidfeld Rebellion Racing Rebellion/AER 1m53.115s 6.680s
8 LMP1 A.Imperatori, D.Kraihamer, D.Abt Rebellion Racing Rebellion/AER 1m54.344s 7.909s
9 LMP1 S.Trummer, P.Kaffer Team ByKolles CLM/AER 1m55.442s 9.007s
10 LMP2 N.Panciatici, P-L.Chatin, V.Capillaire Signatech Alpine Alpine/Nissan 1m56.178s 9.743s
11 LMP2 M.Howson, R.Bradley, N.Lapierre KCMG ORECA/Nissan 1m56.231s 9.796s
12 LMP2 P.Ragues, O.Webb, A.Hamilton Team SARD Morand Morgan/SARD 1m56.454s 10.019s
13 LMP2 S.Sharp, R.Dalziel, D.H.Hansson Extreme Speed Motorsports Ligier/HPD 1m56.784s 10.349s
14 LMP2 G.Yacaman, P.Derani, R.Gonzalez G-Drive Racing Ligier/Nissan 1m56.855s 10.420s
15 LMP2 N.Leventis, D.Watts, J.Kane Strakka Racing Gibson/Nissan 1m56.887s 10.452s
16 LMP2 R.Rusinov, J.Canal, S.Bird G-Drive Racing Ligier/Nissan 1m57.327s 10.892s
17 LMP2 E.Brown, J.van Overbeek, J.Fogarty Extreme Speed Motorsports Ligier/HPD 1m57.382s 10.947s
18 GTE Pro P.Pilet, F.Makowiecki Porsche Team Manthey Porsche 2m05.134s 18.699s
19 GTE Pro G.Bruni, T.Vilander AF Corse Ferrari 2m05.379s 18.944s
20 GTE Pro R.Lietz, M.Christensen Porsche Team Manthey Porsche 2m05.521s 19.086s
21 GTE Pro F.Rees, A.MacDowall, R.Stanaway Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin 2m05.995s 19.560s
22 GTE Pro D.Rigon, J.Calado AF Corse Ferrari 2m06.275s 19.840s
23 GTE Pro D.Turner, J.Adam Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin 2m06.564s 20.129s
24 GTE Am P.D.Lana, P.Lamy, M.Lauda Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin 2m06.639s 20.204s
25 GTE Am G.Roda, P.Ruberti, K.Poulsen Larbre Competition Chevrolet 2m06.760s 20.325s
26 GTE Pro M.Sorensen, C.Nygaard Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin 2m06.821s 20.386s
27 GTE Am V.Shaytar, A.Bertolini, A.Basov SMP Racing Ferrari 2m07.026s 20.591s
28 GTE Am C.Ried, K.Al Qubaisi, E.Bamber Abu Dhabi-Proton Racing Porsche 2m07.596s 21.161s
29 GTE Am F.Perrodo, E.Collard, R.Aguas AF Corse Ferrari 2m07.728s 21.293s
30 GTE Am F.Castellacci, B.Simonsen, S.Hall Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin 2m07.777s 21.342s
31 GTE Am P.Dempsey, P.Long, M.Seefried Dempsey Racing - Proton Porsche 2m09.826s 23.391s


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