WEC Mexico: Porsche edges Audi by 0.1s in final practice

Brendon Hartley ended up fastest in the #1 Porsche 919 Hybrid, which was 0.118s quicker than Andre Lotterer's 1m25.505s aboard the best of the Audi R18 e-tron quattros.

The second Audi was just under two tenths down in third in the hands of Lucas di Grassi with a 1m25.673s, while Neel Jani took fourth in the second Porsche.

The two Toyota TS050 HYBRIDs ended up fifth and sixth.

Kamui Kobayashi was the quickest of the Toyota drivers with a 1m26.448s, which left him just over a second off the pace. Sebastien Buemi was a further three tenths back in sixth.

The G-Drive ORECA-Nissan 05 was quickest in LMP2, Rene Rast's 1m35.555s putting him nearly half a second up on the points-leading Alpine Signatech car in the hands of Nicolas Lapierre.

The two Aston Martins led the way in GTE Pro. Richie Stanaway was quickest on a 1m39.496s, which was less than a tenth up on team-mate Marco Sorensen.

A 1m40.492s from Stefan Mucke put the best of the Ford GTs third in class.

The Abu Dhabi-Proton Porsche was quickest in GTE Am with Pat Long drivers.

FINAL PRACTICE TIMES

Pos	Class	Driver	Team	Car	Gap
1	LMP1	T.Bernhard, M.Webber, B.Hartley	Porsche Team	Porsche	1m25.387s
2	LMP1	M.Fassler, A.Lotterer	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi	0.118s
3	LMP1	L.di Grassi, L.Duval, O.Jarvis	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi	0.286s
4	LMP1	R.Dumas, N.Jani, M.Lieb	Porsche Team	Porsche	0.460s
5	LMP1	S.Sarrazin, M.Conway, K.Kobayashi	Toyota Gazoo Racing	Toyota	1.061s
6	LMP1	S.Buemi, K.Nakajima	Toyota Gazoo Racing	Toyota	1.401s
7	LMP1	M.Tuscher, D.Kraihamer, A.Imperatori	Rebellion Racing	Rebellion/AER	4.666s
8	LMP1	S.Trummer, O.Webb, P.Kaffer	ByKOLLES Racing Team	CLM/AER	5.226s
9	LMP2	R.Rusinov, R.Rast, A.Brundle	G-Drive Racing	ORECA/Nissan	10.168s
10	LMP2	G.Menezes, N.Lapierre, S.Richelmi	Signatech Alpine	Alpine/Nissan	10.614s
11	LMP2	N.Leventis, L.Williamson, J.Kane	Strakka Racing	Gibson/Nissan	10.677s
12	LMP2	R.Gonzalez, B.Junqueira, L.Diaz	Greaves Motorsport	Gibson/Nissan	10.697s
13	LMP2	R.Dalziel, P.Derani, C.Cumming	Extreme Speed Motorsports	Ligier/Nissan	10.812s
14	LMP2	R.Gonzalez, B.Senna, F.Albuquerque	RGR Sport by Morand	Ligier/Nissan	10.846s
15	LMP2	D.Cheng, H-Pin Tung, N.Panciatici	Baxi DC Racing Alpine	Alpine/Nissan	11.060s
16	LMP2	V.Petrov, V.Shaytar, K.Ladygin	SMP Racing	BR Engineering/Nissan	11.145s
17	LMP2	M.Rao, R.Bradley, P.Toledano	Manor	ORECA/Nissan	11.494s
18	LMP2	N.Minassian, M.Mediani	SMP Racing	BR Engineering/Nissan	11.575s
19	LMP2	S.Sharp, E.Brown, J.van Overbeek	Extreme Speed Motorsports	Ligier/Nissan	11.821s
20	GTE Pro	R.Stanaway, D.Turner	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin	14.109s
21	GTE Pro	N.Thiim, M.Sorensen	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin	14.185s
22	GTE Pro	S.Mucke, O.Pla	Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK	Ford	15.105s
23	GTE Pro	M.Franchitti, A.Priaulx, H.Tincknell	Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK	Ford	15.421s
24	GTE Pro	R.Lietz, M.Christensen	Dempsey Racing - Proton	Porsche	15.611s
25	GTE Pro	D.Rigon, S.Bird	AF Corse	Ferrari	15.905s
26	GTE Pro	G.Bruni, J.Calado	AF Corse	Ferrari	16.026s
27	GTE Am	K.Al Qubaisi, D.H.Hansson, P.Long	Abu Dhabi-Proton Racing	Porsche	16.436s
28	GTE Am	P.D.Lana, P.Lamy, M.Lauda	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin	16.845s
29	GTE Am	M.Wainwright, A.Carroll, B.Barker	Gulf Racing	Porsche	16.950s
30	GTE Am	F.Perrodo, E.Collard, R.Aguas	AF Corse	Ferrari	17.021s
31	GTE Am	Y.Yamagishi, P.Ragues, R.Taylor	Larbre Competition	Chevrolet	17.373s
32	GTE Am	C.Ried, W.Henzler, J.Camathias	KCMG	Porsche	18.051s