Porsche and Toyota fastest in one session each in Mexico WEC practice
Porsche claimed the fastest time across the final free practice sessions ahead of qualifying for tomorrow's Mexico City round of the World Endurance Championship
Brendon Hartley posted the fastest time of the weekend so far with a 1m25.007s in the #2 919 Hybrid during the 90-minute morning session, before Nick Tandy went fastest with a 1m25.678s in the one-hour afternoon period.
The #1 Porsche subsequently lost the time for a pitlane speeding infringement by Tandy.
Toyota trailed the Porsches in Friday's session and this morning, but Sebastien Buemi knocked nearly a second off the best time by one of the TS050 HYBRIDs in the afternoon to end up at the top of the timesheets on 1m25.789s.
Tandy finished second in the afternoon times with a 1m25.983s set after his pitlane speeding infringement.
Mike Conway took third on a 1m26.069s in the second of the Toyotas.
The #2 Porsche ended the final session fourth in the times with a 1m26.127s from Timo Bernhard.
The Jackie Chan DC Racing squad was fastest in LMP2 in both Saturday sessions with its pair of ORECA-Gibson 07s.
Ho-Pin Tung set the pace in the morning on a 1m33.390s, while Alex Brundle went faster by two tenths in the afternoon with a 1m33.130s.
Nicolas Lapierre was just over one hundredth slower than Brundle in the afternoon with a 1m33.144s aboard the Signatech Alpine ORECA.
Third fastest P2 time of the day was a 1m33.150s set by Alex Lynn in the G-Drive ORECA.
Ferrari posted the quickest GTE Pro time of the day courtesy of a 1m39.722s from Sam Bird in the #71 AF Corse-run 488 GTE in the afternoon.
That was just over a tenth clear of Stefan Mucke in the fastest of the Ganassi Ford GTs.
The German's 1m39.886s just eclipsed the 1m39.931s with which Marco Sorensen had topped the class order in the morning in the fastest of the Aston Martin Vantage GTEs.
Ben Barker set the pace in GTE Am for the Gulf Racing UK Porsche 911 RSR in the afternoon.
His 1m41.069s was just five thousandths quicker than Matteo Cairoli in the Dempsey-Proton Porsche.
FP2 times
Pos | Class | Driver | Team | Car | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | LMP1 | T.Bernhard, E.Bamber, B.Hartley | Porsche LMP Team | Porsche | 1m25.007s |
2 | LMP1 | N.Jani, A.Lotterer, N.Tandy | Porsche LMP Team | Porsche | 0.484s |
3 | LMP1 | M.Conway, K.Kobayashi, J.M.Lopez | Toyota Gazoo Racing | Toyota | 1.674s |
4 | LMP1 | S.Buemi, A.Davidson, K.Nakajima | Toyota Gazoo Racing | Toyota | 2.313s |
5 | LMP2 | H-Pin Tung, O.Jarvis, T.Laurent | Jackie Chan DC Racing | ORECA/Gibson | 8.383s |
6 | LMP2 | R.Rusinov, P.Thiriet, A.Lynn | G-Drive Racing | ORECA/Gibson | 8.659s |
7 | LMP2 | J.Canal, N.Prost, B.Senna | Vaillante Rebellion | ORECA/Gibson | 8.797s |
8 | LMP2 | D.Cheng, A.Brundle, T.Gommendy | Jackie Chan DC Racing | ORECA/Gibson | 8.862s |
9 | LMP2 | N.Lapierre, G.Menezes, A.Negrao | Signatech Alpine Matmut | Alpine/Gibson | 8.894s |
10 | LMP2 | F.Perrodo, M.Vaxiviere, E.Collard | TDS Racing | ORECA/Gibson | 9.848s |
11 | LMP2 | M.Beche, D.H.Hansson, N.Piquet Jr. | Vaillante Rebellion | ORECA/Gibson | 9.867s |
12 | LMP2 | R.Gonzalez, S.Trummer, V.Petrov | CEFC Manor TRS Racing | ORECA/Gibson | 10.377s |
13 | LMP2 | M.Rao, B.Hanley, J-E.Vergne | CEFC Manor TRS Racing | ORECA/Gibson | 10.403s |
14 | GTE Pro | N.Thiim, M.Sorensen | Aston Martin Racing | Aston Martin | 14.924s |
15 | GTE Pro | D.Turner, J.Adam, D.Serra | Aston Martin Racing | Aston Martin | 15.195s |
16 | GTE Pro | J.Calado, A.P.Guidi | AF Corse | Ferrari | 15.305s |
17 | GTE Pro | A.Priaulx, H.Tincknell | Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK | Ford | 15.331s |
18 | GTE Pro | D.Rigon, S.Bird | AF Corse | Ferrari | 15.588s |
19 | GTE Pro | R.Lietz, F.Makowiecki | Porsche GT Team | Porsche | 15.611s |
20 | GTE Pro | S.Mucke, O.Pla | Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK | Ford | 15.772s |
21 | GTE Pro | M.Christensen, K.Estre | Porsche GT Team | Porsche | 15.912s |
22 | GTE Am | C.Ried, M.Cairoli, M.Dienst | Dempsey-Proton Racing | Porsche | 16.529s |
23 | GTE Am | P.D.Lana, P.Lamy, M.Lauda | Aston Martin Racing | Aston Martin | 16.896s |
24 | GTE Am | M.Wainwright, B.Barker, N.Foster | Gulf Racing | Porsche | 16.972s |
25 | GTE Am | T.Flohr, F.Castellacci, M.Molina | Spirit of Race | Ferrari | 17.416s |
26 | GTE Am | Mok W.S., K.Sawa, M.Griffin | Clearwater Racing | Ferrari | 17.742s |
FP3 times
Pos | Class | Driver | Team | Car | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | LMP1 | S.Buemi, A.Davidson, K.Nakajima | Toyota Gazoo Racing | Toyota | 1m25.789s |
2 | LMP1 | N.Jani, A.Lotterer, N.Tandy | Porsche LMP Team | Porsche | 0.194s |
3 | LMP1 | M.Conway, K.Kobayashi, J.M.Lopez | Toyota Gazoo Racing | Toyota | 0.280s |
4 | LMP1 | T.Bernhard, E.Bamber, B.Hartley | Porsche LMP Team | Porsche | 0.338s |
5 | LMP2 | D.Cheng, A.Brundle, T.Gommendy | Jackie Chan DC Racing | ORECA/Gibson | 7.341s |
6 | LMP2 | N.Lapierre, G.Menezes, A.Negrao | Signatech Alpine Matmut | Alpine/Gibson | 7.355s |
7 | LMP2 | R.Rusinov, P.Thiriet, A.Lynn | G-Drive Racing | ORECA/Gibson | 7.361s |
8 | LMP2 | H-Pin Tung, O.Jarvis, T.Laurent | Jackie Chan DC Racing | ORECA/Gibson | 7.402s |
9 | LMP2 | F.Perrodo, M.Vaxiviere, E.Collard | TDS Racing | ORECA/Gibson | 7.931s |
10 | LMP2 | J.Canal, N.Prost, B.Senna | Vaillante Rebellion | ORECA/Gibson | 8.004s |
11 | LMP2 | R.Gonzalez, S.Trummer, V.Petrov | CEFC Manor TRS Racing | ORECA/Gibson | 8.529s |
12 | LMP2 | M.Rao, B.Hanley, J-E.Vergne | CEFC Manor TRS Racing | ORECA/Gibson | 8.750s |
13 | LMP2 | M.Beche, D.H.Hansson, N.Piquet Jr. | Vaillante Rebellion | ORECA/Gibson | 8.866s |
14 | GTE Pro | D.Rigon, S.Bird | AF Corse | Ferrari | 13.933s |
15 | GTE Pro | S.Mucke, O.Pla | Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK | Ford | 14.097s |
16 | GTE Pro | M.Christensen, K.Estre | Porsche GT Team | Porsche | 14.193s |
17 | GTE Pro | R.Lietz, F.Makowiecki | Porsche GT Team | Porsche | 14.216s |
18 | GTE Pro | D.Turner, J.Adam, D.Serra | Aston Martin Racing | Aston Martin | 14.284s |
19 | GTE Pro | A.Priaulx, H.Tincknell | Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK | Ford | 14.721s |
20 | GTE Pro | J.Calado, A.P.Guidi | AF Corse | Ferrari | 15.004s |
21 | GTE Pro | N.Thiim, M.Sorensen | Aston Martin Racing | Aston Martin | 15.008s |
22 | GTE Am | M.Wainwright, B.Barker, N.Foster | Gulf Racing | Porsche | 15.280s |
23 | GTE Am | C.Ried, M.Cairoli, M.Dienst | Dempsey-Proton Racing | Porsche | 15.285s |
24 | GTE Am | Mok W.S., K.Sawa, M.Griffin | Clearwater Racing | Ferrari | 16.223s |
25 | GTE Am | T.Flohr, F.Castellacci, M.Molina | Spirit of Race | Ferrari | 16.244s |
26 | GTE Am | P.D.Lana, P.Lamy, M.Lauda | Aston Martin Racing | Aston Martin | 16.920s |
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