Austin WEC: Loic Duval keeps Audi on top in night practice
Audi took the top two positions in the second period of free practice for Saturday's World Endurance Championship round at Austin
The #8 Audi R18 e-tron quattro again headed the times with a 1m47.235s from Loic Duval during the 90-minute night session.
That put the him 0.095 seconds up on the 1m47.330s set by Andre Lotterer in the sister car, which stopped running early in the session with an undisclosed problem.
The best of the Porsche 919 Hybrids was more than seven tenths off the pace with a 1m47.959s from Brendon Hartley, which put it just over a tenth up on Neel Jani in the sister car.
Sebastien Buemi was just four hundredths behind in fifth place aboard the fastest of the Toyota TS050 HYBRIDs.
The ByKolles CLM-AER P1/01 was the quickest LMP1 privateer, Oliver Webb's 1m54.361 putting him nearly four tenths up on Alexandre Imperatori in the Rebellion-AER R-One.
The LMP2 championship-leading Signatech Alpine ORECA-Nissan 05 topped the class leaderboard with a 1m56.318s from Gustavo Menezes.
That put him two tenths up on the RGR Sport Ligier-Nissan JSP2 driven by Bruno Senna.
The Jota-run G-Drive ORECA took third position with Alex Brundle.
Ford was again quickest in GTE Pro, Stefan Mucke setting a 2m04.714s to end up seven tenths up on Nicki Thiim in the best of the Aston Martin Vantage GTEs.
Pedro Lamy was quickest in GTE Am for Aston Martin.
PRACTICE TWO TIMES:
Pos | Class | Driver | Team | Car | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | LMP1 | L.di Grassi, L.Duval, O.Jarvis | Audi Sport Team Joest | Audi | 1m47.235s |
2 | LMP1 | M.Fassler, A.Lotterer, B.Treluyer | Audi Sport Team Joest | Audi | 0.095s |
3 | LMP1 | T.Bernhard, M.Webber, B.Hartley | Porsche Team | Porsche | 0.724s |
4 | LMP1 | R.Dumas, N.Jani, M.Lieb | Porsche Team | Porsche | 0.895s |
5 | LMP1 | A.Davidson, S.Buemi, K.Nakajima | Toyota Gazoo Racing | Toyota | 0.899s |
6 | LMP1 | S.Sarrazin, M.Conway, K.Kobayashi | Toyota Gazoo Racing | Toyota | 2.134s |
7 | LMP1 | S.Trummer, O.Webb | ByKOLLES Racing Team | CLM/AER | 7.126s |
8 | LMP1 | M.Tuscher, D.Kraihamer, A.Imperatori | Rebellion Racing | Rebellion/AER | 7.402s |
9 | LMP2 | G.Menezes, N.Lapierre, S.Richelmi | Signatech Alpine | Alpine/Nissan | 9.083s |
10 | LMP2 | R.Gonzalez, B.Senna, F.Albuquerque | RGR Sport by Morand | Ligier/Nissan | 9.299s |
11 | LMP2 | R.Rusinov, R.Rast, A.Brundle | G-Drive Racing | ORECA/Nissan | 9.758s |
12 | LMP2 | D.Cheng, H-Pin Tung, N.Panciatici | Baxi DC Racing Alpine | Alpine/Nissan | 10.396s |
13 | LMP2 | N.Leventis, L.Williamson, J.Kane | Strakka Racing | Gibson/Nissan | 10.624s |
14 | LMP2 | R.Dalziel, P.Derani, C.Cumming | Extreme Speed Motorsports | Ligier/Nissan | 10.785s |
15 | LMP2 | M.Rao, R.Bradley, R.Merhi | Manor | ORECA/Nissan | 10.859s |
16 | LMP2 | V.Petrov, V.Shaytar, K.Ladygin | SMP Racing | BR Engineering/Nissan | 11.007s |
17 | LMP2 | S.Sharp, E.Brown, J.van Overbeek | Extreme Speed Motorsports | Ligier/Nissan | 11.520s |
18 | LMP2 | N.Minassian, M.Mediani | SMP Racing | BR Engineering/Nissan | 11.623s |
19 | GTE Pro | S.Mucke, O.Pla | Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK | Ford | 17.479s |
20 | GTE Pro | N.Thiim, M.Sorensen | Aston Martin Racing | Aston Martin | 18.261s |
21 | GTE Pro | M.Franchitti, A.Priaulx, H.Tincknell | Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK | Ford | 18.395s |
22 | GTE Pro | G.Bruni, J.Calado | AF Corse | Ferrari | 18.476s |
23 | GTE Pro | D.Turner, F.Rees | Aston Martin Racing | Aston Martin | 18.566s |
24 | GTE Am | P.D.Lana, P.Lamy, M.Lauda | Aston Martin Racing | Aston Martin | 18.857s |
25 | GTE Pro | D.Rigon, S.Bird | AF Corse | Ferrari | 18.901s |
26 | GTE Pro | R.Lietz, M.Christensen | Dempsey Racing - Proton | Porsche | 19.210s |
27 | GTE Am | M.Wainwright, A.Carroll, B.Barker | Gulf Racing | Porsche | 20.504s |
28 | GTE Am | F.Perrodo, E.Collard, R.Aguas | AF Corse | Ferrari | 20.569s |
29 | GTE Am | K.Al Qubaisi, D.H.Hansson, K.Estre | Abu Dhabi-Proton Racing | Porsche | 20.596s |
30 | GTE Am | L.Viljoen, P.Ragues, R.Taylor | Larbre Competition | Chevrolet | 20.981s |
31 | GTE Am | C.Ried, W.Henzler, J.Camathias | KCMG | Porsche | 21.740s |
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