Austin WEC: Loic Duval keeps Audi on top in night practice

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