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Hartley heads a Porsche 1-2 in WEC first practice at Spa

Brendon Hartley led a Porsche one-two at the top of the timesheets in first free practice for the Spa round of the World Endurance Championship

Hartley's #1 Porsche 919 Hybrid was on top for much of the 90-minute session, with team-mate Timo Bernhard fastest early on before handing over to the New Zealander.

Hartley then shaved 0.194s off Bernhard's time to set a 1m58.012s and secure top spot, just over half-a-second faster than team-mate Neel Jani in the #2 Porsche, before handing over to Mark Webber.

Mike Conway was third fastest in the #6 Toyota TS050 HYBRID, 1.417s off the pace, completing his running in the first part of the session before handing the car over to team-mate Kamui Kobayashi.

Marcel Fassler also set his time early and ended up best of the Audi R18 e-tron quattros in fourth place in the #7 car, with the sister #8 machine down in sixth thanks to Oliver Jarvis's lap at a similar time.

The two Rebellions were seventh and eighth, with the #12 machine of Nick Heidfeld only completing one lap in the first half-hour before climbing the order in the hands of the ex-Formula 1 driver and setting a time almost three seconds off team-mate Dominik Kraihamer's pace.

In LMP2, Ryan Dalziel went fastest early on in the #31 Extreme Speed Motorsports Ligier, just over half a second quicker than Rene Rast in the G-Drive-backed Jota Sport ORECA-Nissan 05.

Aston Martin Racing was on top in GTE, with Jonny Adam fastest in the Pro class in the #97 car and Pedro Lamy setting the pace in the Am category.

FP1 TIMES

Pos Class Driver Team Car Time Laps
1 LMP1 T.Bernhard, M.Webber, B.Hartley Porsche Team Porsche 1m58.012s 30
2 LMP1 R.Dumas, N.Jani, M.Lieb Porsche Team Porsche 1m58.577s 23
3 LMP1 S.Sarrazin, M.Conway, K.Kobayashi Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota 1m59.429s 27
4 LMP1 M.Fassler, A.Lotterer, B.Treluyer Audi Sport Team Joest Audi 1m59.983s 33
5 LMP1 A.Davidson, S.Buemi, K.Nakajima Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota 2m00.053s 30
6 LMP1 L.di Grassi, L.Duval, O.Jarvis Audi Sport Team Joest Audi 2m00.440s 11
7 LMP1 M.Tuscher, D.Kraihamer, A.Imperatori Rebellion Racing Rebellion/AER 2m04.157s 21
8 LMP1 N.Prost, N.Piquet Jr., N.Heidfeld Rebellion Racing Rebellion/AER 2m06.914s 10
9 LMP2 R.Dalziel, P.Derani, C.Cumming Extreme Speed Motorsports Ligier/Nissan 2m08.974s 36
10 LMP2 R.Rusinov, N.Berthon, R.Rast G-Drive Racing ORECA/Nissan 2m09.029s 31
11 LMP2 G.Menezes, N.Lapierre, S.Richelmi Signatech Alpine Alpine/Nissan 2m09.109s 32
12 LMP1 S.Trummer, O.Webb, J.Rossiter ByKOLLES Racing Team CLM/AER 2m09.442s 5
13 LMP2 D.Cheng, H-Pin Tung, N.Panciatici Baxi DC Racing Alpine Alpine/Nissan 2m09.445s 34
14 LMP2 N.Leventis, D.Watts, J.Kane Strakka Racing Gibson/Nissan 2m09.483s 28
15 LMP2 V.Petrov, K.Ladygin, V.Shaytar SMP Racing BR Engineering/Nissan 2m09.529s 29
16 LMP2 T.Graves, W.Stevens, J.Jakes Manor ORECA/Nissan 2m09.573s 26
17 LMP2 M.Rao, R.Bradley, R.Merhi Manor ORECA/Nissan 2m10.205s 25
18 LMP2 R.Gonzalez, F.Albuquerque, B.Senna RGR Sport by Morand Ligier/Nissan 2m10.280s 32
19 LMP2 N.Minassian, M.Mediani, D.Markozov SMP Racing BR Engineering/Nissan 2m10.936s 31
20 LMP2 S.Dolan, G.van der Garde, J.Dennis G-Drive Racing Gibson/Nissan 2m11.002s 30
21 LMP2 S.Sharp, E.Brown, J.van Overbeek Extreme Speed Motorsports Ligier/Nissan 2m11.168s 33
22 GTE Pro R.Stanaway, F.Rees, J.Adam Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin 2m19.296s 32
23 GTE Am P.D.Lana, P.Lamy, M.Lauda Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin 2m19.748s 28
24 GTE Pro G.Bruni, J.Calado AF Corse Ferrari 2m19.810s 29
25 GTE Pro D.Rigon, S.Bird AF Corse Ferrari 2m20.075s 34
26 GTE Pro B.Johnson, S.Mucke, O.Pla Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK Ford 2m20.115s 32
27 GTE Pro M.Franchitti, A.Priaulx, H.Tincknell Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK Ford 2m20.155s 30
28 GTE Am Y.Yamagishi, P.Ragues, P.Ruberti Larbre Competition Chevrolet 2m20.156s 27
29 GTE Pro R.Lietz, M.Christensen Dempsey-Proton Racing Porsche 2m20.484s 29
30 GTE Am K.Al Qubaisi, D.H.Hansson, P.Long Abu Dhabi-Proton Racing Porsche 2m20.603s 32
31 GTE Am F.Perrodo, E.Collard, R.Aguas AF Corse Ferrari 2m20.810s 30
32 GTE Pro N.Thiim, M.Sorensen, D.Turner Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin 2m20.900s 24
33 GTE Am M.Wainwright, A.Carroll, B.Barker Gulf Racing Porsche 2m21.087s 29
34 GTE Am C.Ried, W.Henzler, J.Camathias KCMG Porsche 2m21.115s 31

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