Silverstone WEC: Porsche pair lead opening practice session
Porsche blocked out the top two spots in the times at the start of its World Endurance Championship title defence at Silverstone
Timo Bernhard and Marc Lieb posted the fastest laps in their respective Porsche 919 Hybrids in the opening 90-minutes session of free practice for Sunday's WEC opener.
LMP1 ANALYSIS: Can Porsche survive as the hunted?
Bernhard set a best lap of 1.m42.182s, which was more than eight tenths up on Lieb's 1m42.996s at the end of a session that started on a damp track.
Toyota took third in the times with a 1m43.765s from Anthony Davidson in the best of the all-new Toyota TS050 HYBRIDs.
The best Audi time was a 1m43.917s from Oliver Jarvis in the #8 R18 e-tron quattro.
How the 'real' Manor was reborn in LMP2
LMP2 was led by Rene Rast in the G-Drive Racing ORECA-Nissan 05 run by the British Jota team.
The German's 1m50.428s put him eight tenths up on the second-placed Signatech ORECA with Nelson Panciatici at the wheel.
The two factory AF Corse Ferraris led the way in GTE Pro.
Gianmaria Bruni set a best time of 2m01.067s in the team's lead entry, which was more than a second up on Davide Rigon in the sister car.
PRACTICE ONE TIMES
Pos | Class | Driver | Car | Time | Laps |
---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | LMP1 | Timo Bernhard | Porsche | 1m42.182s | 12 |
2 | LMP1 | Brendon Hartley | Porsche | 1m42.642s | 15 |
3 | LMP1 | Marc Lieb | Porsche | 1m42.996s | 14 |
4 | LMP1 | Neel Jani | Porsche | 1m43.282s | 16 |
5 | LMP1 | Anthony Davidson | Toyota | 1m43.765s | 6 |
6 | LMP1 | Oliver Jarvis | Audi | 1m43.917s | 15 |
7 | LMP1 | Loic Duval | Audi | 1m44.187s | 9 |
8 | LMP1 | Sebastien Buemi | Toyota | 1m44.679s | 20 |
9 | LMP1 | Mike Conway | Toyota | 1m45.936s | 14 |
10 | LMP1 | Lucas di Grassi | Audi | 1m46.095s | 11 |
11 | LMP1 | Benoit Treluyer | Audi | 1m46.496s | 12 |
12 | LMP1 | Marcel Fassler | Audi | 1m46.714s | 4 |
13 | LMP1 | Kamui Kobayashi | Toyota | 1m46.776s | 5 |
14 | LMP1 | Stephane Sarrazin | Toyota | 1m46.985s | 7 |
15 | LMP1 | Mark Webber | Porsche | 1m47.431s | 14 |
16 | LMP1 | Romain Dumas | Porsche | 1m47.861s | 13 |
17 | LMP1 | James Rossiter | CLM/AER | 1m48.860s | 10 |
18 | LMP2 | Rene Rast | ORECA/Nissan | 1m50.428s | 28 |
19 | LMP1 | Dominik Kraihamer | Rebellion/AER | 1m50.500s | 8 |
20 | LMP2 | Nelson Panciatici | Alpine/Nissan | 1m51.278s | 15 |
21 | LMP2 | Filipe Albuquerque | Ligier/Nissan | 1m51.425s | 10 |
22 | LMP2 | Roberto Merhi | ORECA/Nissan | 1m51.792s | 12 |
23 | LMP2 | Vitaly Petrov | BR Engineering/Nissan | 1m51.918s | 12 |
24 | LMP2 | Jonny Kane | Gibson/Nissan | 1m52.159s | 19 |
25 | LMP2 | Scott Sharp | Ligier/Nissan | 1m52.191s | 25 |
26 | LMP1 | Andre Lotterer | Audi | 1m52.620s | 11 |
27 | LMP2 | Gustavo Menezes | Alpine/Nissan | 1m52.651s | 10 |
28 | LMP2 | Ryan Dalziel | Ligier/Nissan | 1m52.831s | 15 |
29 | LMP1 | Simon Trummer | CLM/AER | 1m53.040s | 11 |
30 | LMP1 | Kazuki Nakajima | Toyota | 1m53.062s | 3 |
31 | LMP2 | James Jakes | ORECA/Nissan | 1m53.278s | 9 |
32 | LMP2 | Stephane Richelmi | Alpine/Nissan | 1m53.427s | 14 |
33 | LMP1 | Nelson Piquet Jr. | Rebellion/AER | 1m53.535s | 6 |
34 | LMP2 | Kirill Ladygin | BR Engineering/Nissan | 1m53.664s | 10 |
35 | LMP2 | Matt Rao | ORECA/Nissan | 1m53.953s | 10 |
36 | LMP2 | Maurizio Mediani | BR Engineering/Nissan | 1m54.072s | 9 |
37 | LMP1 | Nick Heidfeld | Rebellion/AER | 1m56.587s | 11 |
38 | LMP2 | Danny Watts | Gibson/Nissan | 1m56.832s | 9 |
39 | LMP2 | Nicolas Minassian | BR Engineering/Nissan | 1m57.363s | 13 |
40 | LMP2 | Victor Shaytar | BR Engineering/Nissan | 1m57.408s | 9 |
41 | LMP2 | Bruno Senna | Ligier/Nissan | 1m57.685s | 12 |
42 | LMP2 | Chris Cumming | Ligier/Nissan | 1m57.958s | 9 |
43 | LMP1 | Oliver Webb | CLM/AER | 1m58.050s | 10 |
44 | LMP2 | Nicolas Lapierre | Alpine/Nissan | 1m58.115s | 9 |
45 | LMP1 | Alexandre Imperatori | Rebellion/AER | 1m58.331s | 7 |
46 | LMP2 | Tor Graves | ORECA/Nissan | 1m58.565s | 6 |
47 | LMP2 | Pipo Derani | Ligier/Nissan | 1m58.766s | 13 |
48 | LMP2 | Richard Bradley | ORECA/Nissan | 1m59.311s | 8 |
49 | LMP2 | Will Stevens | ORECA/Nissan | 2m00.719s | 10 |
50 | GTE Pro | Gianmaria Bruni | Ferrari | 2m01.067s | 15 |
51 | GTE Pro | James Calado | Ferrari | 2m01.166s | 11 |
52 | GTE Pro | Davide Rigon | Ferrari | 2m02.218s | 16 |
53 | GTE Pro | Michael Christensen | Porsche | 2m02.378s | 13 |
54 | GTE Pro | Richard Lietz | Porsche | 2m02.474s | 8 |
55 | LMP2 | Nick Leventis | Gibson/Nissan | 2m02.670s | 8 |
56 | GTE Pro | Billy Johnson | Ford | 2m02.675s | 9 |
57 | GTE Pro | Marino Franchitti | Ford | 2m02.887s | 22 |
58 | GTE Pro | Sam Bird | Ferrari | 2m02.896s | 12 |
59 | GTE Pro | Olivier Pla | Ford | 2m02.966s | 4 |
60 | LMP2 | Ho-Pin Tung | Alpine/Nissan | 2m03.215s | 10 |
61 | GTE Am | Rui Aguas | Ferrari | 2m04.093s | 8 |
62 | GTE Am | Ben Barker | Porsche | 2m04.176s | 6 |
63 | GTE Am | Klaus Bachler | Porsche | 2m04.344s | 11 |
64 | GTE Am | Mathias Lauda | Aston Martin | 2m04.622s | 12 |
65 | GTE Am | Paolo Ruberti | Chevrolet | 2m05.110s | 15 |
66 | GTE Pro | Richie Stanaway | Aston Martin | 2m05.142s | 21 |
67 | GTE Pro | Nicki Thiim | Aston Martin | 2m05.828s | 11 |
68 | GTE Am | Joel Camathias | Porsche | 2m05.959s | 9 |
69 | GTE Pro | Fernando Rees | Aston Martin | 2m06.004s | 11 |
70 | GTE Am | Pierre Ragues | Chevrolet | 2m06.034s | 6 |
71 | GTE Pro | Darren Turner | Aston Martin | 2m06.353s | 8 |
72 | LMP2 | David Cheng | Alpine/Nissan | 2m06.504s | 10 |
73 | GTE Am | Francois Perrodo | Ferrari | 2m06.526s | 13 |
74 | GTE Am | Christian Ried | Porsche | 2m07.255s | 8 |
75 | GTE Am | Emmanuel Collard | Ferrari | 2m07.550s | 12 |
76 | GTE Am | David Heinemeier Hansson | Porsche | 2m08.179s | 5 |
77 | GTE Am | Khaled Al Qubaisi | Porsche | 2m08.212s | 6 |
78 | GTE Am | Yutaka Yamagishi | Chevrolet | 2m08.818s | 10 |
79 | GTE Pro | Marco Sorensen | Aston Martin | 2m10.397s | 14 |
80 | GTE Am | Paul Dalla Lana | Aston Martin | 2m10.433s | 10 |
81 | GTE Am | Pedro Lamy | Aston Martin | 2m10.816s | 10 |
82 | GTE Am | Mike Wainwright | Porsche | 2m12.209s | 17 |
83 | GTE Pro | Stefan Mucke | Ford | 2m13.231s | 13 |
84 | GTE Am | Wolf Henzler | Porsche | 2m15.259s | 4 |
85 | GTE Pro | Andy Priaulx | Ford | 2m15.389s | 8 |
86 | GTE Am | Adam Carroll | Porsche | 2m15.675s | 9 |
Be part of the Autosport community
Join the conversationShare Or Save This Story
Subscribe and access Autosport.com with your ad-blocker.
From Formula 1 to MotoGP we report straight from the paddock because we love our sport, just like you. In order to keep delivering our expert journalism, our website uses advertising. Still, we want to give you the opportunity to enjoy an ad-free and tracker-free website and to continue using your adblocker.
Top Comments