Spa WEC: Audi's Lotterer pips Hulkenberg's Porsche in practice
Andre Lotterer led the way for Audi in final free practice ahead of Friday evening's qualifying session for round two of the World Endurance Championship at Spa
The #7 Audi R18 e-tron quattro headed the trio of Porsches with a time of 1m57.368s in the first dry running of the weekend.
That lap put him just 0.011 seconds ahead of LMP1 debutant Nico Hulkenberg in the #19 Porsche 919 Hybrid.
The #18 Porsche was a further half second in arrears in the hands of Neel Jani, who was just under four hundredths ahead of team-mate Brendon Hartley in the #17 car.
Best Toyota was the #2 car on a 1m59.630s with Mike Conway at the wheel, which put him two tenths up on Sebastien Buemi in the #1 TS040 HYBRID repaired after Kazuki Nakajima's Thursday crash.
The G-Drive Racing Ligier-Nissan JSP2 went fastest in LMP2, Sam Bird's time of 2m03.416s putting him four tenths up on the KCMG ORECA-Nissan 05 in the hands of Matt Howson.
Ferrari was quickest in GTE Pro: Toni Vilander set a 2m18.390s in the lead AF Corse 458 Italia to end up just over two tenths ahead of Fernando Rees in the best of the Aston Martin Vantage GTEs.
Pedro Lamy was quickest in GTE Pro for Aston Martin.
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PRACTICE THREE TIMES:
Pos | Class | Driver | Team | Car | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | LMP1 | M.Fassler, A.Lotterer, B.Treluyer | Audi Sport Team Joest | Audi | 1m57.368s | - |
2 | LMP1 | N.Hulkenberg, E.Bamber, N.Tandy | Porsche Team | Porsche | 1m57.379s | 0.011s |
3 | LMP1 | R.Dumas, N.Jani, M.Lieb | Porsche Team | Porsche | 1m57.861s | 0.493s |
4 | LMP1 | T.Bernhard, M.Webber, B.Hartley | Porsche Team | Porsche | 1m57.899s | 0.531s |
5 | LMP1 | L.di Grassi, L.Duval, O.Jarvis | Audi Sport Team Joest | Audi | 1m58.228s | 0.860s |
6 | LMP1 | A.Wurz, S.Sarrazin, M.Conway | Toyota Racing | Toyota | 1m59.630s | 2.262s |
7 | LMP1 | A.Davidson, S.Buemi, K.Nakajima | Toyota Racing | Toyota | 1m59.850s | 2.482s |
8 | LMP1 | F.Albuquerque, M.Bonanomi, R.Rast | Audi Sport Team Joest | Audi | 2m02.232s | 4.864s |
9 | LMP2 | R.Rusinov, J.Canal, S.Bird | G-Drive Racing | Ligier/Nissan | 2m08.415s | 11.047s |
10 | LMP2 | M.Howson, R.Bradley, N.Lapierre | KCMG | ORECA/Nissan | 2m08.854s | 11.486s |
11 | LMP2 | S.Dolan, M.Evans, H.Tincknell | JOTA Sport | Gibson/Nissan | 2m08.965s | 11.597s |
12 | LMP2 | G.Yacaman, P.Derani, R.Gonzalez | G-Drive Racing | Ligier/Nissan | 2m09.311s | 11.943s |
13 | LMP2 | N.Panciatici, P-L.Chatin, V.Capillaire | Signatech Alpine | Alpine/Nissan | 2m09.816s | 12.448s |
14 | LMP1 | S.Trummer, V.Liuzzi, C.Klien | Team ByKolles | CLM/AER | 2m09.962s | 12.594s |
15 | LMP2 | P.Ragues, O.Webb, Z.Amberg | Team SARD Morand | Morgan/SARD | 2m10.115s | 12.747s |
16 | LMP2 | N.Leventis, D.Watts, J.Kane | Strakka Racing | Dome/Nissan | 2m11.516s | 14.148s |
17 | LMP2 | S.Sharp, R.Dalziel, D.H.Hansson | Extreme Speed Motorsports | Ligier/HPD | 2m13.307s | 15.939s |
18 | LMP2 | J.Nicolet, J-M.Merlin, E.Maris | Oak Racing | Ligier/Nissan | 2m13.364s | 15.996s |
19 | LMP2 | E.Brown, J.van Overbeek, J.Fogarty | Extreme Speed Motorsports | Ligier/HPD | 2m14.631s | 17.263s |
20 | GTE Pro | G.Bruni, T.Vilander | AF Corse | Ferrari | 2m18.390s | 21.022s |
21 | GTE Pro | A.MacDowall, F.Rees, R.Stanaway | Aston Martin Racing V8 | Aston Martin | 2m18.511s | 21.143s |
22 | GTE Pro | D.Rigon, J.Calado | AF Corse | Ferrari | 2m18.610s | 21.242s |
23 | GTE Pro | D.Turner, S.Mucke, R.Bell | Aston Martin Racing | Aston Martin | 2m18.616s | 21.248s |
24 | GTE Pro | C.Nygaard, M.Sorensen, J.Adam | Aston Martin Racing | Aston Martin | 2m19.131s | 21.763s |
25 | GTE Pro | F.Makowiecki, R.Lietz | Porsche Team Manthey | Porsche | 2m19.175s | 21.807s |
26 | GTE Am | P.D.Lana, P.Lamy, M.Lauda | Aston Martin Racing | Aston Martin | 2m19.485s | 22.117s |
27 | GTE Pro | S.Muller, K.Estre | Porsche Team Manthey | Porsche | 2m19.642s | 22.274s |
28 | GTE Am | G.Roda, P.Ruberti, K.Poulsen | Larbre Competition | Chevrolet | 2m21.118s | 23.750s |
29 | GTE Am | C.Ried, K.Al Qubaisi, K.Bachler | Abu Dhabi-Proton Racing | Porsche | 2m21.446s | 24.078s |
30 | GTE Am | V.Shaytar, A.Bertolini, A.Basov | SMP Racing | Ferrari | 2m21.504s | 24.136s |
31 | GTE Am | F.Perrodo, E.Collard, R.Aguas | AF Corse | Ferrari | 2m21.509s | 24.141s |
32 | GTE Am | P.Dempsey, P.Long, M.Seefried | Dempsey-Proton Racing | Porsche | 2m21.819s | 24.451s |
33 | GTE Am | D.Cameron, M.Griffin, A.Mortimer | AF Corse | Ferrari | 2m24.181s | 26.813s |
34 | GTE Am | F.Castellacci, R.Goethe, S.Hall | Aston Martin Racing | Aston Martin | 2m24.620s | 27.252s |
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