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Spa WEC: Penske LMP2 leads Glickenhaus in second practice

Factory Porsche driver Felipe Nasr topped the times in second practice for this weekend's Spa World Endurance Championship round aboard Team Penske's LMP2 car.

#5 Team Penske - Oreca 07 - Gibson, detail

#5 Team Penske - Oreca 07 - Gibson, detail

Paul Foster

Ex-Formula 1 racer Nasr posted a best time of 2m04.443s at the wheel of the #5 Penske ORECA 07-Gibson on Friday morning to make it a second session in a row topped outright by an LMP2 car.

The Brazilian's benchmark was more than a second faster than the time with which WRT's Robin Frijns paced first practice on Thursday.

Making it a 1-2 on the overall leaderboard for US entrants was Glickenhaus driver Olivier Pla, who topped the four-car Hypercar division with a 2m04.464s in the boutique marque's solo 007 LMH.

Third-fastest was the best of the two Toyota GR010 Hybrids, the #8 car, which topped the times early on with a 2m04.692s in the hands of Brendon Hartley - 0.249s off the pace set by Nasr.

The sister #7 Toyota was sixth-fastest with Jose Maria Lopez setting a 2m05.128s.

Splitting the two Japanese cars were the second- and third-fastest LMP2 runners, with the #23 United Autosports ORECA of Oliver Jarvis leading the Prema machine of Louis Deletraz.

United's second car, driven by Filipe Albuquerque, was fourth in the LMP2 standings and seventh overall, followed by the two JOTA ORECAs, led by the #38 machine with Will Stevens driving.

The fourth and final hypercar entry, the Alpine A480 grandfathered LMP1 car, was 10th overall and a little more than a second off the pace in the hands of Andre Negrao.

Leading the way in the LMP2 Pro/Am subclass was the AF Corse ORECA of Alessio Rovera.

#92 Porsche GT Team Porsche 911 RSR 19

#92 Porsche GT Team Porsche 911 RSR 19

Photo by: Paul Foster

Porsche once again topped the times in the GTE Pro division, as Michael Christensen narrowly improved on the best time set in FP1 with a 2m14.366s in the #92 911 RSR-19.

Ferrari this time ended up second and third in class with its AF Corse-run 488 GTE Evos, James Calado putting the #51 machine just a tenth of a second ahead of Antonio Fuoco in the #52 car.

Corvette Racing's solo C8.R was fifth in class with Spa debutant Tommy Milner at the wheel.

An early lap of 2m15.604s from Matteo Cairoli was enough to top the GTE Am class for the Project 1 Porsche squad ahead of Seb Priaulx in the Dempsey-Proton Racing Porsche.

The session was halted with around seven minutes remaining owing to debris on track.

One more WEC practice session takes place at Spa on Friday afternoon ahead of qualifying in the early evening.

Spa FP2 result

Cla Drivers Car Class Gap
1 United States Dane Cameron
France Emmanuel Collard
Brazil Felipe Nasr
Oreca 07 LMP2  
2 France Olivier Pla
France Romain Dumas
Brazil Pipo Derani
Glickenhaus 007 LMH HYPERCAR 0.021
3 Switzerland Sébastien Buemi
New Zealand Brendon Hartley
Japan Ryo Hirakawa
Toyota GR010 - Hybrid HYPERCAR 0.249
4 United Kingdom Alex Lynn
United Kingdom Oliver Jarvis
United States Josh Pierson
Oreca 07 LMP2 0.378
5 Poland Robert Kubica
Switzerland Louis Deletraz
Italy Lorenzo Colombo
Oreca 07 LMP2 0.577
6 United Kingdom Mike Conway
Japan Kamui Kobayashi
Argentina Jose Maria Lopez
Toyota GR010 - Hybrid HYPERCAR 0.685
7 United Kingdom Philip Hanson
Portugal Filipe Albuquerque
United States Will Owen
Oreca 07 LMP2 0.851
8 Mexico Roberto Gonzalez
Portugal Antonio Felix da Costa
United Kingdom Will Stevens
Oreca 07 LMP2 0.946
9 Denmark Oliver Rasmussen
United Arab Emirates Ed Jones
South Africa Jonathan Aberdein
Oreca 07 LMP2 1.007
10 Brazil Andre Negrao
France Nicolas Lapierre
France Matthieu Vaxiviere
Alpine A480 HYPERCAR 1.034
11 France François Perrodo
Denmark Nicklas Nielsen
Italy Alessio Rovera
Oreca 07 LMP2 1.064
12 Poland Jakub Smiechowski
United Kingdom Alex Brundle
Mexico Esteban Gutierrez
Oreca 07 LMP2 1.267
13 United States Thomas Steven
Australia James Allen
Austria Rene Binder
Oreca 07 LMP2 1.672
14 Portugal Rui Andrade
Austria Ferdinand Habsburg
France Norman Nato
Oreca 07 LMP2 1.695
15 Switzerland Nico Müller
Ireland Ryan Cullen
France Sébastien Bourdais
Oreca 07 LMP2 1.869
16 Indonesia Sean Gelael
Netherlands Robin Frijns
Germany René Rast
Oreca 07 LMP2 2.219
17 France Lilou Wadoux
France Sébastien Ogier
France Charles Milesi
Oreca 07 LMP2 4.122
18 France Jean Baptiste Lahaye
France Matthieu Lahaye
France François Heriau
Oreca 07 LMP2 4.643
19 Denmark Michael Christensen
France Kevin Estre
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE PRO 9.923
20 Italy Alessandro Pier Guidi
United Kingdom James Calado
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE PRO 10.524
21 Spain Miguel Molina
Italy Antonio Fuoco
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE PRO 10.617
22 Italy Gianmaria Bruni
Austria Richard Lietz
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE PRO 10.779
23 United States Tommy Milner
United Kingdom Nick Tandy
Chevrolet Corvette C8.R LMGTE PRO 11.133
24 Italy Matteo Cairoli
Denmark Mikkel Pedersen
Switzerland Nicolas Leutwiler
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE AM 11.161
25 Germany Christian Ried
United Kingdom Sebastian Priaulx
United Kingdom Harry Tincknell
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE AM 11.797
26 Italy Claudio Schiavoni
Italy Matteo Cressoni
Italy Giancarlo Fisichella
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 11.817
27 France Franck Dezoteux
France Pierre Ragues
France Gabriel Aubry
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 12.043
28 United Kingdom Michael Wainwright
Italy Riccardo Pera
United Kingdom Benjamin Barker
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE AM 12.208
29 United States Ben Keating
Portugal Henrique Chaves Jr.
Denmark Marco Sorensen
Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE AM 12.361
30 Switzerland Thomas Flohr
Italy Francesco Castellacci
New Zealand Nick Cassidy
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 12.396
31 Canada Paul Dalla Lana
United Kingdom David Pittard
Denmark Nicki Thiim
Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE AM 12.442
32 Japan Satoshi Hoshino
Japan Tomonobu Fujii
United Kingdom Charlie Fagg
Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE AM 12.573
33 United States Fred Poordad
United States Patrick Lindsey
Belgium Jan Heylen
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE AM 12.918
34 Switzerland Rahel Frey
Denmark Michelle Gatting
Belgium Sarah Bovy
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 12.934
35 France Simon Mann
Switzerland Christoph Ulrich
Finland Toni Vilander
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 13.231
36 Slovakia Miro Konopka
Netherlands Tijmen van der Helm
Netherlands Bent Viscaal
Oreca 07 LMP2 13.301
37 United States Brendan Iribe
United Kingdom Ollie Millroy
United Kingdom Ben Barnicoat
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE AM 13.555

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