WEC Fuji: Webber's Porsche finishes Friday practice on top

Mark Webber, who announced on Thursday that he will retire at the end of the season, ended up fastest after the two Friday sessions with a 1m24.074s set during the second 90-minute period.

The #1 Porsche 919 Hybrid finished the day nearly nine tenths up on the second-placed Audi in the hands of Oliver Jarvis.

Jarvis's 1m24.868s was just a tenth up on Andre Lotterer's best in the second of the Audi R18 e-tron quattros in which Marcel Fassler had set the pace in the morning session.

The #7 Audi was involved in an incident at the beginning of the session with Lotterer driving, which resulted in damage to the car's nose.

Marc Lieb took fourth spot in the #2 Porsche with a 1m25.078s set in the second session

The two Toyota TS050 HYBRIDS were fifth and sixth on the combined timesheets.

A 1m25.556s from Kamui Kobayashi that put him second in morning stood as Toyota's best time of the day.

The Japanese driver stopped on track at the end of the session with a suspected hybrid problem.

The RGR Sport squad led the way in LMP2 with a 1m31.909s from Filipe Albuquerque aboard the #43 Ligier-Nissan JSP2.

That put him eight tenths up on the G-Drive ORECA-Nissan 05, which ended up on a 1m32.742s set by Alex Brundle.

Ford was quickest in GTE Pro in both sessions, the #66 car with Stefan Mucke at the wheel ending up fastest with a 1m38.743s set in second practice.

Gianmaria Bruni jumped to second at the end of the afternoon period aboard the #51 AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE with a 1m38.935s to move within two tenths of the Ford.

Davide Rigon was just under a tenth further back in third position in the second of the factory AF Ferraris.

Harry Tincknell took fourth in the second of the two Ganassi Ford GTs, in which Andy Priaulx had set the pace in opening practice.

The two works Aston Martin Vantage GTEs, which have been hit by a double performance penalty for this race, took fifth and sixth positions with Marco Sorensen and Richie Stanaway driving.

Pedro Lamy finished the day quickest in GTE Am for Aston Martin.

PRACTICE ONE RESULTS:

Pos	Class	Driver	Team	Car	Gap	Laps
1	LMP1	M.Fassler, A.Lotterer, B.Treluyer	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi	1m25.030s	38
2	LMP1	S.Sarrazin, M.Conway, K.Kobayashi	Toyota Gazoo Racing	Toyota	0.526s	35
3	LMP1	L.di Grassi, L.Duval, O.Jarvis	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi	0.808s	42
4	LMP1	A.Davidson, S.Buemi, K.Nakajima	Toyota Gazoo Racing	Toyota	0.855s	39
5	LMP1	R.Dumas, N.Jani, M.Lieb	Porsche Team	Porsche	0.932s	18
6	LMP1	T.Bernhard, M.Webber, B.Hartley	Porsche Team	Porsche	1.067s	44
7	LMP1	M.Tuscher, D.Kraihamer, A.Imperatori	Rebellion Racing	Rebellion/AER	5.887s	36
8	LMP1	S.Trummer, O.Webb, P.Kaffer	ByKOLLES Racing Team	CLM/AER	6.519s	31
9	LMP2	R.Rusinov, A.Brundle, W.Stevens	G-Drive Racing	ORECA/Nissan	8.174s	42
10	LMP2	R.Dalziel, P.Derani, C.Cumming	Extreme Speed Motorsports	Ligier/Nissan	8.445s	41
11	LMP2	J.Kane, L.Williamson	Strakka Racing	Gibson/Nissan	8.456s	37
12	LMP2	R.Gonzalez, B.Senna, F.Albuquerque	RGR Sport by Morand	Ligier/Nissan	8.497s	34
13	LMP2	M.Rao, R.Bradley, R.Merhi	Manor	ORECA/Nissan	8.646s	33
14	LMP2	V.Petrov, V.Shaytar, K.Ladygin	SMP Racing	BR Engineering/Nissan	9.039s	39
15	LMP2	A.Giovinazzi, G.van der Garde, S.Gelael	Extreme Speed Motorsports	Ligier/Nissan	9.220s	46
16	LMP2	D.Cheng, H-Pin Tung, P-L.Chatin	Baxi DC Racing Alpine	Alpine/Nissan	9.286s	44
17	LMP2	G.Menezes, N.Lapierre, S.Richelmi	Signatech Alpine	Alpine/Nissan	9.366s	40
18	LMP2	N.Minassian, M.Mediani, M.Aleshin	SMP Racing	BR Engineering/Nissan	9.473s	37
19	LMP2	T.Graves, A.Lynn, S.Nakano	Manor	ORECA/Nissan	9.788s	19
20	GTE Pro	A.Priaulx, H.Tincknell	Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK	Ford	14.186s	40
21	GTE Pro	R.Lietz, M.Christensen	Dempsey Racing - Proton	Porsche	14.515s	40
22	GTE Pro	G.Bruni, J.Calado	AF Corse	Ferrari	14.667s	42
23	GTE Pro	S.Mucke, O.Pla	Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK	Ford	14.686s	39
24	GTE Pro	D.Rigon, S.Bird	AF Corse	Ferrari	14.713s	43
25	GTE Pro	N.Thiim, M.Sorensen	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin	15.146s	45
26	GTE Pro	R.Stanaway, D.Turner	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin	15.560s	43
27	GTE Am	F.Perrodo, E.Collard, R.Aguas	AF Corse	Ferrari	15.745s	43
28	GTE Am	P.D.Lana, P.Lamy, M.Lauda	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin	15.905s	44
29	GTE Am	Y.Yamagishi, P.Ragues, R.Taylor	Larbre Competition	Chevrolet	16.257s	41
30	GTE Am	C.Ried, W.Henzler, J.Camathias	KCMG	Porsche	16.262s	42
31	GTE Am	K.Al Qubaisi, D.H.Hansson, P.Long	Abu Dhabi-Proton Racing	Porsche	16.428s	43
32	GTE Am	M.Wainwright, A.Carroll, B.Barker	Gulf Racing	Porsche	16.765s	42

PRACTICE TWO RESULTS:

Pos	Class	Driver	Team	Car	Gap	Laps
1	LMP1	T.Bernhard, M.Webber, B.Hartley	Porsche Team	Porsche	1m24.074s	51
2	LMP1	L.di Grassi, L.Duval, O.Jarvis	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi	0.894s	52
3	LMP1	M.Fassler, A.Lotterer, B.Treluyer	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi	0.926s	32
4	LMP1	R.Dumas, N.Jani, M.Lieb	Porsche Team	Porsche	1.004s	46
5	LMP1	A.Davidson, S.Buemi, K.Nakajima	Toyota Gazoo Racing	Toyota	1.583s	43
6	LMP1	S.Sarrazin, M.Conway, K.Kobayashi	Toyota Gazoo Racing	Toyota	1.628s	40
7	LMP1	M.Tuscher, D.Kraihamer, A.Imperatori	Rebellion Racing	Rebellion/AER	5.579s	46
8	LMP1	S.Trummer, O.Webb, P.Kaffer	ByKOLLES Racing Team	CLM/AER	6.441s	40
9	LMP2	R.Gonzalez, B.Senna, F.Albuquerque	RGR Sport by Morand	Ligier/Nissan	7.835s	41
10	LMP2	R.Rusinov, A.Brundle, W.Stevens	G-Drive Racing	ORECA/Nissan	8.668s	45
11	LMP2	M.Rao, R.Bradley, R.Merhi	Manor	ORECA/Nissan	8.673s	45
12	LMP2	J.Kane, L.Williamson	Strakka Racing	Gibson/Nissan	8.874s	42
13	LMP2	A.Giovinazzi, G.van der Garde, S.Gelael	Extreme Speed Motorsports	Ligier/Nissan	8.897s	27
14	LMP2	D.Cheng, H-Pin Tung, P-L.Chatin	Baxi DC Racing Alpine	Alpine/Nissan	9.002s	45
15	LMP2	G.Menezes, N.Lapierre, S.Richelmi	Signatech Alpine	Alpine/Nissan	9.200s	44
16	LMP2	V.Petrov, V.Shaytar, K.Ladygin	SMP Racing	BR Engineering/Nissan	9.290s	39
17	LMP2	R.Dalziel, P.Derani, C.Cumming	Extreme Speed Motorsports	Ligier/Nissan	9.319s	44
18	LMP2	T.Graves, A.Lynn, S.Nakano	Manor	ORECA/Nissan	9.601s	41
19	LMP2	N.Minassian, M.Mediani, M.Aleshin	SMP Racing	BR Engineering/Nissan	9.932s	37
20	GTE Pro	S.Mucke, O.Pla	Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK	Ford	14.669s	39
21	GTE Pro	G.Bruni, J.Calado	AF Corse	Ferrari	14.861s	40
22	GTE Pro	D.Rigon, S.Bird	AF Corse	Ferrari	14.938s	42
23	GTE Pro	A.Priaulx, H.Tincknell	Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK	Ford	15.145s	45
24	GTE Pro	N.Thiim, M.Sorensen	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin	15.473s	46
25	GTE Pro	R.Stanaway, D.Turner	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin	15.474s	46
26	GTE Pro	R.Lietz, M.Christensen	Dempsey Racing - Proton	Porsche	15.503s	35
27	GTE Am	P.D.Lana, P.Lamy, M.Lauda	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin	16.038s	42
28	GTE Am	Y.Yamagishi, P.Ragues, R.Taylor	Larbre Competition	Chevrolet	16.327s	43
29	GTE Am	K.Al Qubaisi, D.H.Hansson, P.Long	Abu Dhabi-Proton Racing	Porsche	16.340s	39
30	GTE Am	M.Wainwright, A.Carroll, B.Barker	Gulf Racing	Porsche	17.050s	37
31	GTE Am	C.Ried, W.Henzler, J.Camathias	KCMG	Porsche	17.212s	45
32	GTE Am	F.Perrodo, E.Collard, R.Aguas	AF Corse	Ferrari	17.340s	42