WEC Monza: Alpine, Glickenhaus split Toyotas in FP2
Alpine and Glickenhaus split the Toyotas in second free practice for Sunday's Monza round of the World Endurance Championship.
Jose Maria Lopez led the way in the #7 Toyota GR010 Hybrid for the second session in a row, but Nicolas Lapierre in the solo Alpine A480-Gibson and Olivier Pla in the #708 Glickenhaus 007 LMH took second and third in the times ahead of the #8 Toyota.
Lopez found more a second and a half over his session one best with a 1m36.864s set right at the start of the 90-minute Saturday morning session. That put the Argentinian nearly nine tenths up on team-mate Brendon Hartley, who posted a 1m37.738s in the #8 Toyota entry.
Pla subsequently got between the Toyotas with a 1m37.601s before the Alpine, which did not run for the first 20 minutes, jumped to second courtesy of a 1m37.591s from Lapierre.
The respective times from Alpine and Glickenhaus left them further from the ultimate pace than in FP1.
Lapierre was only a tenth and a half behind Lopez on Friday, while Romain Dumas's best for Glickenhaus in the #709 entry was a further half a second back.
Hartley's early FP2 lap stood as the #8 Toyota's session best and left the car fourth in the final classification, while the second Glickenhaus ended up fifth on a 1m38.051s from Richard Westbrook.
Racing Team Nederland returnee Nyck de Vries led the way in LMP2 with a 1m38.545s in the Dutch squad's TDS-run ORECA 07-Gibson.
The United Autosports ORECA was less than a tenth behind courtesy of Filipe Albuquerque's 1m38.620s, ahead of the best of the JOTA cars, the #38 ORECA, DragonSpeed and WRT.
#29 Racing Team Nederland Oreca 07 - Gibson: Frits Van Eerd, Giedo Van Der Garde, Nyck de Vries
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Kevin Estre led the way in GTE Pro for Porsche, despite a 5kg increase in minimum weight for the German manufacturer's 911 RSR-19 for Monza under the Balance of Performance.
The 1m45.590s the Frenchman set right at the start of the session was more than six tenths up on Alessandro Pier Guidi's 1m46.255s in the best of the AF Corse-run factory Ferrari 488 GTE Evos.
The second of the AF Ferraris shared by Daniel Serra and Miguel Molina was a further tenth back, while the #91 Porsche of Richard Lietz and Gianmaria Bruni brought up the rear pf the GTE Pro pack.
GTE Am was led by Francesco Castellacci in the best of the AF Corse-run Ferraris.
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Practice results:
| Cla | # | Drivers | Car | Class | Time | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 |  Mike Conway  Kamui Kobayashi  Jose Maria Lopez | Toyota GR010 - Hybrid | HYPERCAR | 1'36.864 | |
| 2 | 36 |  Andre Negrao  Nicolas Lapierre Matthieu Vaxiviere | Alpine A480 | HYPERCAR | 1'37.591 | 0.727 |
| 3 | 708 | Pipo Derani  Gustavo Menezes Olivier Pla | Glickenhaus 007 LMH | HYPERCAR | 1'37.601 | 0.737 |
| 4 | 8 |  Sébastien Buemi Kazuki Nakajima  Brendon Hartley | Toyota GR010 - Hybrid | HYPERCAR | 1'37.738 | 0.874 |
| 5 | 709 | Romain Dumas Franck Mailleux Richard Westbrook | Glickenhaus 007 LMH | HYPERCAR | 1'38.051 | 1.187 |
| 6 | 29 |  Frits van Eerd Paul-Loup Chatin Nyck de Vries | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'38.545 | 1.681 |
| 7 | 22 | Philip Hanson Fabio Scherer  Filipe Albuquerque | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'38.620 | 1.756 |
| 8 | 38 |  Roberto Gonzalez Antonio Felix da Costa Anthony Davidson | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'38.899 | 2.035 |
| 9 | 21 |  Henrik Hedman  Juan Pablo Montoya Ben Hanley | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'39.009 | 2.145 |
| 10 | 31 | Robin Frijns  Ferdinand Habsburg Charles Milesi | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'39.080 | 2.216 |
| 11 | 28 |  Sean Gelael  Stoffel Vandoorne Tom Blomqvist | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'39.149 | 2.285 |
| 12 | 82 |  Ryan Cullen Oliver Jarvis Felipe Nasr | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'39.460 | 2.596 |
| 13 | 34 |  Jakub Smiechowski Renger van der Zande Alex Brundle | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'39.718 | 2.854 |
| 14 | 1 | Tatiana Calderon  Sophia Flörsch | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'39.852 | 2.988 |
| 15 | 70 | Esteban Garcia Loic Duval Norman Nato | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'40.009 | 3.145 |
| 16 | 20 |  Jan Magnussen Anders Fjordbach Dennis Andersen | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'40.357 | 3.493 |
| 17 | 44 |  Miro Konopka Oliver Webb Matej Konopka | Ligier JSP 217 | LMP2 | 1'41.452 | 4.588 |
| 18 | 92 | Kevin Estre Neel Jani | Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE PRO | 1'45.590 | 8.726 |
| 19 | 51 |  Alessandro Pier Guidi James Calado | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE PRO | 1'46.255 | 9.391 |
| 20 | 52 | Daniel Serra  Miguel Molina | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE PRO | 1'46.361 | 9.497 |
| 21 | 91 | Gianmaria Bruni Richard Lietz | Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE PRO | 1'46.557 | 9.693 |
| 22 | 54 | Thomas Flohr Francesco Castellacci Giancarlo Fisichella | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 1'46.737 | 9.873 |
| 23 | 83 | François Perrodo Nicklas Nielsen Alessio Rovera | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 1'46.829 | 9.965 |
| 24 | 85 | Rahel Frey Michelle Gatting Sarah Bovy | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 1'46.940 | 10.076 |
| 25 | 33 | Ben Keating Dylan Pereira Felipe Fraga | Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 1'46.952 | 10.088 |
| 26 | 60 | Claudio Schiavoni Andrea Piccini Matteo Cressoni | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 1'46.991 | 10.127 |
| 27 | 77 | Christian Ried  Jaxon Evans Matt Campbell | Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 1'47.011 | 10.147 |
| 28 | 777 | Satoshi Hoshino Tomonobu Fujii Andrew Watson | Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 1'47.099 | 10.235 |
| 29 | 88 | Andrew Haryanto Marco Seefried Alessio Picariello | Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 1'47.104 | 10.240 |
| 30 | 98 |  Paul Dalla Lana Augusto Farfus Marcos Gomes | Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 1'47.148 | 10.284 |
| 31 | 56 |  Egidio Perfetti Matteo Cairoli Riccardo Pera | Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 1'47.176 | 10.312 |
| 32 | 388 | Pierre Ehret Christian Hook Jeroen Bleekemolen | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 1'47.280 | 10.416 |
| 33 | 86 | Michael Wainwright Benjamin Barker Tom Gamble | Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 1'47.565 | 10.701 |
| 34 | 47 | Roberto Lacorte Giorgio Sernagiotto Antonio Fuoco | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 1'47.639 | 10.775 |
| 35 | 46 | Dennis Olsen Anders Buchardt Maxwell Root | Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 1'47.652 | 10.788 |
| 36 | 61 | Christoph Ulrich Simon Mann  Toni Vilander | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 1'48.172 | 11.308 |
| 37 | 71 | Brendan Iribe Ollie Millroy Ben Barnicoat | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 1'49.535 | 12.671 |
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