WEC Monza: Alpine, Glickenhaus split Toyotas in FP2

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.

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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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