Practice report

WEC Monza: Pier Guidi Ferrari shades Jota Porsche for top spot in FP1

Ferrari driver Alessandro Pier Guidi set the fastest time in opening practice for the World Endurance Championship’s 6 Hours of Monza round after edging Ye Yifei’s privateer Jota Porsche.

Le Mans 24 Hours winner Pier Guidi snared the top spot aboard the #51 Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercar by just 0.003s over Ye’s Porsche 963 LMDh in a 90-minute session that was red flagged with a little over two minutes left on the clock.

Pier Guidi logged a best effort of 1m37.533s in the car he shares with James Calado and Antonio Giovinazzi, which had been 0.076s behind Ye in Calado’s hands before Pier Guidi’s improvement.

Ye headed the best of the Penske-run factory Porsches driven by Michael Christensen, which slotted into third ahead of Mike Conway’s #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID despite causing an early full course yellow.

Last year’s Monza pole winner, the Glickenhaus-Pipo 007 LMH, split the two Toyota LMHs in fifth with Olivier Pla setting its fastest time.

Sebastien Buemi was sixth in the #8 Toyota, just edging out the #50 Ferrari driven by Nicklas Nielsen and Laurens Vanthoor’s #6 Penske Porsche.

Richard Westbrook put the sole Ganassi-run Cadillac V-Series.R LMDh ninth, while Nico Muller rounded out the top 10 in the best of the two Peugeot 9X8 LMHs at the scene of the programme’s WEC debut last season.

The Swiss, a second off the pace, was trailed by his team-mate Jean-Eric Vergne in the sister #93 Peugeot and Esteban Guerrieri aboard the Vanwall Vandervell 680.

#51 Ferrari AF Corse Ferrari 499P: Alessandro Pier Guidi, James Calado, Antonio Giovinazzi

Photo by: JEP / Motorsport Images

The 13-car Hypercar field was completed by the new Proton Competition Porsche, making its first appearance in the WEC. Its best time, 1.774s off the pace, was set by Harry Tincknell.

Robert Kubica headed a WRT 1-2 in the LMP2 division. A 1m40.356s for the Pole’s #41 ORECA-Gibson 07 put the two-time Italian Grand Prix podium finisher ahead of the sister #31 entry of Ferdinand Habsburg by 0.205s.

Albert Costa was third fastest in the Le Mans-winning Inter Europol Competition ORECA ahead of Charles Milesi in the #36 Signatech-Alpine entry and Gabriel Aubry’s Vector Sport example.

The GTE Am field was led by Davide Rigon’s #54 AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE Evo.

The Italian logged a best time of 1m47.939s to beat the #60 Iron Lynx Porsche 911 RSR-19 of Alessio Picariello by 0.107s.

Ben Barker’s #86 GR Racing Porsche completed the top three.

Series debutante Efrin Castro spun at the first Lesmo to cause the red flag aboard Project 1’s Porsche.

WEC Monza FP1 Results:

Cla	#	Drivers	Car	Class	Time	Gap
1	51	Alessandro Pier Guidi James Calado Antonio Giovinazzi	Ferrari 499P	HYPERCAR	1'37.533
2	38	Antonio Felix da Costa Will Stevens Ye Yifei	Porsche 963	HYPERCAR	1'37.536	0.003
3	5	Dane Cameron Michael Christensen Frédéric Makowiecki	Porsche 963	HYPERCAR	1'37.824	0.291
4	7	Mike Conway Kamui Kobayashi Jose Maria Lopez	Toyota GR010 - Hybrid	HYPERCAR	1'37.841	0.308
5	708	Romain Dumas Olivier Pla Nathanael Berthon	Glickenhaus 007	HYPERCAR	1'37.917	0.384
6	8	Sébastien Buemi Brendon Hartley Ryo Hirakawa	Toyota GR010 - Hybrid	HYPERCAR	1'37.951	0.418
7	50	Antonio Fuoco Miguel Molina Nicklas Nielsen	Ferrari 499P	HYPERCAR	1'38.033	0.500
8	6	Kevin Estre Andre Lotterer Laurens Vanthoor	Porsche 963	HYPERCAR	1'38.066	0.533
9	2	Earl Bamber Alex Lynn Richard Westbrook	Cadillac V-Series.R	HYPERCAR	1'38.116	0.583
10	94	Loic Duval Gustavo Menezes Nico Müller	Peugeot 9X8	HYPERCAR	1'38.533	1.000
11	93	Paul di Resta Mikkel Jensen Jean-Eric Vergne	Peugeot 9X8	HYPERCAR	1'38.664	1.131
12	4	Esteban Guerrieri Tristan Vautier JP De	Vanwall Vandervell 680	HYPERCAR	1'39.121	1.588
13	99	Gianmaria Bruni Harry Tincknell Neel Jani	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	HYPERCAR	1'39.307	1.774
14	41	Rui Andrade Robert Kubica Louis Deletraz	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'40.356	2.823
15	31	Sean Gelael Ferdinand Habsburg Robin Frijns	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'40.561	3.028
16	34	Jakub Smiechowski Fabio Scherer Albert Costa	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'40.605	3.072
17	36	Matthieu Vaxiviere Julien Canal Charles Milesi	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'40.671	3.138
18	10	Ryan Cullen Matthias Kaiser Gabriel Aubry	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'40.710	3.177
19	22	Frederick Lubin Philip Hanson Ben Hanley	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'40.869	3.336
20	35	Andre Negrao Memo Rojas Olli Caldwell	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'40.905	3.372
21	63	Doriane Pin Mathias Beche Daniil Kvyat	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'41.285	3.752
22	9	Filip Ugran Bent Viscaal Andrea Caldarelli	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'41.364	3.831
23	28	David Heinemeier Hansson Pietro Fittipaldi Oliver Rasmussen	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'41.576	4.043
24	23	Josh Pierson Giedo van der Garde Oliver Jarvis	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'41.712	4.179
25	54	Thomas Flohr Francesco Castellacci Davide Rigon	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	1'47.538	10.005
26	60	Claudio Schiavoni Matteo Cressoni Alessio Picariello	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM	1'47.645	10.112
27	86	Michael Wainwright Riccardo Pera Benjamin Barker	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM	1'47.846	10.313
28	77	Christian Ried Mikkel Pedersen Julien Andlauer	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM	1'48.198	10.665
29	56	Guilherme Oliveira Efrin Castro Matteo Cairoli	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM	1'48.219	10.686
30	57	Takeshi Kimura Scott Huffaker Kei Cozzolino	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	1'48.328	10.795
31	85	Sarah Bovy Michelle Gatting Rahel Frey	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM	1'48.456	10.923
32	21	Julien Piguet Simon Mann Ulysse De Pauw	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	1'48.466	10.933
33	33	Ben Keating Nicolas Varrone Nick Catsburg	Chevrolet Corvette C8.R	LMGTE AM	1'48.694	11.161
34	83	Luis Perez Companc Lilou Wadoux Alessio Rovera	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	1'48.742	11.209
35	25	Ahmad Al Harthy Michael Dinan Charles Eastwood	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	1'49.119	11.586
36	777	Satoshi Hoshino Casper Stevenson Tomonobu Fujii	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	1'49.498	11.965
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