WEC Portimao: Kobayashi heads another Toyota 1-2 in FP2

After Sebastien Buemi had led the way in first practice aboard the #8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID, Kobayashi took up the early running aboard the #7 machine with a 1m32.155s.

The laptime set on his sixth tour remained unbeaten in the remainder of the 90-minute session.

Hirakawa lapped 0.959s shy in the #8 machine to go second quickest on a 1m33.114s, while the best non-Toyota was 1.146s in arrears.

Miguel Molina set a 1m33.301s aboard the Sebring pole-winning #50 Ferrari 499P, which spun later in the hands of Antonio Fuoco at Turn 13.

The effort moved him ahead of stablemate Alessandro Pier Guidi aboard the #51 machine. James Calado later improved its best time, without gaining a position on the leaderboard.

After losing time early in the session to an oil leak, Nico Muller posted the fifth-fastest time in the #94 Peugeot 9X8, 1.674s slower than Kobayashi’s best.

Dane Cameron’s Porsche 963 LMDh split the two Peugeots in sixth, the American’s #5 machine slotting ahead of Paul di Resta.

#5 Porsche Penske Motorsport Porsche 963: Dane Cameron, Michael Christensen, Frederic Makowiecki

Photo by: Paul Foster

A late improvement from Alex Lynn moved the Chip Ganassi Racing-run Cadillac V-Series.R LMDh ahead of the solo Glickenhaus-Pipo 007, Lynn posting a 1m34.103s in the dying moments of the session to usurp Romain Dumas by 0.039s.

The second Porsche of Kevin Estre was tenth, 0.28s down on its sister car, while Vanwall brought up the rear of the Hypercar field.

The Gibson-powered Vandervell 680 LMH in Tom Dillmann’s hands was slower than the two leading LMP2 cars.

Gabriel Aubry claimed the top spot in LMP2 with a 1m34.609s aboard his Vector Sport ORECA-Gibson 07, leading Inter Europol Competition’s Albert Costa by 0.082s.

After setting the early pace, Mirko Bortolotti was third fastest in the #63 Prema ORECA, 0.228s slower than Aubry.

Robin Frijns’ #31 WRT ORECA beat the #23 United Autosports example driven by Oliver Jarvis to fourth spot.

Ferrari swept the top three positions in GTE Am, as Daniel Serra repeated his FP1 form aboard the Kessel Racing 488 GTE Evo.

The Brazilian's 1m41.209s usurped the time set by Lilou Wadoux’s #83 AF Corse machine by 0.046s.

Davide Rigon completed a strong session for Ferrari by moving his #54 AF entry ahead of Ben Barker’s GR Racing Porsche 911 RSR-19.

WEC Portimao FP2 results:

Cla	#	Drivers		Car	Class	Time
1	7	Mike Conway Kamui Kobayashi Jose Maria Lopez		Toyota GR010 - Hybrid	HYPERCAR	1'32.155
2	8	Sébastien Buemi Brendon Hartley Ryo Hirakawa		Toyota GR010 - Hybrid	HYPERCAR	1'33.114
3	50	Antonio Fuoco Miguel Molina Nicklas Nielsen		Ferrari 499P	HYPERCAR	1'33.301
4	51	Alessandro Pier Guidi James Calado Antonio Giovinazzi		Ferrari 499P	HYPERCAR	1'33.431
5	94	Loic Duval Gustavo Menezes Nico Müller		Peugeot 9X8	HYPERCAR	1'33.829
6	5	Dane Cameron Michael Christensen Frédéric Makowiecki		Porsche 963	HYPERCAR	1'34.076
7	93	Paul di Resta Mikkel Jensen Jean-Eric Vergne		Peugeot 9X8	HYPERCAR	1'34.101
8	2	Earl Bamber Alex Lynn Richard Westbrook		Cadillac V-Series.R	HYPERCAR	1'34.103
9	708	Romain Dumas Ryan Briscoe Olivier Pla		Glickenhaus 007	HYPERCAR	1'34.142
10	6	Kevin Estre Andre Lotterer Laurens Vanthoor		Porsche 963	HYPERCAR	1'34.356
11	10	Ryan Cullen Matthias Kaiser Gabriel Aubry		Oreca 07	LMP2	1'34.609
12	34	Jakub Smiechowski Fabio Scherer Albert Costa		Oreca 07	LMP2	1'34.691
13	4	Tom Dillmann Esteban Guerrieri Jacques Villeneuve		Vanwall Vandervell 680	HYPERCAR	1'34.745
14	63	Doriane Pin Mirko Bortolotti Daniil Kvyat		Oreca 07	LMP2	1'34.837
15	31	Sean Gelael Ferdinand Habsburg Robin Frijns		Oreca 07	LMP2	1'35.039
16	23	Josh Pierson Giedo van der Garde Oliver Jarvis		Oreca 07	LMP2	1'35.149
17	9	Filip Ugran Juan Manuel Correa Bent Viscaal		Oreca 07	LMP2	1'35.199
18	41	Rui Andrade Robert Kubica Louis Deletraz		Oreca 07	LMP2	1'35.200
19	28	David Heinemeier Hansson Pietro Fittipaldi Oliver Rasmussen		Oreca 07	LMP2	1'35.450
20	36	Matthieu Vaxiviere Julien Canal Charles Milesi		Oreca 07	LMP2	1'35.701
21	48	David Beckmann Ye Yifei Antonio Felix da Costa		Oreca 07	LMP2	1'36.018
22	22	Frederick Lubin Philip Hanson Ben Hanley		Oreca 07	LMP2	1'36.098
23	35	Andre Negrao Memo Rojas Olli Caldwell		Oreca 07	LMP2	1'36.776
24	57	Takeshi Kimura Scott Huffaker Daniel Serra		Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	1'41.209
25	83	Luis Perez Companc Lilou Wadoux Alessio Rovera		Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	1'41.255
26	54	Thomas Flohr Francesco Castellacci Davide Rigon		Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	1'41.319
27	86	Michael Wainwright Riccardo Pera Benjamin Barker		Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM	1'41.523
28	33	Ben Keating Nicolas Varrone Nick Catsburg		Chevrolet Corvette C8.R	LMGTE AM	1'41.635
29	21	Diego Alessi Simon Mann Ulysse De		Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE AM	1'41.694
30	85	Sarah Bovy Michelle Gatting Rahel Frey		Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM	1'41.710
31	56	Miguel Pedro Guilherme Moura Matteo Cairoli		Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM	1'41.998
32	60	Claudio Schiavoni Matteo Cressoni Alessio Picariello		Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM	1'42.018
33	88	Ryan Hardwick Zacharie Robichon Harry Tincknell		Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM	1'42.065
34	25	Ahmad Al Harthy Michael Dinan Charles Eastwood		Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	1'42.149
35	77	Christian Ried Mikkel Pedersen Julien Andlauer		Porsche 911 RSR - 19	LMGTE AM	1'42.229
36	777	Satoshi Hoshino Casper Stevenson Tomonobu Fujii		Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	1'42.314
37	98	Paul Dalla Lana Axcil Jefferies Nicki Thiim		Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE AM	1'42.673
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