WEC Sebring: Toyotas lead Ferrari, Cadillac in disrupted 2nd practice
Brendon Hartley set the benchmark time of 1m47272 s early in the one-hour session aboard the # 8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID, prior to Kamui Kobayashi lapped 3 tenths quicker not long after to tape 1m46954 s in the sis # 7 automobile.
That lap time showed to be the fastest of the whole week up until now, ahead of Friday’s Sebring 1000 Miles.
Antonio Fuoco’s #50 Ferrari was finest of the rest in 3rd, setting 1m48121 s in the closing phases to pip Richard Westbrook in the sole Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac V-Series. R LMDh, whose 1m48265 s was over a 2nd off the speed of the Toyota duo.
The session was warning after 10 minutes, following a clash in between Westbrook and Ryan Hardwick’s GTE Am Proton Porsche at Turn 7, which sent out the 911 into the tyrewall. That got rid of 12 minutes from the offered running time while the event was cleaned up and was under examination by the stewards.
James Calado was 5th quickest in the sibling Ferrari 499 P, which is making its launching in Sebring, ahead of Olivier Pla’s Glickenhaus 007, which was 2.7 s off the rate.
The finest Porsche Penske Motorsport 963 LMDh was Fred Makowiecki’s # 5 automobile, however it was practically threes off the rate. The fastest Peugeot 9X8, on the other hand, was slower than the quickest LMP2 vehicle in ninth total.
A 2nd, much shorter, warning duration was needed for Takeshi Kimura’s Ferrari spinning to a stop at Turn 3.
#28 Jota Oreca 07 – Gibson: David Heinemeier Hansson, Pietro Fittipaldi, Oliver Rasmussen
Photo by: JEP/ Motorsport Images
In LMP2, Pietro Fittipaldi blazed a trail by setting 1m50806 s in the opening minutes in his #28 JOTA ORECA-Gibson 07, and after that extended his benefit with 1m50326 s.
That was practically 4 tenths clear of the carefully matched United Autosports cars and trucks, which were simply 0.007 s apart.
GTE Am shown to be extremely competitive with Alessio Picariello (Iron Lynx Porsche 911) leading in the early phases on 1m59160 s, beaten initially by Casper Stevenson (D’Station Aston Martin) and after that Nicky Catsburg (Corvette) and, ultimately, Daniel Serra (Kessel Racing Ferrari 488) who set 1m58845 s.
Third totally free practice starts at 11: 55 regional time at Sebring on Thursday.
Sebring 1000 Miles FP2 results:
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