Monza WEC: Glickenhaus fastest in FP3, Peugeot close behind
Glickenhaus returned to the top of the times in final free practice ahead of qualifying for this weekend’s Monza round of the FIA World Endurance Championship, with Peugeot taking second and third.
Romain Dumas followed up on his quickest time in the opening 90-minute practice period on Friday by propelling the solo Glickenhaus 007 LMH to the head of the Hypercar pack just over halfway through Saturday afternoon's one-hour session.
Dumas went from sixth to first in the Hypercar class times during a three-lap run, a 1m36.813s giving him a margin of two tenths over Mikkel Jensen’s #93 Peugeot 9X8.
The pair of Peugeots had blocked out the top two positions from early in the session until the improvement from Dumas, Jensen’s 1m37.020s just shading the 1m37.085s from Gustavo Menezes in the #94 car.
Brendon Hartley ended up fourth in the best of the Toyotas with a 1m37.301s in the #8 GR010 Hybrid, which put him more than two tenths up on Kamui Kobayashi’s 1m37.546s in #7 car.
The Signatech-run Alpine A480 brought up the rear of the Hypercar class with a 1m37.644s from Nicolas Lapierre, who was still within eight tenths of the pace.
Jonathan Aberdein took top spot in LMP2 for JOTA ahead of the two WRT entries.
The South African jumped to first in the class times with a 1m38.904s aboard the #28 Oreca 07-Gibson, giving him a margin of two tenths over the 1m39.097s set by Robin Frijns in the #31 WRT entry.
That in turn which was five hundredths clear of the 1m39.147s recorded by Ferdinand Habsburg in the team’s #41 Realteam by WRT-branded car.
Charles Milesi was only three thousandths behind in fourth position courtesy of a 1m39.150s in the Richard Mille Racing Oreca run by Signatech, while James Allen and Robert Kubica rounded out the top six in class aboard their respective Orecas run by Algarve Pro Racing and Prema.
The three manufacturers in GTE Pro were separated by less than two tenths at the end of the session.
Nick Tandy ended up fastest for Corvette Racing, his 1m45.902s aboard the solo C8.R giving him a margin of almost exactly one tenth over Michael Christensen in the best of the Manthey-run factory Porsche 911 RSR-19s.
The Dane’s 1m46.000s was in turn four hundredths up on the fastest of the two AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE Evos in which Alessandro Pier Guidi got down to a 1m46.041s.
The other works Ferrari took fourth in GTE Pro in Antonio Fuoco’s hands, while Gianmaria Bruni was fifth in the second of the two Porsches.
Nick Cassidy went fastest in GTE Am right at the end of the session in the #54 AF Corse Ferrari. His 1m47.676s pushed the Dempsey-Proton Porsche in which Harry Tincknell had earlier managed a 1m47.823s down to second position.
Qualifying for Sunday’s Monza 6 Hours, round four of the 2022 WEC, begins at 17:30 local time on Saturday.
WEC 6 Hours of Monza - Third practice results:
Cla | # | Drivers | Car | Class | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 708 | Olivier Pla Romain Dumas Pipo Derani |
Glickenhaus 007 LMH | HYPERCAR | 1'36.813 | |
2 | 93 | Paul di Resta Mikkel Jensen Jean-Eric Vergne |
Peugeot 9X8 | HYPERCAR | 1'37.020 | 0.207 |
3 | 94 | Loic Duval Gustavo Menezes James Rossiter |
Peugeot 9X8 | HYPERCAR | 1'37.085 | 0.272 |
4 | 8 | Sébastien Buemi Brendon Hartley Ryo Hirakawa |
Toyota GR010 - Hybrid | HYPERCAR | 1'37.301 | 0.488 |
5 | 7 | Mike Conway Kamui Kobayashi Jose Maria Lopez |
Toyota GR010 - Hybrid | HYPERCAR | 1'37.546 | 0.733 |
6 | 36 | Andre Negrao Nicolas Lapierre Matthieu Vaxiviere |
Alpine A480 | HYPERCAR | 1'37.644 | 0.831 |
7 | 28 | Oliver Rasmussen Edward Jones Jonathan Aberdein |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'38.904 | 2.091 |
8 | 31 | Sean Gelael Robin Frijns René Rast |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'39.097 | 2.284 |
9 | 41 | Rui Andrade Ferdinand Habsburg Norman Nato |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'39.147 | 2.334 |
10 | 1 | Lilou Wadoux Paul-Loup Chatin Charles Milesi |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'39.150 | 2.337 |
11 | 45 | Steven Thomas James Allen Rene Binder |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'39.250 | 2.437 |
12 | 9 | Robert Kubica Louis Deletraz Lorenzo Colombo |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'39.265 | 2.452 |
13 | 23 | Alex Lynn Oliver Jarvis Josh Pierson |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'39.511 | 2.698 |
14 | 22 | Philip Hanson Filipe Albuquerque Will Owen |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'39.528 | 2.715 |
15 | 38 | Roberto Gonzalez Antonio Felix da Costa Will Stevens |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'39.581 | 2.768 |
16 | 34 | Jakub Smiechowski Alex Brundle Esteban Gutierrez |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'39.582 | 2.769 |
17 | 83 | François Perrodo Nicklas Nielsen Alessio Rovera |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'39.603 | 2.790 |
18 | 44 | Miro Konopka Tijmen van der Helm Mathias Beche |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'39.803 | 2.990 |
19 | 10 | Nico Müller Ryan Cullen Sébastien Bourdais |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'39.838 | 3.025 |
20 | 35 | Jean Baptiste Lahaye Matthieu Lahaye François Heriau |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'40.998 | 4.185 |
21 | 64 | Tommy Milner Nick Tandy |
Chevrolet Corvette C8.R | LMGTE PRO | 1'45.902 | 9.089 |
22 | 92 | Michael Christensen Kevin Estre |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE PRO | 1'46.000 | 9.187 |
23 | 51 | Alessandro Pier Guidi James Calado |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE PRO | 1'46.041 | 9.228 |
24 | 52 | Miguel Molina Antonio Fuoco |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE PRO | 1'46.114 | 9.301 |
25 | 91 | Gianmaria Bruni Richard Lietz |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE PRO | 1'47.243 | 10.430 |
26 | 54 | Thomas Flohr Francesco Castellacci Nick Cassidy |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 1'47.676 | 10.863 |
27 | 77 | Christian Ried Sebastian Priaulx Harry Tincknell |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 1'47.823 | 11.010 |
28 | 60 | Claudio Schiavoni Matteo Cressoni Giancarlo Fisichella |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 1'47.834 | 11.021 |
29 | 85 | Rahel Frey Michelle Gatting Sarah Bovy |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 1'48.027 | 11.214 |
30 | 777 | Satoshi Hoshino Tomonobu Fujii Charlie Fagg |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 1'48.101 | 11.288 |
31 | 86 | Michael Wainwright Riccardo Pera Benjamin Barker |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 1'48.121 | 11.308 |
32 | 33 | Ben Keating Henrique Chaves Jr. Marco Sorensen |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 1'48.154 | 11.341 |
33 | 21 | Simon Mann Christoph Ulrich Toni Vilander |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 1'48.192 | 11.379 |
34 | 71 | Franck Dezoteux Pierre Ragues Gabriel Aubry |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 1'48.227 | 11.414 |
35 | 88 | Fred Poordad Patrick Lindsey Jan Heylen |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 1'48.249 | 11.436 |
36 | 56 | Brendan Iribe Ollie Millroy Ben Barnicoat |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 1'48.278 | 11.465 |
37 | 46 | Matteo Cairoli Mikkel Pedersen Nicolas Leutwiler |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 1'48.368 | 11.555 |
38 | 98 | Paul Dalla Lana David Pittard Nicki Thiim |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 1'48.753 | 11.940 |
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