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Monza WEC: Lopez secures Toyota clean sweep in practice

Toyota blocked out the top two positions in final free practice for Sunday's Monza round of the FIA World Endurance Championship.

Gary Watkins

Gary Watkins

Edited: Jul 17, 2021, 5:46 PM

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#7 Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota GR010 - Hybrid: Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi, Jose Maria Lopez

Jose Maria Lopez maintained his monopoly of the top spot in the times aboard the #7 Toyota GR010 Hybrid with a 1m36.137s set during a qualification simulation right at the start of the one-hour session.

Brendon Hartley ended up a second slower with a 1m37.208s in the #8 Toyota after encountering traffic at the first chicane on the opening lap of his qualifying sim.

That still put the Kiwi nearly half a second up on the third-placed Glickenhaus 007 LMH.

Olivier Pla posted a 1m37.659s in the #708 car to just edge out the Alpine A480-Givson grandfathered LMP1 car in which Nicolas Lapierre managed a 1m37.747s.

The second Glickenhaus was a further two tenths back with a 1m38.009s set by Romain Dumas.

Stoffel Vandoorne ended up quickest in LMP2 aboard the fastest of the JOTA team's pair of Oreca 07s. The Belgian's 1m38.910s was two tenths quicker than Filipe Albuquerque's 1m39.126s aboard the United Autosports Oreca.

Felipe Nasr took third position in the Risi Competizione team's Oreca with a 1m39.211s, while Ben Hanley claimed fourth for DragonSpeed on 1m39.273s.

Gianmaria Bruni was quickest on home ground for Porsche in GTE Pro. The Italian's 1m46.253s lap in the #91 Porsche 911 RSR was more than three tenths up on second-placed Alessandro Pier Guidi.

A 1m46.589s from the Ferrari driver just edged out teammate Miguel Molina's 1m46.663s in the second of the AF Corse-run Ferrari 488 GTE Evos. Neel Jani took fourth in the second of the works Porsches.

Ferrari factory driver Nicklas Nielsen was quickest in GTE Am for AF Corse.

Two cars failed to take part in the final session of practice after incidents in Saturday's morning session.

The #60 Iron Lynx GTE Am Ferrari driven by Claudio Schiavoni triggered a three-car incident on the run to the Ascari Chicane after the chequered flag had fallen in FP2.

The Inception Racing Ferrari went off at Ascari earlier in the second session with Brendan Iribe at the wheel and has been withdrawn from the race.

Qualifying for Sunday's Monza 6 Hours, round three of the 2021 WEC, begins at 6pm local time.

Motorsport.tv will be showing live both qualifying and the full race of the WEC 6 Hours of Monza this weekend. Join today.

FP3 Results:

Cla Drivers Car Class Time Gap 1 United Kingdom Mike Conway
Japan Kamui Kobayashi
Argentina Jose Maria Lopez Toyota GR010 - Hybrid HYPERCAR 1'36.137   2 Switzerland Sébastien Buemi
Japan Kazuki Nakajima
New Zealand Brendon Hartley Toyota GR010 - Hybrid HYPERCAR 1'37.208 1.071 3 Brazil Pipo Derani
United States Gustavo Menezes
France Olivier Pla Glickenhaus 007 LMH HYPERCAR 1'37.659 1.522 4 Brazil Andre Negrao
France Nicolas Lapierre
France Matthieu Vaxiviere Alpine A480 HYPERCAR 1'37.747 1.610 5 France Romain Dumas
France Franck Mailleux
United Kingdom Richard Westbrook Glickenhaus 007 LMH HYPERCAR 1'38.009 1.872 6 Indonesia Sean Gelael
Belgium Stoffel Vandoorne
United Kingdom Tom Blomqvist Oreca 07 LMP2 1'38.910 2.773 7 United Kingdom Philip Hanson
Switzerland Fabio Scherer
Portugal Filipe Albuquerque Oreca 07 LMP2 1'39.126 2.989 8 Ireland Ryan Cullen
United Kingdom Oliver Jarvis
Brazil Felipe Nasr Oreca 07 LMP2 1'39.211 3.074 9 Sweden Henrik Hedman
Colombia Juan Pablo Montoya
United Kingdom Ben Hanley Oreca 07 LMP2 1'39.273 3.136 10 Mexico Roberto Gonzalez
Portugal Antonio Felix da Costa
United Kingdom Anthony Davidson Oreca 07 LMP2 1'39.392 3.255 11 Poland Jakub Smiechowski
Netherlands Renger van der Zande
United Kingdom Alex Brundle Oreca 07 LMP2 1'39.669 3.532 12 Netherlands Frits van Eerd
France Paul-Loup Chatin
Netherlands Nyck de Vries Oreca 07 LMP2 1'39.707 3.570 13 Switzerland Esteban Garcia
France Loic Duval
France Norman Nato Oreca 07 LMP2 1'39.847 3.710 14 Netherlands Robin Frijns
Austria Ferdinand Habsburg
France Charles Milesi Oreca 07 LMP2 1'39.857 3.720 15 Colombia Tatiana Calderon
Germany Sophia Flörsch Oreca 07 LMP2 1'40.731 4.594 16 Denmark Jan Magnussen
Denmark Anders Fjordbach
Denmark Dennis Andersen Oreca 07 LMP2 1'41.138 5.001 17 Slovakia Miro Konopka
United Kingdom Oliver Webb
Slovakia Matej Konopka Ligier JSP 217 LMP2 1'45.042 8.905 18 Italy Gianmaria Bruni
Austria Richard Lietz Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE PRO 1'46.253 10.116 19 Italy Alessandro Pier Guidi
United Kingdom James Calado Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE PRO 1'46.589 10.452 20 Brazil Daniel Serra
Spain Miguel Molina Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE PRO 1'46.663 10.526 21 France Kevin Estre
Switzerland Neel Jani Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE PRO 1'46.984 10.847 22 France François Perrodo
Denmark Nicklas Nielsen
Italy Alessio Rovera Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 1'47.080 10.943 23 Norway Egidio Perfetti
Italy Matteo Cairoli
Italy Riccardo Pera Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE AM 1'47.167 11.030 24 Indonesia Andrew Haryanto
Germany Marco Seefried
Belgium Alessio Picariello Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE AM 1'47.331 11.194 25 Italy Roberto Lacorte
Italy Giorgio Sernagiotto
Italy Antonio Fuoco Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 1'47.365 11.228 26 United States Ben Keating
Dylan Pereira
Brazil Felipe Fraga Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE AM 1'47.520 11.383 27 Switzerland Thomas Flohr
Italy Francesco Castellacci
Italy Giancarlo Fisichella Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 1'47.608 11.471 28 Norway Dennis Olsen
Norway Anders Buchardt
United States Maxwell Root Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE AM 1'47.641 11.504 29 Switzerland Rahel Frey
Denmark Michelle Gatting
Belgium Sarah Bovy Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 1'47.652 11.515 30 United Kingdom Michael Wainwright
United Kingdom Benjamin Barker
United Kingdom Tom Gamble Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE AM 1'47.685 11.548 31 Germany Christian Ried
Australia Jaxon Evans
Australia Matt Campbell Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE AM 1'47.757 11.620 32 Germany Pierre Ehret
Germany Christian Hook
Netherlands Jeroen Bleekemolen Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 1'47.871 11.734 33 Japan Satoshi Hoshino
Japan Tomonobu Fujii
United Kingdom Andrew Watson Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE AM 1'48.085 11.948 34 Canada Paul Dalla Lana
Brazil Augusto Farfus
Brazil Marcos Gomes Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE AM 1'48.284 12.147 35 Switzerland Christoph Ulrich
France Simon Mann
Finland Toni Vilander Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 1'48.323 12.186 36 Italy Claudio Schiavoni
Italy Andrea Piccini
Italy Matteo Cressoni Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM     37 Brendan Iribe
United Kingdom Ollie Millroy
United Kingdom Ben Barnicoat Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM     View full results

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