Nurburgring WEC: Porsche stays on top in second practice
Porsche narrowly beat Audi in the second practice session for the WEC 6 Hours of Nurburgring, as Mark Webber eclipsed Marcel Fassler by just 0.014s to keep the Weissach marque on top.
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Webber's benchmark time of 1m40.997s came early on in the 90-minute session, the Australian lapping seven tenths faster than the best time in first practice in the #1 Porsche 919 Hybrid.
It wasn't all plain sailing for the reigning champion squad however, as the #2 car - with Romain Dumas at the wheel - went into the barriers at Turn 1 after a brake disc failure.
The car had suffered visible damage to the floor as it was craned away, and did not re-emerge for the rest of the session.
An early effort of 1m41.011s by Marcel Fassler was good enough for the #7 Audi R18 e-tron quattro to finish second quickest, 0.125s clear of the sister #8 car piloted by Oliver Jarvis.
Toyota managed the fourth best time courtesy of Stephane Sarrazin in the #6 TS050 Hybrid, ahead of the stricken #2 Porsche and the #5 Toyota of Anthony Davidson.
The #13 Rebellion R-One was again the quickest of the LMP1-L contingent, 5.793s off the pace.
G-Drive Racing maintained its advantage at the head of the LMP2 pack, as Rene Rast set the benchmark time of 1m48.965s to go over a second clear of the opposition.
WEC newcomer Lewis Williamson put the #42 Strakka Gibson second, two tenths up on the #45 Manor Oreca of Roberto Merhi.
The #36 Signatech Alpine, having failed to set a time in first practice after the car's early off, was fourth fastest in the hands of Stephane Richelmi.
In GTE-Pro, Aston Martin's Darren Turner set the pace with a 1m56.908s in the #97 car, beating the #51 AF Corse Ferrari 488 of Gianmaria Bruni by 0.074s.
Ford again struggled to match the pace of the Aston Martins and Ferraris, ending up fifth and sixth in class, as was the case in first practice.
Emmanuel Collard set the quickest time in the GTE-Am class aboard the #83 AF Corse Ferrari with a best time of 1m59.200s.
Practice times:
Cla | # | Drivers | Car | Class | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 1 | Mark Webber Timo Bernhard Brendon Hartley |
Porsche 919 Hybrid | LMP1 | 1'40.997 | |
2 | 7 | Andre Lotterer Marcel Fassler |
Audi R18 | LMP1 | 1'41.011 | 0.014 |
3 | 8 | Lucas di Grassi Loic Duval Oliver Jarvis |
Audi R18 | LMP1 | 1'41.136 | 0.139 |
4 | 6 | Stéphane Sarrazin Kamui Kobayashi Mike Conway |
Toyota TS050 Hybrid | LMP1 | 1'41.822 | 0.825 |
5 | 2 | Romain Dumas Neel Jani Marc Lieb |
Porsche 919 Hybrid | LMP1 | 1'41.943 | 0.946 |
6 | 5 | Anthony Davidson Kazuki Nakajima Sébastien Buemi |
Toyota TS050 Hybrid | LMP1 | 1'42.325 | 1.328 |
7 | 13 | Alexandre Imperatori Dominik Kraihamer Matheo Tuscher |
Rebellion R-One | LMP1 | 1'46.790 | 5.793 |
8 | 4 | Simon Trummer Oliver Webb Pierre Kaffer |
CLM P1/01 | LMP1 | 1'47.330 | 6.333 |
9 | 12 | Nick Heidfeld Nicolas Prost Mathias Beche |
Rebellion R-One | LMP1 | 1'47.610 | 6.613 |
10 | 26 | Roman Rusinov René Rast Alex Brundle |
Oreca 05 | LMP2 | 1'48.965 | 7.968 |
11 | 42 | Nick Leventis Jonny Kane Lewis Williamson |
Gibson 015S | LMP2 | 1'50.031 | 9.034 |
12 | 45 | Roberto Merhi Richard Bradley Matthew Rao |
Oreca 05 | LMP2 | 1'50.276 | 9.279 |
13 | 36 | Nicolas Lapierre Gustavo Menezes Stéphane Richelmi |
Alpine A460 | LMP2 | 1'50.537 | 9.540 |
14 | 44 | Antonio Pizzonia Matthew Howson Tor Graves |
Oreca 05 | LMP2 | 1'50.637 | 9.640 |
15 | 35 | Nelson Panciatici Ho-Pin Tung David Cheng |
Alpine A460 | LMP2 | 1'50.844 | 9.847 |
16 | 43 | Bruno Senna Ricardo Gonzalez Filipe Albuquerque |
Ligier JS P2 | LMP2 | 1'51.469 | 10.472 |
17 | 31 | Pipo Derani Ryan Dalziel Chris Cumming |
Ligier JS P2 | LMP2 | 1'51.860 | 10.863 |
18 | 27 | Maurizio Mediani David Markozov Nicolas Minassian |
BR01 | LMP2 | 1'51.997 | 11.000 |
19 | 30 | Scott Sharp Ed Brown Johannes van Overbeek |
Ligier JS P2 | LMP2 | 1'52.059 | 11.062 |
20 | 37 | Vitaly Petrov Viktor Shaytar Kirill Ladygin |
BR01 | LMP2 | 1'52.605 | 11.608 |
21 | 97 | Darren Turner Richie Stanaway |
Aston Martin Vantage V8 | LMGTE PRO | 1'56.908 | 15.911 |
22 | 51 | Gianmaria Bruni James Calado |
Ferrari 488 GTE | LMGTE PRO | 1'56.982 | 15.985 |
23 | 71 | Sam Bird Davide Rigon |
Ferrari 488 GTE | LMGTE PRO | 1'57.187 | 16.190 |
24 | 95 | Marco Sorensen Nicki Thiim |
Aston Martin Vantage V8 | LMGTE PRO | 1'57.258 | 16.261 |
25 | 66 | Stefan Mücke Olivier Pla |
Ford GT | LMGTE PRO | 1'57.461 | 16.464 |
26 | 67 | Harry Tincknell Andy Priaulx Marino Franchitti |
Ford GT | LMGTE PRO | 1'58.539 | 17.542 |
27 | 77 | Richard Lietz Michael Christensen |
Porsche 911 RSR (2016) | LMGTE PRO | 1'58.923 | 17.926 |
28 | 83 | François Perrodo Emmanuel Collard Rui Aguas |
Ferrari F458 Italia | LMGTE AM | 1'59.200 | 18.203 |
29 | 50 | Paolo Ruberti Pierre Ragues Yutaka Yamagishi |
Chevrolet Corvette C7-Z06 | LMGTE AM | 1'59.323 | 18.326 |
30 | 88 | David Heinemeier Hansson Patrick Long Khaled Al Qubaisi |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 1'59.574 | 18.577 |
31 | 98 | Pedro Lamy Paul Dalla Lana Mathias Lauda |
Aston Martin Vantage V8 | LMGTE AM | 1'59.875 | 18.878 |
32 | 86 | Michael Wainwright Adam Carroll Ben Barker |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 1'59.898 | 18.901 |
33 | 78 | Christian Ried Wolf Henzler Joel Camathias |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 2'00.672 | 19.675 |
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