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Shanghai WEC: Ginetta edges Toyota in FP2
Ginetta topped the times for the first time in the FIA World Endurance Championship in second free practice for this weekend's Shanghai round of the 2019/20 series.
Gary Watkins
Edited: Nov 8, 2019, 3:15 PM
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Charlie Robertson set a 1m48.127s, fastest time of the meeting so far, to go fastest half an hour into the second 90-minute free practice session.
His time aboard the #6 Ginetta-AER G60-LT-P1 put him 0.061s ahead of Kazuki Nakajima in the fastest of the pair of Toyota TS050 Hybrids.
Bruno Senna's 1m48.288s put the solo Rebellion-Gibson R-13 third fastest, exactly one tenth behind the best of the Toyotas.
Mike Conway took fourth in the second of the TS050 Hybrids on the 1m48.979s.
The two Toyotas, which have been penalised by 2.74s under the new success handicaps, improved significantly over their times in the morning session, #8 finding nearly 2.4s and #7 1.2s.
Both Nakajima and Conway set their times during qualification simulations.
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The second of the Ginettas fielded by the works Team LNT squad ended up fifth and last in LMP1 courtesy of a 1m49.678s from Ben Hanley.
Nicolas Lapierre again led the way in LMP2 for the Cool Racing squad.
His 1m49.754s aboard the Swiss team's Oreca-Gibson 07 put him six tenths up on second-placed Phil Hanson in the United Autosports Oreca.
The #71 AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE ended up fastest in GTE Pro after missing the opening session with a fuel leak.
Miguel Molina set a 2m00.036s, which put him nearly half a second up on the second-placed Aston Martin Vantage GTE driven by Maxime Martin.
A 2m00.528s from the Belgian put him three tenths up on the sister car's best with Marco Sorensen at the wheel.
Porsche, which was fastest in the opening session, took fourth courtesy of a 2m01.064s from Kevin Estre in the #92 Porsche 911 RSR.
Matt Campbell led the way in GTE Am aboard the #77 Dempsey-Proton Porsche.
Qualifying and the full 4 Hours of Shanghai will be shown live on Motorsport.tv. Check times here.
FP2 results:
Cla # Drivers Car Class Time Gap 1 6 Charles Robertson
Michael Simpson
Guy Smith Ginetta G60-LT-P1 LMP1 1'48.127 2 8
Sébastien Buemi
Kazuki Nakajima
Brendon Hartley Toyota TS050 Hybrid LMP1 1'48.188 0.061 3 1
Bruno Senna
Gustavo Menezes
Norman Nato Rebellion R13 LMP1 1'48.288 0.161 4 7
Mike Conway
Kamui Kobayashi
Jose Maria Lopez Toyota TS050 Hybrid LMP1 1'48.979 0.852 5 5
Jordan King
Ben Hanley
Egor Orudzhev Ginetta G60-LT-P1 LMP1 1'49.678 1.551 6 42
Nicolas Lapierre
Antonin Borga
Alexandre Coigny Oreca 07 LMP2 1'49.754 1.627 7 22
Philip Hanson
Filipe Albuquerque
Paul di Resta Oreca 07 LMP2 1'50.397 2.270 8 33
Mark Patterson
Kenta Yamashita
Anders Fjordbach Oreca 07 LMP2 1'50.457 2.330 9 37
Ho-Pin Tung
Gabriel Aubry
Will Stevens Oreca 07 LMP2 1'50.505 2.378 10 29
Frits van Eerd
Giedo van der Garde
Nyck de Vries Oreca 07 LMP2 1'51.095 2.968 11 38
Roberto Gonzalez
Antonio Felix da Costa
Anthony Davidson Oreca 07 LMP2 1'51.133 3.006 12 36
Thomas Laurent
Andre Negrao
Pierre Ragues Alpine A470 LMP2 1'52.059 3.932 13 47
Roberto Lacorte
Andrea Belicchi
Giorgio Sernagiotto Dallara P217 LMP2 1'53.023 4.896 14 71
Davide Rigon
Miguel Molina Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE PRO 2'00.036 11.909 15 97
Alex Lynn
Maxime Martin Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE PRO 2'00.528 12.401 16 95
Marco Sorensen
Nicki Thiim Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE PRO 2'00.822 12.695 17 92
Michael Christensen
Kevin Estre Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE PRO 2'01.064 12.937 18 77
Christian Ried
Riccardo Pera
Matt Campbell Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 2'01.935 13.808 19 91
Gianmaria Bruni
Richard Lietz Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE PRO 2'01.961 13.834 20 90
Salih Yoluc
Charles Eastwood
Jonathan Adam Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE AM 2'02.026 13.899 21 78
Philippe Prette
Louis Prette
Vincent Abril Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 2'02.082 13.955 22 88
Angelo Negro
Will Bamber
Thomas Preining Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 2'02.537 14.410 23 70
Motoaki Ishikawa
Olivier Beretta
Kei Cozzolino Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 2'02.542 14.415 24 98
Paul Dalla Lana
Darren Turner
Ross Gunn Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE AM 2'02.552 14.425 25 51
James Calado
Alessandro Pier Guidi Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE PRO 2'02.567 14.440 26 62
Bonamy Grimes
Johnny Mowlem
Charles Hollings Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 2'02.655 14.528 27 83
François Perrodo
Emmanuel Collard
Nicklas Nielsen Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 2'02.894 14.767 28 54
Thomas Flohr
Francesco Castellacci
Giancarlo Fisichella Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 2'02.962 14.835 29 86
Michael Wainwright
Andrew Watson
Benjamin Barker Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 2'03.087 14.960 30 56
Egidio Perfetti
David Heinemeier Hansson
Matteo Cairoli Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 2'03.277 15.150 31 57
Ben Keating
Larry ten
Jeroen Bleekemolen Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 2'03.583 15.456 View full results
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