Shanghai WEC: Toyota stays on top in second practice

The pace in the afternoon session was slower than it was in first practice, meaning Sebastien Buemi's 1m54.768s set on intermediate tyres in the #8 Toyota TS050 Hybrid stood as the day's fastest.

In FP2, it was the #7 car that led the way, as Jose Maria Lopez jumped to the top of the timesheets right at the end of the a session in which the LMP1 runners used only wet tyres. 

His 2m02.259s eclipsed Kazuki Nakajima's 2m02.504s in the #8 Toyota by a couple of tenths, while Thomas Laurent was a further tenth and a half behind in the #3 Rebellion R-13.

Late improvements by Andre Lotterer in the #1 Rebellion and Jenson Button in the best of the SMP Racing BR Engineering BR1s put them fourth and fifth, ahead of the #17 SMP BR1 of Egor Orudzhev.

The #10 DragonSpeed BR1 and the #4 ByKolles ENSO CLM P1/01 rounded out the LMP1 order.

LMP2 was once again topped by Jazeman Jaafar in the #37 Jackie Chan DC Racing Oreca, as the Malaysian knocked the Signatech Alpine from top of the times right at the end of the session. 

Jaafar's 2m10.869s was slower than his FP1 best, but was enough to edge out Andre Negrao in the Signatech car by a scant 0.027s.

Matthieu Vaxiviere put the TDS Racing Oreca third in class, a further eight tenths back.

James Calado was quickest in the GTE Pro class in his AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE, his best time of 2m14.315s coming shortly before an off at Turn 2 that caused a full-course yellow.

That was some way off the 2m09.830s set by BMW driver Martin Tomczyk in FP1 on slick tyres, however.

Antonio Felix da Costa was second in the afternoon the best of the BMW M8 GTEs, followed by Maxime Martin in the top Aston Martin Vantage GTE.

Corvette Racing's one-off C7.R entry was fifth, up two places from the morning session.

Giancarlo Fisichella put the Spirit of Race Ferrari 488 GTE at the top of the order in GTE Am, five seconds down on the best time recorded in FP1 by the TF Sport Aston Martin.

Session results:

Pos.	No.	Drivers	Car	Class	Time	Gap
1	7	Kamui Kobayashi   Mike Conway   Jose Maria Lopez	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	LMP1	2'02.259
2	8	Fernando Alonso   Kazuki Nakajima   Sébastien Buemi	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	LMP1	2'02.504	0.245
3	3	Mathias Beche   Thomas Laurent   Gustavo Menezes	Rebellion R13	LMP1	2'02.673	0.414
4	1	Andre Lotterer   Bruno Senna   Neel Jani	Rebellion R13	LMP1	2'02.935	0.676
5	11	Jenson Button   Vitaly Petrov   Mikhail Aleshin	BR Engineering BR1	LMP1	2'03.648	1.389
6	17	Stéphane Sarrazin   Matevos Isaakyan   Egor Orudzhev	BR Engineering BR1	LMP1	2'04.588	2.329
7	10	Renger van der Zande   Ben Hanley  James Allen	BR Engineering BR1	LMP1	2'04.696	2.437
8	4	Oliver Webb   Tom Dillmann   James Rossiter	ENSO CLM P1/01	LMP1	2'06.744	4.485
9	37	Nabil Jeffri   Weiron Tan   Jazeman Jaafar	Oreca 07	LMP2	2'10.869	8.610
10	36	Nicolas Lapierre   Pierre Thiriet   Andre Negrao	Alpine A470	LMP2	2'10.896	8.637
11	28	Loic Duval   François Perrodo   Matthieu Vaxiviere	Oreca 07	LMP2	2'11.746	9.487
12	50	Enzo Guibbert   Romano Ricci   Erwin Creed	Ligier JSP 217	LMP2	2'12.112	9.853
13	29	Giedo van der Garde   Nyck de Vries   Frits van Eerd	Dallara P217	LMP2	2'12.156	9.897
14	38	Ho-Pin Tung   Stéphane Richelmi   Gabriel Aubry	Oreca 07	LMP2	2'12.162	9.903
15	31	Anthony Davidson   Pastor Maldonado   Roberto Gonzalez	Oreca 07	LMP2	2'12.499	10.240
16	51	James Calado   Alessandro Pier Guidi	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE PRO	2'14.315	12.056
17	82	Antonio Felix da Costa   Tom Blomqvist	BMW M8 GTE	LMGTE PRO	2'14.964	12.705
18	97	Maxime Martin   Alex Lynn	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE PRO	2'14.983	12.724
19	95	Nicki Thiim   Marco Sorensen	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE PRO	2'15.454	13.195
20	64	Oliver Gavin   Tommy Milner	Chevrolet Corvette C7R	LMGTE PRO	2'16.222	13.963
21	92	Michael Christensen   Kevin Estre	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE PRO	2'16.250	13.991
22	66	Stefan Mücke   Olivier Pla	Ford GT	LMGTE PRO	2'16.568	14.309
23	54	Giancarlo Fisichella   Francesco Castellacci   Thomas Flohr	Ferrari 488 GTE	LMGTE AM	2'16.835	14.576
24	61	Matthew Griffin   Mok Weng Sun   Keita Sawa	Ferrari 488 GTE	LMGTE AM	2'16.878	14.619
25	81	Nick Catsburg   Martin Tomczyk	BMW M8 GTE	LMGTE PRO	2'17.025	14.766
26	71	Sam Bird   Davide Rigon	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE PRO	2'17.162	14.903
27	91	Gianmaria Bruni   Richard Lietz	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE PRO	2'17.578	15.319
28	86	Michael Wainwright   Benjamin Barker  Thomas Preining	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	2'17.799	15.540
29	67	Harry Tincknell   Andy Priaulx	Ford GT	LMGTE PRO	2'17.863	15.604
30	90	Jonathan Adam   Salih Yoluc   Charles Eastwood	Aston Martin Vantage	LMGTE AM	2'17.904	15.645
31	70	Olivier Beretta   Eddie Cheever III   Motoaki Ishikawa	Ferrari 488 GTE	LMGTE AM	2'18.558	16.299
32	88	Matteo Cairoli  Riccardo Pera  Khaled Al-Qubaisi	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	2'18.610	16.351
33	56	Jörg Bergmeister   Patrick Lindsey   Egidio Perfetti	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	2'20.235	17.976
34	98	Pedro Lamy   Paul Dalla Lana   Mathias Lauda	Aston Martin Vantage	LMGTE AM	2'21.333	19.074
35	77	Christian Ried   Matt Campbell  Julien Andlauer	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	no time	-