Silverstone WEC: Toyota heads Rebellion in FP3

Kazuki Nakajima topped the one-hour Saturday morning session with an early effort of 1m37.014s in the #8 Toyota TS050 Hybrid around the newly-surfaced British venue.

That was just under three tenths slower than stablemate Kamui Kobayashi managed on Friday, but enough to beat the quickest of the Rebellion R-13s, the #3 car of Nathanael Berthon, by 0.398 seconds.

Gustavo Menezes put the #1 Rebellion in third, 0.936s off the pace but fractionally ahead of the #7 Toyota driven by Mike Conway.

Ginetta filled out fifth and sixth places with its pair of G60-LT-P1s, the quickest of which was 1.421s off the pace in the hands of factory driver Charlie Robertson.

There was drama for Robertson however when he spun at Becketts midway through the session due to a rear-right puncture and had to limp back to the pits. The #5 car, which didn't set a timed lap in FP1 due to gear selection issues, did reappear on track later in the session.

LMP2 was topped once again by United Autosports and its new Michelin-shod Oreca, with silver-rated Phil Hanson setting the squad's fastest time of 1m41.271s.

Giedo van der Garde put Racing Team Nederland's Oreca, also running Michelins, in second with a time six tenths off the pace, while Will Stevens set the best time for a Goodyear-shod car in the Jackie Chan DC Racing Oreca in third.

Ferrari led the way in GTE Pro courtesy of a 1m54.462s lap by James Calado in the #51 488 GTE, which was a little under a tenth up on the best of the all-new Porsche 911 RSR-19s driven by Gianmaria Bruni.

Michael Christensen was third-fastest in the second of the Porsches, while the two Aston Martin Vantage GTEs could manage no better than fifth and sixth.

GTE Am was led by the #83 AF Corse Ferrari of WEC newcomer Nicklas Nielsen, whose lap of 1m54.662s was enough to put that car third overall in GTE and 1.5s up on the next-best Am car, Project 1's #56 Porsche 911 RSR.

The sister #57 Porsche stopped out on circuit in the closing stages and had to be wheeled off the track.

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Session results:

Cla	#	Drivers	Car	Time	Gap
1	8	Sébastien Buemi Kazuki Nakajima Brendon Hartley	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	1'37.014
2	3	Nathanael Berthon Pipo Derani Loic Duval	Rebellion R13	1'37.412	0.398
3	1	Bruno Senna Gustavo Menezes Norman Nato	Rebellion R13	1'37.950	0.936
4	7	Mike Conway Kamui Kobayashi Jose Maria Lopez	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	1'37.981	0.967
5	5	Charles Robertson Ben Hanley Egor Orudzhev	Ginetta G60-LT-P1	1'38.435	1.421
6	6	Michael Simpson Oliver Jarvis Guy Smith	Ginetta G60-LT-P1	1'38.761	1.747
7	22	Philip Hanson Filipe Albuquerque Paul di Resta	Oreca 07	1'41.271	4.257
8	29	Frits van Eerd Giedo van der Garde Job Van Uitert	Oreca 07	1'41.902	4.888
9	37	Ho-Pin Tung Gabriel Aubry Will Stevens	Oreca 07	1'42.079	5.065
10	42	Nicolas Lapierre Antonin Borga Alexandre Coigny	Oreca 07	1'42.348	5.334
11	33	Mark Patterson Kenta Yamashita Anders Fjordbach	Oreca 07	1'42.712	5.698
12	38	Roberto Gonzalez Antonio Felix da Costa Anthony Davidson	Oreca 07	1'42.983	5.969
13	36	Thomas Laurent Andre Negrao Pierre Ragues	Alpine A470	1'44.053	7.039
14	47	Roberto Lacorte Andrea Belicchi Giorgio Sernagiotto	Dallara P217	1'44.319	7.305
15	51	James Calado Alessandro Pier Guidi	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	1'54.467	17.453
16	91	Gianmaria Bruni Richard Lietz	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	1'54.560	17.546
17	83	François Perrodo Emmanuel Collard Nicklas Nielsen	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	1'54.662	17.648
18	92	Michael Christensen Kevin Estre	Porsche 911 RSR - 19	1'54.955	17.941
19	71	Davide Rigon Miguel Molina	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	1'55.077	18.063
20	95	Marco Sorensen Nicki Thiim	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	1'55.246	18.232
21	97	Alex Lynn Maxime Martin	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	1'55.716	18.702
22	56	Egidio Perfetti David Kolkmann Matteo Cairoli	Porsche 911 RSR	1'56.135	19.121
23	54	Thomas Flohr Francesco Castellacci Giancarlo Fisichella	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	1'56.187	19.173
24	88	Thomas Preining Gianluca Giraudi Ricardo Sanchez	Porsche 911 RSR	1'56.521	19.507
25	90	Salih Yoluc Charles Eastwood Jonathan Adam	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	1'56.599	19.585
26	86	Michael Wainwright Andrew Watson Benjamin Barker	Porsche 911 RSR	1'56.652	19.638
27	98	Paul Dalla Lana Darren Turner Ross Gunn	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	1'56.710	19.696
28	62	Bonamy Grimes Johnny Mowlem Charles Hollings	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	1'56.759	19.745
29	77	Christian Ried Matt Campbell Riccardo Pera	Porsche 911 RSR	1'56.763	19.749
30	70	Motoaki Ishikawa Olivier Beretta Kei Cozzolino	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	1'56.769	19.755
31	57	Ben Keating Felipe Fraga Jeroen Bleekemolen	Porsche 911 RSR	1'57.312	20.298
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