Silverstone WEC: Toyota extends gap to privateers in FP2

The #7 Toyota TS050 Hybrid, this time with Jose Maria Lopez at the wheel, beat the sister car by 1.3 seconds and ended up 1.6s clear of the fastest privateer. 

Lopez posted a 1m38.536s early in the 90-minute practice period, which compared with Kazuki Nakajima's session best of 1m38.893s.

The fastest of the LMP1 privateers was the #17 SMP Racing BR Engineering BR1. 

Egor Orudzhev recorded a 1m40.179s in the AER-powered car, which later stopped on-track with an electronics issue, to end up more than a second ahead of the next best privateer, the #3 Rebellion-Gibson R-13.

Thomas Laurent's 1m41.369s was four tenths down on the first session best from the car in the hands of Gustavo Menezes. 

The second of the SMP entries took fifth with Vitaly Petrov ahead of Ben Hanley in DragonSpeed's Gibson-engined BR1.

The #1 Rebellion, in which Bruno Senna suffered a fractured ankle after crashing in the opening session, did not run as it continued to undergo repairs. 

The ByKolles ENSO CLM-Nissan P1/01 also didn't take to the track after suffering an oil leak in first practice.

The Jota-run Jackie Chan DC Racing squad topped the LMP2 class times, as Gabriel Aubry ended up fastest in the team's #38 Oreca 07 with a 1m45.311s. 

The Signatech Alpine Oreca took second with a 1m45.751s from Nicolas Lapierre, which just edged out Matthieu Vaxiviere's 1m45.818s in the TDS entry. 

Ford returned to the top of the GTE Pro times in the closing minutes of the session courtesy of 1m56.898s from Harry Tincknell.

That vaulted him ahead of the two Aston Martin Vantage GTEs, which had headed the times in the middle of the session first with Marco Sorensen and then Alex Lynn.

Lynn ended up second in the 1m57.026s, while Stefan Mucke jumped to third with a 1m57.182s in the second Ford. 

Andy Priaulx and Olivier Pla led the times initially in the two Ganassi-run Ford GTs.

Ferrari led the chasing pack courtesy of a 1m58.190s from James Calado as the Italian manufacturer and Porsche filled out the next four positions in class.

Matteo Cairoli was again fastest in GTE Am in his Dempsey-Proton Porsche 911 RSR.

Second practice times:

Pos.	#	Drivers	Car	Class	Time	Gap
1	7	Kamui Kobayashi   Mike Conway   Jose Maria Lopez	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	LMP1	1'38.536
2	8	Fernando Alonso   Kazuki Nakajima   Sébastien Buemi	Toyota TS050 Hybrid	LMP1	1'39.893	1.357
3	17	Stéphane Sarrazin   Egor Orudzhev	BR Engineering BR1	LMP1	1'40.179	1.643
4	3	Mathias Beche   Thomas Laurent   Gustavo Menezes	Rebellion R13	LMP1	1'41.369	2.833
5	11	Jenson Button   Vitaly Petrov   Mikhail Aleshin	BR Engineering BR1	LMP1	1'41.587	3.051
6	10	Henrik Hedman   Renger van der Zande   Ben Hanley	BR Engineering BR1	LMP1	1'43.449	4.913
7	38	Ho-Pin Tung   Stéphane Richelmi   Gabriel Aubry	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'45.311	6.775
8	36	Nicolas Lapierre   Pierre Thiriet   Andre Negrao	Alpine A470	LMP2	1'45.751	7.215
9	28	Loic Duval   François Perrodo   Matthieu Vaxiviere	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'45.818	7.282
10	37	Nabil Jeffri   Weiron Tan   Jazeman Jaafar	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'46.074	7.538
11	31	Anthony Davidson   Pastor Maldonado   Roberto Gonzalez	Oreca 07	LMP2	1'47.069	8.533
12	29	Giedo van der Garde   Nyck de Vries   Frits van Eerd	Dallara P217	LMP2	1'47.601	9.065
13	50	Romano Ricci   Erwin Creed   Yoshiharu Mori	Ligier JSP 217	LMP2	1'49.486	10.950
14	67	Harry Tincknell   Andy Priaulx	Ford GT	LMGTE PRO	1'56.898	18.362
15	97	Maxime Martin   Alex Lynn	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE PRO	1'57.026	18.490
16	66	Stefan Mücke   Olivier Pla	Ford GT	LMGTE PRO	1'57.182	18.646
17	95	Marco Sorensen   Nicki Thiim	Aston Martin Vantage AMR	LMGTE PRO	1'57.281	18.745
18	51	James Calado   Alessandro Pier Guidi	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE PRO	1'58.190	19.654
19	92	Michael Christensen   Kevin Estre	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE PRO	1'58.288	19.752
20	71	Sam Bird   Davide Rigon	Ferrari 488 GTE EVO	LMGTE PRO	1'58.606	20.070
21	91	Gianmaria Bruni   Richard Lietz	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE PRO	1'58.869	20.333
22	82	Antonio Felix da Costa   Augusto Farfus	BMW M8 GTE	LMGTE PRO	1'58.893	20.357
23	81	Nick Catsburg   Martin Tomczyk	BMW M8 GTE	LMGTE PRO	1'58.950	20.414
24	88	Gianluca Roda   Matteo Cairoli   Giorgio Roda	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	1'59.105	20.569
25	98	Pedro Lamy   Paul Dalla Lana   Mathias Lauda	Aston Martin Vantage	LMGTE AM	1'59.378	20.842
26	77	Christian Ried   Matt Campbell   Julien Andlauer	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	1'59.449	20.913
27	86	Michael Wainwright   Benjamin Barker   Alex Davison	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	1'59.476	20.940
28	54	Giancarlo Fisichella   Francesco Castellacci   Thomas Flohr	Ferrari 488 GTE	LMGTE AM	1'59.716	21.180
29	56	Jörg Bergmeister   Patrick Lindsey   Egidio Perfetti	Porsche 911 RSR	LMGTE AM	1'59.760	21.224
30	90	Jonathan Adam   Salih Yoluc   Charles Eastwood	Aston Martin Vantage	LMGTE AM	1'59.953	21.417
31	70	Olivier Beretta   Eddie Cheever III   Motoaki Ishikawa	Ferrari 488 GTE	LMGTE AM	1'59.984	21.448
32	61	Matthew Griffin   Mok Weng Sun   Keita Sawa	Ferrari 488 GTE	LMGTE AM	2'00.213	21.677