Audi ultra on top in Silverstone World Endurance practice two
Audi once again set the pace in the second free practice session for this weekend's World Endurance Championship round, the Silverstone 6 Hours
Unlike in the earlier session, it was the R18 ultra of Tom Kristensen and Allan McNish that was fastest with a lap in 1m45.645s, putting it 0.214 seconds clear of the e-tron Quattro of Marcel Fassler/Andre Lotterer/Benoit Treluyer.
The #2 car's table-topping time came despite a collision between McNish and the Larbre Corvette of GTE Am driver Pascal Gibon at Brooklands.
Toyota's lone TS030 Hybrid was only fourth quickest, the Alex Wurz/Nicolas Lapierre/Kazuki Nakajima car spending the final 20 minutes in the pits with an electrical problem related to the hybrid system.
That allowed the Strakka HPD of Danny Watts/Jonny Kane/Nick Leventis to take third and best of the privateer LMP1 entrants. In a closely-fought session though, all the remaining privateer LMP1 cars were within a second of the Strakka machine.
Jota, with new signing Nicolas Minassian partnering Sam Hancock and Simon Dolan, set the pace in LMP2, its Zytek-Nissan 0.4s clear of the OAK Morgan-Nissan of Bertrand Baguette/Dominik Kraihaimer/David Heinemeier Hansson.
As was the case in the morning, the GTE Pro pace was set by Giancarlo Fisichella/Gianmaria Bruni in their AF Corse Ferrari 458, while the team also had its name on top of the GTE Am pile thanks to Matt Griffin/Piergiuseppe Perrazini/Marco Cioci.
The GTE Am Aston Martin Racing Vantage V8 of Roald Goethe/Stuart Hall had a quick spin at Becketts early on while Larbre's day got even busier when its second Corvette pulled off at Becketts with its windscreen missing.
Pos Cl Drivers Team/Car Time 1. P1 Kristensen/McNish Audi ultra 1m45.645s 2. P1 Fassler/Lotterer/Treluyer Audi e-tron 1m45.859s 3. P1 Leventis/Watts/Kane Strakka HPD 1m46.994s 4. P1 Wurz/Lapierre/Nakajima Toyota 1m47.084s 5. P1 Prost/Jani Rebellion Lola-Toyota 1m47.283s 6. P1 Belicchi/Primat Rebellion Lola-Toyota 1m47.441s 7. P1 Brabham/Chandhok/Dumbreck JRM HPD 1m47.715s 8. P2 Dolan/Hancock/Minassian Jota Zytek-Nissan 1m50.759s 9. P2 Heinemeier Hansson/Baguette/Kraihamer OAK Morgan-Nissan 1m51.201s 10. P2 Perez Companc/Ayari/Kaffer Pecom ORECA-Nissan 1m51.291s 11. P2 Mailleux/Lombard/Tresson Signatech ORECA-Nissan 1m51.306s 12. P2 Firth/Hughes/Hartley Murphy ORECA-Nissan 1m51.418s 13. P2 Nicolet/Lahaye/Pla OAK Morgan-Nissan 1m51.573s 14. P2 Martin/Charouz/Graves ADR-Delta ORECA-Nissan 1m51.697s 15. P2 Ordonez/Brundle/Brundle Greaves Zytek-Nissan 1m51.944s 16. P2 Potolicchio/Dalziel/Sarrazin Starworks HPD 1m52.334s 17. P2 Zugel/Gonzalez/Julian Greaves Zytek-Nissan 1m52.463s 18. P2 Panciatici/Ragues/Rusinov Signatech ORECA-Nissan 1m53.013s 19. P2 Sims/Jousse/Jousse Status Lola-Judd 1m53.198s 20. P2 Holzer/Schultis/Albers Lola-Lotus 1m54.161s 21. P2 Giroix/Ihara/Deletraz Gulf Lola-Nissan 1m58.200s 22. GTE P Fisichella/Bruni AF Ferrari 2m02.121s 23. GTE P Lieb/Lietz Felbermayr Porsche 2m02.188s 24. GTE P Walker/Cocker JMW Ferrari 2m02.472s 25. GTE P Fernandez/Mucke/Turner Aston Martin 2m02.499s 26. GTE A Perazzini/Cioci/Griffin AF Ferrari 2m02.918s 27. GTE P Bertolini/Beretta AF Ferrari 2m03.475s 28. GTE A Adam/Howard/White Aston Martin 2m03.990s 29. GTE A Ried/Roda/Ruberti Felbermayr Porsche 2m04.064s 30. P2 Liuzzi/Rossiter/Weeda Lola-Lotus 2m04.243s 31. GTE A Goethe/Hall Aston Martin 2m04.569s 32. GTE A Bornhauser/Canal/Rees Larbre Corvette 2m05.513s 33. GTE A Belloc/Bourret/Gibon Larbre Corvette 2m05.545s 34. GTE A Krohn/Jonsson/Rugolo Krohn Ferrari 2m06.163s 35. GTE A Camathias/Palttala/Daniels JWA Porsche 2m06.835s
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