Under a return sun in Belgium, the Ferrari 499p were the first to highlight this Thursday morning for the EL1 of the 6 hours of Spa-Francorchamps, third round of WEC 2025.
With Antonio Fuoco on board, the No. 50 – Ferrari AF Corse dictated the tempo in 2’02 “835, faster than in EL1 twelve months ago. The effect of the resurfacing carried out in the Ardennes since the last coming of WEC in 2024.
The official LMH precedes the “private” car -sister “private” n ° 83 – AF Corse de Yifei Ye, Robert Kubica and Phil Hanson, pointed out at 0 “222. Three other hypercars finish in the same second, with three French cars led by the Alpine A424 n ° 36 of Mick Schumacher – Frédéric Makowiecki – 9×8 n ° 93 by Jean -Eric Vergne – Mikkel Jensen – Paul di Resta and n ° 94 by Stoffel Vandoorne – Loïc Duval – Malthe Jakobsen.
The first BMW M Hybrid V8 N ° 15 – BMW M Team WRT of Kevin Magnussen and Raffaele Marciello follows at 1 “1 in front of the best Cadillac v -series.r n ° 12 – Cadillac Team Jota of Alex Lynn – Norman Nato – Will Stevens.
You have to go down 9th to find trace of the first Toyota Gr010 Hybrid, with the n ° 8 of Sébastien Buemi, Ryo Hirakawa and Brendon Hartley, which precedes the first Porsche 963 n ° 6 – Porsche Penske by Kévin Estre, Laurens Vanthoor and Pascal Wehrlein. 14th place for the first Aston Martin Valkyrie n ° 009 – Aston Martin Thor by Alex Riberas and Marco Sørensen.
Akkodis-Asp, which comes out of a convincing weekend in Italy, was illustrated in LMGT3, with the best time for the Lexus RC F LMGT3 n ° 78 by Arnold Robin, Yuichi Nakayama and Finn Gehrsitz in 2’18 “432.
Simon Mann, Alessio Rovera and François Hériau hoist second at 96 thousandths with the Ferrari 296 LMGT3 n ° 21 – Vista AF Corse, and are inserted between the two Lexus, since the n ° 87 of José Maria Lopez, Clemens Schmid and Petru Razvan Umbrarescu takes 3rd place at 0 “187.
The two neutralizations of the session were set up first after 50 ‘with a full race Yellow following the small outing of Paul-Loup Chatin (Alpine n ° 35) at the level of the Combes. Alpine changed the front block of the A424 before relaunching the LMDH on track.
It was then Sébastien Bourdais (Cadillac v -series.r n ° 38 – Cadillac Team Jota) who caused a second full run Yellow at 20 ‘from the checkerboard.
Free trials 2 of the 6 hours of SPA will start at 4:30 p.m.
The classification is here
