Porsche Penske Motorsport took the lead in free practice for the 6 Hours of Spa this Thursday afternoon.
With Kévin Estre, associated with Laurens Vanthoor and André Lotterer, and author of a lap in 2’04″162, the Porsche 963 n°6 rose to the top of the hierarchy, 121 thousandths ahead of the Ferrari 499P n°50 – Ferrari AF Corse by Antonio Fuoco – Nicklas Nielsen – Miguel Molina, dominant in EL1 Estre increased the tempo compared to the best time of the first session.
Down this morning, the No. 2 Cadillac V-Series.R – Cadillac Racing of Earl Bamber and Alex Lynn took third place at 0.179.
The gaps are greater behind the leading trio, since the #7 Toyota GR010 Hybrid of Kamui Kobayashi – Mike Conway – Nyck de Vries is seven tenths ahead of the #12 Porsche – Hertz Team JOTA of Will Stevens and Callum Ilott.
Nico Müller and Mikkel Jensen place the best Peugeot 9X8 n°93 in ninth position at 1″8. Third this morning in FP1, the Lamborghini SC63 n°63 – Lamborghini Iron Lynx of Andrea Caldarelli – Mirko Bortolotti – Daniil Kvyat takes 11th place. The first BMW M Hybrid V8 n°20 – BMW M Team WRT of Sheldon van der Linde, Robin Frijns and René Rast ranked 17th ahead of the best Alpine A424 n°35 of Charles Milesi – Jules Gounon – Paul-Loup Chatin.
In LMGT3, newcomer Clemens Schmid, who came to replace Timur Boguslavskiy at the last minute at Akkodis-ASP, took the #78 Lexus RC F GT3 to the top of the category in 2’21″257. The #85 Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 – Iron Dames of Michelle Gatting – Rahel Frey – Sarah Bovy follows less than two tenths and precedes the #46 BMW M4 GT3 – Team WRT of Maxime Martin – Valentino Rossi – Ahmad Al Harthy.
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The top 5 is completed by the Corvette Z06 T3.R n°82 – TF Sport of Dani Juncadella – Sébastien Baud – Hiroshi Koizumi, best time in EL1 this morning, and the second Lexus n°87 – Akkodis-ASP of José Maria Lopez – Takeshi Kimura – Esteban Masson.
Among the neutralizations under Full Course Yellow, we note the exit of the track of Darren Leung (BMW n°31 – Team WRT) at the Source.
Free practice 3, which can be followed live video on Endurance-Info, will begin tomorrow at 11 a.m.
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