Toyota, Jota and Porsche are still the fastest at the end of Free Practice 2 of the FIA World Endurance Championship valid for the 6h of Bahrain.
In Sakhir the times dropped significantly in the morning of the day that foresees the Qualifying and among the Hypercars it is still the GR010 Hybrids that set the pace.
This time the record is off the # 7 of Kobayashi/ Conway / López in 1’49 “063, but the # 8 of their colleagues Buemi / Nakajima /Hartley – which yesterday had obtained the record in Free Practice 1 – is still very close, at only 0 “030.
The Alpine LMP1 A480-Gibson # 36 of Team Signatech, driven by the Negrão trio /Vaxivière/ Lapierre.
# 7 Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota GR010 – Hybrid: Mike Conway, Kamui Kobayashi, Jose Maria Lopez
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The LMP2 Class formed by only Oreca 07-Gibson is once again commanded by the Jota, but this time with the # 28 of Gelael / Vandoorne /Blomqvist, which in 1’50 “199 are behind the # 22 of United Autosports (Albuquerque/ Hanson / Scherer) and the # 31 of Team WRT (Habsburg /Milesi/ Frijns), both quite distant from the leader.
Fourth of the lot, but first in the Pro / Am category is ARC Bratislava’s # 44 with Konôpka /Webb/ Maini, authors of a nice improvement compared to yesterday and ahead of direct rivals Kubica/ Fjordbach / Andersen with the Oreca # 20 of High Class Racing, second in Pro / Am.
In the overall Top10 we also find # 34 of the Inter Europol Competition (Smiechowski /Van Der Zande/ Brundle) and DragonSpeed USA # 21 (Montoya /Hanley/ Hedman), which is third in Pro / Am.
Afterwards, the battalion of the Class # 38 of the Jota (Gonzalez /From the coast/ Davidson) – rather behind if we think that yesterday they had set the record – then the Richard Mille Racing Team with the # 1 of Flörsch /Visser/ Aubry, # 70 of RealTeam Racing / TDS (Garcia / Duval /Born), which also stopped on the track due to a problem, and the # 29 of Racing Team Nederland (Van Eerd / Van Der Garde /Van Uitert), the latter two in third and fourth position Pro / Am.
In the LMGTE Pro Class the music does not change, with Porsches dominating heavily. This time he passes in front of Jani’s # 92 /Extre in 1’56 “411, which is better than a couple of tenths of the twin # 91 of Lietz /Bruni.
At 3 “there are the two AF Corse Ferrari 488s, with Pier Guidi’s # 51 /Calado and # 52’s Molina/ Serra who also find themselves behind the trio driving the LMGTE Am.
# 51 AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE Evo: Alessandro Pier Guidi, James Calado
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Here, the Porsche # 56’s again sets the benchmark time Cairoli/ Pera / Perfetti (Team Project 1) in 1’58 “015, while the Aston Martin Vantage # 33 of TF Sport makes progress, which with Keating / Pereira /Fraga rises to second place, albeit at 0 “9 from the top.
Well the Porsche # 77 of Dempsey-Proton Racing in the hands of Ried / Evans /Campbell, third and followed by Ferrari # 47 of Cetilar Racing / AF Corse (Lacorte /Sernagiotto/ Fire) and
from the excellent Aston Martin # 777 of D’station Racing (Hoshino /Fujii/ Watson), to complete the Top5 with the # 98 of NorthWest AMR driven by Farfus/ From Lana / Gomes.
Seventh time for Perrodo’s Ferrari # 83 /Nielsen/ Rovera (AF Corse), in front of the Porsche # 77 of Al Qubaisi / De Leener /Andlauer (Dempsey-Proton Racing), to the 488 # 54 of their teammates Flohr / Castellacci /Fisichella and Porsche # 86’s Gamble/ Barker / Wainwright (GR Racing).
The three remaining Ferraris close the ranking, namely # 60 of the Iron Lynx driven by Piccini / Schiavoni /Cressoni, the # 57 of Kessel Racing / CarGuy Racing (Kimura / Jensen /Andrews) and # 85 of the Iron Dames Frey / Law /Bovy. The Belgian girl was the protagonist of a touch with Buemi’s Toyota in the final half hour, causing the red flag momentarily.
In Bold the names of the drivers who set the best time
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