Work begins on the Monza circuit, where the 6 Hours valid as the fourth event of the 2022 FIA World Endurance Championship will be held this weekend.
In Free Practice 1 the absolute best time and in the Hypercar Class was obtained by the Glickenhaus LMH # 708, which with Dumas/ Pla / Derani finished in the lead in 1’37 “984 at the end of the 90 ‘which took place under a hot sun.
Behind the American car with the brand new blue livery are the French prototypes, namely Alpine and Peugeot, both more than half a second apart.
Team Signatech’s A480-Gibson # 36 in the hands of Negrão/ Lapierre / Vaxivière is in the place of honor, while the new 9X8 # 93 from Vergne /Of Resta/ Jensen is third, even if he had a problem at the ‘Ascari’ at the end of the tests when he got back on the tow truck.
The Lion’s car is followed by the Toyota GR010 Hybrid # 8’s Buemi/ Hartley / Hirakawa and # 7 of Reigning Conway Champions /Kobayashi/ López, from this race equipped with new differential.
Further back the other Peugeot, only 20th overall and with just 12 laps to his credit due to an accused problem that prevented him from Duval/ Menezes / Rossiter to go further on the track with their # 94.
# 93 Peugeot Totalenergies 9X8 by Paul Di Resta, Mikkel Jensen, Jean-Eric Vergne
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In Class LMP2 there is the paw of the PRO / AM leaders: Rovera/ Nielsen / Perrodo bring their Oreca 07-Gibson # 83 prepared by AF Corse to first place in 1’39 “973, beating the # 41 of RealTeam by WRT by a handful of tenths (Habsburg / Andrade /Born) and # 34 of the Inter Europol Competition (Gutiérrez/ Brundle / Smiechowski).
The guys from Prema (# 9 Kubica / Delétraz / Colombo) and United Autosports # 22 (Hanson /Albuquerque/ Owen), followed by # 1 of Richard Mille Racing (Chatin / Wadoux /Milesi) and Jota # 38 (Stevens/ Da Costa / Gonzalez).
The Oreca # 45 of Algarve Pro Racing is eighth in the group and second PRO / AM with Thomas /Allen/ Binder and precedes United Autosports # 23’s Lynn/ Jarvis / Pierson and Team WRT (# 31 Gelael /Frijns/ Rast).
In PRO / AM the third time is of ARC Bratislava (# 44 Konôpka /Beche/ Van Der Helm), with the Oreca # 35 from Ultimate (J.Lahaye /M.Lahaye/ Heriau).
Porsche 911 RSR of Team Porsche GT # 92 – 19 by Michael Christensen, Kevin Estre
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In the LMGTE PRO class he commands the Porsche 911 RSR-19 # 92 managed by Manthey for the couple Christensen /Extrewhich laps in 1’47 “273 putting behind him the Ferrari 488 # 52 driven by Fire/ Molina (AF Corse).
Third time trial for Milner /Tandy with the Corvette C8.R # 64 of Pratt & Miller, almost half a second behind the leaders, as well as the Porsche # 91 of Makowiecki /Bruni.
Reigning Champions Calado /Pier Guidi instead they carry the Ferrari # 51 therefore with a delay of 0 “6 from the record.
Concluding with the LMGTE AM, here too the reference is of a Porsche: the # 56 of Team Project 1 / Inception (Iribe / Millroy /Barnicoat) laps in 1’48 “389, three tenths better than the # 86 of GR Racing (Pera / Wainwright /Barker), with # 46 of Cairoli/ Pedersen / Leutwiler (Team Project 1) to complete the hat trick of 911.
The Spirit of Race / AF Corse Ferraris (# 71 Aubry/ Dezoteux / Ragues) and AF Corse (# 21 Mann /Vilander/ Ulrich), followed by # 54 by Cassidy / Flohr /Castellacci.
Aston Martins are far away, all three at the bottom of the rankings. The # 777 of D’Station Racing / TF Sport (Fujii / Hoshino /Beech) is the fastest of the Vantages, keeping behind Keating’s # 33 /Chaves/ Sorensen and the # 98 of NorthWest AMR (Dalla Lana /Thiim/ Pittard).
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