Porsche also concluded Free Practice 3 of the 6h of Spa-Francorchamps with the best time, the third event of the 2024 season of the FIA World Endurance Championship which saw its protagonists take to the sunny Ardennes track for the last 60′ of activities, useful to prepare for the afternoon Qualifying.
The sun is warming things up in Belgium and the session was interrupted by some Full Course Yellows and yellow flags to clear debris and off-track exits by Hiroki Koizumi (Corvette), Oliver Rasmussen (Porsche-Jota) and Earl Bamber (Cadillac) , while the majority of the Hypercar Class is betting everything on the Medium tires brought by Michelin, having found the Softs uncompetitive with such high temperatures.
Meanwhile, Kévin Estre confirms his competitiveness after standing out in FP2, this time putting his 963 #6 in front in 2’04″125 with a couple of tenths of a margin over the Ferrari #51 and the Peugeot #93, an improvement compared to yesterday.
The Ferrari #50 finished in fourth place in the wake of the first three, but lost 5′ due to a Stop&Go taken by Antonio Fuoco when he ran wide out of the pits and crossed the white line.
BMW also shows off by conquering the Top5 with the #15, keeping behind the two Toyotas, the Alpine #35 and its twin M Hybrid V8 #20, which is however among those that are more than a second behind the leaders .
Also in the Top10 is Jota’s Porsche #12, the fastest in the Hypercar Class of private teams, where the AF Corse Ferrari #83 spent a lot of time in the pits due to a small front problem that the Piacenza team’s technicians are fixing. trying to solve.
The Lamborghini is 14th, 2.2 seconds from the top, the Cadillac 16th and the Isotta Fraschini bringing up the rear without Jean-Karl Vernay being able to lower the time set at the start by Antonio Serravalle.
#92 Manthey Purerxcing Porsche 911 GT3 R LMGT3: Aliaksandr Malykhin, Joel Sturm, Klaus Bachler, #20 BMW M Team WRT BMW M Hybrid V8: Sheldon Van Der Linde, Robin Frijns, Rene Rast
Photo by: Emanuele Clivati | AG Photo
In the LMGT3 Class, the Porsche #92 of Manthey Pure Rxcing took the lead in 2’20″947 at the hands of Alex Malykhin, beating the Lamborghini #85 of the Iron Dames by a couple of tenths and the Corvette #82 by over half a second. of TF Sport and the Ferrari #54 of AF Corse.
Top5 also for the Porsche #91 of Manthey EMA, sixth for the Lamborghini #60 of Iron Lynx with the Aston Martin #27 of D’Station Racing and the McLarens of United Autosports behind.
Finally, in a Top10 within 1″4 we also find the Ford Mustang #88 of Proton Competition, the BMWs of WRT and the Lexus do not shine, but yesterday they were in top positions.
Qualifying is scheduled for 2.45pm.
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