WEC Imola: Ferrari remains on top in FP2 as Fuoco beats Porsche


Fuoco carried on the place fellow works Ferrari driver Yifei Ye left off in first apply aboard the #83 buyer AF Corse-run instance, setting a lap of 1m30.957s with over an hour remaining within the session that might not be surpassed.

The trouble put him 0.342 seconds away from the championship-leading #6 Penske Porsche Motorsport 963 LMDh wherein Kevin Estre had beforehand clocked the benchmark time.

A late flyer from Robert Shwartzman within the #83 Ferrari he shared with Ye and Robert Kubica vaulted him into third spot, and he ended up 0.374s adrift of Fuoco following an extra enchancment that didn’t enhance his place.

Brendon Hartley within the #8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID LMH was the one different driver to lap inside a second of the outright tempo, putting fourth with a finest time 0.772s shy. Staff-mate Mike Conway was an extra eight locations and 0.984s behind within the #8 Toyota.

Callum Ilott was fifth-quickest in the most effective of the privateer Jota Porsche 963s, heading the main effort from Peugeot’s heavily-revised 9X8 LMH.

Stoffel Vandoorne was 1.543s down on Fuoco in sixth aboard the #94 Peugeot, simply 0.004s forward of Mick Schumacher within the #36 Alpine A424 LMDh and the #93 Peugeot of Jean-Eric Vergne.

James Calado put the second of the manufacturing unit Ferraris into ninth within the ultimate 5 minutes of the session, however Rene Rast left it even later to finish the highest 10 because the chequered flag was waved within the #20 BMW M Hybrid V8 LMDh.

Mirko Bortolotti set the quickest time within the sole Lamborghini SC63 LMDh that was 1.906s off the tempo in fifteenth, forward of the Chip Ganassi Racing-run Cadillac V-Sequence.R LMDh wherein Alex Lynn managed a 1m32.879s.

#81 TF Sport Corvette Z06 LMGT3.R: Tom Van Rompuy, Rui Andrade, Charlie Eastwood

Photograph by: Emanuele Clivati | AG Photograph

A final-gasp effort from Alessio Rovera’s Ferrari thwarted one other TF Sport Corvette 1-2 within the LMGT3 class.

Charlie Eastwood set the tempo within the #81 Corvette Z06 GT3.R courtesy of a 1m41.896s set with 29 minutes remaining, to surpass team-mate Daniel Juncadella’s earlier effort by 0.266s.

However Rovera’s flyer because the session got here to its finish, aboard the #55 AF Corse-run Ferrari 296, put him into second, 0.187s down on Eastwood.

Coronary heart of Racing’s Alex Riberas went fourth-quickest in the most effective of the Aston Martin Vantages, a little bit over half a second behind, forward of Ferrari manufacturing unit driver Davide Rigon’s #54 296.

Cla   Nº   Driver   Automobile   Time   Hole   Laps 
50 Antonio Fuoco
Miguel Molina
Nicklas Nielsen
Ferrari 1’30.957   51
6 Kévin Estre
André Lotterer
Laurens Vanthoor
Porsche 1’31.299 0.342 46
83 Robert Kubica
R.Shwartzman
Yifei Ye
Ferrari 1’31.331 0.374 52
8 Sébastien Buemi
Brendon Hartley
Ryo Hirakawa
Toyota 1’31.729 0.772 49
12 Will Stevens
Callum Ilott
Norman Nato
Porsche 1’32.300 1.343 47
94 Paul Di Resta
Loïc Duval
S.Vandoorne
Peugeot 1’32.496 1.539 44
36 Nicolas Lapierre
Mick Schumacher
M.Vaxivière
Alpine 1’32.500 1.543 51
93 Mikkel Jensen
Nico Müller
Jean-Éric Vergne
Peugeot 1’32.568 1.611 43
51 A.P.Guidi
James Calado
A.Giovinazzi
Ferrari 1’32.627 1.670 49
10  20 S.van der Linde
Robin Frijns
René Rast
BMW 1’32.655 1.698 43
11  15 Dries Vanthoor
R.Marciello
Marco Wittmann
BMW 1’32.684 1.727 51
12  7 Mike Conway
Kamui Kobayashi
Nyck de Vries
Toyota 1’32.713 1.756 48
13  99 Harry Tincknell
Neel Jani
Julien Andlauer
Porsche 1’32.792 1.835 37
14  35 Paul-Loup Chatin
Jules Gounon
Charles Milesi
Alpine 1’32.827 1.870 52
15  63 Mirko Bortolotti
Edoardo Mortara
Daniil Kvyat
Lamborghini 1’32.863 1.906 34
16  2 Earl Bamber
Alex Lynn
Cadillac 1’32.879 1.922 38
17  38 Jenson Button
Phil Hanson
Oliver Rasmussen
Porsche 1’32.974 2.017 34
18  5 Matt Campbell
M.Christensen
F.Makowiecki
Porsche 1’33.011 2.054 43
19  11 A.Serravalle
Carl Bennett
Jean-Karl Vernay
Isotta Fraschini 1’34.076 3.119 46
20  81 Tom Van Rompuy
Rui Andrade
Charlie Eastwood
Chevrolet 1’41.986 11.029 37
21  55 François Heriau
Simon Mann
Alessio Rovera
Ferrari 1’42.173 11.216 36
22  82 Hiroshi Koizumi
Sébastien Baud
D.Juncadella
Chevrolet 1’42.252 11.295 36
23  27 Ian James
D.Mancinelli
Alex Riberas
Aston Martin 1’42.530 11.573 39
24  54 Thomas Flohr
F.Castellacci
Davide Rigon
Ferrari 1’42.672 11.715 39
25  777 Clément Mateu
Erwan Bastard
Marco Sørensen
Aston Martin 1’42.692 11.735 42
26  60 C.Schiavoni
Matteo Cressoni
Franck Perera
Lamborghini 1’42.720 11.763 42
27  31 Darren Leung
Sean Gelael
Augusto Farfus
BMW 1’42.856 11.899 46
28  85 Sarah Bovy
Doriane Pin
Michelle Gatting
Lamborghini 1’42.883 11.926 33
29  92 Alex Malykhin
Joel Sturm
Klaus Bachler
Porsche 1’42.885 11.928 42
30  87 Takeshi Kimura
Esteban Masson
José María López
Lexus 1’42.934 11.977 35
31  95 Josh Caygill
Nico Pino
Marino Sato
McLaren 1’43.065 12.108 45
32  46 Ahmad Al Harthy
Valentino Rossi
Maxime Martin
BMW 1’43.120 12.163 44
33  91 Yasser Shahin
Morris Schuring
Richard Lietz
Porsche 1’43.207 12.250 42
34  77 Ryan Hardwick
Z.Robichon
Ben Barker
Ford 1’43.384 12.427 37
35  88 Giorgio Roda
M.O.Pedersen
Dennis Olsen
Ford 1’43.676 12.719 37
36  78 Arnold Robin
T.Boguslavskiy
Ok.van der Linde
Lexus 1’43.959 13.002 44
37  59 James Cottingham
Nicolas Costa
Grégoire Saucy
McLaren 1’44.103 13.146 8

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