WEC Imola: Fuoco completes Ferrari’s practice sweep in red-flagged FP3


Having additionally set the quickest time in Friday’s second observe, Fuoco’s manufacturing unit Ferrari 499P Le Mans Hypercar carried on the place it left off on Saturday morning with a lap of 1m31.272s that was not surpassed, earlier than Paul di Resta beached the #94 Peugeot 9X8 LMH within the gravel on the Rivazza left-hander within the closing minutes of the hour-long session.

Fuoco’s time proved 0.034s faster than Vanthoor’s WRT-run #15 BMW M Hybrid V8 LMDh, with Rene Rast following his BMW stablemate in third, three tenths additional again aboard the #20 instance.

Robert Shwartzman within the buyer AF Corse-run #83 Ferrari that topped the occasions in opening observe in Yifei Ye’s fingers took fourth, underlining the Prancing Horse’s robust begin to its residence WEC spherical.

The yellow 499P outpaced the perfect of the Porsche 963 LMDhs pushed by Matt Campbell, who was 0.433s behind Fuoco’s benchmark time aboard the #5 Penske Porsche Motorsport machine.

A scrappy session for Alessandro Pier Guidi aboard the manufacturing unit #51 Ferrari yielded sixth place, the Italian surviving a spin on the Villeneuve chicane and a visit into the gravel at Rivazza to submit a greatest time of 1m31.715s.

That put him forward of the main Toyota GR010 HYBRID LMH of Brendon Hartley, Callum Ilott’s Jota Porsche 963 and Kamui Kobayashi within the second Toyota.

#15 BMW M Crew WRT BMW M Hybrid V8: Dries Vanthoor, Raffaele Marciello, Marco Wittmann

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Kevin Estre’s #6 PPM Porsche accomplished the highest 10, main the 2 heavily-revised Peugeots which are competing in 2024-spec for the primary time this weekend and the 2 Alpine A424 LMDhs.

Aston Martin broke the Corvette stranglehold on the GT3 occasions as Marco Sorensen headed the best way in his D’Station Racing Vantage.

The Dane’s 1m42.474s was sufficient to place him 0.518s forward of Alex Riberas in the same Coronary heart of Racing machine.

Augusto Farfus moved as much as third in the perfect of the WRT-run BMW M4s shortly earlier than the pink flag to fall 0.036s shy of snatching second spot, whereas Alexander Malykhin beat Marino Sato’s United Autosports McLaren 720S Evo into fourth aboard his Manthey PureRxcing Porsche 911 GT3-R.

WEC Imola FP3 Outcomes

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