Audi paces Silverstone WEC practice with Kiwis starting strong

Audi paces Silverstone WEC practice with Kiwis starting strong

Autosport3:33pm 11 April 2015

Audi blocked out the top two positions in second practice ahead of Sunday’s World Endurance Championship opener at Silverstone.

Benoit Treluyer led the way on a 1m41.526s in the #7 Audi R18 e-tron quattro, which put him just under three tenths up on the 1m41.824s set by Oliver Jarvis.

The two Porsche 919 Hybrids were next up, Timo Bernhard’s 1m42.183s putting him six tenths ahead of Romain Duams in the sister car.

The Toyota TS040 HYBRIDs again ended up fifth and sixth in the hands of Stephane Sarrazin and Kazuki Nakajima.

G-Drive Racing’s pair of Ligier-Nissan JSP2s led the way in LMP2 for the second session in a row.

Luis Felipe ‘Pipo’ Derani set a best lap of 1m48.676s to finish up six tenths ahead of Sam Bird.

The two factory Manthey Porsche 911 RSRs were fastest in GTE Pro, Richard Lietz’s 2m01.499s putting him a tenth and half up on Frederic Makowiecki.

Next best was Aston Martin driver Fernando Rees, who was a further tenth behind.

Aston Martin took the top spot in the GTE Am times with Pedro Lamy.

RESULTS

Pos	Class	Driver	Team	Car	Time	Gap
1	LMP1	M.Fassler, A.Lotterer, B.Treluyer	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi	1m41.526s	–
2	LMP1	L.di Grassi, L.Duval, O.Jarvis	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi	1m41.824s	0.298s
3	LMP1	T.Bernhard, M.Webber, B.Hartley	Porsche Team	Porsche	1m42.046s	0.520s
4	LMP1	R.Dumas, N.Jani, M.Lieb	Porsche Team	Porsche	1m42.641s	1.115s
5	LMP1	A.Wurz, S.Sarrazin, M.Conway	Toyota Racing	Toyota	1m42.833s	1.307s
6	LMP1	A.Davidson, S.Buemi, K.Nakajima	Toyota Racing	Toyota	1m43.569s	2.043s
7	LMP2	G.Yacaman, L.Derani, R.Gonzalez	G-Drive Racing	Ligier/Nissan	1m48.676s	7.150s
8	LMP2	R.Rusinov, J.Canal, S.Bird	G-Drive Racing	Ligier/Nissan	1m49.315s	7.789s
9	LMP2	M.Howson, R.Bradley, N.Tandy	KCMG	ORECA/Nissan	1m50.062s	8.536s
10	LMP2	N.Leventis, D.Watts, J.Kane	Strakka Racing	Dome/Nissan	1m51.255s	9.729s
11	LMP2	S.Sharp, R.Dalziel, D.Hansson	Extreme Speed Motorsports	HPD	1m51.906s	10.380s
12	LMP1	S.Trummer, V.Liuzzi, C.Klien	Team ByKolles	CLM/AER	1m52.213s	10.687s
13	LMP2	N.Panciatici, P-L.Chatin, V.Capillaire	Signatech Alpine	Alpine/Nissan	1m52.411s	10.885s
14	LMP2	E.Brown, J.Fogarty, D.Brabham	Extreme Speed Motorsports	HPD	1m52.497s	10.971s
15	LMP2	J.Nicolet, J-M.Merlin, E.Maris	Oak Racing	Ligier/Nissan	1m55.977s	14.451s
16	GTE Pro	R.Lietz, M.Christensen	Porsche Team Manthey	Porsche	2m01.499s	19.973s
17	GTE Pro	P.Pilet, F.Makowiecki	Porsche Team Manthey	Porsche	2m01.634s	20.108s
18	GTE Pro	A.MacDowall, F.Rees, R.Stanaway	Aston Martin Racing V8	Aston Martin	2m01.730s	20.204s
19	GTE Pro	D.Rigon, J.Calado	AF Corse	Ferrari	2m01.997s	20.471s
20	GTE Pro	D.Turner, S.Mucke	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin	2m02.161s	20.635s
21	GTE Pro	C.Nygaard, M.Sorensen, N.Thiim	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin	2m02.316s	20.790s
22	GTE Am	P.D.Lana, P.Lamy, M.Lauda	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin	2m02.434s	20.908s
23	GTE Am	V.Shaitar, A.Bertolini, A.Basov	SMP Racing	Ferrari	2m02.626s	21.100s
24	GTE Am	F.Castellacci, R.Goethe, S.Hall	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin	2m02.629s	21.103s
25	GTE Pro	G.Bruni, T.Vilander	AF Corse	Ferrari	2m02.637s	21.111s
26	GTE Am	F.Perrodo, E.Collard, R.Aguas	AF Corse	Ferrari	2m02.764s	21.238s
27	GTE Am	G.Roda, P.Ruberti, K.Poulsen	Larbre Competition	Chevrolet	2m02.899s	21.373s
28	GTE Am	C.Ried, K.Al Qubaisi, K.Bachler	Abu Dhabi-Proton Racing	Porsche	2m03.525s	21.999s
29	GTE Am	P.Dempsey, P.Long, M.Seefried	Dempsey-Proton Racing	Porsche