Silverstone WEC: Alonso tops FP3, SMP splits Toyotas
Fernando Alonso set the quickest time in third practice for the FIA World Endurance Championship round at Silverstone, while the two SMP Racing entries split the Toyota hybrids.
#8 Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota TS050: Sebastien Buemi, Kazuki Nakajima, Fernando Alonso
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Alonso enjoyed an almost-traffic free lap at the start of the hour-long session to record a best time of 1m37.677s in the #8 Toyota TS050 Hybrid, almost a second up on Jose Maria Lopez's Friday benchmark.
It was enough to top the session by 1.649s, as both SMP BR Engineering BR1s beat the #7 Toyota, whose best time of 1m40.033s was again set by Lopez.
Jenson Button was first to split the Toyotas in the #11 car with a 1m39.762s, but this was eclipsed by Stephane Sarrazin's effort of 1m39.326s in the sister #17 machine.
Rebellion Racing could only manage fifth and sixth with its pair of Gibson-powered R-13s, with Mathias Beche's best time in the #3 car in the early stages 3.8s off the pace.
Andre Lotterer was a further seven tenths back in the #1 machine that sat out Friday's second session in the wake of Bruno Senna's ankle-breaking crash.
Rounding out the LMP1 order were the #10 DragonSpeed BR1-Gibson and the #4 ByKolles ENSO CLM P1/01, which also had to miss second practice after suffering an oil leak in FP1.
Debris on track at Becketts meant the session was red-flagged with three minutes left on the clock and was not resumed.
Matthieu Vaxiviere kept the #28 TDS Racing Oreca at the head of the times in LMP2 with a best effort of 1m44.247s.
Jackie Chan DC Racing's pair of Orecas were next up, Nabil Jeffri in the #37 leading Stephane Richelmi in the #38, followed by Pastor Maldonado in the #31 DragonSpeed Oreca.
Ford locked out the top two positions in GTE Pro, with Harry Tincknell's 1m55.197s effort in the #67 car edging out Stefan Mucke in the #66 GT by six tenths.
Aston Martin continued its improved form with the third-best time, 1.2s off the pace with Nicki Thiim at the wheel of the #95 Vantage GTE, followed by the best of the Ferrari 488 GTEs in fourth and the lead Porsche 911 RSR in fifth.
The best of the BMW M8 GTEs enjoyed a brief spell at the head of the times midway through the session before dropping back to seventh.
GTE Am was led by Aston Martin courtesy of an early 1m58.460s lap by ex-F1 driver Pedro Lamy.
Session results:
Pos. | # | Drivers | Car | Class | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 8 | Fernando Alonso Kazuki Nakajima Sébastien Buemi |
Toyota TS050 Hybrid | LMP1 | 1'37.677 | |
2 | 17 | Stéphane Sarrazin Egor Orudzhev |
BR Engineering BR1 | LMP1 | 1'39.326 | 1.649 |
3 | 11 | Jenson Button Vitaly Petrov Mikhail Aleshin |
BR Engineering BR1 | LMP1 | 1'39.762 | 2.085 |
4 | 7 | Kamui Kobayashi Mike Conway Jose Maria Lopez |
Toyota TS050 Hybrid | LMP1 | 1'40.033 | 2.356 |
5 | 3 | Mathias Beche Thomas Laurent Gustavo Menezes |
Rebellion R13 | LMP1 | 1'41.557 | 3.880 |
6 | 1 | Andre Lotterer Neel Jani |
Rebellion R13 | LMP1 | 1'42.208 | 4.531 |
7 | 10 | Henrik Hedman Renger van der Zande Ben Hanley |
BR Engineering BR1 | LMP1 | 1'43.244 | 5.567 |
8 | 4 | Oliver Webb Rene Binder |
ENSO CLM P1/01 | LMP1 | 1'43.606 | 5.929 |
9 | 28 | Loic Duval François Perrodo Matthieu Vaxiviere |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'44.247 | 6.570 |
10 | 37 | Nabil Jeffri Weiron Tan Jazeman Jaafar |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'44.889 | 7.212 |
11 | 38 | Ho-Pin Tung Stéphane Richelmi Gabriel Aubry |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'45.569 | 7.892 |
12 | 31 | Anthony Davidson Pastor Maldonado Roberto Gonzalez |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'45.815 | 8.138 |
13 | 29 | Giedo van der Garde Nyck de Vries Frits van Eerd |
Dallara P217 | LMP2 | 1'46.576 | 8.899 |
14 | 36 | Nicolas Lapierre Pierre Thiriet Andre Negrao |
Alpine A470 | LMP2 | 1'46.763 | 9.086 |
15 | 50 | Romano Ricci Erwin Creed Yoshiharu Mori |
Ligier JSP 217 | LMP2 | 1'48.735 | 11.058 |
16 | 67 | Harry Tincknell Andy Priaulx |
Ford GT | LMGTE PRO | 1'55.197 | 17.520 |
17 | 66 | Stefan Mücke Olivier Pla |
Ford GT | LMGTE PRO | 1'55.798 | 18.121 |
18 | 95 | Marco Sorensen Nicki Thiim |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE PRO | 1'56.408 | 18.731 |
19 | 71 | Sam Bird Davide Rigon |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE PRO | 1'56.629 | 18.952 |
20 | 91 | Gianmaria Bruni Richard Lietz |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE PRO | 1'56.670 | 18.993 |
21 | 51 | James Calado Alessandro Pier Guidi |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE PRO | 1'56.761 | 19.084 |
22 | 82 | Antonio Felix da Costa Augusto Farfus |
BMW M8 GTE | LMGTE PRO | 1'56.862 | 19.185 |
23 | 97 | Maxime Martin Alex Lynn |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE PRO | 1'56.879 | 19.202 |
24 | 81 | Nick Catsburg Martin Tomczyk |
BMW M8 GTE | LMGTE PRO | 1'56.916 | 19.239 |
25 | 92 | Michael Christensen Kevin Estre |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE PRO | 1'58.149 | 20.472 |
26 | 98 | Pedro Lamy Paul Dalla Lana Mathias Lauda |
Aston Martin Vantage | LMGTE AM | 1'58.460 | 20.783 |
27 | 70 | Olivier Beretta Eddie Cheever III Motoaki Ishikawa |
Ferrari 488 GTE | LMGTE AM | 1'58.505 | 20.828 |
28 | 77 | Christian Ried Matt Campbell Julien Andlauer |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 1'58.948 | 21.271 |
29 | 54 | Giancarlo Fisichella Francesco Castellacci Thomas Flohr |
Ferrari 488 GTE | LMGTE AM | 1'59.104 | 21.427 |
30 | 88 | Gianluca Roda Matteo Cairoli Giorgio Roda |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 1'59.112 | 21.435 |
31 | 90 | Jonathan Adam Salih Yoluc Charles Eastwood |
Aston Martin Vantage | LMGTE AM | 1'59.365 | 21.688 |
32 | 86 | Michael Wainwright Benjamin Barker Alex Davison |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 1'59.621 | 21.944 |
33 | 56 | Jörg Bergmeister Patrick Lindsey Egidio Perfetti |
Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 1'59.788 | 22.111 |
34 | 61 | Matthew Griffin Mok Weng Sun Keita Sawa |
Ferrari 488 GTE | LMGTE AM | 2'00.424 | 22.747 |
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