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Shanghai WEC: Toyota back on top in final practice
Toyota returned to the top of the timesheets in final practice for this weekend's Shanghai FIA World Endurance Championship round, beating the best of the privateer LMP1s by one second.
Jamie Klein
Edited: Nov 9, 2019, 2:59 AM
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After the Japanese manufacturer was outpaced in both Friday's sessions, Kamui Kobayashi set the quickest time of the weekend so far in the #7 Toyota TS050 Hybrid, a 1m47.184s, to outpace the best of the Team LNT Ginettas by 1.009s.
Kobayashi's time came right at the start of the 60-minute session in a qualifying simulation.
SMP Racing-backed Egor Orudzhev set the best time in the #5 Ginetta G60-LT-P1 of 1m48.193s, fractionally slower than Charlie Robertson's session-topping FP2 effort.
The sister #6 car of Mike Simpson was third-fastest on a 1m48.680s, while the solo Rebellion R-13 was fourth-fastest on a 1m49.450s set by Gustavo Menezes.
Toyota's #8 car was slowest of the LMP1s and down in 10th place overall behind the bulk of the LMP2 field, 3.293s off the pace in the hands of Brendon Hartley.
Formula 2 champion Nyck de Vries set the pace in LMP2 in the Racing Team Nederland Oreca 07, his time of 1m49.637s shading Will Stevens' best effort in the Jackie Chan DC Racing Oreca by a little over a tenth.
Antonio Felix da Costa made it two JOTA Sport-run cars in the top three in the Goodyear-liveried #38 Oreca, a further tenth back.
Porsche led the way in GTE Pro thanks to Michael Christensen's early effort of 1m58.786s at the wheel of the #92 Porsche 911 RSR-19.
That was nearly a full second up on James Calado's best time in the #51 AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE, while Marco Sorensen made it three different manufacturers in the top three in the #95 Aston Martin Vantage GTE.
GTE Am was also topped by Porsche, with Matteo Cairoli posting a 2m00.109s in the #56 Team Project 1 car.
The session was red-flagged with three minutes left on the clock after Francesco Castellacci's AF Corse Ferrari rear-ended Bruno Senna in the Rebellion at the Turn 14 hairpin, leaving debris on the track.
Qualifying and the full 4 Hours of Shanghai will be shown live on Motorsport.tv. Check times here.
Session results:
Cla # Drivers Car Class Laps Time Gap 1 7 Mike Conway
Kamui Kobayashi
Jose Maria Lopez Toyota TS050 Hybrid LMP1 28 1'47.184 2 5
Jordan King
Ben Hanley
Egor Orudzhev Ginetta G60-LT-P1 LMP1 27 1'48.193 1.009 3 6
Charles Robertson
Michael Simpson
Guy Smith Ginetta G60-LT-P1 LMP1 24 1'48.680 1.496 4 1
Bruno Senna
Gustavo Menezes
Norman Nato Rebellion R13 LMP1 23 1'49.450 2.266 5 29
Frits van Eerd
Giedo van der Garde
Nyck de Vries Oreca 07 LMP2 26 1'49.637 2.453 6 37
Ho-Pin Tung
Gabriel Aubry
Will Stevens Oreca 07 LMP2 27 1'49.748 2.564 7 38
Roberto Gonzalez
Antonio Felix da Costa
Anthony Davidson Oreca 07 LMP2 25 1'49.879 2.695 8 22
Philip Hanson
Filipe Albuquerque
Paul di Resta Oreca 07 LMP2 23 1'49.890 2.706 9 36
Thomas Laurent
Andre Negrao
Pierre Ragues Alpine A470 LMP2 21 1'50.465 3.281 10 8
Sébastien Buemi
Kazuki Nakajima
Brendon Hartley Toyota TS050 Hybrid LMP1 25 1'50.477 3.293 11 42
Nicolas Lapierre
Antonin Borga
Alexandre Coigny Oreca 07 LMP2 24 1'51.058 3.874 12 47
Roberto Lacorte
Andrea Belicchi
Giorgio Sernagiotto Dallara P217 LMP2 23 1'51.256 4.072 13 33
Mark Patterson
Kenta Yamashita
Anders Fjordbach Oreca 07 LMP2 26 1'52.683 5.499 14 92
Michael Christensen
Kevin Estre Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE PRO 20 1'58.786 11.602 15 51
James Calado
Alessandro Pier Guidi Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE PRO 24 1'59.611 12.427 16 95
Marco Sorensen
Nicki Thiim Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE PRO 22 1'59.764 12.580 17 97
Alex Lynn
Maxime Martin Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE PRO 20 1'59.832 12.648 18 91
Gianmaria Bruni
Richard Lietz Porsche 911 RSR - 19 LMGTE PRO 21 1'59.883 12.699 19 71
Davide Rigon
Miguel Molina Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE PRO 26 1'59.952 12.768 20 56
Egidio Perfetti
David Heinemeier Hansson
Matteo Cairoli Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 23 2'00.109 12.925 21 98
Paul Dalla Lana
Darren Turner
Ross Gunn Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE AM 22 2'00.579 13.395 22 88
Angelo Negro
Will Bamber
Thomas Preining Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 23 2'00.606 13.422 23 90
Salih Yoluc
Charles Eastwood
Jonathan Adam Aston Martin Vantage AMR LMGTE AM 22 2'00.610 13.426 24 86
Michael Wainwright
Andrew Watson
Benjamin Barker Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 25 2'00.772 13.588 25 83
François Perrodo
Emmanuel Collard
Nicklas Nielsen Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 24 2'01.093 13.909 26 78
Philippe Prette
Louis Prette
Vincent Abril Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 25 2'01.126 13.942 27 57
Ben Keating
Larry ten
Jeroen Bleekemolen Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 25 2'01.222 14.038 28 62
Bonamy Grimes
Johnny Mowlem
Charles Hollings Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 24 2'01.346 14.162 29 54
Thomas Flohr
Francesco Castellacci
Giancarlo Fisichella Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 24 2'01.449 14.265 30 77
Christian Ried
Riccardo Pera
Matt Campbell Porsche 911 RSR LMGTE AM 25 2'01.506 14.322 31 70
Motoaki Ishikawa
Olivier Beretta
Kei Cozzolino Ferrari 488 GTE EVO LMGTE AM 26 2'02.049 14.865 View full results
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