Porsche and BMW dominate Macau free practices

Four Porsche 911 GT3 with 2 BMW M4 GT3 R topped Thursday combined timesheets in the streets of Macau for the FIA GT World Cup.

Picariello fastest

Alessio Piccariello was fastest of both sessions in #911 Tempo by Absolute Racing Porsche. With a 2:15.966, he was the only one to break the 2:16 barrier.

📷 © Macau Grand Prix. #911 Tempo by Absolute Racing Porsche

Marciello second

Raffaelle Marciello with the #53 ROWE Racing BMW was second 0.173 second back from the #911.

📷 © Macau Grand Prix. #53 ROWE Racing BMW

Vanthoor third but crash in FP1

Laurens Vanthoor topped a rapid FP1 session setting the third fastest lap of the day (2:16.451) but crashed out heavily, spinning out of Turn 2 and hitting the barriers heavily. Due to significant damage to his #992 Tempo by Absolute Racing Porsche, Vanthoor was not able to participate to the second session..

📷 © Macau Grand Prix. #992 Tempo by Absolute Racing Porsche

van der Linde fourth

Sheldon van der Linde in the #31 WRT M4 GT3 Evo was fourth of the day with a 2:16.575..

📷 © Macau Grand Prix. #32 Team WRT BMW M4 GT3 EVO

Both Schumacher CLRT Porsches in top 6

Ayhanchen Güven and Laurin Heinrich follow in their #11 and #22 Schumacher CLRT Porsches.

📷 © Macau Grand Prix. #22 Schumacher CLRT Porsche

Ferrari seventh

Yifei Ye was seventh in his #83 Harmony Racing Ferrari and the last driver in the 2:16 seconds.

📷 © Macau Grand Prix. #83 Harmony Racing Ferrari

Thursday Free Practices final classifications

Source: Macau Grand Prix

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