WEC- 6 Hours of Spa-Fracorchamps: Thursday practices
The 6 hours of Spa-Francorchamps Thursday practices were run in clear conditions with Toyota #8 dominating their rivals in the morning practice by more than 1.6 sec. and Ferrari managing to tie the game, even beating the time set by the #8 during the second session.
Hypercars top 5 of the day
📷 © Luc Warnotte at Spa-Francorchamps. Thursday practice 2: Antonio Giovinazzi with #51 Ferrari 499P he shares with Pier Luigi Guidi and James Calaldo did set the fastest lap of the day.
During the afternoon practice (second of the day) Antonio Giovinazzi with #51 Ferrari 499P managed to beat the benchmark time set in morning practice by Sebastien Buemi with #8 Toyota GR010 LMH.
📷 © Luc Warnotte at Spa-Francorchamps. Sebastien Buemi with Toyota GR010 HYBRID #8 did set the fastest lap in the morning, beating rivals by more than 1.6 sec. still ending second of the day.
Miguel Molina with #50 Ferrari 499P was second of the afternoon session putting both Ferrari ahead of all Hypercars. It puts his squad in P3 of the day.
📷 © Luc Warnotte at Spa-Francorchamps. Miguel Molina with #50 Ferrari 499P did set the third fastest lap of the day.
Earl Bamber was third in the afternoon session with #2 Chip Ganassi Racing Cadillac V-Series.R which enables the Cadillac Racing team to set the fourth performance of the day.
📷 © Luc Warnotte at Spa-Francorchamps. Earl Bamber with Cadillac V-Series.R #2 set the fourth performance of the day.
Alex Lynn comment: “Just excited to get this car on the track; another new adventure for us on the WEC team. I think the car performance was good and we’re right there. With WEC, you have to be on it from the start. You have to have a good baseline setup, drivers ready to go because the weather – especially here – offers a mixture of things so we need to have everyone ready and the car in a good window. I think we have.” Source: Cadillac Racing
Jose Maria Lopez did set the eighth fastest lap of the afternoon session with #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID which puts his Toyota as fifth of the day. Following Toyota Gazoo racing source, « focus in second practice switched to analysing the characteristics of the different compounds of Michelin tyre, with priority on maximising performance for Saturday's race. »
📷 © Luc Warnotte at Spa-Francorchamps. Jose Maria Lopez with Toyota GR010 HYBRID #7 did achieved the eighth performance of the day.
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