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The Alpine A480-Gibson grandfathered LMP1 sat at the head of the classification for the majority of the session on Wednesday afternoon.
Andre Negrao went quickest with a 1m50.845s early on in the one-hour practice period, before Matthieu Vaxiviere improved by three tenths in the closing minutes.
The Frenchman got down to a 1m50.512s, which was still some way short of the 1m49.738s with which he had topped the Hypercar class classification in the opening session.
Vaxiviere’s afternoon mark gave the Alpine a half second margin over the two United Autosports LMP2 Orecas, which ended up second and third overall in the hands of Paul di Resta and Filipe Albuquerque.
Albuquerque sat second in the times with a 1m51.058s until right at the end when di Resta got down to a 1m51.040s in his Oreca to take the top spot in P2.
The #8 Toyota GR010 Hybrid had been second until a 1m51.015s set by Brendon Hartley early on was wiped out for a pitlane speeding infringement. That demoted to car to fifth position with a 1m51.380s, also set by Hartley, behind the Realteam by WRT Oreca of Ferdinand Habsburg on a 1m51.244s.
Sixth place went to Prema Powerteam’s Oreca courtesy of a 1m51.395s from Robert Kubica.
The second WRT P2 entry ended up seventh with a 1m51.446s from Rene Rast, while Jose Maria Lopez was eighth in the second Toyota with a 1m53.503s.
The Glickenhaus 007 LMH, which had been fastest in FP1 in Romain Dumas’s hands, ended up down in 14th position more than a second and a half off the pace with a 1m52.479s from Ryan Briscoe.
Porsche heads GTE Pro from Corvette
The #92 Porsche 911 RSR-19 again headed the GTE Pro times, this time with Michael Christensen at the wheel. He posted a 1m58.448s to end up less than one hundredth of a second clear of Nick Tandy in the solo Chevrolet Corvette C8.R.
The Briton’s 1m58.580s put him four tenths clear of the second Porsche in which Richard Lietz set a best lap of 1m58.889s, which was almost identical to teammate Gianmaria Bruni’s mark from session one.
The two AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE Evos again brought up the rear and failed to break the two-minute mark.
WEC debutant David Pittard ended up quickest in GTE Am in the Northwest AMR Aston Martin. The Briton’s time of 2m00.029s in the Prodrive-run Vantage GTE put him just over a tenth up on fellow countryman Harry Tincknell in the best of the Dempsey Proton Porsches.
Practice continues on Thursday with the final of the three 60-minute practice sessions at 11:55am local time before qualifying for Friday’s Sebring 1000 Miles begins at 7:00pm.
Practice times:
| Cla | # | Drivers | Car | Class | Time | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 36 |
 Andre Negrao  Nicolas Lapierre Matthieu Vaxiviere
| Alpine A480 | HYPERCAR | 1'50.512 | |
| 2 | 23 |
 Paul di Resta Oliver Jarvis  Josh Pierson
| Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'51.040 | 0.528 |
| 3 | 22 |
Philip Hanson  Filipe Albuquerque Will Owen
| Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'51.058 | 0.546 |
| 4 | 41 |
Rui Andrade  Ferdinand Habsburg Norman Nato
| Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'51.244 | 0.732 |
| 5 | 8 |
 Sébastien Buemi  Brendon Hartley  Ryo Hirakawa
| Toyota GR010 - Hybrid | HYPERCAR | 1'51.380 | 0.868 |
| 6 | 9 |
 Robert Kubica Louis Deletraz  Lorenzo Colombo
| Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'51.395 | 0.883 |
| 7 | 31 |
 Sean Gelael  Robin Frijns  René Rast
| Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'51.446 | 0.934 |
| 8 | 7 |
Mike Conway Kamui Kobayashi  Jose Maria Lopez
| Toyota GR010 - Hybrid | HYPERCAR | 1'51.503 | 0.991 |
| 9 | 38 |
 Roberto Gonzalez Antonio Felix da Costa Will Stevens
| Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'51.683 | 1.171 |
| 10 | 28 |
 Oliver Rasmussen Edward Jones  Jonathan Aberdein
| Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'51.783 | 1.271 |
| 11 | 5 |
Dane Cameron Emmanuel Collard Felipe Nasr
| Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'52.047 | 1.535 |
| 12 | 35 |
Jean Baptiste Lahaye Matthieu Lahaye Frangois Heriau | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'52.142 | 1.630 |
| 13 | 83 |
François Perrodo Nicklas Nielsen Alessio Rovera
| Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'52.343 | 1.831 |
| 14 | 708 |
Olivier Pla Romain Dumas  Ryan Briscoe
| Glickenhaus 007 LMH | HYPERCAR | 1'52.479 | 1.967 |
| 15 | 34 |
Jakub Smiechowski Alex Brundle Esteban Gutierrez
| Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'52.752 | 2.240 |
| 16 | 10 |
Nico Müller  Ryan Cullen Mike Rockenfeller
| Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'53.772 | 3.260 |
| 17 | 1 |
Lilou Wadoux Sébastien Ogier Charles Milesi
| Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'53.976 | 3.464 |
| 18 | 45 |
Thomas Steven James Allen Rene Binder
| Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'54.144 | 3.632 |
| 19 | 44 |
 Miro Konopka Mathias Beche Tijmen van der Helm
| Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'56.085 | 5.573 |
| 20 | 92 |
Michael Christensen Kevin Estre
| Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE PRO | 1'58.488 | 7.976 |
| 21 | 64 |
Tommy Milner Nick Tandy
| Chevrolet Corvette C8.R | LMGTE PRO | 1'58.580 | 8.068 |
| 22 | 91 |
Gianmaria Bruni Richard Lietz
| Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE PRO | 1'58.889 | 8.377 |
| 23 | 98 |
 Paul Dalla Lana David Pittard Nicki Thiim
| Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 2'00.029 | 9.517 |
| 24 | 77 |
Christian Ried Sebastian Priaulx Harry Tincknell
| Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 2'00.181 | 9.669 |
| 25 | 56 |
Brendan Iribe Ollie Millroy Ben Barnicoat
| Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 2'00.367 | 9.855 |
| 26 | 52 |
 Miguel Molina Antonio Fuoco
| Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE PRO | 2'00.416 | 9.904 |
| 27 | 21 |
Simon Mann Christoph Ulrich  Toni Vilander
| Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 2'00.533 | 10.021 |
| 28 | 51 |
Alessandro Pier Guidi James Calado
| Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE PRO | 2'00.559 | 10.047 |
| 29 | 71 |
Franck Dezoteux Pierre Ragues Gabriel Aubry
| Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 2'00.621 | 10.109 |
| 30 | 60 |
Claudio Schiavoni Matteo Cressoni Giancarlo Fisichella
| Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 2'00.866 | 10.354 |
| 31 | 33 |
Ben Keating Florian Latorre Marco Sorensen
| Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 2'01.143 | 10.631 |
| 32 | 777 |
Satoshi Hoshino Tomonobu Fujii Charles Fagg | Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 2'01.424 | 10.912 |
| 33 | 88 |
Fred Poordad Patrick Lindsey Julien Andlauer
| Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 2'01.546 | 11.034 |
| 34 | 85 |
Rahel Frey Michelle Gatting  Sarah Bovy
| Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 2'01.883 | 11.371 |
| 35 | 54 |
Thomas Flohr Francesco Castellacci Nick Cassidy
| Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 2'01.899 | 11.387 |
| 36 | 46 |
Matteo Cairoli Mikkel Pedersen Nicolas Leutwiler | Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 2'02.234 | 11.722 |
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