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Giovinazzi’s #51 499P Le Mans Hypercar dipped under the benchmark time set in opening practice by Sebastien Buemi’s #8 Toyota GR010 LMH, posting a best lap of 2m01.871s.
That proved 1.278s faster than Molina in the second Ferrari, which spent much of the first half of the session in the garage before its 2m03.149s lap.
Earl Bamber put the #2 Chip Ganassi Racing-run Cadillac V-Series.R LMDh third with a 2m03.338s early in the 90-minute session before the first of two red flags triggered as two Hypercars hit trouble.
The sister Ganassi #3 Cadillac which is contesting the full IMSA SportsCar Championship season and making a WEC cameo at Spa stopped on track in Renger van der Zande’s hands at the same time as Dane Cameron’s #5 Penske-run Porsche 963 LMDh lost power.
The second works Porsche also lost track time as Andre Lotterer stopped the #6 machine with hybrid problems.
Ryo Hirakawa improved to fourth in the lead #8 Toyota shortly before the second red flag caused by an incident involving the GTE Am Ferrari 488 GTE Evos of Thomas Flohr and Diego Alessi at Raidillon.
The Japanese logged a 2m04.380s which was 2.509s off the outright pace and over a second slower than its FP1 effort.
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Jean-Eric Vergne put the first of the Peugeot 9X8 LMHs into fifth on a 2m05.180s ahead of the garagiste Glickenhaus-Pipo 007 of Olivier Pla.
The second Toyota, the #7 in which Kamui Kobayashi managed a 2m05.729s, was 3.858s down on the Ferrari in seventh but comfortably clear of Nico Muller’s #94 Peugeot and Jota’s customer 963.
A 2m06.711s lap from Ye Yifei was 2.337s faster than the car managed in Will Stevens’ hands in FP1 as the team continues to blood in its newly-arrived machine following its preliminary shakedown at Weissach last week.
The Vanwall Vandervell 680 LMH was the last of the Hypercars to set a representative time, as Jacques Villeneuve punched in a 2m.08.557s shortly before the stoppage.
In LMP2, Robin Frijns set the pace in the #31 WRT ORECA-Gibson 07, going 0.410s quicker than Filipe Albuquerque’s #22 United Autosports example.
The Portuguese, who returns to the cockpit after missing the last round in Portimao on IMSA duty at Long Beach, couldn’t match the 2m06.108s lap from 2022 outright podium finisher Frijns.
Louis Deletraz put the #41 WRT ORECA third, ahead of Fabio Scherer (InterEuropol Competition) and Gabriel Aubry’s Vector Sport example.
Prior to Flohr’s crash, Davide Rigon had moved the #54 AF Corse Ferrari to the head of the GTE Am timesheets with a 2m15.736s lap.
His fellow factory driver Daniel Serra settled into second, 1.050s in arrears, aboard the #57 Kessel Racing machine while Riccardo Pera (GR Racing) put the best of the Porsches third.
WEC Spa - FP2 results:
Cla | # | Drivers | Car | Class | Time | Gap | |
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1 | 51 |
|
Ferrari 499P | HYPERCAR | 2'01.871 | ||
2 | 50 |
|
Ferrari 499P | HYPERCAR | 2'03.149 | 1.278 | |
3 | 2 |
|
Cadillac V-Series.R | HYPERCAR | 2'03.338 | 1.467 | |
4 | 8 |
|
Toyota GR010 - Hybrid | HYPERCAR | 2'04.380 | 2.509 | |
5 | 93 |
|
Peugeot 9X8 | HYPERCAR | 2'05.180 | 3.309 | |
6 | 708 |
|
Glickenhaus 007 | HYPERCAR | 2'05.545 | 3.674 | |
7 | 7 |
|
Toyota GR010 - Hybrid | HYPERCAR | 2'05.729 | 3.858 | |
8 | 31 |
|
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'06.108 | 4.237 | |
9 | 94 |
|
Peugeot 9X8 | HYPERCAR | 2'06.128 | 4.257 | |
10 | 22 |
Frederick Lubin |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'06.518 | 4.647 | |
11 | 41 |
|
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'06.633 | 4.762 | |
12 | 38 |
|
Porsche 963 | HYPERCAR | 2'06.711 | 4.840 | |
13 | 34 |
|
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'06.759 | 4.888 | |
14 | 10 |
Matthias Kaiser |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'06.791 | 4.920 | |
15 | 9 |
Filip Ugran |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'06.933 | 5.062 | |
16 | 23 |
|
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'07.086 | 5.215 | |
17 | 63 |
|
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'07.145 | 5.274 | |
18 | 28 |
|
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'07.167 | 5.296 | |
19 | 36 |
|
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'07.914 | 6.043 | |
20 | 4 |
|
Vanwall Vandervell 680 | HYPERCAR | 2'08.557 | 6.686 | |
21 | 35 |
|
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'08.969 | 7.098 | |
22 | 6 |
|
Porsche 963 | HYPERCAR | 2'10.875 | 9.004 | |
23 | 54 |
|
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 2'15.736 | 13.865 | |
24 | 57 |
|
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 2'16.786 | 14.915 | |
25 | 86 |
|
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 2'16.993 | 15.122 | |
26 | 88 |
|
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 2'17.172 | 15.301 | |
27 | 83 |
|
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 2'17.230 | 15.359 | |
28 | 3 |
|
Cadillac V-Series.R | HYPERCAR | 2'17.364 | 15.493 | |
29 | 60 |
|
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 2'17.437 | 15.566 | |
30 | 85 |
|
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 2'17.532 | 15.661 | |
31 | 21 |
Diego Alessi Ulysse De |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 2'17.585 | 15.714 | |
32 | 56 |
PJ Hyett |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 2'17.802 | 15.931 | |
33 | 5 |
|
Porsche 963 | HYPERCAR | 2'17.818 | 15.947 | |
34 | 777 |
Casper Stevenson |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 2'17.941 | 16.070 | |
35 | 25 |
Michael Dinan |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 2'18.053 | 16.182 | |
36 | 77 |
Mikkel Pedersen |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 2'18.278 | 16.407 | |
37 | 98 |
|
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 2'18.671 | 16.800 | |
38 | 33 |
Nicolas Varrone |
Chevrolet Corvette C8.R | LMGTE AM | 2'19.163 | 17.292 | |
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