WEC: Glickenhaus and Alpine share top spots in Sebring’s practice sessions

Sport news FP1: Dumas Quickest for Glickenhaus; Estre Tops Times for Porsche Hypercar Romain Dumas set his best time of 1m49.738s just before rain fell at Sebring Raceway with 20 minutes of the session left Sebstien Buemi had set early benchmark with a 1m50.267s lap in No.7 Toyota GR010 Hybrid Hypercar but saw both the Glickenhaus and then the Alpine ELF Team entry push him down to third Matthieu Vaxiviere lapped the Alpine A480-Alpine 0.565s shy of Dumas’ best time to place second in Hypercar category LMGTE Pro Kevin Estre tops LMGTE Pro with an early session best lap of 1m58.827s in the No.92 Porsche 911 RSR Estre edges stablemates, Gianmaria Bruni and Richard Lietz, in No.91 Porsche by just 0.054s Corvette Racing place third as they prepare for their first ever full WEC season. Tommy Milner sets best lap of 1m59.839s Reigning champions, AF Corse Ferrari’s James Calado and Alesandro PierGuidi are fourth ahead of the No.52 car driven this season by Miguel Molina and new Ferrari factory young gun, Antonio Fuoco LMP2 Real Team by WRT head LMP2 as the class enters its most competitive season ever Ferdinand Habsburg peaks with a 1m50.477s, which is one of two laps he sets that was good enough for P1 Habsburg’s best time is 0.5s ahead of the Prema Orlen Team as it makes its WEC debut this weekend. Louis Deletraz sets the best lap of 1m51.068s Third in LMP2 is the No.23 United Autosports USA Oreca-Gibson with Paul di Resta, standing in for Alex Lynn this weekend, claiming the best time of 1m51.218s LMGTE Am Team Project 1’s Matteo Cairoli leads class with a best time set in early stages of 1m58.906 This proves to be just under a second faster than the No.99 Dempsey Proton Porsche driven by Julien Andlauer Aston Martin deny a Porsche clean sweep as Nicki Thiim laps in 2m00.253s in Northwest AMR Vantage FP2: Vaxiviere Quickest for Alpine; Porsche on top again in LMGTE Pro Hypercar  Matthieu Vaxiviere continues fine form with a late 1m50.512s lap to take fastest time of session for  Les Bleues   Earlier Andre Negrao took the Alpine A480-Alpine to the top of the timing screens by setting best lap of the session with a 1m50.845s  No.8 Toyota GR010 Hybrid places second in session  But Brendon Hartley’s time is struck off for speeding in pitlane, although his next best time of 1m51.380s is still good enough for second place  No.7 Toyota takes third in session with a 1m51.503s best set by Jose-Maria Lopez  Contact between Mike Conway’s No. 7 Toyota GR010 Hybrid and the No. 28 JOTA Oreca 07 Gibson of Jonathan Aberdein at Turn 1 resulted in a yellow flag with less than 15 minutes in the session. Glickenhaus placed fourth in Hypercar after missing first half of 60-minute session  LMGTE Pro  Michael Christensen leads the LMGTE Pro class after setting best time of 1m58.488s in the No.92 Porsche 911 RSR  Corvette Racing second as Nick Tandy posts a 1m58.580 to get within 0.092s of the Porsche  A 1m58.889s lap by Richard Lietz ensures that the top three in class are separated by less than 0.5s  AF Corse Ferraris placed fourth and fifth in LMGTE Pro as No.51 488 GTE Evo laps narrowly quicker than the sister No.52 car  LMP2   United Autosports USA place 1-2 in LMP2 as a late time by Paul di Resta just beats sister car by 0.018s  Di Resta’s 1m51.040s lap just shades the early time set by the No.22 United Autosports USA car with Filipe Albuquerque stopping the clocks on 1m51.058  Real Team by WRT takes third place with Ferdinand Habsburg again claiming fastest lap on a 1m51.244s  Robert Kubica places the Prema Orlen Team LMP2 car in fourth position after peaking with a bets lap of 1m51.395s  Top four in LMP2 covered by just 0.4s  LMGTE Am   Aston Martin fastest as David Pittard laps in 2m00.029s in Northwest AMR Vantage  No.77 Dempsey Proton Porsche takes second as Harry Tincknell manages an early session 2m00.181s  No.56 Team Project 1 Porsche is third as Ben Barnicoat set fastest time of 2m00.367s  World Endurance Championship WEC 1000 Miles of Sebring WEC 1000 Miles of Sebring WEC SEASON 2021 Sport Circuit 1SportWorld Endurance ChampionshipCircuitWECSEASON 2021WEC1000 Miles of SebringWEC 1000 Miles of Sebring01 Thursday, March 17, 2022 - 4:30am Thursday, March 17, 2022 - 4:30am