6 Hours of Spa – FP2: Team Penske ahead of Glickenhaus and Toyota

Team Penske beat the Hypercars during the second Free Practice session for the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps.

Published on 06/05/2022 à 10:30

Valentin GLO

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6 Hours of Spa – FP2: Team Penske ahead of Glickenhaus and Toyota

Team Penske dominated Free Practice 2 at Spa-Francorchamps (Photo Joao Filipe / DPPI)

Like the day before during the first Free Practice session, it was an LM P2 which dominated the second driving session of the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps. In Belgium, Team Penske (Dane Cameron, Emmanuel Collard, Felipe Nasr) set the best time this morning in 2:04.443. The American team beat the first Hypercar, also from across the Atlantic, the Glickenhaus 007 LMH n°708 (Olivier Pla, Romain Dumas, Pipo Derani) by only 0.021 seconds.

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La Toyota No. 8 (Sébastien Buemi, Brendon Hartley, Ryo Hirakawa) took third place overall at 0.249. The sister car (Mike conway, Kamui Kobayashi, Jose Maria López) only finished sixth, in 2:05.128. For'Alpine A480 n°36 (Andre Negro, Nicolas lapierre, Matthieu Vaxiviere) we must go down to tenth place in the general classification with a lap in 2:05.477. In LM P2, the United Autosports USA #23 (Alexander Lynn, Oliver Jarvis, Joshua Pierson) and the Prema #9 (Robert Kubica, Louis Delétraz, Lorenzo Colombo) completed the category podium.

Porsche still at the top in GTE

The Porsche 911 RR – 19 continuent de dominer le chronomètre en Grand Tourisme. En LMGTE Pro, la n°92 de Michael Christensen et Kevin Estre était une nouvelle fois en haut la feuille des temps en 2:14.366. Le duo a devancé les deux AF Corse, la N°51 d’Alessandro Pier Guidi et James Calado suivie par la n°52 de Miguel Molina et Antonio Fuoco.

The German manufacturer scored a double in LMGTE Am with the #46 of Team Project 1 (Matteo Cairoli, Mikkel Pedersen, Nicolas Leutwiler) in 2:15.604 ahead of the #77 of Dempsey – Proton Racing (Christian Ried, Sebastian Priaulx, Harry Tincknell). 

Find the Free Practice 2 rankings HERE

Meet at 14 p.m. for the third and final Free Practice session of the weekend.

 

Valentin GLO

Journalist. Endurance reporter (WEC, IMSA, ELMS, ALMS) and sometimes F1 or IndyCar.

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