Audi remains in the lead at COTA

The brand with the rings got off to a perfect start to the 6 Hours of COTA in Austin, Texas, the sixth round of the World Championship.Endurance 2016. After Oliver Jarvis in EL1 is Loïc duval which allowed the R18 e-tron quattro n°8 to continue his domination, by achieving the best time in the second session, contested at night.

The Frenchman set the benchmark time by completing a lap of the Texan route in 1'47 "235, preceding sister car No. 7 of Fässler – Tréluyer – Lotterer by 95 thousandths. Behind the two Audis, we find the two Porsche 919 Hybrid of Bernhard – Hartley – Webber and Dumas – Lieb – Jani, clocked at seven and eight tenths of a second respectively.

If the Toyota Davidson TS050 Hybrid No. 5 – Buemi – Nakajima places himself in the immediate wake of the Porsches, the second Japanese LM P1 of Kobayashi – Sarrazin – Conway, sixth, concedes 2″1 on the leading Audi.

In LM P2, theAlpine A460 n°36 from Menezes – Stone – Richelmi dominated the session, setting the best lap in 1’56”318. The top 3 in the category is completed by the RGR Sport Ligier JS P2 of Gonzalez – Senna – Albuquerque, second by two tenths, and the Oreca 05 G-Drive of Rusinov – Rast – Brundle.

Ford continued its domination in GTE Pro on home soil, the GT n°66 of the Mücke – Pla tandem achieving the double on the day. L'Aston Martin Vantage n°95 of Nicki Thiim and Marco Sorensen and the second Ford GT of Franchitti – Priaulx – Tincknell climb into the top three.

The threesome Dalla Lana – Lamy – Lauda was the fastest in GTE Am, at the wheel of the No. 98 Aston Martin Vantage.

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