Porsche finishes first at Paul Ricard

Three sessions contested this Friday in the South-East of France, and three times, the stable Porsche dominated the debates of this first day of the official tests of WEC 2015. The 919 Hybrid n°18 of Romain Dumas, Neel Jani and Marc Lieb concluded the night session with the best cumulative time of the day in 1'37 "220. The German firm finished with a double since the n°17 ​​of Mark Webber, Timo Bernhard and Brendon Hartley ranks 2nd with a best time set in the afternoon in 1'38″552.

The No. 18 Audi R7 e-tron quattro of the winning trio 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2014 Benoît Tréluyer, Marcel Fässler and André Lotterer took third place combined (1'39″058) ahead of sister car no. 8 of Duval ? di Grassi ? Jarvis. Les deux Toyota TS040 Hybrid suivent en 5e et 6e position.

In LM P2, the Oreca 05 from the KCMG team achieved the best performance in the category during the night session in 1'47″456. In GTE Pro, if AF Corse and the Ferrari 458 Italia n°71 finished first in the last session, these are good the Porsche 911 RSR of Team Manthey which conclude this Friday with the two best times, the n°91 having completed a lap in 1'58″372.

In GTE Am, it’s the Dempsey Racing Porsche 911 RSR? Proton who was the fastest today. The Prologue will continue throughout the day on Saturday.