Porsche and Audi neck and neck in EL3

If the Porsche n°1 set the best time in the first free practice session for the 6 Hours of Mexico, Audi is following its rival very closely.

Published on 02/09/2016 à 18:20

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Porsche and Audi neck and neck in EL3

Meilleur chrono hier, Porsche a confirmé aujourd’hui ses bonnes dispositions. La 919 Hybrid n°1 de Bernhard-Hartley-Webber a signé le meilleur temps de la troisième séance d’essais libres des 6 Heures de Mexico en 1’25 »387. Les champions du monde en titre ont devancé de seulement 0 »118 l’Audi R18 n°7 de Fässler-Lotterer-Tréluyer. Suivent à 0 »286 et 0 »460 la R18 n°8 de Di Grassi-Duval-Jarvis and the 919 Hybrid n°2 of Dumas-Jani-Lieb.

Both Toyota TS050 Hybrid concèdent plus d’une seconde à leurs rivales allemandes. Reconstruite durant la nuit sur une nouvelle monocoque, la n°6 de Conway-Kobayashi-Sarrazin beat the n°5 of Buemi-Nakajima.

In LM P2, the Oreca 05s have regained their splendor. The No. 26 G-Drive Racing set the reference time in 1'35"555. The trio A. Brundle-Rast-Rusinov pushed back its rival for the title, namely the car entered by Signatech, by almost half a second. Alpine for Menezes-Stone-Richelmi. The top five is completed by the Gibson 015S from Strakka Racing and Greaves Motorsport as well as the No. 2 Ligier JS P31 from Extreme Speed ​​Motorsports.

Aston Martin continues to dominate the GTE Pro, but this time it was the #97 from Stanaway-Thiim, in 1'39"496, which was the fastest. Ford and Ferrari was pushed back by more than a second, while the No. 911 Dempsey-Proton Racing Porsche 77 RSR moved up to fourth in the category.

Thanks to a time of 1'41"823, the Abu Dhabi-Proton Racing Porsche 911 RSR entrusted to Al Qubaisi-Heinemeier Hansson-Long showed off in GTE Am, beating the No. 98 Aston Martin and the #911 Gulf Racing 86 RSR.

The serious things begin this afternoon with qualifying, scheduled for 21:10 p.m. French time.

 

Results of the 6 Hours of Mexico

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