Rebellion Racing dominates EL1 at Spa

Si Toyota uses its new low drag package for the first time to prepare the 24 Hours of Le Mans (September 19-20), the two TS050 Hybrids have to deal with a very unfavorable EoT, which makes them lose more than three seconds on their theoretical best times.

The Rebellion R13 and the Enso CLM P1/01-Gibson, less penalized, took the opportunity to set the best times in the first free practice session of the 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps, the advantage going to the Swiss car, credited with a 2’02”469.

The Nato-Senna-Menezes trio was ahead of the ByKolles Racing mount by 1”046 and respectively 1”163 and 1”355 ahead of the Toyota Hybrid n°7 (Lopez-Kobayashi-Conway) and No. 8 (Hartley-Nakajima).

In LM P2, it was the #07 Oreca 29 of Racing Team Nederland entrusted to Van Uitert-Van Eerd-Van der Garde which did the best in 2'03"888, a time almost similar to that of the TS050 Hybrid n°8! The top three is completed by the No. 38 Jota Sport Oreca (Davidson-Gonzalez) and the No. 22 United Autosports (Hanson-Albuquerque-Di Resta). Next negrao-Laurent-Ragus (Alpine A470 n°36) and Stone-Coigny-Borga (Oreca 07 n°37 / Cool Racing).

In GTE, Porsche took the lead thanks to the No. 911 92 RSR of Christensen-Estre, credited with a 2'16"057. But'Aston Martin Vantage AMR No. 97 of Lynn-Martin is only three tenths behind. The #911 91 RSR of Lietz-Bruni is 4th ahead of both Ferrari 488 GTE Evo from AF Corse.

The Italian team is consoled by the best time set in GTE Am by the No. 83 of Collard-Nielsen-Perrodo in 2'17"853. The championship leaders are followed by the No. 98 Aston Martin Vantage AMR of Gunn-Dalla Lana-Farfus and the No. 911 Porsche 56 RSR of Project-1 (Hörr-Perfetti-Cairoli).

Note that due to the Covid-19 test that all members of Algarve Pro Racing had to take, the No. 07 Oreca 25 did not run this afternoon.

See you tomorrow for a busy one with the second and third free practice sessions (respectively at 9:30 a.m. and 14:00 p.m.) and qualifying (18:00 p.m.).