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Porsche 1-2 in opening Spa practice

  • Porsche No. 1 fastest
    Porsche No. 1 fastest

    Reigning champion No.1 Porsche 919 top the times as Brendon Hartley sets best of 1m58.012s

  • Marc Lieb makes it 1-2 for Porsche in no.8 car. Toyota third with No.6 TS 050 HYBRID, time of 1m59.429s set by Mike Conway.
  • No.2 Porsche given black and orange flag for breaching article 10.5.2 of Technical Regs for lack of telemetry
  • Audi place fourth and sixth with low-downforce spec Audi R18. Fassler and Duval set times.
  • Rebellion Racing head Privateer LMP1 class after ByKolles hit issues
  • Pipo Derani sets fastest lap of 2m08.974s in LMP2 in no.31 Extreme Speed Motorsports Ligier JS P2 Nissan
  • G-Drive ORECA-Nissan second and No.36 Signatech Alpine third as first three covered by just 0.135s
  • Aston Martin lead LMGTE Pro class with No.97 Vantage driven by Fernando Rees.
  • AF Corse place third and fourth with No.51 Ferrari 488GTE heading No.71 sister car
  • Aston also top LMGTE Am category ahead of No.50 Larbre Chevrolet Corvette.

Practice 1 Results

Pos Class Driver Team Car Time Laps
1 LMP1 T.Bernhard, M.Webber, B.Hartley Porsche Team Porsche 1m58.012ss 30
2 LMP1 R.Dumas, N.Jani, M.Lieb Porsche Team Porsche 1m58.577ss 23
3 LMP1 S.Sarrazin, M.Conway, K.Kobayashi Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota 1m59.429ss 27
4 LMP1 M.Fassler, A.Lotterer, B.Treluyer Audi Sport Team Joest Audi 1m59.983ss 33
5 LMP1 A.Davidson, S.Buemi, K.Nakajima Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota 2m00.053ss 30
6 LMP1 L.di Grassi, L.Duval, O.Jarvis Audi Sport Team Joest Audi 2m00.440ss 11
7 LMP1 M.Tuscher, D.Kraihamer, A.Imperatori Rebellion Racing Rebellion/AER 2m04.157ss 21
8 LMP1 N.Prost, N.Piquet Jr., N.Heidfeld Rebellion Racing Rebellion/AER 2m06.914ss 10
9 LMP2 R.Dalziel, L.Derani, C.Cumming Extreme Speed Motorsports Ligier/Nissan 2m08.974ss 36
10 LMP2 R.Rusinov, N.Berthon, R.Rast G-Drive Racing ORECA/Nissan 2m09.029ss 31
11 LMP2 G.Menezes, N.Lapierre, S.Richelmi Signatech Alpine Alpine/Nissan 2m09.109ss 32
12 LMP1 S.Trummer, O.Webb, J.Rossiter ByKOLLES Racing Team CLM/AER 2m09.442ss 5
13 LMP2 D.Cheng, H-Pin Tung, N.Panciatici Baxi DC Racing Alpine Alpine/Nissan 2m09.445ss 34
14 LMP2 N.Leventis, D.Watts, J.Kane Strakka Racing Gibson/Nissan 2m09.483ss 28
15 LMP2 V.Petrov, K.Ladygin, V.Shaytar SMP Racing BR Engineering/Nissan 2m09.529ss 29
16 LMP2 T.Graves, W.Stevens, J.Jakes Manor ORECA/Nissan 2m09.573ss 26
17 LMP2 M.Rao, R.Bradley, R.Merhi Manor ORECA/Nissan 2m10.205ss 25
18 LMP2 R.Gonzalez, F.Albuquerque, B.Senna RGR Sport by Morand Ligier/Nissan 2m10.280ss 32
19 LMP2 N.Minassian, M.Mediani, D.Markozov SMP Racing BR Engineering/Nissan 2m10.936ss 31
20 LMP2 S.Dolan, G.van der Garde, J.Dennis G-Drive Racing Gibson/Nissan 2m11.002ss 30
21 LMP2 S.Sharp, E.Brown, J.van Overbeek Extreme Speed Motorsports Ligier/Nissan 2m11.168ss 33
22 GTE Pro R.Stanaway, F.Rees, J.Adam Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin 2m19.296ss 32
23 GTE Am P.D.Lana, P.Lamy, M.Lauda Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin 2m19.748ss 28
24 GTE Pro G.Bruni, J.Calado AF Corse Ferrari 2m19.810ss 29
25 GTE Pro D.Rigon, S.Bird AF Corse Ferrari 2m20.075ss 34
26 GTE Pro B.Johnson, S.Mucke, O.Pla Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK Ford 2m20.115ss 32
27 GTE Pro M.Franchitti, A.Priaulx, H.Tincknell Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK Ford 2m20.155ss 30
28 GTE Am Y.Yamagishi, P.Ragues, P.Ruberti Larbre Competition Chevrolet 2m20.156ss 27
29 GTE Pro R.Lietz, M.Christensen Dempsey-Proton Racing Porsche 2m20.484ss 29
30 GTE Am K.Al Qubaisi, D.Hansson, P.Long Abu Dhabi-Proton Racing Porsche 2m20.603ss 32
31 GTE Am F.Perrodo, E.Collard, R.Aguas AF Corse Ferrari 2m20.810ss 30
32 GTE Pro N.Thiim, M.Sorensen, D.Turner Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin 2m20.900ss 24
33 GTE Am M.Wainwright, A.Carroll, B.Barker Gulf Racing Porsche 2m21.087ss 29
34 GTE Am C.Ried, W.Henzler, J.Camathias KCMG Porsche 2m21.115ss 31