WEC: Dumas Leads Opening Practice Session for 1,000 Miles of Sebring

Glickenhaus Racing driver Romain Dumas turned the fastest lap in the opening Free Practice session for the 1000 Miles of Sebring. The 60-minute session was interrupted by rain showers that forced almost all cars back to their pit boxes with 20 minutes remaining.

Dumas led the way with a time of 1:49.738 which put the No. 708 Glickenhaus half a second clear at the top of the timing leaderboard, beating two other Hypercars from Alpine Elf Team and Toyota Gazoo Racing.

Frenchman Matthieu Vaxiviere posted the second-fastest lap in the No. 36 Alpine A480 Gibson.

The quickest of the two Toyota GR010 Hybrids ranked third, at 1:50.267 from Sebastien Buemi in the No. 8 car.

LMP2 pacesetter Ferdinand Habsburg, who topped last weekend’s pre-season Prologue test, took fourth overall ahead of the No. 7 Toyota driven by Jose Maria Lopez.

Habsburg lapped at 1:50.477 behind the wheel of the No. 41 Realteam by WRT Oreca 07 Gibson.

Prema Orlen Team’s Louis Deletraz, delivered a 1:51.068 to take sixth overall and 2nd in LMP2.

Deletraz, who won last year’s European Le Mans Series title with WRT, finished directly ahead of United Autosports’ Paul di Resta, WRT driver Rene Rast and Algarve Pro Racing’s James Allen.

The weather eased for a 10-minute blast to the checkered flag; however, no notable improvements were made.

Porsche GT Team claimed a one-two result in GTE-Pro led by Kevin Estre in the No. 92 Porsche 911 RSR-19.

Porsche 911 RSR, Porsche GT Team (#92), Kevin Estre (F), Michael Christensen (DK)

Estre clocked in at 1:58.827 while his teammate Gianmmaria Bruni in the sister No. 91 car came through less than a tenth of a second behind.

The two GTE-Pro Porsches were closely followed by GTE-Am leader Matteo Cairoli who out-paced the Pro entries from Corvette Racing and AF Corse aboard the No. 46 Team Project 1 Porsche.

Porsche 911 RSR, Team Project 1 (#46), Matteo Cairoli (I), Mikkel Pedersen (DK), Nicolas Leutwiler (CH)

Practice 1 Results

POS TEAM DRIVERS No. LAPS TIME BEHIND GAP
1ST Glickenhaus Racing Pla O. Dumas R. Briscoe R. #708 16 1:49.738
2ND Alpine Elf Team Negrão A. Lapierre N. Vaxiviere M. #36 8 1:50.263 +0.525 +0.525
3RD Toyota Gazoo Racing Buemi S. Hartley B. Hirakawa R. #8 25 1:50.267 +0.529 +0.004
4TH Realteam By Wrt Andrade R. Habsburg F. Nato N. #41 22 1:50.477 +0.739 +0.210
5TH Toyota Gazoo Racing Conway M. Kobayashi K. Lopez J. #7 22 1:50.633 +0.895 +0.156
6TH Prema Orlen Team Kubica R. Deletraz L. Colombo L. #9 25 1:51.068 +1.330 +0.435
7TH United Autosports Usa Di Resta P. Jarvis O. Pierson J. #23 17 1:51.218 +1.480 +0.150
8TH Wrt Gelael S. Frijns R. Rast R. #31 24 1:51.533 +1.795 +0.315
9TH Algarve Pro Racing Thomas S. Allen J. Binder R. #45 23 1:51.683 +1.945 +0.150
10TH Richard Mille Racing Team Wadoux L. Ogier S. Milesi C. #1 6 1:52.056 +2.318 +0.373
11TH United Autosports Usa Hanson P. Albuquerque F. Owen W. #22 18 1:52.070 +2.332 +0.014
12TH JOTA Rasmussen O. Jones E. Aberdein J. #28 23 1:52.193 +2.455 +0.123
13TH Ultimate Lahaye J. Lahaye M. Heriau F. #35 20 1:52.360 +2.622 +0.167
14TH Team Penske Cameron D. Collard E. Nasr F. #5 16 1:52.614 +2.876 +0.254
15TH Inter Europol Competition Smiechowski J. Scherer F. Gutierrez E. #34 21 1:52.682 +2.944 +0.068
16TH Arc Bratislava Konopka M. Beche M. Van Der Helm T. #44 15 1:52.772 +3.034 +0.090
17TH AF Corse Perrodo F. Nielsen N. Rovera A. #83 16 1:52.783 +3.045 +0.011
18TH JOTA Gonzalez R. Felix Da Costa A. Stevens W. #38 19 1:52.975 +3.237 +0.192
19TH Vector Sport Müller N. Cullen R. Rockenfeller M. #10 22 1:53.650 +3.912 +0.675
20TH Porsche Gt Team Christensen M. Estre K. #92 17 1:58.827 +9.089 +5.177
21ST Porsche Gt Team Bruni G. Lietz R. #91 20 1:58.881 +9.143 +0.054
22ND Team Project 1 Cairoli M. Pedersen M. Leutwiler N. #46 18 1:58.906 +9.168 +0.025
23RD Corvette Racing Milner T. Tandy N. #64 19 1:59.839 +10.101 +0.933
24TH Dempsey – Proton Racing Poordad F. Lindsey P. Andlauer J. #88 22 1:59.871 +10.133 +0.032
25TH Northwest Amr Dalla Lana P. Pittard D. Thiim N. #98 17 2:00.253 +10.515 +0.382
26TH Team Project 1 Iribe B. Millroy O. Barnicoat B. #56 16 2:00.283 +10.545 +0.030
27TH AF Corse Pier Guidi A. Calado J. #51 20 2:00.298 +10.560 +0.015
28TH Dempsey – Proton Racing Ried C. Priaulx S. Tincknell H. #77 15 2:00.479 +10.741 +0.181
29TH Spirit Of Race Dezoteux F. Ragues P. Aubry G. #71 23 2:00.563 +10.825 +0.084
30TH AF Corse Molina M. Fuoco A. #52 10 2:01.037 +11.299 +0.474
31ST Iron Lynx Schiavoni C. Cressoni M. Fisichella G. #60 16 2:01.557 +11.819 +0.520
32ND TF Sport Keating B. Latorre F. Sørensen M. #33 20 2:01.683 +11.945 +0.126
33RD Iron Dames Frey R. Gatting M. Bovy S. #85 17 2:01.942 +12.204 +0.259
34TH D’station Racing Hoshino S. Fujii T. Fagg C. #777 22 2:02.183 +12.445 +0.241
35TH AF Corse Flohr T. Castellacci F. Cassidy N. #54 15 2:04.002 +14.264 +1.819
36TH AF Corse Mann S. Ulrich C. Vilander T. #21 0