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WEC Bahrain: BMW tops FP2 from Porsche
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WEC Bahrain: BMW tops FP2 from Porsche

By Miles Cooper October 31, 2024
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BMW topped the instances in second free apply for this weekend’s World Endurance Championship curtain-closer in Bahrain.

Dries Vanthoor posted the quickest time in Free Apply 2  on the wheel of the #15 BMW M Hybrid V8 LMDh run by the WRT squad.

He set his session better of 1m48.257s early on within the 90-minute Thursday night session, like all of the main runners, to finish simply 5 hundredths away from second-placed Matt Campbell in one of the best of the manufacturing facility Porsche 963 LMDhs.

The Australian had topped the instances with a 1m48.311s within the #5 Porsche Penske Motorsport entry earlier than Vanthoor supplanted him on the head of the order.

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It was the second time in two races that the bettering BMW LMDh has emerged quickest in a apply session.

Vanthoor was additionally quickest in FP2 at Fuji in September when he and team-mates Raffaele Marciello and Marco Wittmann went on to safe one of the best WEC end result for the M Hybrid with second place within the race.

Ferrari took third place in FP2 on the Bahrain Worldwide Circuit with Antonio Giovinazzi aboard the #51 499P Le Mans Hypercar run by the manufacturing facility AF Corse group.

The Italian’s 1m48.472s was simply two tenths off the tempo of the BMW.

Nyck de Vries took fourth place in one of the best of the Toyota GR010 HYBRID LMHs with a 1m48.647s, whereas Antonio Fuoco jumped to fifth on the finish of the flurry of early-session fast laps within the second of the Ferraris with a 1m48.701s.

Sebastien Buemi rounded out the highest six within the #8 Toyota with a 1m48.736s, which was nonetheless inside half a second of the tempo.

Robin Frijns claimed seventh within the second BMW forward of one of the best of the shopper Jota Porsches with  Oliver Rasmussen on the wheel.

Proton Competitors’s privateer 963 was subsequent up in ninth in Neel Jani’s palms, whereas Ferdinand Habsburg accomplished the highest 10 within the #35 Alpine A424 LMDh.

The solo Ganassi Cadillac V-Sequence.R LMDh was eleventh with Alex Lynn on the wheel, whereas the championship-leading #6 Porsche was the final automobile inside a second of the tempo in twelfth with Kevin Estre driving.

Daniil Kvyat took sixteenth within the Iron Lynx Lamborghini SC63 LMDh, and the 2 Peugeot 9X8 2024 LMHs introduced up the rear of the Hypercar class order after the French producer had taken FP1 honours.

WEC Bahrain: BMW tops FP2 from Porsche

#93 Peugeot Totalenergies Peugeot 9X8: Mikkel Jensen, Nico Muller, Jean-Eric Vergne

Photograph by: Shameem Fahath

The LMGT3 class was headed by the #87 Lexus RC F GT3 run by the Auto Sport Promotion group, Esteban Masson main the way in which by six tenths on 2m02.246s.

Second place went to Hiroshi Koizumi within the #82 TF Sport Chevrolet Corvette Z06 GT3.R with a 2m02.901. Francois Heriau obtained inside a tenth of the Chevy driver to take third.

The ultimate, one-hour apply session begins at 12:00 native time earlier than qualifying for Saturday’s Bahrain 8 Hours kicks off at 16:00.

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