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WEC Bahrain: Peugeot leads Porsche in opening observe
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WEC Bahrain: Peugeot leads Porsche in opening observe

By Miles Cooper October 31, 2024
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WEC Bahrain: Peugeot leads Porsche in opening observe

Peugeot set the tempo within the opening observe session for this weekend’s World Endurance Championship finale in Bahrain.

Former Method 1 driver Paul di Resta set a time of 1m50.837s within the #94 Peugeot 9X8 LMH at a sizzling and sunny Bahrain Worldwide Circuit on Thursday afternoon, eclipsing the earlier benchmark of Frederic Makowiecki within the #5 Porsche Penske Motorsport 963 LMDh by simply 0.049s.

A lot of the quickest occasions have been set originally of the 90-minute session, because the monitor remained comparatively inexperienced resulting from mud and excessive temperatures.

It meant that the tempo of the lead automobiles was a couple of second down from the corresponding session in 2023, when Toyota led the best way with a greatest time of 1m49.856s amid heavy wind.

Solely two automobiles have been in a position to lap within the 1m50s bracket, the #94 Peugeot and the #5 Porsche, with the #51 Ferrari pushed by Antonio Giovinazzi ending up fractionally down in third with a time of 1m51.041s.

Peugeot managed to get each its automobiles inside the highest 5, with Jean-Eric Vergne ending up one other 0.010s adrift of the Ferrari in fourth place.

The championship-leading #6 Porsche wound up fifth courtesy of Laurens Vanthoor, forward of the only real manufacturing facility Iron Lynx Lamborghini of Daniil Kvyat.

Toyota’s cost was led by Sebastien Buemi in seventh place, 4 tenths down on the pacesetting Peugeot, with Mike Conway ending up tenth within the sister #7 GR010 HYBRID

The 2 Toyotas have been separated by the 2 factory-entered WRT BMW entries, with Rene Rast within the #20 M Hybrid V8 edging out the #15 automobile pushed by Rafaelle Marciello.

All prime 10 automobiles have been in a position to lap inside a second of the outright tempo.

The most effective of the Alpine A424 LMDh entries completed 14th with Jules Gounon, whereas Cadillac kicked off the weekend in 18th and final place, as Earl Bamber set a greatest lap of 1m52.302s within the #2 Chip Ganassi V-Sequence.R.

Lexus quickest in LMGT3

DTM runner-up Kelvin van der Linde propelled the ASP Lexus squad to the highest of the occasions within the LMGT3 class with an early effort of 2m02.079s within the #78 RC F GT3.

That was 1 / 4 of a second faster than what Alessio Rovera managed within the #55 AF Corse Ferrari 296 GT3, whereas Matteo Cairoli was additional behind in third on returning to WEC competitors within the #60 Iron Lynx Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2.

Davide Rigon was labeled fourth within the second of the 2 Ferrari LMGT3 entries, beating the highest Proton Ford Mustang GT3 of Benjamin Barker by simply 0.023s

Klaus Bachler ended up useless final within the #92 Manthey PureRxcing Porsche 911 GT3 that wrapped up the LMGT3 title at Fuji final month.

The session was accomplished with none main interruptions, though a digital security automobile was deployed with half-hour left on the clock to finish some system checks.

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