Toyota blocked out the top two positions in second practice for this weekend’s opening round of the 2019/20 FIA World Endurance Championship season at Silverstone.
Kamui Kobayashi ended up fastest in the #7 Toyota TS050 Hybrid on a 1m36.847s lap set at the start of the 90-minute afternoon session.
Sebastien Buemi was eight tenths behind in the #8 Toyota with a 1m37.673s best.
Kobayashi’s time was eight tenths quicker than the best practice time from the Silverstone WEC round in 2018 and only four tenths slower than the fastest qualifying lap, reflecting the new Silverstone track surface.
Both Kobayashi and Buemi are understood to have set their times on simulated qualifying runs.
Gustavo Menezes took third with a 1m37.876s in the #1 Rebellion R-13 that topped the times in the morning session with Norman Nato at the wheel.
Loic Duval was fourth fastest in the #3 Rebellion entry on a 1m38.687s, while the #5 works Team LNT Ginetta G60-LT-P1 posted its first representative laptime of the weekend after suffering gear selection issues in the opening session.
Ben Hanley managed a 1m39.600s, which was just under three tenths up on the #6 Ginetta in which Oliver Jarvis posted the time.
Paul di Resta claimed the top spot in LMP2 aboard the United Autosports Oreca 07 on a 1m43.059s.
That was just two hundredths quicker than Kenta Yamashita’s 1m43.080s in the High Class Racing Oreca, which was on Goodyear tyres rather than the United car’s Michelins.
The Danish High Class squad had to sit out the first 30 minutes of the session for violating WEC rules by testing at Silverstone within 30 days of the race.
Giedo van der Garde took third spot in the TDS Racing-run Racing Team Nederland Oreca.
The two factory AF Corse Ferraris topped the times in GTE Pro until the closing minutes of the session, when they were split by the best Porsche.
Alessandro Pier Guidi’s 1m55.501s in the #51 Ferrari 488 GTE stood as the fastest of the session, with Richard Lietz’s factory 911 RSR less than two tenths behind on 1m55.665s.
Miguel Molina ended up third on a 1m55.907s in the second Ferrari, while the two Aston Martin Vantage GTEs took fifth and sixth positions in class behind the second factory Porsche.
Ross Gunn headed the GTE Am times in his works Aston Martin.
Session results:
| Cla | # | Drivers | Car | Class | Time | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 7 |  Mike Conway  Kamui Kobayashi  Jose Maria Lopez | Toyota TS050 Hybrid | LMP1 | 1’36.847 | |
| 2 | 8 |  Sébastien Buemi Kazuki Nakajima  Brendon Hartley | Toyota TS050 Hybrid | LMP1 | 1’37.673 | 0.826 |
| 3 | 1 |  Bruno Senna  Gustavo Menezes  Norman Nato | Rebellion R13 | LMP1 | 1’37.876 | 1.029 |
| 4 | 3 | Nathanael Berthon Pipo Derani Loic Duval | Rebellion R13 | LMP1 | 1’38.687 | 1.840 |
| 5 | 5 | Charles Robertson Ben Hanley  Egor Orudzhev | Ginetta G60-LT-P1 | LMP1 | 1’39.60 | 2.753 |
| 6 | 6 | Michael Simpson Oliver Jarvis Guy Smith | Ginetta G60-LT-P1 | LMP1 | 1’39.894 | 3.047 |
| 7 | 22 | Philip Hanson  Filipe Albuquerque Paul di Resta | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1’43.059 | 6.212 |
| 8 | 33 | Mark Patterson Kenta Yamashita  Anders Fjordbach | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1’43.080 | 6.233 |
| 9 | 29 |  Frits van Eerd Giedo van der Garde Job Van Uitert | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1’43.234 | 6.387 |
| 10 | 42 | Nicolas Lapierre Antonin Borga Alexandre Coigny | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1’43.349 | 6.502 |
| 11 | 36 | Thomas Laurent Andre Negrao Pierre Ragues | Alpine A470 | LMP2 | 1’43.792 | 6.945 |
| 12 | 38 |  Roberto Gonzalez Antonio Felix da Costa Anthony Davidson | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1’44.450 | 7.603 |
| 13 | 37 |  Ho-Pin Tung Gabriel Aubry Will Stevens | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1’44.834 | 7.987 |
| 14 | 47 |  Roberto Lacorte Andrea Belicchi Giorgio Sernagiotto | Dallara P217 | LMP2 | 1’44.878 | 8.031 |
| 15 | 51 | James Calado Alessandro Pier Guidi | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE PRO | 1’55.501 | 18.654 |
| 16 | 91 | Gianmaria Bruni  Richard Lietz | Porsche 911 RSR – 19 | LMGTE PRO | 1’55.665 | 18.818 |
| 17 | 71 | Davide Rigon  Miguel Molina | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE PRO | 1’55.907 | 19.060 |
| 18 | 92 | Michael Christensen Kevin Estre | Porsche 911 RSR – 19 | LMGTE PRO | 1’55.936 | 19.089 |
| 19 | 95 | Marco Sorensen Nicki Thiim | Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE PRO | 1’55.976 | 19.129 |
| 20 | 97 | Alex Lynn  Maxime Martin | Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE PRO | 1’56.206 | 19.359 |
| 21 | 98 |  Paul Dalla Lana Darren Turner Ross Gunn | Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 1’56.463 | 19.616 |
| 22 | 90 |  Salih Yoluc  Charles Eastwood Jonathan Adam | Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 1’56.559 | 19.712 |
| 23 | 83 | François Perrodo Emmanuel Collard Nicklas Nielsen | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 1’56.591 | 19.744 |
| 24 | 56 |  Egidio Perfetti  David Kolkmann Matteo Cairoli | Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 1’57.060 | 20.213 |
| 25 | 70 | Motoaki Ishikawa  Olivier Beretta Kei Cozzolino | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 1’57.076 | 20.229 |
| 26 | 62 | Bonamy Grimes Johnny Mowlem Charles Hollings | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 1’57.557 | 20.710 |
| 27 | 86 | Michael Wainwright Andrew Watson Benjamin Barker | Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 1’57.677 | 20.830 |
| 28 | 57 | Ben Keating Felipe Fraga Jeroen Bleekemolen | Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 1’57.729 | 20.882 |
| 29 | 54 | Thomas Flohr Francesco Castellacci Giancarlo Fisichella | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 1’57.764 | 20.917 |
| 30 | 88 | Thomas Preining Gianluca Giraudi Ricardo Sanchez | Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 1’57.950 | 21.103 |
| 31 | 77 | Christian Ried  Matt Campbell Riccardo Pera | Porsche 911 RSR | LMGTE AM | 1’58.029 | 21.182 |
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