Romain Dumas has pipped Mark Webber as Porsche went 1-2 in first practice for Round 5 of the World Endurance Championship at the Circuit of the Americas in Texas.
Dumas blistered around the 5.5km track in 1:47.23s, the fastest lap recorded by an LMP1 machine at the Austin venue.
The time of the #18 919 Hybrid exceeded the best lap by the #17 Porsche driven by Webber by almost .3s.
The Nurburgring 6 Hour race winning #17 had been the benchmark for much of the 90-minute session until Dumas twice exceeded Webber’s best lap.
The previous quickest lap recorded by a WEC outright runner was Benoit Treluyer’s Audi lap of 1:47.37s set in 2013.
Audi’s #8 R18 e-tron quattro driven by Oliver Jarvis was third fastest in 1:49.02s.
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The #7 Audi, currently leading the driver’s standings, was sixth best after completing just four laps after undergoing an alternator change.
Toyota’s #1 TS040 Hybrid at the hands of Kazuki Nakajima was fourth fastest with a best tour of 1:51.27s.
LMP2 honours in the opening run saw the KCMG ORECA Nissan driven by Nicolas Lapierre clock 1:57.76s to lead the Extreme Speed Motorsport Liger of Johannes van Overbeek by .6s.
James Calado (#71 AF Corse Ferrari) was fastest in GTE Pro in 2:06.75s while Patrick Long (Dempsey-Proton Racing Porsche) head the GTE Am runners in 2:07.48s.
Full Practice 1 results
| Pos | N° | Cat | Driver | Car | Laps | Gap | Gap Prev. | Best lap | Best time |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18 | LMP1 | Romain DUMAS, Neel JANI, Marc LIEB | Porsche 919 Hybrid | 34 | – | – | 29 | 1:47.231 |
| 2 | 17 | LMP1 | Timo BERNHARD, Mark WEBBER, Brendon HARTLEY | Porsche 919 Hybrid | 24 | +0.283 | +0.283 | 22 | 1:47.514 |
| 3 | 8 | LMP1 | Lucas DI GRASSI, Loïc DUVAL, Oliver JARVIS | Audi R18 e-tron quattro | 30 | +1.796 | +1.513 | 17 | 1:49.027 |
| 4 | 1 | LMP1 | Anthony DAVIDSON, Sébastien BUEMI, Kazuki NAKAJIMA | Toyota TS 040 – Hybrid | 34 | +4.048 | +2.252 | 4 | 1:51.279 |
| 5 | 2 | LMP1 | Alexander WURZ, Stéphane SARRAZIN, Mike CONWAY | Toyota TS 040 – Hybrid | 34 | +4.949 | +0.901 | 10 | 1:52.180 |
| 6 | 7 | LMP1 | Marcel FÄSSLER, André LOTTERER, Benoît TRÉLUYER | Audi R18 e-tron quattro | 4 | +6.240 | +1.291 | 3 | 1:53.471 |
| 7 | 12 | LMP1 | Nicolas PROST, Mathias BECHE, Nick HEIDFELD | Rebellion R-One – AER | 33 | +8.613 | +2.373 | 3 | 1:55.844 |
| 8 | 4 | LMP1 | Simon TRUMMER, Pierre KAFFER, | CLM P1/01 – AER | 28 | +9.314 | +0.701 | 24 | 1:56.545 |
| 9 | 47 | LMP2 | Matthew HOWSON, Richard BRADLEY, Nicolas LAPIERRE | Oreca 05 – Nissan | 29 | +10.533 | +1.219 | 18 | 1:57.764 |
| 10 | 31 | LMP2 | Ed BROWN, Johannes VAN OVERBEEK, Jonathon FOGARTY | Ligier JS P2 – HPD | 32 | +11.111 | +0.578 | 5 | 1:58.342 |
| 11 | 30 | LMP2 | Scott SHARP, Ryan DALZIEL, David HEINEMEIER HANSSON | Ligier JS P2 – HPD | 30 | +11.122 | +0.011 | 5 | 1:58.353 |
| 12 | 36 | LMP2 | Nelson PANCIATICI, Paul Loup CHATIN, Vincent CAPILLAIRE | Alpine A450b – Nissan | 37 | +11.504 | +0.382 | 4 | 1:58.735 |
| 13 | 42 | LMP2 | Nick LEVENTIS, Danny WATTS, Jonny KANE | Gibson 015S – Nissan | 34 | +11.539 | +0.035 | 11 | 1:58.770 |
| 14 | 13 | LMP1 | Alexandre IMPERATORI, Dominik KRAIHAMER, Daniel ABT | Rebellion R-One – AER | 23 | +11.631 | +0.092 | 6 | 1:58.862 |
| 15 | 28 | LMP2 | Gustavo YACAMAN, Luis Felipe DERANI, Ricardo GONZALEZ | Ligier JS P2 – Nissan | 33 | +11.673 | +0.042 | 10 | 1:58.904 |
| 16 | 43 | LMP2 | Pierre RAGUES, Oliver WEBB, Archie HAMILTON | Morgan Evo – SARD | 36 | +12.258 | +0.585 | 19 | 1:59.489 |
| 17 | 26 | LMP2 | Roman RUSINOV, Julien CANAL, Sam BIRD | Ligier JS P2 – Nissan | 22 | +12.387 | +0.129 | 3 | 1:59.618 |
| 18 | 71 | LMGTE Pro | Davide RIGON, James CALADO, | Ferrari F458 Italia | 33 | +19.522 | +7.135 | 16 | 2:06.753 |
| 19 | 51 | LMGTE Pro | Gianmaria BRUNI, Toni VILANDER, | Ferrari F458 Italia | 10 | +20.122 | +0.600 | 9 | 2:07.353 |
| 20 | 92 | LMGTE Pro | Patrick PILET, Frédéric MAKOWIECKI, | Porsche 911 RSR | 24 | +20.179 | +0.057 | 8 | 2:07.410 |
| 21 | 77 | LMGTE Am | Patrick DEMPSEY, Patrick LONG, Marco SEEFRIED | Porsche 911 RSR | 30 | +20.256 | +0.077 | 13 | 2:07.487 |
| 22 | 91 | LMGTE Pro | Richard LIETZ, Michael CHRISTENSEN, | Porsche 911 RSR | 28 | +20.489 | +0.233 | 11 | 2:07.720 |
| 23 | 97 | LMGTE Pro | Darren TURNER, Jonathan ADAM, | Aston Martin Vantage V8 | 35 | +20.907 | +0.418 | 17 | 2:08.138 |
| 24 | 50 | LMGTE Am | Gianluca RODA, Paolo RUBERTI, Kristian POULSEN | Chevrolet Corvette C7 | 28 | +20.993 | +0.086 | 4 | 2:08.224 |
| 25 | 99 | LMGTE Pro | Alex MACDOWALL, Fernando REES, Richie STANAWAY | Aston Martin Vantage V8 | 33 | +21.125 | +0.132 | 19 | 2:08.356 |
| 26 | 83 | LMGTE Am | François PERRODO, Emmanuel COLLARD, Rui AGUAS | Ferrari F458 Italia | 27 | +21.417 | +0.292 | 10 | 2:08.648 |
| 27 | 95 | LMGTE Pro | Christoffer NYGAARD, Marco SØRENSEN, | Aston Martin Vantage V8 | 37 | +21.473 | +0.056 | 4 | 2:08.704 |
| 28 | 72 | LMGTE Am | Victor SHAYTAR, Andrea BERTOLINI, Aleksey BASOV | Ferrari F458 Italia | 29 | +21.781 | +0.308 | 12 | 2:09.012 |
| 29 | 98 | LMGTE Am | Paul DALLA LANA, Pedro LAMY, Mathias LAUDA | Aston Martin Vantage V8 | 34 | +22.288 | +0.507 | 26 | 2:09.519 |
| 30 | 96 | LMGTE Am | Francesco CASTELLACCI, Benny SIMONSEN, Stuart HALL | Aston Martin Vantage V8 | 33 | +22.573 | +0.285 | 32 | 2:09.804 |
| 31 | 88 | LMGTE Am | Christian RIED, Khaled AL QUBAISI, Earl BAMBER | Porsche 911 RSR | 28 | +23.627 | +1.054 | 18 | 2:10.858 |
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