Dries Vanthoor in the #15 BMW M Hybrid V8 set the fastest time of the Friday practoce sessions at Fuji, in preparation for the FIA World Endurance Championship’s 6 Hours of Fuji.
The Belgian set a 1:29.577 to go quickest in FP2, setting the lap time early with no one eclipsing it as the session continued. Porsche’s Matt Campbell, in the #5 Porsche 963, was second in FP2, just nine thousandths of a second down on Vanthoor, setting his time shortly after Vanthoor.
Cadillac’s Alex Lynn, onboard the #2 Cadillac V-Series.R, was third, just six thousandths off Campbell and 15 hundredths off Vanthoor, in a very close top three dominated by LMDh-rules cars.
The quickest of the Ferraris was next up in fourth, with Robert Kubica at the wheel of the satellite #83 AF Corse Ferrari 499P entry, while fifth was the #8 Toyota of Ryo Hirakawa, just a couple of hundredths off Kubica. Both, however, were around four tenths off Vanthoor.
The session ran cleanly for the entire hour and a half, with just a brief full course yellow systems check an hour in that was finished up quickly, letting the track go back to green.
In LMGT3, Alessio Rovera was fastest in the #55 AF Corse Ferrari 296 GT3, setting a 1:40.924 to top the class timesheets. The #82 Lexus RC F GT3 was second, with Horoshi Koizumi just under two tenths tenth away from Rovera. Third quickest in class was the #60 Iron Lynx Lamborghini Huracan GT3 EVO2 of Franck Perera, nine thousandths off Koizumi.
FP3 takes place tomorrow at 10:20am local time, 2:20am UK time.
