Alpine Endurance Team set the pace ahead of Toyota in the second free practice session ahead of the Six Hours of Spa-Francorchamps.
Andre Negrao set the quickest time in the #36 Alpine A480-Gibson, posting a 02:03:396 to go quickest overall with Toyota’s Brendon Hartley in second place. The New Zealander was 0.035s slower in the #8 Toyota GR010 Hybrid.
The second Toyota, in the hands of Jose Maria Lopez, was only seventh with four LMP2 runners quicker.
Filipe Albuquerque was third overall in the #22 United Autosports ORECA 07-Gibson after topping the opening session on Thursday. Nyck de Vries was fourth in the #26 G-Drive Aurus 01-Gibson, ahead of Inter Europol Competition’s Alex Brundle and the second G-Drive Aurus of Roberto Merhi.
After Porsche was strong all throughout the Prologue and topped the opening practice session on Thursday, Ferrari surpassed them on Friday morning.
James Calado led the way in the #51 Ferrari 488 GTE Evo, posting a 02:13:552 to outpace the #91 Porsche 911 RSR-19 of Gianmaria Bruni in second place. Bruni was 0.242s down, while Daniel Serra sat third in the #71 Ferrari.
The #92 Porsche was fourth, with the #63 Corvette C8.R of Oliver Gavin bringing up the rear behind the top six in GTE Am and 1.6s off the pace set by Calado.
Jaxon Evans narrowly beat out Giancarlo Fisichella to lead GTE Am as the New Zealander put in a 02:14:740 in the #77 Dempsey-Proton Porsche 911 RSR-19. That was 0.052s faster than Fisichella’s #54 AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE Evo.
