Toyota topped opening practice for the Spa WEC round by a whopping 1.650s, with Sebastien Buemi leading the way for the Japanese marque. Full report and results:
Toyota topped the times with Sebastien Buemi in opening free practice for this weekend’s Spa round of the World Endurance Championship.Buemi jumped to the head of the timesheets after a 12-minute red flag midway through session aboard the #8 Toyota GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar with a 2m02.982s that gave him a margin of more than a second and a half over Ferrari driver Antonio Fuoco.
The Toyota driver’s 2m04.642s set at the start of the session left him just one hundreth of a second behind the Ferrari. Ferrari took fourth position courtesy of a 2m04.716s from Alessandro Pier Guidi in the #51 entry run by the AF Corse factory team. Michael Christensen took seventh in the second Porsche on 2m05.807s, while Gustavo Menezes ended up eighth in the best of the Peugeot 9X8 LMHs with a 2m06.259s.
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