Kooheji dominates, P22 Azzaitar rules SPORTS 2424 Saturday, November 18, 2017

Drivers during a press conference WEC Bapco 6 Hours of Bahrain PorschePorsche on pole Manama designate twoon drivers to take part in In fourth polewas in Vantage of and their 488 GTE. ick Tandy came on late in the session. The two drivers must the no. 8 . He and qualifying were top with an average In the LMGTE Am class, qualifying to help World each set at least one timed lap during partner had a lap of 1:59.328. Clearwater Racing’s Weng Sun Mok, Nchampions Porsche steal pole qualifying. The average of the two fastest average lap time that was Meanwhile, earlier in the day Keita Sawa and Matthew Griffin had position for the FIA WEC Bapco 6 best lap times (the best from each 1.391s off the pace. Porsche already made their presence a quickest time of 2:00.661 to top Hours of Bahrain. driver) will serve as the reference In LMP2 qualifying, Gustavo felt after topping the timesheets in their classification. With only minutes remaining in time for establishing the grid. Menezes helped steer the Alpine Free Practice 3. Brazilian Felipe Drugovich got his qualifying, Tandy steered his no. 1 While Tandy and Jani gained A470-Gibon of Signatech Alpine It was Bernhard, Hartley and 2017 MRF Challenge campaign off Toyota Hybrid to the top of the pole position, the other front row Matmut to the top of their group. who set the pace. They to a perfect start by winning both timesheet as he and teammate Neel position was taken by LMP1 rivals He and Andre Negrao had a quickest steered their car to a best lap of races in the season opener, held as Jani had a best average lap time of Toyota with the no. 7 Hybrid of average lap of 1:47.227. 1:42.438 seconds. part of the WEC weekend at BIC. one minute 39.383 seconds. Jose Maria Lopez and . In the LMGTE Pro class, AF The LMP2 car of Ho-Pin Tung, Drugovich pulled off a last lap WEC qualifying headlined a They clocked a best average lap of Corse’s put his team and move on Manuel Maldonado, hugely exciting second day of the 1:39.646. up in first place early on, and after was on top of their class with a best cousin of former F1 racer Pastor WEC race weekend at Bahrain Classified third overall was the teammate took over in lap of 1:48.879 in the Oreca-07 of Maldonado, to win race two. Presley International Circuit (BIC). drivers’ world-title winning car their GTE they managed Jackie Chan DC Racing. Martono also passed Maldonado on The Bapco 6 Hours of Bahrain of and Brendon a best average lap of 1:56.033. In the LMGTE Pro, AF Corse’s the run-up to the chequered flag to flags off at 4pm today. Hartley, who had an average time Amongst the LMGTE Amateur and Alessandro Pier beat the Venezuelan by 0.010s and In WEC quailing, each team must that was 10.628s behind the leader. participants, the Guida had a best lap of 1:57.972 in take second spot.

Action from yesterday’s qualifying

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