Rebellion Racing dominates sunny Estoril warm-up

The final session before the start of the Estoril 6 Hours was held in sunny weather. The teams took full advantage of the 20 minutes to check their cars’ setup before the last race of the season, and most of them covered over 10 laps.

In LM P1, Christophe Tinseau in the Pescarolo team’s Pescarolo-Judd set the early pace with a lap in 1m 34.980s. The Frenchman improved to 1m 33.983s, but Andrea Bellichi went even quicker in the Rebellion Racing Lola-Toyota in 1m 32.922s, and then set the fastest lap of the warm-up in 1m 31.886s.

In LM P2, Ralph Meichtry in the Race Performance Oreca 03-Judd was the early leader until he was beaten by Dominik Kraihammer in the Boutsen Energy Racing Oreca 03-Nissan, who got round in 1m 34.680s followed by a 1m 33.655s.

After setting pole yesterday, Neil Garner Motorsport continued to dominate in FLM thanks to Tor Graves’ 1m 38.221s.

Patrick Pilet was fastest early on in LM GTE Pro in the IMSA Performance Porsche 997, but Rob Bell in the JMW Motorsport Ferrari F458 Italia, the category pole setter, ended the warm-up in first place in 1m 40.711s.

In LM GTE Am Raymond Narac in the IMSA Performance Matmut Porsches dominated for most of the session before Horst Felbermayr in the Felbermayr-Proton’s Porsche topped the time sheets in 1m 43.614s.

The start of the Estoril 6 Hours will be given at 13h00.