Webber fastest for Porsche in opening Le Mans practice - Motorsport.com
Porsche draws first blood at Le Mans in the pre-qualifying Le Mans practice. Mark Webber emerged quickest in free practice at Le Mans this evening setting a time of 3m21. 362s, which eclipsed the 2014 pole time. Audi trails Porsche The No. 17 Porsche 919 Hybrid headed the way, leading the No. 8 Audi by just over half a second. Romain Dumas in the No. 18 Porsche had initially made it a Porsche 1-2-3 and had also beaten last year's pole-position time but had his quickest time deleted at the end of the session after he cut a chicane while overtaking a GTE car. The British racer who is making his LMP Le Mans debut took over the car from Kiwi, Earl Bamber who had earlier skidded in to the first Mulsanne Chicane gravel trap. The much heralded Nissan GT-R LM NISMOs finished 12th, 13th and 14th overall and behind the leading LMP2 entry of the KCMG team. KCMG tops LMP2 Richard Bradley set the best LMP2 time for the Hong Kong entered KCMG Oreca-Nissan. The Asian based British driver set a best of 3m39. 897s in the electric blue LMP2 coupe despite the car causing the first of two red flags when it stopped with a water pressure problem in the first five minutes of the session. Source: www.motorsport.com
