Kamui Kobayashi led Toyota Gazoo Racing 1-2 in the second free practice of the FIA World Endurance Championship Bahrain 8 Hours.
The Japanese driver led the No. 7 Toyota GR010 Hybrid to a best lap of 1 minute 46.851 seconds, beating fellow stablemate Brendon Hartley in the sister car No. 8 by 0.461 seconds.
Alex Lynn takes the top three ahead of the No. 2 Cadillac V-Series.R, while Will Stevens’ No. 38 Hertz Team JOTA Porsche 963 takes the top five ahead of Kevin Estre’s Porsche Penske Motorsports machine. entered in.
After initially running as high as third, courtesy of Nico Müller, the #94 Peugeot ended the session in sixth place, with the #99 Proton Competition Porsche and #93 Peugeot in seventh and eighth.
Rounding out the top ten were the No. 5 Porsche and the No. 50 Ferrari 499 (Antonio Fuoco).
22 minutes into the session, the No. 22 United Autosports Oreca 07 Gibson (Filipe Albuquerque)’s flying lap set the British and American team’s fastest time in LMP2.
Albuquerque’s time was 1 minute 52.850 seconds, giving him a 0.325 second lead over early pacesetter Mirko Bortolotti in the No. 63 Prema Racing car.
For the Alpine Elf team, Charles Milesi finished in the top three, while Bent Viscard, competing in Prema for the second time, took fourth place, less than 10 seconds behind Fabio Scherer’s Oreca, who placed 34th in the Europol international competition. It became the rank.
Kessel Racing’s Daniel Serra led GTE-Am with a time of 1 minute 58.246 seconds in the No. 57 Ferrari 488 GTE Evo shared with Takeshi Kimura and Esteban Masson.
Second place went to Ricardo Pera in the No. 86 GR Racing Porsche 911 RSR-19, followed by Matteo Cairoli.
Cairoli’s co-driver Gunnar Janet crashed his No. 56 Project 1-AO Porsche with 30 minutes remaining, spinning out of turn 15 and hitting the wall, damaging the rear of the race.
The incident brought out a red flag and the session was extended for 10 minutes to make up for the interruption.
Circuit practice at the Bahrain International Circuit follows the third and final free practice session, which kicks off at 12pm local time (5am ET) on Friday.