Lopez fastest for Toyota in Silverstone WEC FP2

Jose Maria Lopez led Toyota's charge in the second FIA World Endurance Championship practice session at Silverstone on Friday, heading up another one-two finish for the Japanese manufacturer.

Following co-driver Mike Conway's lead from FP1, Lopez set the fastest time of the session behind the wheel of the #7 Toyota TS050 Hybrid, recording a lap of 1m38.536s to finish more than 1.3 seconds clear of Kazuki Nakajima in the sister #8 Toyota.

Formula 1 star Fernando Alonso was the slowest of the three drivers in the #8 Toyota in FP2, recording the seventh-best time of the session overall, 2.1 seconds down on Lopez's benchmark.

Egor Orudzhev lifted SMP Racing to third overall in the #17 BR Engineering BR1, with Rebellion Racing following in fourth place with the #3 Rebellion R13 Gibson. The sister #1 Rebellion failed to get out on-track as a result of crash damage from FP1.

The LMP2 class saw silver-rated driver Gabriel Aubry set the pace for Jackie Chan DC Racing in the #38 Oreca 07 Gibson, finishing four-tenths of a second clear of Nicolas Lapierre in the #36 Signatech Alpine Matmut entry. Mathieu Vaxiviere took third in class for TDS Racing in the #28 Oreca entry.

Ford continued to lead the way in GTE-Pro through Stefan Mücke in the #66 Ford GT after the German driver posted a best lap time of 1m56.852s to edge out Harry Tincknell by 0.046 seconds in the sister #67 Ford. Aston Martin took third in class following its Balance of Performance break for Silverstone as Alex Lynn finished less than two-tenths of a second off the pace.

Matteo Cairoli followed his charge to the top of the GTE-Am timesheets in FP1 with a repeat performance in second practice, leading the way in the #88 Dempsey-Proton Racing Porsche 911 RSR. Pedro Lamy took second for Aston Martin in the #98 Vantage, while Matt Campbell rounded out the top three in the second Dempsey-entered Porsche.