FIA WEC, 6 Hours of Bahrain – Warm-Up

Weather report first – Hot – That is all!

All 28 cars made it out on track for the 20 minute Warm-Up (as if we needed it!) session.  That means that the Rebellion Racing crew had received the (required) unanimous approval of the rest of the paddock and had completed the transfer of the spare car’s tub to replace the damaged item in the car after the seemingly innocuous incident with a Larbre Corvette in free practice yesterday morning.

In timing terms it was the Audis to the fore again – Fassler ahead of McNish – The #1 car posting a 1:47.315, #2 some 1.3 secs behind with the Toyota less than a tenth shy of that mark.

Then came Belicchi in the refettled and reconstituted #13 Rebellion Lola, this car though had a couple of spins in the session, and was not alone in doing so, a breezy night and morning may well have left the track surface with plenty of sand for the cars to contend with.

The Pecom Oreca Nissan topped the LMP2 order, a 1:54.194 enough to relegate Vitantonio Liuzzi to second fastest in the #32 Lotus LMP2 Lola Judd with the Morgan Nissans next up and separated by just a few thoudandths of a second 

Stefan Mucke again topped the GTE Pro times in the #97 Aston – 2:02.841 ahead of the #77 Porsche with Nic Jonsson atop the GTE Am order in the #57 Krohn Ferrari, a chunk clear of Bornhauser’s #50 Larbre Corvette.