FIA WEC, 6 Hours of Fuji - Friday AM Notes

Good Morning from Fuji Speedway, the DSC crew arrived after an epic trek yesterday, the Ed’s eyes on stalks after a 5 hour drive with a recalcitrant Sat Nav from Narita Airport!

We arrived to hear of no dramas for the teams that took part in the test session on Wednesday, 20 cars took to the track with all three factory cars in the low 1:29s, the #1 Audi fastest with a best lap of 1:29.073, but all three separated by just a tenth of a second!

The repaired tub for the #13 Rebellion Lola Toyota arrived here on Wednesday evening and was being built up yesterday and this morning too – No news yet on whether we’ll see the car out in the first session, due to start at 11am.

One change to note is the switch of the #55 JWA Avila Porsche from Pirelli to Michelin rubber, the team spent the Wednesday test working on set-up with their new tyres and still, says Joel Camathias this morning, need more work to nail down the best set-up with them.

The #15 Oak Pescarolo-HPD is ready to go this morning, the car lapped competitively in the test session, though it was outpaced by the JRM HPD, the #22 car down into the 1:29s

Takuma Sato is named in the #15 as expected with Shinji Nakano set to start for ADR Delta, the #25 car carries a tribute to Bob Graves, Tor’s stepfather, who sadly passed away 2 days ago. GT300 driver Kenji Kobayashi will race in the #55 Porsche.

We bumped into Pedro Lamy on the stairs this morning, the Portugese driver replaces Fernando Rees in the #50 Larbre Corvette.

Wednesday Test Times

#1 Audi 1:29.073
#2 Audi 1:29.130
#7 Toyota 1:29.177
#22 JRM HPD 1:29.963
#15 Oak Pescarolo HPD 1:31.272
#12 Rebellion Lola Toyota 1:31.417
#25 ADR Delta Oreca-Nissan 1:32.807
#24 Oak Morgan Nissan 1:33.333
#32 Lotus Lola Judd 1:33.477
#44 Starworks HPD 1:33.482
#49 Pecom Oreca Nissan 1:34.428
#41 Greaves Zytek Nissan 1:34.473
#23 Signatech Oreca Nissan 1: 34.962
#26 Signatech Oreca Nissan 1:35.124
#29 Gulf Lola Nissan 1:37.096
#97 Aston Martin Racing Vantage 1:41.459
#57 Krohn Ferrari 1:42.169
#70 Larbre Corvette 1:42.805
#50 Larbre Corvette 1:43.029
#55 JWA Avila 1:1:43.270