By alley - Apr 15, 2016, 3:01 PM ET

WEC: Porsche ends Silverstone Friday on top

Porsche maintained its monopoly of the top spots in the timesheets in second practice for this weekend's World Endurance Championship opener at Silverstone.

The #1 Porsche 919 Hybrid again led the way, with Brendon Hartley setting a session best of 1m39.655s. That put him more than a second and a half up on the 1m41.344s set by Romain Dumas in the #2 Porsche during the course of a session held in cold and blustery conditions.

The #2 Porsche lost track time after Marc Lieb was nudged into a spin at Luffield and had to return to the pits for repairs. Just a tenth behind in third place was Lucas di Grassi in the best of the Audi R18 e-tron quattros on a 1m41.454s.

Kamui Kobayashi was the fastest Toyota driver in fourth position courtesy of a 1m41.523s aboard the #6 TS050 Hybrid.

The LMP2 class was led by Jonny Kane in the Strakka Racing Gibson-Nissan 015S. His best lap of 1m49.632s put him less than a tenth up on the Manor ORECA-Nissan 05 driven by James Jakes.

The two AF Corse Ferraris were quickest in GTE Pro. James Calado's fastest lap of 2m00.107s put him two tenths ahead off teammate Sam Bird.

PRACTICE TWO TIMES

Pos	Class	Driver	Team	Car	Time	Gap	Laps
1	LMP1	T.Bernhard, M.Webber, B.Hartley	Porsche Team	Porsche	1m39.655ss	1m39.655s	35
2	LMP1	R.Dumas, N.Jani, M.Lieb	Porsche Team	Porsche	1m41.344ss	1.689s	21
3	LMP1	L.di Grassi, L.Duval, O.Jarvis	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi	1m41.454ss	1.799s	42
4	LMP1	S.Sarrazin, M.Conway, K.Kobayashi	Toyota Gazoo Racing	Toyota	1m41.523ss	1.868s	41
5	LMP1	M.Fassler, A.Lotterer, B.Treluyer	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi	1m41.678ss	2.023s	41
6	LMP1	A.Davidson, S.Buemi, K.Nakajima	Toyota Gazoo Racing	Toyota	1m42.963ss	3.308s	33
7	LMP1	M.Tuscher, D.Kraihamer, A.Imperatori	Rebellion Racing	Rebellion/AER	1m46.428ss	6.773s	36
8	LMP1	N.Prost, N.Piquet Jr., N.Heidfeld	Rebellion Racing	Rebellion/AER	1m47.685ss	8.030s	32
9	LMP1	S.Trummer, O.Webb, J.Rossiter	ByKOLLES Racing Team	CLM/AER	1m48.590ss	8.935s	28
10	LMP2	N.Leventis, D.Watts, J.Kane	Strakka Racing	Gibson/Nissan	1m49.632ss	9.977s	34
11	LMP2	T.Graves, W.Stevens, J.Jakes	Manor	ORECA/Nissan	1m49.696ss	10.041s	23
12	LMP2	G.Menezes, N.Lapierre, S.Richelmi	Signatech Alpine	Alpine/Nissan	1m49.757ss	10.102s	35
13	LMP2	M.Rao, R.Bradley, R.Merhi	Manor	ORECA/Nissan	1m49.994ss	10.339s	29
14	LMP2	R.Dalziel, L.Derani, C.Cumming	Extreme Speed Motorsports	Ligier/Nissan	1m50.026ss	10.371s	35
15	LMP2	R.Rusinov, N.Berthon, R.Rast	G-Drive Racing	ORECA/Nissan	1m50.268ss	10.613s	39
16	LMP2	R.Gonzalez, F.Albuquerque, B.Senna	RGR Sport by Morand	Ligier/Nissan	1m50.712ss	11.057s	32
17	LMP2	V.Petrov, K.Ladygin, V.Shaytar	SMP Racing	BR Engineering/Nissan	1m51.946ss	12.291s	23
18	LMP2	S.Sharp, E.Brown, J.van Overbeek	Extreme Speed Motorsports	Ligier/Nissan	1m52.082ss	12.427s	33
19	LMP2	D.Cheng, H-Pin Tung, N.Panciatici	Baxi DC Racing Alpine	Alpine/Nissan	1m52.305ss	12.650s	28
20	LMP2	N.Minassian, M.Mediani	SMP Racing	BR Engineering/Nissan	1m52.680ss	13.025s	23
21	GTE Pro	G.Bruni, J.Calado	AF Corse	Ferrari	2m00.107ss	20.452s	35
22	GTE Pro	D.Rigon, S.Bird	AF Corse	Ferrari	2m00.306ss	20.651s	34
23	GTE Pro	R.Lietz, M.E. Christensen	Dempsey-Proton Racing	Porsche	2m01.314ss	21.659s	33
24	GTE Am	M.Wainwright, A.Carroll, B.Barker	Gulf Racing	Porsche	2m02.081ss	22.426s	33
25	GTE Pro	R.Stanaway, F.Rees	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin	2m02.525ss	22.870s	24
26	GTE Pro	B.Johnson, S.Mucke, O.Pla	Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK	Ford	2m02.775ss	23.120s	33
27	GTE Am	P.D.Lana, P.Lamy, M.Lauda	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin	2m02.788ss	23.133s	34
28	GTE Am	Y.Yamagishi, P.Ragues, P.Ruberti	Larbre Competition	Chevrolet	2m02.911ss	23.256s	31
29	GTE Am	K.Al Qubaisi, D.Hansson, K.Bachler	Abu Dhabi-Proton Racing	Porsche	2m03.005ss	23.350s	32
30	GTE Pro	M.Franchitti, A.Priaulx, H.Tincknell	Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK	Ford	2m03.075ss	23.420s	34
31	GTE Am	F.Perrodo, E.Collard, R.Aguas	AF Corse	Ferrari	2m03.229ss	23.574s	34
32	GTE Pro	N.Thiim, M.Sorensen, D.Turner	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin	2m03.253ss	23.598s	28
33	GTE Am	C.Ried, W.Henzler, J.Camathias	KCMG	Porsche	2m03.392ss	23.737s	24