By alley - May 6, 2016, 7:31 AM ET

WEC: Porsche back ahead in Spa practice

Porsche returned to the top of the times in final free practice for this weekend's Spa round of the World Endurance Championship.

Timo Bernhard went quickest aboard the #1 Porsche 919 Hybrid with the fastest time of the weekend. The German led the way initially with a 1m58.485s, before teammate Brendon Hartley jumped in the car and set a 1m57.274s

Bernhard then returned to the cockpit and posted a 1m56.465s. That compared with Neel Jani's 1m58.163s in the second of the Porsche LMP1s.

The best of the Toyota TS050 Hybrids, which had finished one-two in second free practice, was less than two tenths behind in third place courtesy of a 1m58.327s from Kamui Kobayashi.

Andre Lotter took fourth place in the fastest Audi R18 e-tron quattro on a 1m58.976s. Sebastien Buemi was fifth in the second Toyota, while Lucas di Grassi ended up sixth in the #8 Audi.

The second of the R18 e-tron quattros lost time in the session to front suspension and bodywork repairs after Loic Duval made contact with the KCMG/Proton GTE Am class Porsche 911 RSR at the Bus Stop chicane.

The G-Drive Racing ORECA-Nissan 05 led the way in LMP2. Nathanael Berthon headed the times early on in the Jota-run car before teammate Rene Rast posted a 2m07.341s. That put him four tenths up on Nelson Panciatici in the second of the Signatech Alpine ORECA coupes.

The two factory AF Corse Ferraris headed the GTE Pro order. Gianmaria Bruni ended up quickest with a 2m17.874s, which put him just over three tenths up on Davide Rigon in the second of the new 488 GTEs.

Paulo Ruberti was fastest in GTE Am aboard the Larbre Competition Chevrolet Corvette C7.R.

PRACTICE 3 TIMES

Pos	Class	Driver	Team	Car	Time	Gap
1	LMP1	T.Bernhard, M.Webber, B.Hartley	Porsche Team	Porsche	1m56.465ss	1m56.465s
2	LMP1	R.Dumas, N.Jani, M.Lieb	Porsche Team	Porsche	1m58.163ss	1.698s
3	LMP1	S.Sarrazin, M.Conway, K.Kobayashi	Toyota Gazoo Racing	Toyota	1m58.327ss	1.862s
4	LMP1	M.Fassler, A.Lotterer, B.Treluyer	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi	1m58.976ss	2.511s
5	LMP1	A.Davidson, S.Buemi, K.Nakajima	Toyota Gazoo Racing	Toyota	1m59.440ss	2.975s
6	LMP1	L.di Grassi, L.Duval, O.Jarvis	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi	2m00.295ss	3.830s
7	LMP1	M.Tuscher, D.Kraihamer, A.Imperatori	Rebellion Racing	Rebellion/AER	2m02.751ss	6.286s
8	LMP1	S.Trummer, O.Webb, J.Rossiter	ByKOLLES Racing Team	CLM/AER	2m04.239ss	7.774s
9	LMP1	N.Prost, N.Piquet Jr., N.Heidfeld	Rebellion Racing	Rebellion/AER	2m04.718ss	8.253s
10	LMP2	R.Rusinov, N.Berthon, R.Rast	G-Drive Racing	ORECA/Nissan	2m07.341ss	-
11	LMP2	D.Cheng, H-Pin Tung, N.Panciatici	Baxi DC Racing Alpine	Alpine/Nissan	2m07.771ss	-
12	LMP2	G.Menezes, N.Lapierre, S.Richelmi	Signatech Alpine	Alpine/Nissan	2m08.111ss	-
13	LMP2	T.Graves, W.Stevens, J.Jakes	Manor	ORECA/Nissan	2m08.768ss	-
14	LMP2	R.Gonzalez, F.Albuquerque, B.Senna	RGR Sport by Morand	Ligier/Nissan	2m09.494ss	-
15	LMP2	N.Minassian, M.Mediani, D.Markozov	SMP Racing	BR Engineering/Nissan	2m09.759ss	-
16	LMP2	N.Leventis, D.Watts, J.Kane	Strakka Racing	Gibson/Nissan	2m09.785ss	-
17	LMP2	S.Dolan, G.van der Garde, J.Dennis	G-Drive Racing	Gibson/Nissan	2m09.972ss	-
18	LMP2	V.Petrov, K.Ladygin, V.Shaytar	SMP Racing	BR Engineering/Nissan	2m10.155ss	-
19	LMP2	R.Dalziel, L.Derani, C.Cumming	Extreme Speed Motorsports	Ligier/Nissan	2m10.764ss	-
20	LMP2	M.Rao, R.Bradley, R.Merhi	Manor	ORECA/Nissan	2m11.006ss	-
21	LMP2	S.Sharp, E.Brown, J.van Overbeek	Extreme Speed Motorsports	Ligier/Nissan	2m11.364ss	-
22	GTE Pro	G.Bruni, J.Calado	AF Corse	Ferrari	2m17.874ss	-
23	GTE Pro	D.Rigon, S.Bird	AF Corse	Ferrari	2m18.203ss	-
24	GTE Pro	N.Thiim, M.Sorensen, D.Turner	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin	2m18.730ss	-
25	GTE Pro	R.Stanaway, F.Rees, J.Adam	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin	2m19.255ss	-
26	GTE Pro	M.Franchitti, A.Priaulx, H.Tincknell	Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK	Ford	2m19.858ss	-
27	GTE Am	P.D.Lana, P.Lamy, M.Lauda	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin	2m19.860ss	-
28	GTE Pro	R.Lietz, M.Christensen	Dempsey-Proton Racing	Porsche	2m20.022ss	-
29	GTE Am	Y.Yamagishi, P.Ragues, P.Ruberti	Larbre Competition	Chevrolet	2m20.494ss	-
30	GTE Am	C.Ried, W.Henzler, J.Camathias	KCMG	Porsche	2m20.767ss	-
31	GTE Pro	B.Johnson, S.Mucke, O.Pla	Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK	Ford	2m20.941ss	-
32	GTE Am	K.Al Qubaisi, D.Hansson, P.Long	Abu Dhabi-Proton Racing	Porsche	2m20.965ss	-
33	GTE Am	F.Perrodo, E.Collard, R.Aguas	AF Corse	Ferrari	2m21.062ss	-
34	GTE Am	M.Wainwright, A.Carroll, B.Barker	Gulf Racing	Porsche	2m21.403ss	-