By alley - Nov 18, 2016, 5:31 AM ET

WEC: Porsche completes Bahrain practice sweep

Porsche remained on top in final free practice ahead of qualifying for this weekend's Bahrain World Endurance Championship finale.

The #1 Porsche 919 Hybrid headed the leaderboard this time courtesy of a 1m40.318s from Timo Bernhard. That put the car nearly half a second up on the best of the Audi R18 e-trons in which Oliver Jarvis ended up on a 1m40.806s.

Toyota claimed third position, less than a tenth further back with a 1m40.852s from Anthony Davidson in the #5 TS050 Hybrid. Andre Lotterer took fourth in the second Audi on a 1m41.400s.

The championship-leading #2 Porsche, in which Neel Jani had been fastest in the opening two practice sessions, was just over a tenth back in fifth in Marc Lieb's hands. Mike Conway was sixth in the second Toyota.

The G-Drive ORECA-Nissan 05 again led the way in LMP2. Rene Rast set the pace in the Jota-run car with a 1m50.431s, which put him just two hundredths up on Stephane Richelmi in the Signatech Alpine ORECA.

Gianmaria Bruni was fastest in GTE Pro for the AF Corse factory Ferrari team. The Italian's 1m59.038s in the #51 Ferrari 488 GTE put him nearly three tenths up on the best of the Aston Martin Vantage GTEs with Darren Turner driving.

AF was also quickest in GTE Am with a 2m00.701s from Emmanuel Collard.

PRACTICE THREE TIMES:

Pos	Class	Driver	Team	Car	Time	Gap	Laps
1	LMP1	T.Bernhard, M.Webber, B.Hartley	Porsche Team	Porsche	1m40.318ss	1m40.318s	31
2	LMP1	L.di Grassi, L.Duval, O.Jarvis	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi	1m40.806ss	0.488s	29
3	LMP1	A.Davidson, S.Buemi, K.Nakajima	Toyota Gazoo Racing	Toyota	1m40.852ss	0.534s	32
4	LMP1	M.Fassler, A.Lotterer, B.Treluyer	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi	1m41.000ss	0.682s	30
5	LMP1	R.Dumas, N.Jani, M.Lieb	Porsche Team	Porsche	1m41.014ss	0.696s	32
6	LMP1	S.Sarrazin, M.Conway, K.Kobayashi	Toyota Gazoo Racing	Toyota	1m41.276ss	0.958s	28
7	LMP1	M.Tuscher, D.Kraihamer, A.Imperatori	Rebellion Racing	Rebellion/AER	1m46.338ss	6.020s	20
8	LMP1	S.Trummer, O.Webb, P.Kaffer	ByKOLLES Racing Team	CLM/AER	1m48.236ss	7.918s	22
9	LMP2	R.Rusinov, R.Rast, A.Brundle	G-Drive Racing	ORECA/Nissan	1m50.431ss	10.113s	29
10	LMP2	G.Menezes, N.Lapierre, S.Richelmi	Signatech Alpine	Alpine/Nissan	1m51.455ss	11.137s	29
11	LMP2	D.Cheng, H-Pin Tung, P-L.Chatin	Baxi DC Racing Alpine	Alpine/Nissan	1m51.591ss	11.273s	27
12	LMP2	R.Dalziel, L.Derani, C.Cumming	Extreme Speed Motorsports	Ligier/Nissan	1m51.805ss	11.487s	28
13	LMP2	T.Dillmann, G.van der Garde, S.Gelael	Extreme Speed Motorsports	Ligier/Nissan	1m51.864ss	11.546s	26
14	LMP2	R.Gonzalez, F.Albuquerque, B.Senna	RGR Sport by Morand	Ligier/Nissan	1m51.946ss	11.628s	25
15	LMP2	V.Petrov, K.Ladygin, V.Shaytar	SMP Racing	BR Engineering/Nissan	1m52.497ss	12.179s	26
16	LMP2	N.Minassian, M.Mediani, M.Aleshin	SMP Racing	BR Engineering/Nissan	1m52.561ss	12.243s	28
17	LMP2	J.Canal, R.Gonzalez, R.Merhi	Manor	ORECA/Nissan	1m53.096ss	12.778s	24
18	LMP2	M.Rao, R.Bradley, A.Lynn	Manor	ORECA/Nissan	1m53.365ss	13.047s	24
19	GTE Pro	G.Bruni, J.Calado	AF Corse	Ferrari	1m59.038ss	18.720s	25
20	GTE Pro	J.Adam, D.Turner	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin	1m59.301ss	18.983s	26
21	GTE Pro	S.Mucke, O.Pla	Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK	Ford	1m59.580ss	19.262s	26
22	GTE Pro	N.Thiim, M.Sorensen	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin	1m59.862ss	19.544s	25
23	GTE Pro	A.Priaulx, H.Tincknell	Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK	Ford	1m59.920ss	19.602s	25
24	GTE Pro	R.Lietz, M.Christensen	Dempsey Racing - Proton	Porsche	1m59.949ss	19.631s	24
25	GTE Pro	D.Rigon, S.Bird	AF Corse	Ferrari	1m59.955ss	19.637s	25
26	GTE Am	F.Perrodo, E.Collard, R.Aguas	AF Corse	Ferrari	2m00.701ss	20.383s	26
27	GTE Am	M.Wainwright, A.Carroll, B.Barker	Gulf Racing UK	Porsche	2m01.325ss	21.007s	25
28	GTE Am	P.D.Lana, P.Lamy, M.Lauda	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin	2m01.466ss	21.148s	22
29	GTE Am	C.Ried, W.Henzler, J.Camathias	KCMG	Porsche	2m01.987ss	21.669s	25
30	GTE Am	K.Al Qubaisi, D.H.Hansson, P.Long	Abu Dhabi-Proton Racing	Porsche	2m02.528ss	22.210s	26
31	GTE Am	P.Ragues, R.Taylor, R.Brandela	Larbre Competition	Chevrolet	2m04.359ss	24.041s	23