By alley - Nov 17, 2016, 7:01 PM ET

WEC: Title-chasing Porsche still on top in Bahrain

The No.2 Porsche remained on top in second free practice for this weekend's Bahrain World Endurance Championship finale as Neel Jani, Marc Lieb and Romain Dumas attempt to wrap up the title.

Jani set a best time of 1m39.817s near the beginning of the 90-minute night session aboard their 919 Hybrid to end up half a second clear of team-mate Brendon Hartley in the second Porsche. Hartley's 1m40.272s put him just over a tenth up on the 1m40.400s set by Lucas di Grassi in the best of the Audi R18 e-tron quattros.

Mike Conway took fourth in the No.6 Toyota TS050 HYBRID in which he and teammates Kamui Kobayashi and Stephane Sarrazin retain an outside chance of taking the title. The Briton's 1m40.603s was half a second quicker than the second Audi in the hands of Andre Lotterer.

Sebastien Buemi was sixth in the second of the Toyotas.

Rene Rast went fastest in LMP2 on the his return to the G-Drive Racing squad. The German's 1m50.056s aboard the Jota-run ORECA-Nissan 05 put him just under four tenths up on Gustavo Menezes in the Signatech Alpine ORECA.

Aston Martin ended up one-two in GTE Pro. Marco Sorensen's 1m57.226s pipped team-mate Darren Turner in the second of the Vantage GTEs by just seven hundredths of a second. Aston also led the way in GTE Am with Pedro Lamy.

PRACTICE TWO TIMES:

Pos	Class	Driver	Team	Car	Time	Laps
1	LMP1	R.Dumas, N.Jani, M.Lieb	Porsche Team	Porsche	1m39.817ss	41
2	LMP1	T.Bernhard, M.Webber, B.Hartley	Porsche Team	Porsche	1m40.272ss	41
3	LMP1	L.di Grassi, L.Duval, O.Jarvis	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi	1m40.400ss	45
4	LMP1	S.Sarrazin, M.Conway, K.Kobayashi	Toyota Gazoo Racing	Toyota	1m40.603ss	38
5	LMP1	M.Fassler, A.Lotterer, B.Treluyer	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi	1m41.020ss	48
6	LMP1	A.Davidson, S.Buemi, K.Nakajima	Toyota Gazoo Racing	Toyota	1m42.859ss	42
7	LMP1	M.Tuscher, D.Kraihamer, A.Imperatori	Rebellion Racing	Rebellion/AER	1m47.178ss	31
8	LMP1	S.Trummer, O.Webb, P.Kaffer	ByKOLLES Racing Team	CLM/AER	1m47.572ss	32
9	LMP2	R.Rusinov, R.Rast, A.Brundle	G-Drive Racing	ORECA/Nissan	1m50.056ss	37
10	LMP2	G.Menezes, N.Lapierre, S.Richelmi	Signatech Alpine	Alpine/Nissan	1m50.444ss	37
11	LMP2	M.Rao, R.Bradley, A.Lynn	Manor	ORECA/Nissan	1m51.023ss	40
12	LMP2	R.Gonzalez, F.Albuquerque, B.Senna	RGR Sport by Morand	Ligier/Nissan	1m51.297ss	31
13	LMP2	T.Dillmann, G.van der Garde, S.Gelael	Extreme Speed Motorsports	Ligier/Nissan	1m51.419ss	39
14	LMP2	R.Dalziel, L.Derani, C.Cumming	Extreme Speed Motorsports	Ligier/Nissan	1m51.513ss	38
15	LMP2	J.Canal, R.Gonzalez, R.Merhi	Manor	ORECA/Nissan	1m51.829ss	33
16	LMP2	N.Minassian, M.Mediani, M.Aleshin	SMP Racing	BR Engineering/Nissan	1m52.359ss	35
17	LMP2	D.Cheng, H-Pin Tung, P-L.Chatin	Baxi DC Racing Alpine	Alpine/Nissan	1m52.537ss	40
18	LMP2	V.Petrov, K.Ladygin, V.Shaytar	SMP Racing	BR Engineering/Nissan	1m52.910ss	36
19	GTE Pro	N.Thiim, M.Sorensen	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin	1m57.226ss	38
20	GTE Pro	J.Adam, D.Turner	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin	1m57.233ss	40
21	GTE Pro	A.Priaulx, H.Tincknell	Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK	Ford	1m59.168ss	40
22	GTE Pro	D.Rigon, S.Bird	AF Corse	Ferrari	1m59.231ss	40
23	GTE Pro	G.Bruni, J.Calado	AF Corse	Ferrari	1m59.315ss	36
24	GTE Am	P.D.Lana, P.Lamy, M.Lauda	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin	1m59.460ss	38
25	GTE Pro	S.Mucke, O.Pla	Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK	Ford	1m59.658ss	30
26	GTE Pro	R.Lietz, M.Christensen	Dempsey Racing - Proton	Porsche	1m59.758ss	30
27	GTE Am	P.Ragues, R.Taylor, R.Brandela	Larbre Competition	Chevrolet	2m00.579ss	38
28	GTE Am	F.Perrodo, E.Collard, R.Aguas	AF Corse	Ferrari	2m01.918ss	37
29	GTE Am	K.Al Qubaisi, D.H.Hansson, P.Long	Abu Dhabi-Proton Racing	Porsche	2m01.959ss	38
30	GTE Am	M.Wainwright, A.Carroll, B.Barker	Gulf Racing UK	Porsche	2m02.261ss	38
31	GTE Am	C.Ried, W.Henzler, J.Camathias	KCMG	Porsche	2m02.350ss	32