Toyota Gazoo Racing stay fastest with Kobayashi-Conway-Lopez

Kamui Kobayashi-Mike Conway-Jose Maria Lopez maintained Toyota Gazoo Racing’s position atop the times to end Free Practice 3 early this afternoon in the FIA WEC Bapco 6 Hours of Bahrain weekend at Bahrain International Circuit.

Behind the wheel of their #7 GR010 Hybrid Hypercar, the trio led teammates Sebastien Buemi-Kazuki Nakajima-Brendon Hartley to another one-two following an hour-long session, which was the final test of the weekend.

They clocked a fastest lap of 1min 48.978secs, just 0.711 secs ahead of the #8 challenger.
Alpine Elf Matmut’s Andre Negrao-Nicolas Lapierre-Matthieu Vaxiviere were third in class in their #36 A480-Gibson, 1.188secs behind the leaders.

In the LMP2 category, first once again were the #28 Oreca 07-Gibson of JOTA’s Sean Gelael-Stoffel Vandoorne-Tom Blomqvist with a fastest lap of 1:50.696.

Porsche continued to spearhead the LMGTE categories in 911 RSR-19s. Setting the pace amongst the Pro cars were Neel Jani and Kevin Estre of Porsche GT Team. They had a best lap of 1:58.230 in their #92 challenger.

The LMGTE Am class had Dempsey-Proton Racing’s #77 crew of Matt Campbell-Christian Ried-Jaxon Evans in first with a 1:59.502 mark.

With the meeting’s three Practices complete, the stage is now set for Qualifying later this afternoon. The LMGTE Pro and Am runners are scheduled to go out for a 10-minute shootout at 4.30pm, to be followed by the Hypercar and LMP2 classes at 4.50pm.