LMP2 champions WRT end Sebring WEC Prologue with a 1-2

Ferdinand Habsburg shaded team-mate Rene Rast by just under three tenths to end up fastest across the four sessions of the two-day test ahead of next weekend’s Sebring 1000 Miles opening round of the WEC.

Habsburg posted a 1m48.089s early in the morning session on Sunday in the Realteam by WRT ORECA-Gibson 07 LMP2, he is sharing with Norman Nato and Rui Andrade in 2022.

That compared with Rast’s 1m48.372s best in the car he is co-driving with Robin Frijns and Sean Gelael in the same session.

The majority of the quick laps were set in the cool conditions early in the first of the two sessions on Sunday, but Filipe Albuquerque managed to improve on United Autosports team-mate Will Owen’s fourth-place time of 1m48.572s late in the final period.

The Portuguese went a tenth faster with a 1m48.439s to knock the the Alpine-Gibson A480 off the top of the afternoon time sheets and demote it a place in the overall classification.

#36 Alpine Team Alpine A480 - Gibson: André Negrão, Nicolas Lapierre, Matthieu Vaxiviere

Photo by: Paul Foster

Nicolas Lapierre ended up fourth overall in Signatech-run team’s grandfathered LMP1 and fastest in the Hypercar class courtesy of a 1m48.497s during in the opening session on Sunday.

Andre Negrao, who is again sharing the Alpine with Lapierre and Matthieu Vaxiviere, was subsequently second fastest to Albuquerque in the afternoon session with a 1m48.617s.

The Alpine ORECA design, which formerly raced in the WEC as the Rebellion R-13, outpaced the trio of Le Mans Hypercars from Toyota and Glickenhaus, which ended up well down the combined times.

Fifth fastest was the Team Penske ORECA which Dane Cameron posted a 1m48.751s on Sunday morning.

A 1m48.954s from Louis Deletraz gave sportscar debutant