After coming close to scoring a maiden Hypercar podium in Saturday’s finale, Jota led the opening two hours of running at the Bahrain International Circuit on Sunday, with Will Stevens setting the quickest time in the team’s solo #38 Porsche 963 customer LMDh car.
The 1m48.625s that Stevens set at the beginning of the session put Jota eight tenths clear of the remainder of the field, even though his lap was two seconds slower than the time with which Brendon Hartley claimed pole in the #8 Toyota GR010 Hybrid.
Stevens only completed a five-lap run early in the morning before handing over the car to Formula E ace Norman Nato, who posted a best time of 1m50.870s in his first outing in an LMDh car.
The second spot in the timesheets went to Cadillac courtesy of Alex Lynn’s time of 1m49.444s. Like Jota, Cadillac let its full-timer Lynn to set an initial baseline in the car before handing over the driving duties to rookie and this year’s GTE Am champion Nicolas Varrone.
Varrone, who was Corvette’s silver-rated driver in WEC this year, completed 28 laps behind the wheel of the team’s sole V-Series.R and gradually improved his time to 1m50.048s.
Ferrari ran a total of three drivers this morning in the #51 499P, with Alessandro Pier Guidi’s time of 1m49.560s putting the Italian manufacturer third in the table.
Source: Autosport