Giovinazzi’s #51 499P Le Mans Hypercar dipped beneath the benchmark time set in opening apply by Sebastien Buemi’s #eight Toyota GR010 LMH, posting a greatest lap of 2m01.871s.
That proved 1.278s sooner than Molina within the second Ferrari, which spent a lot of the primary half of the session within the storage earlier than its 2m03.149s lap.
Earl Bamber put the #2 Chip Ganassi Racing-run Cadillac V-Collection.R LMDh third with a 2m003.338s early within the 90-minute session earlier than the primary of two pink flags triggered as two Hypercars hit bother.
The sister Ganassi #three Cadillac which is contesting the complete IMSA SportsCar Championship season and making a WEC cameo at Spa stopped on monitor in Renger van der Zande’s arms similtaneously Dane Cameron’s #5 Penske-run Porsche 963 LMDh misplaced energy.
The second works Porsche additionally misplaced monitor time as Andre Lotterer stopped the #6 machine with hybrid issues.
Ryo Hirakawa improved to fourth within the lead #eight Toyota shortly earlier than the second pink flag triggered by an incident involving the GTE Am Ferrari 488 GTE Evos of Thomas Flohr and Diego Alessi at Raidillon.
The Japanese logged a 2m04.380s which was 2.509s off the outright tempo and over a second slower than its FP1 effort.
#2 Cadillac Racing Cadillac V-Collection.R – Hybrid: Earl Bamber, Alex Lynn, Richard Westbrook
Picture by: Paul Foster
Jean-Eric Vergne put the primary of the Peugeot 9X8 LMHs into fifth on a 2m05.180s forward of the garagiste Glickenhaus-Pipo 007 of Olivier Pla.
The second Toyota, the #7 wherein Kamui Kobayashi managed a 2m05.729s, was three.858s down on the Ferrari in seventh however comfortably away from Nico Muller’s #94 Peugeot and Jota’s buyer 963.
A 2m06.711s lap from Ye Yifei was 2.337s sooner than the automotive managed in Will Stevens’ arms in FP1 because the staff continues to blood in its newly-arrived machine following its preliminary shakedown at Weissach final week.
The Vanwall Vandervell 680 LMH was the final of the Hypercars to set a consultant time, as Jacques Villeneuve punched in a 2m.08.557s shortly earlier than the stoppage.
In LMP2, Robin Frijns set the tempo within the #31 WRT ORECA-Gibson 07, going zero.410s faster than Filipe Albuquerque’s #22 United Autosports instance.
The Portuguese, who returns to the cockpit after lacking the final spherical in Portimao on IMSA responsibility at Lengthy Seaside, couldn’t match the 2m06.108s lap from 2022 outright podium finisher Frijns.
Louis Deletraz put the #41 WRT ORECA third, forward of Fabio Scherer (InterEuropol Competitors) and Gabriel Aubry’s Vector Sport instance.
Previous to Flohr’s crash, Davide Rigon had moved the #54 AF Corse Ferrari to the top of the GTE Am timesheets with a 2m15.736s lap.
His fellow manufacturing unit driver Daniel Serra settled into second, 1.050s in arrears, aboard the #57 Kessel Racing machine whereas Riccardo Pera (GR Racing) put the perfect of the Porsches third.
