The no16 Team Virage Ligier was the quickest car in the first Free Practice session at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps, with the no71 Rinaldi Racing Ligier and no33 Kessel Racing Ferrari posting the fastest times in LMP3 Pro/Am and GT3 respectively.
The 60-minute session was red flagged six minutes early after the no27 P4 Racing Ligier driven by Louis Hamilton-Smith went off at T12 and got stuck in the gravel trap. The Race Director took the decision as there wasn’t enough time to recover the car and resume the session before the chequered flag.
Theo Micouris set the fastest lap for Team Virage, the British driver posting a 2m11.966 lap of the 7.0039km track, 0.119s ahead of the no85 R-ace GP Duqueine of Hadrien David, with the no70 Gebhard Motorsport Duqueine of Oscar Tunjo in third spot, 0.537s behind the fastest car.
LMP3 Pro/Am championship leader Felipe Fernandez-Laser was the fastest LMP3 Pro/Am driver, the German’s best lap of 2m12.795 good enough for 4th overall and just 0.051s ahead of teammate Griffin Peebles in the no66 Rinaldi Racing Ligier in 5thoverall. The no49 High Class Racing Ligier was third fastest in the category with the 2m13.119s lap set by Anders Fjordbach the 10th fastest lap overall in FP1.
David Cleto Fumanelli set the best lap of the session for the GT3 category, the Italian lapping in 2m16.868 in the no33 Kessel Racing Ferrari 296 GT3, which was over a second faster than second best lap set by Lukas Dunner in the no65 Team Motopark Mercedes-AMG GT3. The Austrian’s best time recorded as 2m17.941. Championship leader Eliseo Donno posted the third fastest time in GT3, lapping in 2m18.330 in the no51 AF Corse Ferrari.
The second 60-minute Free Practice session is due to begin at 14h50 this afternoon.
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