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LMP2 champions WRT end Sebring WEC Prologue with 1-2

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

Ferdinand Habsburg shaded teammate 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 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 teammate Will Owen’s fourth-place time of 1m48.572s late in the final period.

Albuquerque went a tenth faster with a 1m48.439s to knock the the Alpine A480 LMP1 off the top of the afternoon timesheets and demote it a place in the overall classification.

 

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