The first track session of the 2015 6 Hours of Shanghai weekend ended with the no7 Audi Sport R18 e-tron quattro as the quickest car in the 90-minute session. The 1m45.707 lap was set by Andre Lotterer early on in the session, which was 1.3seconds than the quickest time set in qualifying at last year’s event.
The no8 Audi of Lucas di Grassi, Oliver Jarvis and Loic Duval was second fastest, with di Grassi setting a 1m46.352 lap, 0.645s behind their teammates and 0.167s ahead of the championship leading no17 Porsche 919 hybrid of Mark Webber, Brendon Hartley and Timo Bernhard.
The no18 Porsche was 4th quickest, followed by the two Toyotas, with the no2 TS040 just ahead of the no1 car.
The no13 Rebellion Racing R-One was the quickest of the privateers, with Dominik Kraihamer setting a 1m52.373, 0.1s ahead of the no4 Bykolles CLM-AER.
In LMP2 the no47 KCMG Oreca 05 was the fastest in the class, the Hong Kong based team throwing down the gauntlet to their rivals G-Drive Racing in the first session of their home event. Richard Bradley set a 1m55.069 lap in the Nissan powered ORECA, just 0.077s ahead of the championship leading no26 G-Drive Racing Ligier and 0.256s ahead of the no36 Signatech Alpine, which was 3rd quickest in the 90-minute session.
The second Free Practice session will take place at 15:30 (local) this afternoon.
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