While the session started off dry the rain soon started to fall and by the end of the first hour conditions had worsened to the point that most of the cars had retired to the pits and with 17 minutes remaining on the clock the session was red flagged.
Most of the cars had ventured out while the track was dry and the no8 Toyota of Anthony Davidson and Sebastien Buemi was once again on top with a lap of 1m49.134, an improvement of 0.7 seconds over the best time set in the morning session. Alex Wurz was second quickest in the nr7 Toyota, his best lap of 1m49.806 an big improvement of 1.1 seconds over the first session. Audi Sport were 3rd and 4th again, with Porsche in 5th and 6th.
The no12 Rebellion was once again the quickest of the LMP1-L runners in 7th overall but the no13 R-One didn’t set a time while the track was dry. The no9 Lotus CLM-AER was 13th overall.
The top two in the LMP2 class was a mirror image of the earlier session, with the no26 G-Drive Racing Ligier-Nissan with Roman Rusinov improving by nearly 0.7 seconds. The no30 Extreme Speed Motorsports HPD-Honda was second fastest with Ryan Dalziel, with the no31 ESM car in 3rd thanks to a 1m58.145 lap by Johannes Van Overbeek.
The third Free Practice session of the weekend will take place at 09:30 (local) / 02:30 (CET) tomorrow morning. Qualifying for the 6 Hours of Shanghai will begin at 13:20 (local) / 06:20 (CET) on Saturday afternoon.
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Jeff Carter
