Jamin Tops FP1 At Paul Ricard For Panis Racing
The #65 Panis Racing Oreca 07-Gibson was the fastest of the 42 cars that took to the track at the Circuit Paul Ricard for the first Free Practice session of the 4 Hours of Le Castellet weekend.
Nicolas Jamin was the fastest of the three drivers, the Frenchman posting a 1:43.397, one tenth of a second ahead of the #9 Prema Racing Oreca of Louis Deletraz, the Swiss posting a 1:43.503.
The #22 United Autosports Oreca of Tom Gamble was third fastest, just 0.092s ahead of Jack Aitken in the #34 Racing Team Turkey Oreca, which was the fastest of the seven cars entered in the LMP2 Pro-Am category.
The top 10 LMP2 cars were covered by less than one second at the end of the 90-minute session, with most cars improving their times in the latter part of the practice period.
The #3 United Autosports Ligier was the fastest of the 13 LMP3 entrants, with Kay Van Berlo lapping the 5.7km circuit in 1:49.896, the only LMP3 car to get below 1:50 in FP1. The second placed car was the #5 RLR MSport Ligier of Alex Kapadia, the British drivers time of 1:50.165 three tenths ahead of the third place #27 Cool Racing Ligier of Antoine Doquin.
The #57 Kessel Racing Ferrari was the quickest of the 12 LMGTE cars, Mikkel Jensen setting a lap of 1:53.845 0.157s ahead of the two Proton Competition Porsches, with the #77 911 driven by Gianmaria Bruni finishing second with a 1:54.002 lap and Richard Leitz third fastest with a 1:54.105.
Reigning LMGTE Champions Iron Lynx finished the session with the fourth best time, with Davide Rigon setting a lap of 1:54.117 in the #60 Ferrari F488 GTE EVO.
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