The Japanese marque once again locked out the top two places in an incident-free 90-minute session on Friday afternoon, with Kamui Kobayashi setting the fastest time aboard the #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID.
Kobayashi set what proved to be the benchmark time of 1m29.948s at the start of the session, going more than a second quicker than Sebastien Buemi had managed in the sister #8 Toyota in the morning.
Brendon Hartley was 0.225s off Kobayashi's pace in the #8 machine, which is Toyota's better-placed car in the drivers' standings.
The quicker of Peugeot's two new 9X8 Le Mans Hypercars, the #94 car, was third-fastest in the hands of Loic Duval.
His best time of 1m31.194s was three tenths quicker than either Peugeot had managed in FP1, but left the French marque 1.246s away from the top spot.
The points-leading Alpine A480 grandfathered LMP1 car was fourth-fastest in the hands of Nicolas Lapierre, 1.414s off the pace, followed by the #93 Peugeot in which Jean-Eric Vergne set the best time.
Jota's pair of ORECA 07s topped the LMP2 division, with Antonio Felix da Costa's early effort of 1m32.351s putting the points-leading #38 car at the head of the order.
The sister #28 car of Ed Jones was just 0.142s back in second, followed by the best of the United Autosports ORECAs, the #22 car, in the hands of Filipe Albuquerque.
Nicklas Nielsen put the Pro/Am AF Corse ORECA fourth-fastest ahead of the WRT ORECA of Robin Frijns in fifth.
Ferrari maintained the advantage in GTE Pro as the #51 488 GTE Evo once again topped the class.
Alessandro Pier Guidi's best time of 1m37.682s put him 0.164s up on the best of the Porsche 911 RSR-19s, the #91 car in which Gianmaria Bruni set the best time in the final few minutes of the session.
The #92 Porsche was third-fastest with Kevin Estre at the wheel, followed by the #52 Ferrari of Miguel Molina and the solo Corvette C8.R of Tommy Milner, who ended up 0.769s off the pace.
Iron Dames Ferrari driver Michelle Gatting was fastest in GTE Am on a 1m39.170s, which was 0.015s faster than both the sister Iron Lynx Ferrari of ex-Formula 1 racer Giancarlo Fisichella and the TF Sport Aston Martin Vantage GTE of Marco Sorensen, which set identical times.
Practice for the 6 Hours of Fuji continues on Saturday morning at 10.20am local time (GMT +9) ahead of qualifying at 2.40pm.
WEC 6 Hours of Fuji - Second practice results:
Cla | # | Drivers | Car | Class | Time | Gap |
---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
1 | 7 |
Mike Conway Kamui Kobayashi Jose Maria Lopez |
Toyota GR010 - Hybrid | HYPERCAR | 1'29.948 | |
2 | 8 |
Sébastien Buemi Brendon Hartley Ryo Hirakawa |
Toyota GR010 - Hybrid | HYPERCAR | 1'30.173 | 0.225 |
3 | 94 |
Loic Duval Gustavo Menezes James Rossiter |
Peugeot 9X8 | HYPERCAR | 1'31.194 | 1.246 |
4 | 36 |
Andre Negrao Nicolas Lapierre Matthieu Vaxiviere |
Alpine A480 | HYPERCAR | 1'31.362 | 1.414 |
5 | 93 |
Paul di Resta Mikkel Jensen Jean-Eric Vergne |
Peugeot 9X8 | HYPERCAR | 1'31.539 | 1.591 |
6 | 38 |
Roberto Gonzalez Antonio Felix da Costa Will Stevens |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'32.351 | 2.403 |
7 | 28 |
Oliver Rasmussen Ed Jones Jonathan Aberdein |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'32.493 | 2.545 |
8 | 22 |
Philip Hanson Filipe Albuquerque Will Owen |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'32.510 | 2.562 |
9 | 83 |
François Perrodo Nicklas Nielsen Alessio Rovera |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'32.642 | 2.694 |
10 | 31 |
Sean Gelael Robin Frijns Dries Vanthoor |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'32.788 | 2.840 |
11 | 41 |
Rui Andrade Ferdinand Habsburg Norman Nato |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'32.906 | 2.958 |
12 | 9 |
Robert Kubica Louis Deletraz Lorenzo Colombo |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'32.978 | 3.030 |
13 | 10 |
Renger van der Zande Ryan Cullen Sébastien Bourdais |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'33.054 | 3.106 |
14 | 23 |
Alex Lynn Oliver Jarvis Josh Pierson |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'33.069 | 3.121 |
15 | 34 |
Jakub Smiechowski Alex Brundle Esteban Gutierrez |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'33.419 | 3.471 |
16 | 1 |
Lilou Wadoux Paul-Loup Chatin Charles Milesi |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'33.773 | 3.825 |
17 | 45 |
Thomas Steven James Allen Rene Binder |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'33.854 | 3.906 |
18 | 35 |
Jean Baptiste Lahaye Matthieu Lahaye François Heriau |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'35.512 | 5.564 |
19 | 51 |
Alessandro Pier Guidi James Calado |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE PRO | 1'37.682 | 7.734 |
20 | 91 |
Gianmaria Bruni Richard Lietz |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE PRO | 1'37.846 | 7.898 |
21 | 92 |
Michael Christensen Kevin Estre |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE PRO | 1'37.892 | 7.944 |
22 | 52 |
Miguel Molina Antonio Fuoco |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE PRO | 1'38.019 | 8.071 |
23 | 64 |
Tommy Milner Nick Tandy |
Chevrolet Corvette C8.R | LMGTE PRO | 1'38.451 | 8.503 |
24 | 85 |
Rahel Frey Michelle Gatting Sarah Bovy |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 1'39.170 | 9.222 |
25 | 60 |
Claudio Schiavoni Matteo Cressoni Giancarlo Fisichella |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 1'39.185 | 9.237 |
26 | 33 |
Ben Keating Henrique Chaves Jr. Marco Sorensen |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 1'39.185 | 9.237 |
27 | 54 |
Thomas Flohr Francesco Castellacci Davide Rigon |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 1'39.267 | 9.319 |
28 | 46 |
Matteo Cairoli Mikkel Pedersen Nicolas Leutwiler |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 1'39.335 | 9.387 |
29 | 86 |
Michael Wainwright Riccardo Pera Benjamin Barker |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 1'39.346 | 9.398 |
30 | 71 |
Franck Dezoteux Pierre Ragues Gabriel Aubry |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 1'39.408 | 9.460 |
31 | 777 |
Satoshi Hoshino Tomonobu Fujii Charlie Fagg |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 1'39.451 | 9.503 |
32 | 77 |
Christian Ried Sebastian Priaulx Harry Tincknell |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 1'39.572 | 9.624 |
33 | 98 |
Paul Dalla Lana David Pittard Nicki Thiim |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 1'39.625 | 9.677 |
34 | 56 |
Takeshi Kimura Ollie Millroy Ben Barnicoat |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 1'39.748 | 9.800 |
35 | 88 |
Fred Poordad Patrick Lindsey Jan Heylen |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 1'39.832 | 9.884 |
36 | 21 |
Simon Mann Christoph Ulrich Toni Vilander |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 1'39.917 | 9.969 |
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