Kamui Kobayashi was quickest initially in the #7 Toyota GR010 HYBRID Le Mans Hypercar and then improved to a 1m36.363s to give him a margin of just under two tenths over Antonio Fuoco in the #50 Ferrari 499P LMH.
The Italian driver jumped to second just under halfway through the 90-minute afternoon session to split the Toyotas, his 1m36.533s just shading Brendon Hartley’s 1m36.686s in the championship-leading #8 GR010.
Cadillac took fourth position in FP2 with its solo Ganassi-run V-Series.R LMDh courtesy of a 1m36.748s from Alex Lynn.
Frederic Makowiecki made a late improvement in the best of the Porsche 963 LMDhs to take fifth spot with a 1m36.991s.
The #5 factory Porsche Penske Motorsport entry beat the privateer Proton Competition car into sixth place by two tenths of a second as a result.
Harry Tincknell ended up only eight tenths off the pace with 1m37.181s in the brand new Proton 963, which had only undertaken a short shakedown at Porsche’s Weissach test facility prior to arriving for its WEC debut in Monza.
The Le Mans 24 Hours-winning Ferrari just missed out on a place in the top six in Alessandro Pier Guidi’s hands, the Italian shaving three tenths from the lap with which he topped the FP1 times to get down to a 1m37.204s.
Best of the two Peugeot 9X8 LMHs finished the session in eighth place and within a second of the pace on a 1m37.269s from Jean-Eric Vergne.
A 1m37.637s from Will Stevens right at the end of the 90 minutes got the Jota Porsche that had pushed Ferrari close in the morning into the top 10.
The second Peugeot took 10th position thanks to a 1m37.638s from Gustavo Menezes.
Glickenhaus ended up 11th on a track where it took pole position last year, Nathanael Berthon’s 1m38.234s leaving the car nearly two seconds off the pace.
The WRT team again led the way in LMP2, though this time the Le Mans 24 Hours class winner Inter Europol split the Belgian team’s two ORECA-Gibson 07s at the top of the class order.
Robert Kubica topped the times for a second session in a row with a 1m39.995s, which was two tenth’s up on Albert Costa’s 1m40.136s in the Inter Europol ORECA.
The Spaniard’s time shaded Ferdinand Habsburg’s 1m40.162s in the second of the WRT entries by just two hundredths.
United Autosport took fourth with its #22 car in which Phil Hanson set a 1m40.348s.
Alessio Picariello pulled out a lap as the chequered flag approached to go more than three tenths clear in GTE Am aboard his Iron Lynx Porsche 911 RSR.
His 1m46.973s vaulted him from second to first ahead of the GR Racing Porsche in which Riccardo Pera had sat at the top of the times on a 1m47.331. Matteo Cairoli made it a Porsche 1-2-3 in the Project 1 - AO car.
Final free practice for Sunday’s Monza 6 Hours begins at 1045 local time on Saturday, with qualifying kicking off at 1440.
WEC Monza FP2 results
Cla | Drivers | Car | Class | Laps | Time | Gap |
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1 |
Mike Conway Kamui Kobayashi Jose Maria Lopez |
Toyota GR010 - Hybrid | HYPERCAR | 45 | 1'36.363 | |
2 |
Antonio Fuoco Miguel Molina Nicklas Nielsen |
Ferrari 499P | HYPERCAR | 47 | 1'36.533 | 0.170 |
3 |
Sébastien Buemi Brendon Hartley Ryo Hirakawa |
Toyota GR010 - Hybrid | HYPERCAR | 46 | 1'36.686 | 0.323 |
4 |
Earl Bamber Alex Lynn Richard Westbrook |
Cadillac V-Series.R | HYPERCAR | 48 | 1'36.748 | 0.385 |
5 |
Dane Cameron Michael Christensen Frédéric Makowiecki |
Porsche 963 | HYPERCAR | 37 | 1'36.991 | 0.628 |
6 |
Gianmaria Bruni Harry Tincknell Neel Jani |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | HYPERCAR | 22 | 1'37.181 | 0.818 |
7 |
Alessandro Pier Guidi James Calado Antonio Giovinazzi |
Ferrari 499P | HYPERCAR | 45 | 1'37.204 | 0.841 |
8 |
Paul di Resta Mikkel Jensen Jean-Eric Vergne |
Peugeot 9X8 | HYPERCAR | 47 | 1'37.269 | 0.906 |
9 |
Antonio Felix da Costa Will Stevens Ye Yifei |
Porsche 963 | HYPERCAR | 32 | 1'37.637 | 1.274 |
10 |
Loic Duval Gustavo Menezes Nico Müller |
Peugeot 9X8 | HYPERCAR | 46 | 1'37.638 | 1.275 |
11 |
Romain Dumas Olivier Pla Nathanael Berthon |
Glickenhaus 007 | HYPERCAR | 47 | 1'38.234 | 1.871 |
12 |
Kevin Estre Andre Lotterer Laurens Vanthoor |
Porsche 963 | HYPERCAR | 33 | 1'38.284 | 1.921 |
13 |
Rui Andrade Robert Kubica Louis Deletraz |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 45 | 1'39.955 | 3.592 |
14 |
Jakub Smiechowski Fabio Scherer Albert Costa |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 38 | 1'40.136 | 3.773 |
15 |
Sean Gelael Ferdinand Habsburg Robin Frijns |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 43 | 1'40.162 | 3.799 |
16 |
Frederick Lubin Philip Hanson Ben Hanley |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 41 | 1'40.348 | 3.985 |
17 |
Doriane Pin Mathias Beche Daniil Kvyat |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 40 | 1'40.548 | 4.185 |
18 |
Matthieu Vaxiviere Julien Canal Charles Milesi |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 46 | 1'40.643 | 4.280 |
19 |
Ryan Cullen Matthias Kaiser Gabriel Aubry |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 31 | 1'40.653 | 4.290 |
20 |
Andre Negrao Memo Rojas Olli Caldwell |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 37 | 1'40.901 | 4.538 |
21 |
Josh Pierson Giedo van der Garde Oliver Jarvis |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 37 | 1'41.010 | 4.647 |
22 |
David Heinemeier Hansson Pietro Fittipaldi Oliver Rasmussen |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 37 | 1'41.084 | 4.721 |
23 |
Esteban Guerrieri Tristan Vautier JP De |
Vanwall Vandervell 680 | HYPERCAR | 13 | 1'41.304 | 4.941 |
24 |
Filip Ugran Bent Viscaal Andrea Caldarelli |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 42 | 1'41.553 | 5.190 |
25 |
Claudio Schiavoni Matteo Cressoni Alessio Picariello |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 40 | 1'46.973 | 10.610 |
26 |
Michael Wainwright Riccardo Pera Benjamin Barker |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 43 | 1'47.331 | 10.968 |
27 |
Guilherme Oliveira Efrin Castro Matteo Cairoli |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 40 | 1'47.499 | 11.136 |
28 |
Thomas Flohr Francesco Castellacci Davide Rigon |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 43 | 1'47.625 | 11.262 |
29 |
Christian Ried Mikkel Pedersen Julien Andlauer |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 41 | 1'47.654 | 11.291 |
30 |
Sarah Bovy Michelle Gatting Rahel Frey |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 39 | 1'47.901 | 11.538 |
31 |
Takeshi Kimura Scott Huffaker Kei Cozzolino |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 43 | 1'47.972 | 11.609 |
32 |
Julien Piguet Simon Mann Ulysse De Pauw |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 44 | 1'48.018 | 11.655 |
33 |
Luis Perez Companc Lilou Wadoux Alessio Rovera |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 37 | 1'48.419 | 12.056 |
34 |
Ben Keating Nicolas Varrone Nick Catsburg |
Chevrolet Corvette C8.R | LMGTE AM | 40 | 1'48.544 | 12.181 |
35 |
Ahmad Al Harthy Michael Dinan Charles Eastwood |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 39 | 1'48.641 | 12.278 |
36 |
Satoshi Hoshino Casper Stevenson Tomonobu Fujii |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 39 | 1'48.698 | 12.335 |
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