Both Toyota GR010 HYBRID cars set their quickest laps early on in FP2 as part of their qualifying simulations, initially monopolising the top two spots in the six-car Hypercar field.
Brendon Hartley set the early benchmark in the #8 Toyota with a 1m38.761s and continued to find more time over the next few flying laps, eventually laying a new marker with a 1m37.692s.
Kamui Kobayashi settled for second in the sister #7 car after posting a time of 1m38.116s, putting Toyota ahead of rivals Peugeot, Alpine and Glickenhaus after the opening 10 minutes.
Peugeot then separated the two Toyotas with an impressive lap time of 1m38.061s by Gustavo Menezes in the #94 9X8, before Pipo Derani displaced him from second with a 1m37.961s flier in the #708 Glickenhaus 007 LMH that topped the times in FP1 on Friday.
Mikkel Jensen was next to improve in the #93 Peugeot, coming within a tenth of Hartley’s benchmark with a time of 1m37.775s.
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This would be as close a driver would get to the Kiwi's time, as the Le Mans-winning #8 Toyota remained on top when the chequered flag was waved just before 11am local time in a session extended for a prolonged red flag caused by LMP2 driver Tijmen van der Helm.
Jensen, Derani and Menezes held on to their second, third and fourth place spots respectively, while Matthieu Vaxivere ended up fifth courtesy of a 1m38.082s effort in the #36 Alpine A480.
It left Kobayashi in the #7 Toyota last among the Hypercar entrants, albeit only four tenths on its pace-setting sister car in a closely-fought session.
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United Autosports led the way in the LMP2 class at Monza, with Filipe Albuquerque setting the pace in the #22 ORECA-Gibson 07.
The Portuguese driver’s time of 1m38.917s set in the first 30 minutes of the session put him a quarter of a second clear of Alessio Rovera in the pro-am #83 AF Corse ORECA, with Robin Frijns ending up just behind in third in the #31 WRT entry.
The ARC Bratislava squad ended up fourth despite van der Helm causing a lengthy red-flag just before the halfway point of the session when he crashed his #44 ORECA at the exit of the second chicane.
Although the Dutch driver was able to return to the pits on his own stream, the damage to the barriers disrupted the proceedings long enough for race control to extend the session by 25 minutes.
Behind the ARC Bratislava entry, whose fastest time was set by Mathias Beche prior to van der Helm’s shunt, Alex Lynn finished in the #23 United Autosports ORECA.
In GTE Pro, Porsche and Ferrari traded the top spot for much of the session, with the German manufacturer eventually surging ahead thanks to a 1m46.245s lap from Gianmaria Bruni in the #91 Porsche.
Bruni, who is joined by Frederic Makowiecki this weekend following a positive COVID-19 test for Richard Lietz, ended up nearly a quarter of a second up on the #52 AF Corse Ferrari 488 GTE of Miguel Molina.
Molina’s late effort of 1m46.714s put him a tenth clear of James Calado in the #51 Ferrari, as the second Porsche 911 RSR-19 of Michael Christensen finished fourth.
Corvette ended up last and a second off the leader’s pace in GTE Pro, with Tommy Milner only managing a time of 1m47.255s in the #64 C8.R.
Porsche also topped the order in the GTE Am division thanks to Mikkel Pedersen lapping the circuit in 1m47.738s in the #46 Team Project 1 car.
Ferrari was once again Porsche’s closest rivals as the two AF Corse entries ended up second and third, with Toni Vilander in the #21 car leading Nick Cassidy in the #54 machine.
The top three cars in GTE Am were separated by just 0.039s.
WEC Monza FP2 Results:
| Cla | Drivers | Car | Class | Time | Gap |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 |
 Sébastien Buemi  Brendon Hartley  Ryo Hirakawa | Toyota GR010 - Hybrid | HYPERCAR | 1'37.692 | |
| 2 |
 Paul di Resta  Mikkel Jensen  Jean-Eric Vergne | Peugeot 9X8 | HYPERCAR | 1'37.775 | 0.083 |
| 3 |
Olivier Pla Romain Dumas  Pipo Derani | Glickenhaus 007 LMH | HYPERCAR | 1'37.961 | 0.269 |
| 4 |
Loic Duval  Gustavo Menezes James Rossiter | Peugeot 9X8 | HYPERCAR | 1'38.061 | 0.369 |
| 5 |
Andre Negrao Nicolas Lapierre Matthieu Vaxiviere | Alpine A480 | HYPERCAR | 1'38.082 | 0.390 |
| 6 |
Mike Conway Kamui Kobayashi  Jose Maria Lopez | Toyota GR010 - Hybrid | HYPERCAR | 1'38.116 | 0.424 |
| 7 |
Philip Hanson  Filipe Albuquerque Will Owen | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'38.917 | 1.225 |
| 8 |
François Perrodo Nicklas Nielsen  Alessio Rovera | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'39.172 | 1.480 |
| 9 |
 Sean Gelael  Robin Frijns  René Rast | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'39.186 | 1.494 |
| 10 |
 Miro Konopka Tijmen van der Helm Mathias Beche | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'39.253 | 1.561 |
| 11 |
Alex Lynn Oliver Jarvis Josh Pierson | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'39.315 | 1.623 |
| 12 |
Oliver Rasmussen Edward Jones  Jonathan Aberdein | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'39.331 | 1.639 |
| 13 |
Rui Andrade  Ferdinand Habsburg Norman Nato | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'39.443 | 1.751 |
| 14 |
 Roberto Gonzalez Antonio Felix da Costa Will Stevens | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'39.801 | 2.109 |
| 15 |
 Robert Kubica Louis Deletraz Lorenzo Colombo | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'39.903 | 2.211 |
| 16 |
Nico Müller  Ryan Cullen Sébastien Bourdais | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'39.988 | 2.296 |
| 17 |
Thomas Steven  James Allen Rene Binder | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'40.183 | 2.491 |
| 18 |
Lilou Wadoux Paul-Loup Chatin Charles Milesi | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'40.437 | 2.745 |
| 19 |
Jakub Smiechowski Alex Brundle Esteban Gutierrez | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'40.520 | 2.828 |
| 20 |
Jean Baptiste Lahaye Matthieu Lahaye François Heriau | Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 1'41.242 | 3.550 |
| 21 |
Gianmaria Bruni Richard Lietz | Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE PRO | 1'46.245 | 8.553 |
| 22 |
 Miguel Molina Antonio Fuoco | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE PRO | 1'46.714 | 9.022 |
| 23 |
Alessandro Pier Guidi James Calado | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE PRO | 1'46.816 | 9.124 |
| 24 |
Michael Christensen Kevin Estre | Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE PRO | 1'47.063 | 9.371 |
| 25 |
Tommy Milner Nick Tandy | Chevrolet Corvette C8.R | LMGTE PRO | 1'47.255 | 9.563 |
| 26 |
Matteo Cairoli Mikkel Pedersen Nicolas Leutwiler | Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 1'47.738 | 10.046 |
| 27 |
Simon Mann Christoph Ulrich  Toni Vilander | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 1'47.757 | 10.065 |
| 28 |
Thomas Flohr Francesco Castellacci Nick Cassidy | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 1'47.777 | 10.085 |
| 29 |
Michael Wainwright Riccardo Pera Benjamin Barker | Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 1'47.817 | 10.125 |
| 30 |
Ben Keating Henrique Chaves Jr. Marco Sorensen | Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 1'47.883 | 10.191 |
| 31 |
Christian Ried Sebastian Priaulx Harry Tincknell | Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 1'47.951 | 10.259 |
| 32 |
Claudio Schiavoni Matteo Cressoni Giancarlo Fisichella | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 1'47.985 | 10.293 |
| 33 |
Brendan Iribe Ollie Millroy Ben Barnicoat | Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 1'48.024 | 10.332 |
| 34 |
 Paul Dalla Lana David Pittard Nicki Thiim | Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 1'48.205 | 10.513 |
| 35 |
Rahel Frey Michelle Gatting  Sarah Bovy | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 1'48.216 | 10.524 |
| 36 |
Franck Dezoteux Pierre Ragues Gabriel Aubry | Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 1'48.385 | 10.693 |
| 37 |
Fred Poordad Patrick Lindsey Jan Heylen | Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 1'48.395 | 10.703 |
| 38 |
Satoshi Hoshino Tomonobu Fujii Charlie Fagg | Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 1'48.456 | 10.764 |
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