Giovinazzi’s #51 499P Le Mans Hypercar dipped under the benchmark time set in opening practice by Sebastien Buemi’s #8 Toyota GR010 LMH, posting a best lap of 2m01.871s.
That proved 1.278s faster than Molina in the second Ferrari, which spent much of the first half of the session in the garage before its 2m03.149s lap.
Earl Bamber put the #2 Chip Ganassi Racing-run Cadillac V-Series.R LMDh third with a 2m03.338s early in the 90-minute session before the first of two red flags triggered as two Hypercars hit trouble.
The sister Ganassi #3 Cadillac which is contesting the full IMSA SportsCar Championship season and making a WEC cameo at Spa stopped on track in Renger van der Zande’s hands at the same time as Dane Cameron’s #5 Penske-run Porsche 963 LMDh lost power.
The second works Porsche also lost track time as Andre Lotterer stopped the #6 machine with hybrid problems.
Ryo Hirakawa improved to fourth in the lead #8 Toyota shortly before the second red flag caused by an incident involving the GTE Am Ferrari 488 GTE Evos of Thomas Flohr and Diego Alessi at Raidillon.
The Japanese logged a 2m04.380s which was 2.509s off the outright pace and over a second slower than its FP1 effort.
Jean-Eric Vergne put the first of the Peugeot 9X8 LMHs into fifth on a 2m05.180s ahead of the garagiste Glickenhaus-Pipo 007 of Olivier Pla.
The second Toyota, the #7 in which Kamui Kobayashi managed a 2m05.729s, was 3.858s down on the Ferrari in seventh but comfortably clear of Nico Muller’s #94 Peugeot and Jota’s customer 963.
A 2m06.711s lap from Ye Yifei was 2.337s faster than the car managed in Will Stevens’ hands in FP1 as the team continues to blood in its newly-arrived machine following its preliminary shakedown at Weissach last week.
The Vanwall Vandervell 680 LMH was the last of the Hypercars to set a representative time, as Jacques Villeneuve punched in a 2m.08.557s shortly before the stoppage.
In LMP2, Robin Frijns set the pace in the #31 WRT ORECA-Gibson 07, going 0.410s quicker than Filipe Albuquerque’s #22 United Autosports example.
The Portuguese, who returns to the cockpit after missing the last round in Portimao on IMSA duty at Long Beach, couldn’t match the 2m06.108s lap from 2022 outright podium finisher Frijns.
Louis Deletraz put the #41 WRT ORECA third, ahead of Fabio Scherer (InterEuropol Competition) and Gabriel Aubry’s Vector Sport example.
Prior to Flohr’s crash, Davide Rigon had moved the #54 AF Corse Ferrari to the head of the GTE Am timesheets with a 2m15.736s lap.
His fellow factory driver Daniel Serra settled into second, 1.050s in arrears, aboard the #57 Kessel Racing machine while Riccardo Pera (GR Racing) put the best of the Porsches third.
WEC Spa - FP2 results:
| Cla | # | Drivers | Car | Class | Time | Gap | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 51 |
 Alessandro Pier Guidi  James Calado Antonio Giovinazzi |
Ferrari 499P | HYPERCAR | 2'01.871 | ||
| 2 | 50 |
Antonio Fuoco  Miguel Molina  Nicklas Nielsen |
Ferrari 499P | HYPERCAR | 2'03.149 | 1.278 | |
| 3 | 2 |
 Earl Bamber Alex Lynn Richard Westbrook |
Cadillac V-Series.R | HYPERCAR | 2'03.338 | 1.467 | |
| 4 | 8 |
 Sébastien Buemi Brendon Hartley  Ryo Hirakawa |
Toyota GR010 - Hybrid | HYPERCAR | 2'04.380 | 2.509 | |
| 5 | 93 |
Paul di Resta Mikkel Jensen  Jean-Eric Vergne |
Peugeot 9X8 | HYPERCAR | 2'05.180 | 3.309 | |
| 6 | 708 |
Romain Dumas Olivier Pla Franck Mailleux |
Glickenhaus 007 | HYPERCAR | 2'05.545 | 3.674 | |
| 7 | 7 |
Mike Conway Kamui Kobayashi  Jose Maria Lopez |
Toyota GR010 - Hybrid | HYPERCAR | 2'05.729 | 3.858 | |
| 8 | 31 |
 Sean Gelael  Ferdinand Habsburg  Robin Frijns |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'06.108 | 4.237 | |
| 9 | 94 |
Loic Duval  Gustavo Menezes Nico Müller |
Peugeot 9X8 | HYPERCAR | 2'06.128 | 4.257 | |
| 10 | 22 |
Frederick Lubin Philip Hanson  Filipe Albuquerque |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'06.518 | 4.647 | |
| 11 | 41 |
Rui Andrade  Robert Kubica Louis Deletraz |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'06.633 | 4.762 | |
| 12 | 38 |
Antonio Felix da Costa Will Stevens  Ye Yifei |
Porsche 963 | HYPERCAR | 2'06.711 | 4.840 | |
| 13 | 34 |
Jakub Smiechowski Fabio Scherer Albert Costa |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'06.759 | 4.888 | |
| 14 | 10 |
 Ryan Cullen Matthias Kaiser Gabriel Aubry |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'06.791 | 4.920 | |
| 15 | 9 |
Filip Ugran Bent Viscaal Andrea Caldarelli |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'06.933 | 5.062 | |
| 16 | 23 |
Josh Pierson Tom Blomqvist Oliver Jarvis |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'07.086 | 5.215 | |
| 17 | 63 |
Doriane Pin Mirko Bortolotti  Daniil Kvyat |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'07.145 | 5.274 | |
| 18 | 28 |
David Heinemeier Hansson  Pietro Fittipaldi Oliver Rasmussen |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'07.167 | 5.296 | |
| 19 | 36 |
Matthieu Vaxiviere Julien Canal Charles Milesi |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'07.914 | 6.043 | |
| 20 | 4 |
Tom Dillmann Esteban Guerrieri  Jacques Villeneuve |
Vanwall Vandervell 680 | HYPERCAR | 2'08.557 | 6.686 | |
| 21 | 35 |
Andre Negrao  Memo Rojas Olli Caldwell |
Oreca 07 | LMP2 | 2'08.969 | 7.098 | |
| 22 | 6 |
Kevin Estre  Andre Lotterer  Laurens Vanthoor |
Porsche 963 | HYPERCAR | 2'10.875 | 9.004 | |
| 23 | 54 |
Thomas Flohr Francesco Castellacci Davide Rigon |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 2'15.736 | 13.865 | |
| 24 | 57 |
Takeshi Kimura Scott Huffaker Daniel Serra |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 2'16.786 | 14.915 | |
| 25 | 86 |
Michael Wainwright Riccardo Pera Benjamin Barker |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 2'16.993 | 15.122 | |
| 26 | 88 |
Ryan Hardwick Zacharie Robichon Harry Tincknell |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 2'17.172 | 15.301 | |
| 27 | 83 |
Luis Perez Companc Lilou Wadoux Alessio Rovera |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 2'17.230 | 15.359 | |
| 28 | 3 |
Sébastien Bourdais Renger van der Zande Jack Aitken |
Cadillac V-Series.R | HYPERCAR | 2'17.364 | 15.493 | |
| 29 | 60 |
Claudio Schiavoni Matteo Cressoni Alessio Picariello |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 2'17.437 | 15.566 | |
| 30 | 85 |
Sarah Bovy Michelle Gatting Rahel Frey |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 2'17.532 | 15.661 | |
| 31 | 21 |
Diego Alessi Simon Mann Ulysse De |
Ferrari 488 GTE EVO | LMGTE AM | 2'17.585 | 15.714 | |
| 32 | 56 |
PJ Hyett Gunnar Jeannette Matteo Cairoli |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 2'17.802 | 15.931 | |
| 33 | 5 |
Dane Cameron Michael Christensen Frédéric Makowiecki |
Porsche 963 | HYPERCAR | 2'17.818 | 15.947 | |
| 34 | 777 |
Satoshi Hoshino Casper Stevenson Tomonobu Fujii |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 2'17.941 | 16.070 | |
| 35 | 25 |
Ahmad Al Harthy Michael Dinan Charles Eastwood |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 2'18.053 | 16.182 | |
| 36 | 77 |
Christian Ried Mikkel Pedersen Julien Andlauer |
Porsche 911 RSR - 19 | LMGTE AM | 2'18.278 | 16.407 | |
| 37 | 98 |
Ian James Daniel Mancinelli Alex Riberas |
Aston Martin Vantage AMR | LMGTE AM | 2'18.671 | 16.800 | |
| 38 | 33 |
Ben Keating Nicolas Varrone Nick Catsburg |
Chevrolet Corvette C8.R | LMGTE AM | 2'19.163 | 17.292 | |
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