A few days before the official start of Season 10 of the FIA
World Endurance Championship, the two-day prologue at the
Sebring track concluded after four valuable sessions to test the
cars ahead of Friday’s race. Two 488 GTEs competed in the
LMGTE Pro class and five in the LMGTE Am on the 6,019-metre
Florida circuit.
Day 1
The first day of practice, marked by frigid temperatures and the
passing of a typhoon front, was interrupted in the morning. As
the track conditions gradually improved, the times became
increasingly meaningful, and the teams successfully completed
the planned work. In the LMGTE Pro class, the Ferraris closed
the sessions in fourth and fifth position, just over a second
behind the Porsches, which clocked the best lap times. In the
LMGTE Am class, Giancarlo Fisichella in the 488 GTE of Iron
Lynx set the fastest lap of the day, 1:58.227. His teammates
this season will be Claudio Schiavoni and Matteo Cressoni. The
Iron Dames Frey-Gatting-Bovy turned in the third fastest time,
with the other Maranello cars further back. The first of the two
AF Corse Ferraris, the number 21 of Mann-Ulrich-Vilander,
finished seventh. The Spirit of Race 488 GTE of
Dezoteux-Ragues-Aubry came eighth and the Piacenza-based
team’s second entry, crewed by Flohr-Castellacci-Cassidy, was
eleventh.
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