Peugeot topped the times in free practice in Bahrain for the first time since joining WEC
gave Porsche the top spot in GTE Pro; the Dane's 1m58.025s aboard the #92 Porsche 911 RSR gave him a margin of two tenths over the best of the Ferraris.
Anthony Fuoco got down to a 1m58.261 in the #52 Ferrari 488 GTE Evo run by the AF Corse factory team, which put him just over a tenth up on Alessandro Pier Guidi's 1m58.398s in the sister car. The second Porsche took fourth in class in Gianmaria Bruni's hands and the solo Chevrolet Corvette C8.R fifth withPorsche's top spot follows two so-called black-ball changes outside of the automatic system to the GTE Pro BoP for Bahrain.
Both Ferrari and Chevrolet are able to run less power at Bahrain than last time out in the WEC at Fuji.Second free practice for the Bahrain 8 Hours starts at 17:30 local time on Thursday afternoon.
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