#2 Audi, Silverstone 2012Audi once again set the pace in the second free practice session for this weekend's World Endurance Championship round, the Silverstone 6 Hours.

Unlike in the earlier session, it was the R18 ultra of Tom Kristensen and Allan McNish that was fastest with a lap in 1m45.645s, putting it 0.214sec clear of the e-tron Quattro of Marcel Fassler/Andre Lotterer/Benoit Treluyer.

The No. 2 car's table-topping time came despite a collision between McNish and the Larbre Corvette of GTE Am driver Pascal Gibon at Brooklands.

Toyota's lone TS030 Hybrid was only fourth quickest, the Alex Wurz/Nicolas Lapierre/Kazuki Nakajima car spending the final 20 minutes in the pits with an electrical problem related to the hybrid system.

That allowed the Strakka HPD of Danny Watts/Jonny Kane/Nick Leventis to take third and best of the privateer LMP1 entrants. In a closely-fought session though, all the remaining privateer LMP1 cars were within a second of the Strakka machine.

Jota, with new signing Nicolas Minassian partnering Sam Hancock and Simon Dolan, set the pace in LMP2, its Zytek-Nissan 0.4sec clear of the OAK Morgan-Nissan of Bertrand Baguette/Dominik Kraihaimer/David Heinemeier Hansson.

As was the case in the morning, the GTE Pro pace was set by Giancarlo Fisichella/Gianmaria Bruni in their AF Corse Ferrari 458, while the team also had its name on top of the GTE Am pile thanks to Matt Griffin/Piergiuseppe Perrazini/Marco Cioci.

The GTE Am Aston Martin Racing Vantage V8 of Roald Goethe/Stuart Hall had a quick spin at Becketts early on while Larbre's day got even busier when its second Corvette pulled off at Becketts with its windscreen missing.

Pos  Cl     Drivers                                Team/Car                Time
 1.  P1     Kristensen/McNish                      Audi ultra              1m45.645s
 2.  P1     Fassler/Lotterer/Treluyer              Audi e-tron             1m45.859s
 3.  P1     Leventis/Watts/Kane                    Strakka HPD             1m46.994s
 4.  P1     Wurz/Lapierre/Nakajima                 Toyota                  1m47.084s
 5.  P1     Prost/Jani                             Rebellion Lola-Toyota   1m47.283s
 6.  P1     Belicchi/Primat                        Rebellion Lola-Toyota   1m47.441s
 7.  P1     Brabham/Chandhok/Dumbreck              JRM HPD                 1m47.715s
 8.  P2     Dolan/Hancock/Minassian                Jota Zytek-Nissan       1m50.759s
 9.  P2     Heinemeier Hansson/Baguette/Kraihamer  OAK Morgan-Nissan       1m51.201s
10.  P2     Perez Companc/Ayari/Kaffer             Pecom ORECA-Nissan      1m51.291s
11.  P2     Mailleux/Lombard/Tresson               Signatech ORECA-Nissan  1m51.306s
12.  P2     Firth/Hughes/Hartley                   Murphy ORECA-Nissan     1m51.418s
13.  P2     Nicolet/Lahaye/Pla                     OAK Morgan-Nissan       1m51.573s
14.  P2     Martin/Charouz/Graves                  ADR-Delta ORECA-Nissan  1m51.697s
15.  P2     Ordonez/Brundle/Brundle                Greaves Zytek-Nissan    1m51.944s
16.  P2     Potolicchio/Dalziel/Sarrazin           Starworks HPD           1m52.334s
17.  P2     Zugel/Gonzalez/Julian                  Greaves Zytek-Nissan    1m52.463s
18.  P2     Panciatici/Ragues/Rusinov              Signatech ORECA-Nissan  1m53.013s
19.  P2     Sims/Jousse/Jousse                     Status Lola-Judd        1m53.198s
20.  P2     Holzer/Schultis/Albers                 Lola-Lotus              1m54.161s
21.  P2     Giroix/Ihara/Deletraz                  Gulf Lola-Nissan        1m58.200s
22.  GTE P  Fisichella/Bruni                       AF Ferrari              2m02.121s
23.  GTE P  Lieb/Lietz                             Felbermayr Porsche      2m02.188s
24.  GTE P  Walker/Cocker                          JMW Ferrari             2m02.472s
25.  GTE P  Fernandez/Mucke/Turner                 Aston Martin            2m02.499s
26.  GTE A  Perazzini/Cioci/Griffin                AF Ferrari              2m02.918s
27.  GTE P  Bertolini/Beretta                      AF Ferrari              2m03.475s
28.  GTE A  Adam/Howard/White                      Aston Martin            2m03.990s
29.  GTE A  Ried/Roda/Ruberti                      Felbermayr Porsche      2m04.064s
30.  P2     Liuzzi/Rossiter/Weeda                  Lola-Lotus              2m04.243s
31.  GTE A  Goethe/Hall                            Aston Martin            2m04.569s
32.  GTE A  Bornhauser/Canal/Rees                  Larbre Corvette         2m05.513s
33.  GTE A  Belloc/Bourret/Gibon                   Larbre Corvette         2m05.545s
34.  GTE A  Krohn/Jonsson/Rugolo                   Krohn Ferrari           2m06.163s
35.  GTE A  Camathias/Palttala/Daniels             JWA Porsche             2m06.835s