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Kobayashi top in final WEC practice at a wet Spa

byPhil Oakley
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Kobayashi top in final WEC practice at a wet Spa

Mike Conway (GBR) / Kamui Kobayashi (JPN) / Jose Maria Lopez (ARG) #07 Toyota Gazoo Racing Toyota GR010 Hybrid. 27.04.2023. FIA World Endurance Championship, Rd 3, Six Hours of Spa, Spa Francorchamps, Belgium. - www.xpbimages.com, EMail: requests@xpbimages.com © Copyright: Moy / XPB Images

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Kamui Kobayashi set the fastest time in a topsy-turvy, wet0but-driving final free practice session before qualifying for Saturday’s FIA World Endurance Championship 6 Hours of Spa.

The #7 Toyota GR010 driver set a 2:08.702, as one of the last cars across the line on a trying Spa-Francorchamps track surface.

This was just over seven tenths quicker than Earl Bamber in the #2 Cadillac V-Series.R, who had crossed the seconds before.

In third was the fastest of the LMP2s, Ferdinand Habsburg in the #31 WRT Oreca 07-Gibson, with a 2:10.268.

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