The Porsche Cup kicked off its Endurance championship with the first stage in Portugal. On this early Saturday (11), the first two free practice sessions of the Challenge class took place, and Caio Castro/Dennis Dirani and Sadak Leite/Fabio Carbone were the leading pairs.
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In the first activity of the day in the Algarve, the teammates of Porsche #22 recorded the best lap by doing 1min48s232. The pair completed 11 laps throughout the session and was also the only one to go below the 1min49s mark.
Who took second place on the leaderboard was Sadak Leite/Fabio Carbone, with a delay of 1s359 behind the leaders. Dilson Peres Jr/Marco Cozzi, Pedro Reales/Yuri Alves, and Enrico Pedrosa/Luiz Landi completed the top five positions – the full grid was separated by more than 3s.
In the second practice of the day in Portimão, things were more balanced. Leite/Carbone was the name of the pair that took the top of the leaderboard by doing 1min48s751, also the only one below 1min49s.
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Nicholas Garfinkel and Victor Tieri took second place in the second free practice of the Porsche Endurance with a time 0.394s slower than the leading pair.
Reales/Alves, Pedrosa/Landi, and Lucas Castellani/Raphael Abbate completed the top five positions on the leaderboard.
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