Peugeot sets the pace in warm-up
Peugeot set the pace in the morning warm-up ahead of today's start of the Le Mans 24 Hours, while Audi suffered a few dramas
Franck Montagny set the fastest lap of the session in the pole position-winning #8 908, just three tenths of a second quicker than Alexander Wurz in the #9 sister car. Pedro Lamy completed the top three for the French manufacturer, just another four tenths back from Wurz.
Alexandre Premat was the quickest Audi driver this morning, in the only R15 not to have a problem of some kind. But Premat's time in the #3 car was more than two seconds slower than the lead Peugeot.
Mike Rockenfeller was a couple of tenths behind Premat in fifth, after Marco Werner had spun the car at the Ford Chicane while lapping Patrick Dempsey's GT2 Ferrari 430.
The #1 Audi was only seventh quickest in the warm-up and lost significant track time when Tom Kristensen bounced across the gravel at the Dunlop Curve and crawled back to the pits. Allan McNish brought the car back out at the end of the session and lapped within four seconds of Montagny's time.
There was more drama for the #007 Lola Aston Martin this morning. The car was repaired yesterday following Jan Charouz's crash at the second Mulsanne Chicane, but it was in the wars again in the warm-up when it collided with the LMP2 RML Lola in the pitlane and sustained minor damage to the front left bodywork.
The pole-sitters also set the pace in the other three classes, with Casper Elgaard keeping the Team Essex Porsche at the head of the LMP2 times, once again edging out Team Goh's RS Spyder.
The #63 Chevrolet Corvette of Jan Magnussen, Johnny O'Connell and Antonio Garcia continued to out-pace the #64 car of Oliver Gavin, Olivier Beretta and Marcel Fassler, with one second between them in the morning run.
The Felbermayr Porsche also continued to set the pace in GT2, running a couple of seconds faster than the AF Corse Ferrari and the IMSA Porsche.
Pos | Class | Drivers | Team | Car | Time | Gap |
1. | LMP1 | Bourdais Montagny Sarrazin |
Team Peugeot Total | Peugeot 908 HDi FAP | 3:26.457 | |
2. | LMP1 | Brabham Gene Wurz |
Peugeot Sport Total | Peugeot 908 HDi FAP | 3:26.793 | 0.336 |
3. | LMP1 | Minassian Lamy Klien |
Team Peugeot Total | Peugeot 908 HDi FAP | 3:27.193 | 0.736 |
4. | LMP1 | Bernhard Premat Dumas |
Audi Sport Team Joest | Audi R15 TDI | 3:28.604 | 2.147 |
5. | LMP1 | Rockenfeller Werner Luhr |
Audi Sport North America | Audi R15 TDI | 3:28.865 | 2.408 |
6. | LMP1 | Boullion Pagenaud Treluyer |
Pescarolo Sport | Peugeot 908 HDi FAP | 3:29.526 | 3.069 |
7. | LMP1 | Capello Kristensen McNish |
Audi Sport Team Joest | Audi R15 TDI | 3:30.830 | 4.373 |
8. | LMP1 | Albers Bakkerud Mondini |
Kolles | Audi R10 TDI | 3:32.521 | 6.064 |
9. | LMP1 | Davidson Turner Verstappen |
Aston Martin Racing | Lola-Aston Martin B09/60 | 3:33.689 | 7.232 |
10. | LMP1 | Zwolsman Jr Karthikeyan Lotterer |
Kolles | Audi R10 TDI | 3:34.224 | 7.767 |
11. | LMP1 | Belicchi Prost Jani |
Speedy Racing Team Sebah | Lola B08/60-Aston Martin | 3:36.113 | 9.656 |
12. | LMP1 | Ortelli Senna Monteiro |
Team Oreca Matmut AIM | Oreca 01-AIM | 3:36.555 | 10.098 |
13. | LMP1 | Tinseau Juoanny Barbosa |
Pescarolo Sport | Pescarolo 01-Judd | 3:36.787 | 10.330 |
14. | LMP1 | Panis Lapierre Ayari |
Team Oreca Matmut AIM | Oreca 01-AIM | 3:36.900 | 10.443 |
15. | LMP1 | Charouz Enge Mucke |
AMR Eastern Europe | Lola-Aston Martin B09/60 | 3:38.765 | 12.308 |
16. | LMP1 | Hardman Leventis Watts |
Strakka Racing | Ginetta-Zytek 09S | 3:41.153 | 14.696 |
17. | LMP1 | Tomlinson Dean Moore |
Team LNT | Ginetta-Zytek 09S | 3:41.408 | 14.951 |
18. | LMP2 | Elgaard Poulsen Collard |
Team Essex | Porsche RS Spyder | 3:41.670 | 15.213 |
19. | LMP1 | Hall Primat Kox |
Aston Martin Racing | Lola-Aston Martin B09/60 | 3:44.002 | 17.545 |
20. | LMP1 | Ragues Mailleux Andre |
Signature Plus | Courage-Oreca LC70E-Judd | 3:44.056 | 17.599 |
21. | LMP2 | Ara Kunimoto Maassen |
NAVI Team Goh | Porsche RS Spyder | 3:44.398 | 17.941 |
22. | LMP2 | Piccini Biagi Bobbi |
Racing Box | Lola B08/80-Judd | 3:47.887 | 21.430 |
23. | LMP1 | Campbell-Walter Ickx Ianetta |
Creation Autosportif | Creation CA07-Judd | 3:48.749 | 22.292 |
24. | LMP2 | Amaral Pla Smith |
Quifel ASM Team | Ginetta-Zytek 09S/2 | 3:49.394 | 22.937 |
25. | LMP2 | Newton Erdos Dyson |
Ray Mallock Ltd. | Lola B08/86-Mazda | 3:49.719 | 23.262 |
26. | LMP2 | Leuenberger Pompidou Kane |
Speedy Racing Team Sebah | Lola B08/80-Judd | 3:51.294 | 24.837 |
27. | LMP2 | Barazi Moseley Bennett |
Team Barazi-Epsilon | Zytek 07S/2 | 3:51.914 | 25.457 |
28. | GT1 | O'Connell Magnussen Garcia |
Corvette Racing | Corvette C6.R | 3:55.091 | 28.634 |
29. | GT1 | Gavin Beretta Fassler |
Corvette Racing | Corvette C6.R | 3:56.076 | 29.619 |
30. | LMP2 | Ojjeh Gosselin Peter |
GAC Racing Team | Zytek 07S/2 | 3:56.554 | 30.097 |
31. | GT1 | Alphand Gregoire Goueslard |
Luc Alphand Aventures | Corvette C6.R | 3:59.080 | 32.623 |
32. | LMP2 | Nicolet Hein Yvon |
OAK Racing | Pescarolo 01-Mazda | 3:59.402 | 32.945 |
33. | LMP2 | Laheye Ajlani Moreau |
OAK Racing | Pescarolo 01-Mazda | 4:00.983 | 34.526 |
34. | LMP2 | Bruneau Rostan Greaves |
Bruichladdich Bruneau Team | Radical SR9-AER | 4:02.334 | 35.877 |
35. | GT2 | Lieb Henzler Lietz |
Team Felbermayr-Proton | Porsche 997 GT3-RSR | 4:06.608 | 40.151 |
36. | GT2 | Bruni Perez Companc Russo |
AF Corse | Ferrari F430 GT2 | 4:08.088 | 41.631 |
37. | GT2 | Pilet Narac Long |
IMSA Performance Matmut | Porsche 997 GT3-RSR | 4:08.597 | 42.140 |
38. | GT1 | Lichtner-Hoyer Gruber Muller |
Jetalliance Racing | Aston Martin DBR9 | 4:08.734 | 42.277 |
39. | GT2 | Farnbacher Simonsen Montanari |
Hankook Farnbacher Racing | Ferrari F430 GT2 | 4:09.014 | 42.557 |
40. | GT2 | Melo Kaffer Salo |
Risi Competizione | Ferrari F430 GT2 | 4:09.035 | 42.578 |
41. | GT2 | Bell Kirkaldy Sugden |
JMW Motorsport | Ferrari F430 GT2 | 4:10.217 | 43.760 |
42. | GT2 | Babini Malucelli Ruberti |
BMS Scuderia Italia | Ferrari F430 GT2 | 4:10.295 | 43.838 |
43. | GT2 | Mansell Ehret Rusinov |
Team Modena | Ferrari F430 GT2 | 4:11.476 | 45.019 |
44. | GT2 | O'Young Hesnault Kralev |
Endurance Asia Team | Porsche 997 GT3-RSR | 4:15.165 | 48.708 |
45. | GT2 | McInerney McInerney Vergers |
Virgo Motorsport | Ferrari F430 GT2 | 4:15.439 | 48.982 |
46. | GT2 | Felbermayr Sr Felbermayr Jr Lecourt |
IMSA Performance Matmut | Porsche 997 GT3-RSR | 4:16.108 | 49.651 |
47. | GT2 | Rodrigues Lebon Bouchut |
JMB Racing | Ferrari F430 GT2 | 4:16.563 | 50.106 |
48. | GT2 | Drayson Cocker Franchitti |
Drayson Racing | Aston Martin V8 Vantage GT2 | 4:20.347 | 53.890 |
49. | GT2 | Bergmeister Law Neiman |
Flying Lizard Motorsports | Porsche 997 GT3-RSR | 4:23.257 | 56.800 |
50. | GT2 | Dempsey Kitch Jr Foster |
Team Advanced Engineering | Ferrari F430 GT2 | 4:25.662 | 59.205 |
51. | GT1 | Maassen Jousse Clairay |
Luc Alphand Aventures | Corvette C6.R | 4:36.387 | 1:09.930 |
52. | GT2 | Coronel Bleekemolen Janis |
Snoras Spyker Squadron | Spyker C8 Laviolette GT2-R | 11:56.565 | 8:30.108 |
53. | LMP2 | Noda Marsh de Pourtales |
Kruse-Schiller Motorsport | Lola B07/46-Mazda | ||
54. | GT1 | Yogo Yamagishi Apicella |
JLOC Isao Noritake | Lamborghini Murcielago R-GT | ||
55. | GT2 | Krohn van de Poele Jonsson |
Risi Competizione | Ferrari F430 GT2 |
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