Pescarolo quickest in second practice

Jean-Christophe Boullion set the best time again in the second session this evening for the French constructor, nearly two seconds faster than the title rival Aston Martin.

His best time this evening was half a second slower than the benchmark from earlier in the day, and was just three tenths quicker than the Kolles-run Audi R10 of Christijan Albers and Christian Bakkerud.

Danny Watts set the third quickest time in the Strakka Racing Ginetta Zytek, ahead of the leading LMP2 class entry of Olivier Pla and Miguel Amaral, which was more than two seconds faster than its nearest class rival - the RML Lola-Mazda of Tommy Erdos and Mike Newton in 12th place.

Olivier Panis and Nicolas Lapierre were fifth quickest in the sole Oreca, with the Speedy Racing Lola-Aston Martin of Andrea Belicchi, Marcel Fassler and Nicolas Prost completing the top six.

The fastest of the works Aston Martins was the #008 car of Stuart Hall, Miguel Ramos and Chris Buncombe in seventh place.

Championship leaders Tomas Enge, Stefan Mucke and Jan Charouz were only eighth fastest in the #007 car, with the #009 entry of Darren Turner and Harold Primat ninth.

The Team LNT Ginetta-Zytek of Nigel Mansell, Greg Mansell and Lawrence Tomlinson rounded out the top 10.

The Larbre Saleen was again top of the GT1 class, with Laurent Groppi, Roland Berville and Sebastien Dumez four tenths of second faster than the Gigawave Aston Martin Vantage of Ryan Sharp and Peter Kox.

Richard Lietz, Marc Lieb and Horst Felbermayr Sr set the best time in GT2 in their Felbermayr Porsche, just a couple of tenths quicker than the lead Ferrari - the Team Modena car of Antonio Garcia, Jaime Melo and Leo Mansell.

Raymond Narac put the IMSA Porsche third in class, ahead of Jonathan Cocker's best lap in the Drayson Racing Aston Martin and the JMW Ferrari of Gianmaria Bruni and Rob Bell.

Pos Driver                        Class  Car                   Time           Gap
 1. Boullion/Tinseau              LMP1   Pescarolo             1m35.096s
 2. Albers/Bakkerud               LMP1   Audi                  1m35.396s   +0.300
 3. Leventis/Watts                LMP1   Ginetta-Zytek         1m35.672s   +0.576
 4. Amaral/Pla                    LMP2   Ginetta-Zytek         1m36.548s   +1.452
 5. Panis/Lapierre                LMP1   Oreca-AIM             1m36.560s   +1.464
 6. Belicchi/Fassler/Prost        LMP1   Lola-Aston Martin     1m36.628s   +1.532
 7. Ramos/Buncombe/Hall           LMP1   Lola-Aston Martin     1m36.848s   +1.752
 8. Charouz/Enge/Mucke            LMP1   Lola-Aston Martin     1m36.988s   +1.892
 9. Primat/Turner                 LMP1   Lola-Aston Martin     1m37.680s   +2.584
10. Tomlinson/Mansell/Mansell     LMP1   Ginetta-Zytek         1m38.084s   +2.988
11. Karthikeyan/Meyrick/Zwolsman  LMP1   Audi                  1m38.268s   +3.172
12. Erdos/Newton                  LMP2   Lola-Mazda            1m38.808s   +3.712
13. Lahaye/Ajlani                 LMP2   Pescarolo-Mazda       1m39.472s   +4.376
14. Salini/Salini/Gommendy        LMP2   WR-Zytek              1m39.736s   +4.640
15. Ragues/Mailleux               LMP1   Oreca-Judd            1m39.942s   +4.846
16. Ojjeh/Gosselin/Peter          LMP2   Zytek                 1m40.342s   +5.246
17. Kane/Leuenberger/Pompidou     LMP2   Lola-Judd             1m40.376s   +5.280
18. Nicolet/Hein                  LMP2   Pescarolo-Mazda       1m41.976s   +6.880
19. Ibanez/Cavailhes/da Rocha     LMP2   Courage-AER           1m44.384s   +9.288
20. Bruneau/Sini/Greaves          LMP2   Radical-AER           1m46.026s  +10.930
21. Schell/Thirion/Metz           LMP2   Courage-AER           1m46.920s  +11.824
22. Berville/Groppi/Dumez         GT1    Saleen                1m47.332s  +12.236
23. Sharp/Kox                     GT1    Aston Martin          1m47.768s  +12.672
24. Cortes/Nieto/Jorda            LMP2   Lucchini-Judd         1m47.884s  +12.788
25. Lieb/Lietz/Felbermayr         GT2    Porsche               1m50.260s  +15.164
26. Garcia/Mansell/Melo           GT2    Ferrari               1m50.484s  +15.388
27. Narac/Pilet                   GT2    Porsche               1m50.794s  +15.698
28. Drayson/Cocker                GT2    Aston Martin          1m51.132s  +16.036
29. Bell/Bruni                    GT2    Ferrari               1m51.282s  +16.186
30. Montanari/Kaffer              GT2    Ferrari               1m51.358s  +16.262
31. Coronel/Janis                 GT2    Spyker                1m52.328s  +17.232
32. Griffin/Bamford               GT2    Ferrari               1m52.468s  +17.372
33. Hartshorne/Kutemann/Daoudi    GT2    Ferrari               1m52.632s  +17.536
34. Ehret/Farnbacher/Beltoise     GT2    Ferrari               1m52.836s  +17.740
35. Montermini/Cadei/Rosa         GT2    Ferrari               1m53.736s  +18.640
36. Felbermayr/Ried/Martins       GT2    Porsche               1m54.424s  +19.328
37. Palttala/Daniels/Rich         GT2    Porsche               1m54.640s  +19.544
38. Basso/Plati/Tenchini          GT2    Ferrari               1m58.680s  +23.584
39. Hughes/Firth/Manning          LMP2   Embassy-Zytek         no time
40. Jousse/Goueslard/Clairay      GT1    Chevrolet             no time