Kristensen leads drying Dijon practice

The majority of the two and a half-hour session took place in damp conditions due to overnight rain, but following a late red flag late due to a Christian Bakkerud crash, it was restarted with six minutes remaining.

The track was dry by that point, leading to frenzied activity as drivers worked on the qualifying spec of their cars.

Mercedes and Audi had been equally matched in the tricky damp conditions, but it appeared that the C-class was no match for the A4 in the dry, as Audi drivers locked out the top five places.

While several Audi drivers put in a sequence of quick laps in the final minutes, the Mercedes drivers had no answer to their pace, with Gary Paffett the top driver of a 2009-spec car in seventh behind Maro Engel's 2008 car.

Timo Scheider, who can seal the title this weekend, only went out for a dry run in the final couple of minutes, but his single flying lap was good enough to vault him from 20th to third place.

Pos  Driver              Car       Time       Gap
 1.  Tom Kristensen      Audi      1m10.500s
 2.  Mattias Ekstrom     Audi      1m10.659s  + 0.159s
 3.  Timo Scheider       Audi      1m10.778s  + 0.278s
 4.  Oliver Jarvis       Audi      1m10.862s  + 0.362s
 5.  Markus Winkelhock   Audi      1m11.058s  + 0.558s
 6.  Maro Engel          Mercedes  1m11.132s  + 0.632s
 7.  Gary Paffett        Mercedes  1m11.278s  + 0.778s
 8.  Mathias Lauda       Mercedes  1m11.656s  + 1.156s
 9.  Alexandre Premat    Audi      1m11.676s  + 1.176s
10.  Katherine Legge     Audi      1m11.735s  + 1.235s
11.  Ralf Schumacher     Mercedes  1m11.743s  + 1.243s
12.  Paul di Resta       Mercedes  1m11.755s  + 1.255s
13.  Jamie Green         Mercedes  1m11.976s  + 1.476s
14.  Susie Stoddart      Mercedes  1m12.081s  + 1.581s
15.  Mike Rockenfeller   Audi      1m12.095s  + 1.595s
16.  Bruno Spengler      Mercedes  1m12.120s  + 1.620s
17.  Martin Tomczyk      Audi      1m12.395s  + 1.895s
18.  Tomas Kostka        Audi      1m12.916s  + 2.416s
19.  Christian Bakkerud  Audi      1m13.971s  + 3.471s
20.  Johannes Seidlitz   Audi      1m15.950s  + 5.450s