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Aston's Turner leads final practice

Aston Martin Racing topped the times in the final practice session ahead of qualifying for tomorrow's AUTOSPORT 1000km Le Mans Series finale at Silverstone

Darren Turner clocked the best time of the weekend so far with a 1m33.821s aboard the #009 Lola-Aston LMP1 coupe. The Briton set this mark late in the hour-long the session to knock AMR team-mate Stefan Mucke off the top of the times by a margin of nearly three tenths of a second.

The solo AIM-engined ORECA driven by Nicolas Lapierre ended up third fastest, a further two tenths back. Jean-Christophe Boullion claimed fourth place in the Pescarolo-Judd that had been fastest in the previous two free practice sessions.

Olivier Pla was again fastest in LMP2 aboard the ASM Team Ginetta-Zytek with a time that put in fifth overall.

Laurent Groppi headed the three-car GT1 field in the Larbre Saleen S7R and Gianmaria Bruni topped the competitive GT2 class in JMW Motorsport's Ferrari 430 GT.

Pos  Drivers                       Cl    Car                Time
 1.  Primat/Turner                 LMP1  Lola Aston Martin  1m33.821s
 2.  Charouz/Enge/Mucke            LMP1  Lola Aston Martin  1m34.100s
 3.  Panis/Lapierre                LMP1  ORECA-AIM          1m34.284s
 4.  Boullion/Tinseau              LMP1  Pescarolo-Judd     1m34.330s
 5.  Amaral/Pla                    LMP2  Ginetta Zytek      1m34.739s
 6.  Karthikeyan/Meyrick/Zwolsman  LMP1  Audi               1m34.929s
 7.  Watts/Leventis                LMP1  Ginetta Zytek      1m35.174s
 8.  Belicchi/Fassler/Prost        LMP1  Lola Aston Martin  1m35.603s
 9.  Albers/Bakkerud               LMP1  Audi               1m36.005s
10.  Tomlinson/Mansell/Mansell     LMP1  Ginetta-Zytek      1m36.215s
11.  Buncombe/Hall/Ramos           LMP1  Lola Aston Martin  1m36.905s
12.  Ragues/Mailleux               LMP1  Oreca Judd         1m37.254s
13.  Ojjeh/Gosselin/Peter          LMP2  Zytek              1m38.399s
14.  Kane/Leuenberger/Pompidou     LMP2  Lola Judd          1m38.558s
15.  Manning/Firth/Hughes          LMP2  WF01 Zytek         1m39.496s
16.  Salini/Salini/Gommendy        LMP2  WR Zytek           1m39.556s
17.  Lahaye/Ajlani                 LMP2  Pescarolo Mazda    1m40.102s
18.  Erdos/Newton                  LMP2  Lola Mazda         1m40.201s
19.  Nicolet/Hein                  LMP2  Pescarolo Mazda    1m40.474s
20.  Jorda/Cortes/Nieto            LMP2  Lucchini Judd      1m43.840s
21.  Schell/Thirion/Metz           LMP2  Courage AER        1m44.119s
22.  Cavailhes/Da Rocha/Ibanez     LMP2  Courage AER        1m44.128s
23.  Bruneau/Greaves/Sini          LMP2  Radical AER        1m44.684s
24.  Berville/Dumez/Groppi         GT1   Saleen             1m46.079s
25.  Sharp/Kox                     GT1   Aston Martin       1m46.119s
26.  Clairay/Jousse/Goueslard      GT1   Corvette           1m48.847s
27.  Bell/Bruni                    GT2   Ferrari            1m49.639s
28.  Pilet/Narac                   GT2   Porsche            1m50.070s
29.  Kaffer/Montanari              GT2   Ferrari            1m50.079s
30.  Lieb/Lietz/Felbermayr         GT2   Porsche            1m50.195s
31.  Coronel/Janis                 GT2   Spyker             1m50.338s
32.  Garcia/Mansell/Melo           GT2   Ferrari            1m50.532s
33.  Cocker/Drayson                GT2   Aston Martin       1m50.687s
34.  Ehret/Farnbacher/Beltoise     GT2   Ferrari            1m50.703s
35.  Rosa/Montermini/Cadei         GT2   Ferrari            1m50.939s
36.  Griffin/Bamford               GT2   Ferrari            1m50.945s
37.  Hartshorne/Kutemann/Daoudi    GT2   Ferrari            1m51.699s
38.  Palttala/Daniels/Rich         GT2   Porsche            1m52.098s
39.  Tenchini/Basso/Plati          GT2   Ferrari            1m53.877s
40.  Ried/Felbermayr Jr/Martins    GT2   Porsche            1m53.914s

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