Audi split the Peugeots in final practice
Peugeot may not have things entirely their own way at the Nurburgring this weekend, if the postions from the final practice session for the fourth round of the Le Mans Series are anything to go by
While Pedro Lamy and Stephane Sarrazin once again topped the times in their diesel-powered 908 HDi FAP with a time of 1:39.023, Alexandre Premat and Mike Rockenfeller moved up to second overall in the No.2 Audi R10 TDI.
The joint championship leaders were still some 1.3s away from the fastest French car's best time, but they were also half a second quicker than the two drivers they share the top of the table with, Marc Gene and Nicolas Minassian, in the No.7 Peugeot.
Allan McNish and Rinaldo Capello were curiously far from the pace in fourth in the No.1 Audi - the Le Mans 24 Hours winners more than 3secs away from the leading Peugeot.
The Charouz Racing Lola Aston Martin was once again the fastest petrol-engined car, two seconds ahead of the two Courage-Orecas.
Van Merksteijn Motorsport's Porsche RS Spyder moved to the top of the LMP2 times ahead of Juan Barazi and Michael Vergers in the Barazi Epsilon Zytek. The Speedy Lola was third quickest.
Team Modena's Aston Martin continued to dominate things in the GT1 class, Antonio Garcia and Tomas Enge half a second clear of Olivier Beretta and Jerome Policand in the fastest of the Alphand Corvettes.
Alex Davison and Marc Lieb put Porsche at the top of the GT2 times as the Felbyrmayr 997 enjoyed an advantage of some 0.4s over the Farnbacher Ferrari F430, driven by Pierre Kaffer, Pierre Ehret and Anthony Beltoise.
Pos Driver Car Time LMP 1. Lamy/Sarrazin Peugeot 908 Hdi-FAP 1:39.023 2. Premat/Rockenfeller Audi R10 TDI 1:40.347 3. Gene/Minassian Peugeot 908 Hdi-FAP 1:40.815 4. Capello/McNish Audi R10 TDI 1:42.255 5. Mucke/Charouz Lola Aston Martin 1:42.732 6. Ortelli/Ayari Courage-Oreca Judd 1:44.063 7. Panis/Lapierre Courage-Oreca Judd 1:44.140 8. Collard/Boullion Pescarolo Judd 1:44.363 9. Campbell-Walter/Hall Creation CA07 - Aim 1:44.613 10. Simpson/Halliday Creation CA07 - Aim 1:45.060 11. Nakano/Valles Epsilon Euskadi Judd 1:45.061 12. Burgueno/De Castro Epsilon Euskadi Judd 1:45.103 13. Primat/Tinseau Pescarolo Judd 1:45.264 14. Barbosa/Ickx/Short Pescarolo Judd 1:45.760 15. Lavaggi/Kaufmann Lavaggi AER 1:48.499 16. Nicolet/Hein Pescarolo Judd 1:49.296 LMP2 1. Bleekemolen/Verstappen Porsche RS Spyder 1:43.901 2. Barazi/Vergers/Rees Zytek 07S Zytek 1:44.698 3. Belicchi/Pompidou/Zacchia Lola B08/80 Coupe Judd 1:44.819 4. Erdos/Newton Lola MG 1:45.040 5. Elgaard/Nielsen Porsche RS Spyder 1:45.464 6. Lienhard/Theys/Lammers Porsche RS Spyder 1:45.812 7. Kane/Hughes WF01 Zytek 1:46.687 8. Ojjeh/Gosselin Zytek 07S Zytek 1:46.722 9. Amaral/Pla Lola B05/40 AER 1:46.722 10. de Pourtales/Noda Lola B05/40 Mazda 1:47.411 11. Manning/Foster WF01 Zytek 1:48.067 12. Ragues/Lahaye Pescarolo Judd 1:48.134 13. Rostan/Peterson/Lueders Radical SR9 AER 1:49.113 14. Salini/Salini/Roussel WR Zytek 1:52.416 GT1 1. Garcia/Enge Aston Martin DBR9 1:53.602 2. Beretta/Policand Corvette C6.R 1:54.131 3. Alphand/Moreau/Gouselard Corvette C6.R 1:54.328 4. Rusinov/Kox Lamborghini Murcielago 1:54.406 GT2 1. Lieb/Davison Porsche 997 GT3 RSR 1:58.082 2. Ehret/Kaffer/Beltoise Ferrari F430 GT 1:58.451 3. Nielsen/Westbrook/Simonsen Porsche 997 GT3 RSR 1:58.611 4. Aucott/Daoudi Ferrari F430 GT 1:58.788 5. Narac/Lietz Porsche 997 GT3 RSR 1:59.523 6. Dumbreck/Kelleners/Vasiliev Spyker C8 Laviolette GT2R 2:00.329 7. Chiesa/Leuenberger Spyker C8 Laviolette GT2R 2:00.707 8. Kutemann/Basso/Scheier Ferrari F430 GT 2:00.963 9. Daniels/Paltalla/Sugden Porsche 997 GT3 RSR 2:01.457 10. Balandras/Lecourt/Belloc Porsche 997 GT3 RSR 2:02.039 11. Ried/Felbyrmayr/Felbyrmayr Porsche 997 GT3 RSR 2:02.217 12. Bell/Bruni Ferrari F430 GT no time
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