Minassian won't hold back at finale

The Frenchman and his co-driver Marc Gene need to finish within two points of Audi rivals Alexandre Premat and Mike Rockenfeller, but Minassian believes the safest way to secure the drivers' title is to do what always does - go flat out for the win.

"Since the beginning of the year we have done a very good job doing what we have been doing, so I don't see any point in changing," Minassian told autosport.com. "Just because we are playing for a championship it doesn't mean we should change all of our strategy and be conservative.

"All we need to do is do what we do normally. Push as hard as we can for the whole race and just go for the win. We don't push stupidly so that we are close to crashing, we always keep something back. And it works."

Minassian qualified second on the grid behind the sister Peugeot 908 HDi FAP of Stephane Sarrazin and Pedro Lamy, but was lucky to escape with repairable rear-end damage to his car after a clash with an LMP2 Lola during qualifying.

"I had a very good first sector, then just before Club, there was a Lola that was driving very slowly," he explained. "I went for it and he didn't see me, and he turned in on me.

"He was going very slowly, he was driving so slow that even on the monitor we couldn't even see it. When you drive that slow then I expected him to be somewhere else on the track than where he was."

Asked if he thought traffic could play a part in the outcome of tomorrow's race, Minassian replied: "Well it is the same for everybody. I think it is good thing because it adds an extra special element.

"If you are good in the traffic, you can make a big difference and there is no point complaining because it is the same for everybody," he added.

Meet the Aston Martin drivers at the Autosport stand at Silverstone this weekend.