Peugeot seal front row at Monza
The two brand new Peugeot 908s comfortably qualified on the front row for the first race of the Le Mans Series at Monza
The car of Marc Gene and Nicolas Minassian was less than two tenths of a second faster than the car shared by Pedro Lamy and Stephane Sarrazin, while both cars were more than a second clear of the third-placed Lola of Jan Charouz and Stefan Mucke.
The French squad had set themselves the target of qualifying on pole for the race, although they have been less optimistic with their race predictions due to reliability issues that they have suffered in testing.
Reigning LMS champions Emmanuel Collard and Jean-Christophe Boullion are fourth on the grid, but the new Pescarolo chassis was nearly three seconds adrift of the Peugeots.
The Quifel ASM team took the LMP2 pole position in 10th place overall, just ahead of the Barazi Epsilon team with the new Zytek 07S chassis.
Stephane Ortelli and Soheil Ayari secured the GT1 pole position in the Team Oreca Saleen, but the pair were less than one tenth of a second ahead of the Luc Alphand Aventures Corvette.
Pole position in GT2 went to the new Porsche 997 of Raymond Narac and Richard Lietz.
Pos Cl Drivers Car Time 1. P1 Gene/Minassian/ Peugeot 908 Hdi FAP 1:34.503 2. P1 Lamy/Sarrazin/ Peugeot 908 Hdi FAP 1:34.680 3. P1 Charouz/Mucke/ Lola B07/17 Judd 1:36.187 4. P1 Collard/Boullion/ Pescarolo Judd 1:37.349 5. P1 Frei/Cochet/ Courage LC70 AER 1:37.650 6. P1 Gounon/Moreau/ Courage LC70 AER 1:37.834 7. P1 Lammers/Hart/Bleekemolen Dome S101.5 Judd 1:37.986 8. P1 Primat/Tinseau/ Pescarolo Judd 1:38.469 9. P1 Evans/Berridge/Owen Lola B06/10 AER 1:39.216 10. P2 Amaral/De Castro/Burgeno Lola B05/40 AER 1:39.271 11. P2 Barazi/Vergers/Ojjeh Zytek 07S Zytek 1:39.481 12. P2 Erdos/Newton/ MG Lola EX264 AER 1:40.146 13. P2 Greaves/Moseley/ Radical SR9 AER 1:40.641 14. P2 Lienhard/Theys/Van De Poele Lola B05/40 Judd 1:41.325 15. P2 Hughes/Cunningham/ Radical SR9 Judd 1:41.420 16. P2 Binnie/Timpany/Buncombe Lola B05/40 Zytek 1:41.623 17. P2 Nicolet/Filhol/Jouanny Courage LC75 AER 1:41.692 18. P2 Rostan/Bruneau/Pullan Pilbeam MP93 Judd 1:42.549 19. P2 Burgess/De Pourtales/Siedler Pescarolo Judd 1:43.230 20. GT1 Ortelli/Ayari/ Saleen S7-R 1:45.443 21. GT1 Alphand/Policand/Goueslard Corvette C6.R 1:45.471 22. GT1 Garcia/Halliday/ Aston Martin DBR9 1:45.873 23. GT1 Bouchut/Gardel/Gollin Aston Martin DBR9 1:46.763 24. GT1 Perazzini/Cioci/Tavano Saleen S7-R 1:47.050 25. GT1 Blanchemain/Dumez/Vosse Corvette C5-R 1:47.110 26. P1 Lavaggi/Puglisi/ Lavaggi LS01 Ford 1:47.160 27. GT1 Fisken/Zacchia/Franchi Aston Martin DBR9 1:49.618 28. GT2 Narac/Lietz/ Porsche 997 GT3 RSR 1:50.381 29. GT2 Werner/Ehret/Nielsen Porsche 997 GT3 RSR 1:50.682 30. GT2 De Simone/Hernandez/Bonetti Ferrari F430 GT 1:50.756 31. GT2 Caffi/Zardo/ Ferrari F430 GT 1:50.903 32. GT2 Lieb/Pompidou/ Porsche 997 GT3 RSR 1:51.056 33. GT2 Bell/Simonsen/ Ferrari F430 GT 1:51.683 34. GT2 Hesnault/Smith/Beltoise Porsche 997 GT3 RSR 1:51.932 35. GT2 Kimber-Smith/Watts/ Panoz Esperante GTLN 1:52.241 36. GT2 Daniels/Cox/Camatias Porsche 997 GT3 RSR 1:52.293 37. GT2 Drudi/Rosa/Mowlem Ferrari F430 GT 1:52.313 38. GT2 Kox/Janis/ Spyker C8 Spyder GT2R 1:52.730 39. GT2 Lasserre/Dean/ Panoz Esperante GTLN 1:52.869 40. GT2 Basso/Mccormick/Daoudi Ferrari F430 GT 1:52.945 41. GT2 Belicchi/Chiesa/Kane Spyker C8 Spyder GT2R 1:53.508 42. GT2 Ried/Felbermayr/Gruber Porsche 997 GT3 RSR 1:53.809 43. GT2 Lambert/Lefort/Bouvy Ferrari F430 GT 1:54.328 44. GT2 Hartshorne/Mcinermey Panoz Esperante GTLN 1:54.719 45. GT2 Felbermayr/Ried/Collin Porsche 996 GT3 RSR 1:57.721 46. GT2 Thiim/Thyrring/Sorensen Corvette C6 Z06 2:01.201 47. P1 Barbosa/Keen/Hall Pescarolo Judd No time
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