Sarrazin sets practice pace at Monza

The French former Formula One and WRC driver led a Peugeot one-two ahead of teammate Marc Gene, who along with co-driver Nicolas Minassian took victory in Barcelona three weeks ago.

The two diesel-powered Peugeot Hdi-FAPs did not enjoy the same sort of performance advantage at Monza as they did at the Circuit de Catalunya, with Sarrazin's best time of 1:34.862, only 0.204 seconds faster than Rinaldo Capello's Audi R10.

The Italian, who shares the No.3 car with Allan McNish, was third quickest ahead of teammate Mike Rockenfeller.

Fifth quickest in LMP1 and overall was the Charouz Systems Lola-Aston Martin Coupe that showed so well in Barcelona, while the ORECA Courage of Olivier Panis and Nicolas Lapierre was sixth quickest.

The Van Merksteijn Motorsport Porsches RS Spyder headed LMP2, with team owner Peter van Merksteijn setting the pace ahead of the similar examples of Essex Racing and Team Horag.

Tomas Enge lead the way in GT1 for Team Modena, his Aston Martin more than two seconds faster than Roman Rusinov's Lamborghini Murcielago.

Alex Davison was fastest in GT2 for Felbermayr in one of the team's two Porsche 997 GT3 RSR.


Pos  Driver                          Car                        Time
LMP
 1.  Lamy/Sarrazin                   Peugeot 908 Hdi-FAP        1:34.862
 2.  Gene/Minassian                  Peugeot 908 Hdi-FAP        1:34.914
 3.  Capello/McNish                  Audi R10 TDI               1:35.066
 4.  Premat/Rockenfeller             Audi R10 TDI               1:35.978
 5.  Mucke/Charouz                   Lola Aston Martin          1:36.200
 6.  Panis/Lapierre                  Courage-Oreca Judd         1:37.080
 7.  Collard/Boullion                Pescarolo Judd             1:37.514
 8.  Burgueno/De Castro              Epsilon Euskadi Judd       1:37.743
 9.  Campbell-Walter/Hall            Creation CA07 - Aim        1:37.752
10.  Ortelli/Ayari                   Courage-Oreca Judd         1:38.086
11.  Primat/Tinseau                  Pescarolo Judd             1:40.765
12.  Tappy/Ickx/Short                Pescarolo Judd             1:41.207
13.  Kerr/Jouanny                    Creation CA07 - Aim        1:21.815
14.  Nicolet/Faggionato/Hein         Pescarolo Judd             no time

LMP2
 1.  Van Merksteijn/Verstappen       Porsche RS Spyder          1:39.386
 2.  Elgaard/Nielsen                 Porsche RS Spyder          1:39.691
 3.  Lienhard/Theys/Lammers          Porsche RS Spyder          1:39.768
 4.  Amaral/Pla                      Lola B05/40 AER            1:41.033
 5.  Barazi/Vergers/Rees             Zytek 07S Zytek            1:41.121
 6.  Belicchi/Pompidou/Zacchia       Lola B08/80 Coupe Judd     1:41.609
 7.  Kane/Foster                     WF01 Zytek                 1:42.055
 8.  Ragues/Lahaye                   Pescarolo Judd             1:42.100
 9.  Hughes/Haberfield               WF01 Zytek                 1:42.301
10.  Rostan/Peterson/Lueders         Radical SR9 AER            1:43.428
11.  de Pourtales/Noda               Lola B05/40 Mazda          1:43.732
12.  Ojjeh/Gosselin/Schroyen         Zytek 07S Zytek            1:44.470
13.  Didaio/Francioni                Lucchini Judd              1:45.475
14.  Salini/Salini/Roussel           WR Zytek                   1:52.957

GT1
 1.  Garcia/Enge                     Aston Martin DBR9          1:46.467
 2.  Rusinov/Kox                     Lamborghini Murcielago     1:48.762
 3.  Blanchmain/Dumez/Manopoulus     Corvette C6.R              1:50.352
 4.  Beretta/Moreau/Gouselard        Corvette C6.R              1:51.246

GT2
 1.  Lieb/Davison                    Porsche 997 GT3 RSR        1:51.066
 2.  Nielsen/Westbrook/Simonsen      Porsche 997 GT3 RSR        1:51.403
 3.  Bell/Bruni                      Ferrari F430 GT            1:51.424
 4.  Narac/Lietz                     Porsche 997 GT3 RSR        1:51.573
 5.  Balandras/Lecourt/Belloc        Porsche 997 GT3 RSR        1:52.701
 6.  Daniels/Paltalla/Sugden         Porsche 997 GT3 RSR        1:52.818
 7.  Aucott/Daoudi                   Ferrari F430 GT            1:53.082
 8.  Ehret/Kaffer                    Ferrari F430 GT            1:53.236
 9.  Ried/Felbermayr/Felbermayr      Porsche 997 GT3 RSR        1:53.586
10.  Dumbreck/Kelleners/Vasiliev     Spyker C8 Laviolette GT2R  1:54.328
11.  Chiesa/Leuenberger              Spyker C8 Laviolette GT2R  1:55.334
12.  Kutemann/Basso/Casadei          Ferrari F430 GT            1:57.424