Peugeot fastest in Sebring practice
The #08 Peugeot was quickest in both of today's daylight practice sessions at Sebring, leading its sister #07 car in one-two formation each time as the team's domination of the build-up to the 12 Hours continued
Sebastien Bourdais topped the morning session, before Nicolas Minassian went fastest in the afternoon. The crew was using a fresh monocoque for today's running after a crack was founded in the underside during a routine inspection yesterday.
Drayson Racing beat Aston Martin to third place in both sessions, getting within 0.6 seconds of the pacesetting Peugeot in the morning.
Highcroft HPD extended its advantage over its LMP2 rivals to 2s in first practice, but Cytosport Porsche was the only LMP2 squad to run later on.
The Rahal Letterman BMW squad showed its hand in GT2, running one-two in both sessions
In LMPC, Ryan Hunter-Reay led a Level 5 one-two in the morning, before Green Earth Gunnar's Christian Zugel set the afternoon pace, while the Velox and TRG teams led a session apiece in GTC.
Practice resumes with a night time session at 7.15pm local time this evening.
Morning session: Pos Cl Drivers Car Time 1. P1 Lamy/Bourdais/Minassian Peugeot 1m45.840s 2. P1 Gene/Wurz/Davidson Peugeot 1m46.071s 3. P1 Drayson/Cocker/Pirro Lola 1m46.455s 4. P1 Mucke/Primat/Fernandez Lola-Aston Martin 1m47.103s 5. P2 Brabham/Pagenaud/Franchitti HPD 1m47.308s 6. P2 Pickett/Graf/Maassen Porsche 1m49.455s 7. P2 Dyson/Smith/Meyrick Lola-Mazda 1m49.593s 8. P1 Willman/Burgess/Ehret Lola 1m53.308s 9. PC Tucker/Hunter-Reay/Gue ORECA 1m56.289s 10. PC Tucker/Bouchut/Wilkins ORECA 1m57.853s 11. PC Zugel/Jeannette/Julian ORECA 1m58.867s 12. PC Wallace/Sutherland/Hildebrand ORECA 1m59.340s 13. PC Pagerey/Wong/Ducote ORECA 1m59.606s 14. PC Feinberg/Marcelli ORECA 2m00.173s 15. GT2 Auberlen/Milner/Werner BMW 2m01.556s 16. GT2 Muller/Hand/Priaulx BMW 2m01.772s 17. GT2 Sharp/van Overbeek/Farnbacher Ferrari 2m01.926s 18. GT2 Sellers/Henzler/Pilet Porsche 2m02.047s 19. GT2 Magnussen/O'Connell/Garcia Corvette 2m02.237s 20. GT2 Bergmeister/Long/Lieb Porsche 2m02.282s 21. GT2 Law/Neiman/Lietz Porsche 2m02.845s 22. GT2 Brown/Cosmo/Barbosa Ferrari 2m02.984s 23. GT2 Beretta/Gavin/Collard Corvette 2m03.052s 24. GT2 Krohn/Jonsson/van de Poele Ferrari 2m03.720s 25. GT2 Gentilozzi/Goossens/Dalziel Jaguar 2m04.818s 26. GT2 Robertson/Robertson/Murry Doran Ford 2m05.050s 27. GT2 Melo/Bruni/Kaffer Ferrari 2m05.590s 28. GTC Richard/Ende/Lally Porsche 2m07.547s 29. GTC Curtis/Sofronas/Pilgrim Porsche 2m07.695s 30. GTC Gonzalez/Leitzinger/Keen Porsche 2m08.017s 31. GTC Lewis/Vento/Aschenbach Porsche 2m08.339s 32. GTC Gonzalez/Diaz/Kelly Porsche 2m09.137s 33. GTC Rodriguez/Bieker/Friedman Porsche 2m11.533s 34. GTC Sweedler/Kapudija/Lueders Porsche Afternoon session: Pos Cl Drivers Car Time 1. P1 Lamy/Bourdais/Minassian Peugeot 1m45.731s 2. P1 Gene/Wurz/Davidson Peugeot 1m46.539s 3. P1 Drayson/Cocker/Pirro Lola 1m46.645s 4. P1 Mucke/Primat/Fernandez Lola-Aston Martin 1m49.824s 5. P2 Pickett/Graf/Maassen Porsche 1m49.894s 6. P1 Willman/Burgess/Ehret Lola 1m53.521s 7. PC Zugel/Jeannette/Julian ORECA 1m56.118s 8. PC Wallace/Sutherland/Hildebrand ORECA 1m56.600s 9. PC Tucker/Bouchut/Wilkins ORECA 1m57.344s 10. PC Feinberg/Marcelli ORECA 1m57.427s 11. PC Tucker/Hunter-Reay/Gue ORECA 2m00.392s 12. GT2 Auberlen/Milner/Werner BMW 2m01.256s 13. GT2 Muller/Hand/Priaulx BMW 2m01.807s 14. GT2 Beretta/Gavin/Collard Corvette 2m01.852s 15. GT2 Bergmeister/Long/Lieb Porsche 2m01.953s 16. GT2 Brown/Cosmo/Barbosa Ferrari 2m02.232s 17. GT2 Magnussen/O'Connell/Garcia Corvette 2m02.250s 18. GT2 Law/Neiman/Lietz Porsche 2m02.879s 19. GT2 Sharp/van Overbeek/Farnbacher Ferrari 2m03.281s 20. GT2 Robertson/Robertson/Murry Doran Ford 2m04.274s 21. GT2 Sellers/Henzler/Pilet Porsche 2m04.675s 22. GT2 Krohn/Jonsson/van de Poele Ferrari 2m05.334s 23. GT2 Gentilozzi/Goossens/Dalziel Jaguar 2m06.752s 24. GTC Lewis/Vento/Aschenbach Porsche 2m08.040s 25. GTC Curtis/Sofronas/Pilgrim Porsche 2m08.614s 26. GTC Richard/Ende/Lally Porsche 2m09.978s 27. GTC Sweedler/Kapudija/Lueders Porsche 2m09.999s 28. GTC Rodriguez/Bieker/Friedman Porsche 2m11.378s 29. PC Pagerey/Wong/Ducote ORECA 2m16.677s 30. P2 Brabham/Pagenaud/Franchitti HPD 31. P2 Dyson/Smith/Meyrick Lola-Mazda 32. GT2 Melo/Bruni/Kaffer Ferrari 33. GTC Gonzalez/Diaz/Kelly Porsche 34. GTC Gonzalez/Leitzinger/Keen Porsche
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