Audi's Allan McNish tops ultra-close Petit Le Mans practice
The #2 Audi emerged fastest in an extraordinarily close second official practice session for this weekend's Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta
Just 0.116 seconds covered the four cars from the factory Audi and Peugeot teams at the end of the hour.
Allan McNish's late 1m09.768s lap secured the spot for Audi, but the margins among the leaders were tiny.
The #8 Peugeot was only 0.002s down on McNish in Franck Montagny's hands, while Romain Dumas put the #1 Audi third - 0.016s off McNish's pace and 0.099s ahead of Anthony Davidson in the #7 Peugeot.
The ORECA Peugeot sat out the session while its engine was changed.
Top petrol car was the Muscle Milk Lola-Aston Martin in fifth with Klaus Graf, despite contact in traffic causing a scare for team boss/driver Greg Pickett early in the session.
Christophe Bouchut topped LMP2 for Level 5, with Ryan Dalziel the quickest LMPC driver for CORE Autosport.
GT was almost as close as the front of the field. BMW took a one-two, with drivers Bill Auberlen and Joey Hand 0.025s apart, and Pierre Kaffer also within a tenth of a second in the AF Corse Ferrari.
Alex Job Racing led the GTC pack, with Leh Keen setting its time.
Practice continues with a two-hour evening session at 7pm local time.
Pos Cl Drivers Team/Car Time 1. P1 Capello/Kristensen/McNish Audi 1m09.768s 2. P1 Montagny/Sarrazin/Wurz Peugeot 1m09.770s 3. P1 Bernhard/Dumas/Fassler Audi 1m09.784s 4. P1 Bourdais/Pagenaud/Davidson Peugeot 1m09.883s 5. P1 Luhr/Graf/Pickett Muscle Milk Lola-Aston 1m11.879s 6. P1 Al Masaood/Kane/Leitzinger Dyson Lola-Mazda 1m12.052s 7. P1 Prost/Jani/Belicchi Rebellion Lola-Toyota 1m12.771s 8. P1 Fernandez/Primat/Mucke AMR Lola-Aston 1m12.810s 9. P1 Dyson/Smith/Cochran Dyson Lola-Mazda 1m13.346s 10. P1 Lahaye/Moreau/Ragues OAK Pescarolo-Judd 1m13.647s 11. P2 Tucker/Bouchut/Barbosa Level 5 HPD 1m14.199s 12. P2 Tucker/Franchitti/Diaz Level 5 HPD 1m14.818s 13. P1 Burgess/McMurry/Willman Autocon Lola-AER 1m15.773s 14. PC Bennett/Montecalvo/Dalziel CORE Autosport FLM 1m16.764s 15. PC Dobson/Richard/Lewis PR1 Mathiasen FLM 1m16.899s 16. PC Ducote/Ducote/Marcelli/Drissi Intersport FLM 1m17.422s 17. P2 Nicolet/da Rocha/Lafargue OAK Pescarolo 1m17.670s 18. P2 Brown/Johansson/Patterson United OAK Pescarolo 1m17.817s 19. PC Grogor/Mitchell/Kronfli/Cameron Genoa FLM 1m18.218s 20. PC Jeannette/Gonzalez/Junco CORE Autosport FLM 1m18.431s 21. PC Lux/Julian/Zugel/Grogor Genoa FLM 1m18.607s 22. PC Nicolosi/Boon/Lueders Performance Tech FLM 1m19.211s 23. GT Auberlen/Werner/Farfus BMW 1m19.833s 24. GT Muller/Hand/Priaulx BMW 1m19.858s 25. GT Fisichella/Bruni/Kaffer AF Corse Ferrari 1m19.942s 26. GT Brown/Cosmo/Bell Extreme Speed Ferrari 1m20.727s 27. GT Beretta/Milner/Garcia Corvette 1m20.872s 28. GT Gavin/Magnussen/Westbrook Corvette 1m20.885s 29. GT Ortelli/Makowiecki/Beltoise Luxury Ferrari 1m20.887s 30. GT Melo/Vilander/Matos Risi Ferrari 1m20.901s 31. GT Bergmeister/Long/Pilet Flying Lizard Porsche 1m21.366s 32. GTE-A Krohn/Jonsson/Rugolo Krohn Ferrari 1m21.372s 33. GT Sharp/van Overbeek/Farnbacher Extreme Speed Ferrari 1m21.732s 34. GT Neiman/Holzer/Law Flying Lizard Porsche 1m22.257s 35. GTE-A Lietz/Ried Proton Porsche 1m22.336s 36. GT Robertson/Snow/Murry Robertson Doran Ford 1m22.594s 37. GTE-A Kauffman/Aguas/Bell AF Corse Ferrari 1m23.007s 38. GT Henzler/Sellers/Ragginger Falken Porsche 1m23.050s 39. GT Miller/Maassen/Collard Miller Porsche 1m23.190s 40. GTE-A Ehret/Mullen/Wills CRS Ferrari 1m23.411s 41. GT Rossiter/Mowlem/Hansson Jetalliance Lotus 1m23.438s 42. GT Jones/Moran/Lewis RSR Jaguar 1m23.443s 43. GTE-A Giroix/Kauffman/Wainwright Gulf Aston Martin 1m23.720s 44. GT Junqueira/Wilden/James RSR Jaguar 1m23.895s 45. GT Firman/Jakubowski/Halliday Luxury Ferrari 1m23.912s 46. GTC Sweedler/Wong/Keen Alex Job Porsche 1m25.765s 47. GTC Ende/Pumpelly/Ludwig TRG Porsche 1m26.125s 48. GTC von Moltke/Norman/Keating TRG Porsche 1m26.493s 49. GTC Pappas/Bleekemolen/Bleekemolen Black Swan Porsche 1m27.300s
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