Le Mans 2017: Thursday
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GTE PRO
We might see more concerted efforts to go for quick times tonight in the GTE class. Ryan Briscoe, one of the #69 Ganassi Ford drivers, told Autosport today that the team's weather forecast indicated that tonight's session would be slightly more favourable than last night.
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And qualifying is now underway here at Le Mans
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LMP1
The hotter conditions for qualifying yesterday have also proved to be a major talking point, with Porsche seeming to gain a slight advantage in them. Will that continue today, when temperatures are a touch higher?
Autosport
Here's our video round-up of yesterday's action:
Le Mans day one qualifying highlightsby Autosport via YouTube
Le Mans day one qualifying highlightsby Autosport via YouTube
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And here's a driver who should be racing here, but isn't thanks to injury, complaining about Balance of Performance in GTE Pro. While it's never a surprise to see the BoP being complained about, this is slightly different to the usual complaints about how the BoP has been applied 
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Today brought news of Panoz's plan to enter the 2018 Le Mans 24 Hours with an electric car 
LMP1
Yesterday's opening qualifying session proved to be an interesting one in LMP1. Although it was a Toyota 1-2 with Kobayashi in the #7 machine heading Nakajima in the #8 example, the key point was the pace of Porsche. At the test day earlier this month Toyota dominated. Yesterday, Bernhard was able to get within a second of provisional pole. Porsche has been working very hard since the test day making a number of improvements that are starting to pay off - and with Jani in the #1 car unable to get a clean lap in, there could be more to come today.
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There will be two two-hour sessions tonight that will finalise the grid. In six minutes, the first session starts, then there will be a two-hour gap before the final session. That finishes at midnight, at which point we will have the grid set for the 2017 Le Mans 24 Hours.
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Here is how it stands heading into the second of three qualifying sessions 
Welcome to Autosport's coverage of the second day of qualifying for the 2017 Le Mans 24 Hours.
By: Matt Beer
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