Le Mans 24 Hours 2015 Wednesday: Practice and qualifying
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Treluyer improves the fastest time for the #7 Audi. He's set a 3m22.456s, but that makes no difference to its position and the car remains in sixth.
GARY WATKINS: Repairs to the Murphy car have taken longer than expected. It is interesting to note that race engineer Dave Benbow is a former winner of this race with the TWR Jaguar squad in 1990 and first worked here as a weekend warrior in the old signaling pits at Mulsanne Corner as long ago as 1969.
The repaired Murphy entry logs its first time of the session, a 3m45.531s. And now that the timing screens have updated, we can see it's Berthon in the car, not Chandhok.
Chilton is out in the #23 Nissan, which is comfortably the fastest of the three GT-R LM NISMOs.
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Predictably, a big gain for Berthon on his second flying lap. It's a 3m44.513s. They'll be looking to extract as much as possible out of these last few laps.
The #4 ByKolles CLM car, driven by Monteiro, has been caught speeding in the pits.
Treluyer improves again in the #7 Audi, but remains in sixth place. Needs to find more than a second to move up a position.
Tincknell puts the #22 Nissan into 20th place with a 3m41.400s. That's still three seconds slower than the lead car, the #23 machine that Mardenborough set a 3m38.468s lap in.
And Treluyer again improves in the #7 Audi, he's now into the 3m21s with a 3m21.839s. Still sixth.
Jani still holds pole position in the #18 Porsche on a 3m16.887s. Nobody looking like doing anything about that in the last five minutes of qualifying.
Just two minutes remaining here at Le Mans.
Checkered flag
The chequered flag is out and, although we've still got cars circulating, there doesn't look to be too much room for improvements. Bird is on a flier in the #26 Ligier in LMP2 though.
Yellow flag
Treluyer is in the gravel in the #7 Audi.
Yellow flag
That's at the first chicane on Mulsanne. He hasn't hit anything though.
Yellow flag
There is also potentially something off on the run out of Mulsanne Corner. Race control indicates there is a yellow flag. Unclear why though.
So here's how it looks at the front:
1 #18 Porsche, 3m16.887s
2 #17 Porsche, 3m17.767s
3 #19 Porsche, 3m19.297s
1 #18 Porsche, 3m16.887s
2 #17 Porsche, 3m17.767s
3 #19 Porsche, 3m19.297s
A few late improves in GTE, namely among the Pro cars – Mucke and Sorensen making it a very good evening's work for Aston Martin by going fourth and fifth, and a late (but limited) salvage job from Calado to grab 10th.
Treluyer's #7 Audi is still stuck in the gravel at the first Mulsanne chicane. That's going to be a while getting back to the pits, which will delight his mechanics.
Here's how it looks at the top of LMP2:
1 #47 KCMG ORECA-Nissan, 3m38.032s
2 #41 Greaves Motorsport Gibson-Nissan, 3m38.958s
3 #38 Jota Sport Gibson-Nissan, 3m39.004s
The Jota time was a late improvement from Oliver Turvey, while Sam Bird put G-Drive Racing (OAK) in fourth with a 3m39.867s after the chequered flag.
1 #47 KCMG ORECA-Nissan, 3m38.032s
2 #41 Greaves Motorsport Gibson-Nissan, 3m38.958s
3 #38 Jota Sport Gibson-Nissan, 3m39.004s
The Jota time was a late improvement from Oliver Turvey, while Sam Bird put G-Drive Racing (OAK) in fourth with a 3m39.867s after the chequered flag.
This is how the sharp end of GTE looks. Nice work if you're part of AMR...
1. #99 Aston 3m54.928s – Stanaway
2. #98 Aston 3m55.102s – Lamy*
3. #51 Ferrari 3m55.306s – Bruni
4. #97 Aston 3m55.466s – Mucke
5. #95 Aston 3m55.783s – Sorensen
*GTE Am provisional pole
Lead Corvette: 6th
Lead Porsche: 9th
1. #99 Aston 3m54.928s – Stanaway
2. #98 Aston 3m55.102s – Lamy*
3. #51 Ferrari 3m55.306s – Bruni
4. #97 Aston 3m55.466s – Mucke
5. #95 Aston 3m55.783s – Sorensen
*GTE Am provisional pole
Lead Corvette: 6th
Lead Porsche: 9th
Here's a longer LMP1 rundown:
1 #18 Porsche, 3m16.887s
2 #17 Porsche, +0.8s
3 #19 Porsche, +2.4s
4 #8 Audi, +2.9s
5 #9 Audi, +4.1s
6 #7 Audi, +4.9s
7 #2 Toyota, +6.6s
8 #1 Toyota, +6.8s
9 #12 Rebellion, +9.9s
10 #13 Rebellion, +15.0s
12 #23 Nissan, +21.5s
18 #4 CLM, +23.4s
21 #22 Nissan, +24.5s
31 #21 Nissan, +28.9s
1 #18 Porsche, 3m16.887s
2 #17 Porsche, +0.8s
3 #19 Porsche, +2.4s
4 #8 Audi, +2.9s
5 #9 Audi, +4.1s
6 #7 Audi, +4.9s
7 #2 Toyota, +6.6s
8 #1 Toyota, +6.8s
9 #12 Rebellion, +9.9s
10 #13 Rebellion, +15.0s
12 #23 Nissan, +21.5s
18 #4 CLM, +23.4s
21 #22 Nissan, +24.5s
31 #21 Nissan, +28.9s
Breaking news
Our full report on that qualifying session is now live. Check out what happened in every class in detail, as Porsche blitzed the field:
REPORT: Porsche dominates Le Mans qualifying
REPORT: Porsche dominates Le Mans qualifying
Porsche pole
That's it for AUTOSPORT Live from the first day of track action in 2015 Le Mans race week. We'll be back tomorrow evening with coverage of both Thursday qualifying sessions, the first of which starts at 19:00 local time. We'll see you then, to find out if Porsche can go any faster (or if it wants to) after a stunning first attempt tonight.
By: Glenn Freeman, Edd Straw, Scott Mitchell, Mitchell Adam, AUTOSPORT staff, Gary Watkins
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