Audi still fastest in rain-hit practice

The #1 Audi R15's time of 3:30.708 was just half a tenth of a second quicker than the sister car driven by Mike Rockenfeller, Marco Werner and Lucas Luhr.

"We are all still working through a number of different set-ups," said Kristensen, "so the times are not representative, and I think there is plenty still to come from Peugeot."

Although the #9 908 shared by David Brabham, Alex Wurz and Marc Gene was the fastest Peugeot in the dry, it was Sebastien Bourdais who set the pace in the wet, lapping in the 3:56 bracket - around 5 seconds faster than the leading Audis.

Capello spun the #1 R15 at Mulsanne Corner but was able to continue with no obvious damage.

The #9 Peugeot lost 30 minutes in the garage to a clutch change. Both Kolles Audis have been off the pace of the leaders and the #15 car has gone through the gravel at Indianapolis.

Several cars have yet to complete enough night laps to qualify. The #68 Lamborghini Murcielago stopped on track on its out-lap and the #41 GAC Zytek remains grounded in its garage with transmission trouble.

Pos Driver           Team        Time        Gap
LMP1
 1.   #1 McNish/Kristensen/Capello      Audi R15             3:30.708
 2.   #2 Rockenfeller/Werner/Luhr       Audi R15             3:30.762
 3.   #9 Wurz/Brabham/Gene              Peugeot 908          3:31.102
 4.  #17 Boullion/Pagenaud/Treluyer     Peugeot 908          3:33.028
 5.   #8 Sarrazin/Montagny/Bourdais     Peugeot 908          3:33.426 
 6.   #3 Bernhard/Dumas/Premat          Audi R15             3:34.716
 7.  #16 Tinseau/Barbosa/Jouanny        Pescarolo            3:35.868
 8. #008 Turner/Davidson/Verstappen     Lola Aston Martin    3:35.996
 9. #007 Mucke/Enge/Charouz             Lola Aston Martin    3:36.732
10.   #7 Minassian/Lamy/Klien           Peugeot 908          3:37.980
                                                             
LMP2                                                         
 1.  #31 Collard/Elgaard/Poulsen        Porsche              3:46.426
 2.   #5 Ara/Kunimoto/Maassen           Porsche              3:48.096
 3.  #40 Smith/Pla/Amaral               Ginetta Zytek        3:56.200
                                                             
GT1                                                          
 1.  #63 Magnussen/O'Connell/Garcia     Corvette             3:57.876
 2.  #64 Gavin/Beretta/Fassler          Corvette             3:59.586
 3.  #66 Muller/Lichtner-Hoyer/Gruber   Aston Martin         4:06.606
                                                             
GT2                                                          
 1.  #77 Lieb/Lietz/Henzler             Porsche              4:08.304
 2.  #82 Salo/Melo/Kaffer               Ferrari              4:10.980
 3.  #85 Coronel/Bleekemolen/Janis      Spyker               4:13.196