Audi stays on top in final practice

Bernhard, who is sharing his new R18 TDI with Mike Rockenfeller and Romain Dumas, leapt to the top of the timesheets during the second half of the session with a lap in 2m02.697s - the fastest of the weekend.

Andre Lotterer was 0.309s slower in the second of the Audis, the one he shares with Benoit Treluyer and Marcel Fassler, while the best of the Peugeots, the Simon Pagenaud/Sebastien Bourdais/Pedro Lamy car, which has been rebuilt since its heavy Friday crash, was 1.8s back in third.

The Audi and Peugeot crews filled out the top seven places - the ORECA 908 ahead of the factory car of Stephane Sarrazin/Franck Montagny/Nicolas Minassian.

The Rebellion Lola of Nicolas Prost/Neel Jani was the best of the petrol-powered prototypes in eighth while the Pecom Lola of Pierre Kaffer/Matias Russo/Luis Perez Companc set the pace in LMP2 in 14th overall.

Porsche closed the gap to Ferrari in GT2 Pro as the Marc Lieb/Richard Lietz Felbermayr car was second - just 0.1s adrift of the pace-setting AF Corse Ferrari of Gimmi Bruni/Giancarlo Fisichella. The best BMW was fifth in the hands of Augusto Farfus/Jorg Muller.

IMSA Porsche duo Nicolas Armindo/Raymond Narac were comfortably clear at the top of the GT2 Am times while the Hope Racing line-up of Luca Moro/Nicolas Marroc/Zhang Shanqi set the pace in Formula Le Mans.

The session was red-flagged for 15 minutes at its mid-point when Robert Kauffman crashed his GT2 Am class AF Corse Ferrari at high speed at Eau Rouge, while a second stoppage - this time to allow marshals to work on a piece of damaged kerb at Fagnes, brought the session to a premature end.

Pos  Cl     Drivers                       Team/Car                     Time
 1.  LMP1   Bernhard/Dumas/Rockenfeller   Audi R18 TDI                 2m02.697s
 2.  LMP1   Fassler/Lotterer/Treluyer     Audi R18 TDI                 2m03.006s
 3.  LMP1   Lamy/Bourdais/Pagenaud        Peugeot 908                  2m04.558s
 4.  LMP1   Capello/Kristensen/McNish     Audi R18 TDI                 2m04.685s
 5.  LMP1   Gene/Wurz/Davidson            Peugeot 908                  2m04.988s
 6.  LMP1   Lapierre/Duval/Panis          ORECA Peugeot 908 Hdi-FAP    2m05.378s
 7.  LMP1   Montagny/Sarrazin/Minassian   Peugeot 908                  2m05.448s
 8.  LMP1   Jani/Prost                    Rebellion Lola-Toyota        2m07.387s
 9.  LMP1   Lahaye/Moreau/Ragues          Oak Pescarolo-Judd           2m07.845s
10.  LMP1   Cortes/Geri/Piccini           MIK Corse Zytek-Hybrid       2m09.860s
11.  LMP1   Collard/Tinseau/Jousse        Pescarolo-Judd               2m10.399s
12.  LMP1   Belicchi/Boullion             Rebellion Lola-Toyota        2m11.508s
13.  LMP1   Amaral/Pla                    Quifel-ASM Zytek             2m12.119s
14.  LMP2   Perez Companc/Russo/Kaffer    Pecom Lola-Judd              2m12.752s
15.  LMP2   Beche/Thiriet/Firth           TDS ORECA-Nissan             2m12.905s
16.  LMP2   Kraihamer/de Crem             Boutsen Energy ORECA-Nissan  2m13.532s
17.  LMP2   Barlesi/De Roche/Lafargue     Oak Pescarolo-Judd           2m13.935s
18.  LMP2   Ojjeh/Chalandon/Kimber-Smith  Greaves Zytek-Nissan         2m14.002s
19.  LMP2   Frey/Meichtry/Rostan          Race Performance ORECA-Judd  2m14.655s
20.  LMP2   Leventis/Watts/Kane           Strakka HPD ARX-01d          2m15.265s
21.  LMP2   Rosier/Luco/Basso             Extreme Limite Norma-Judd    2m16.065s
22.  LMP2   Mailleux/Ordonez/Ayari        Signatech ORECA-Nissan       2m16.071s
23.  FLM    Moro/Marroc/Zheng             Hope ORECA                   2m17.006s
24.  LMP2   Tucker/Bouchut/Barbosa        Level 5 Lola Coupe-HPD       2m19.052s
25.  LMP2   Gates/Garofall/Philipps       RLR MG Lola                  2m19.931s
26.  FLM    Rodrigues/Menahem/Misslin     JMB ORECA                    2m20.836s
27.  FLM    Schultis/Simon/Schell         Pegasus ORECA                2m20.997s
28.  GTE P  Fisichella/Bruni              AF Corse Ferrari             2m21.476s
29.  GTE P  Lieb/Lietz                    Felbermayr-Proton Porsche    2m21.870s
30.  GTE P  Farnbacher/Simonsen           Farnbacher Ferrari           2m22.001s
31.  GTE P  Melo/Vilander                 AF Corse Ferrari             2m22.172s
32.  GTE P  Farfus/Muller                 BMW M3                       2m22.214s
33.  GTE P  Priaulx/Alzen                 BMW M3                       2m22.392s
34.  GTE P  Ortelli/Makowiecki            Luxury Racing Ferrari        2m22.777s
35.  GTE P  Beltoise/Jakubowski/Deletraz  Luxury Racing Ferrari        2m23.133s
36.  GTE P  Goossens/Holzer               Prospeed Porsche             2m23.237s
37.  GTE A  Armindo/Narac                 IMSA Performance Porsche     2m23.720s
38.  GTE P  Pilet/Henzler                 IMSA Performance Porsche     2m23.812s
39.  GTE P  Bell/Walker                   JMW Ferrari                  2m23.923s
40.  GTE A  Broniszewski/Peter            Kessel Ferrari               2m23.944s
41.  GTE A  Perazzini/Cioci/Lemeret       AF Corse Ferrari             2m24.684s
42.  GTE P  Dolan/Hancock                 Jota Aston Martin            2m25.312s
43.  GTE A  Christodoulou/Hummel/Quaife   CRS Ferrari                  2m25.457s
44.  GTE A  Bornhauser/Canal/Gardel       Larbre Porsche               2m25.893s
45.  GTE A  Giroix/Goethe/Wainwright      Gulf Aston Martin            2m25.917s
46.  GTE A  Krohn/Jonsson                 Krohn Ferrari                2m26.526s
47.  GTE A  Felbermayr Jr/Miller          Felbermayr-Proton Porsche    2m27.076s
48.  FLM    Hartshorne/Keating/Keen       Neil Garner ORECA            2m27.312s
49.  GTE A  Ried/Hammerson                Felbermayr-Proton Porsche    2m28.185s
50.  GTE P  Hirschi/Rossiter/Mowlem       Jetalliance Lotus Evora      2m31.565s
51.  GTE A  Ehret/Lynn/Wills              CRS Ferrari                  2m31.930s
52.  GTE A  Kauffman/Aguas                AF Corse Ferrari             2m23.726s
53.  GTE P  Rich/Slingerland              Jetalliance Lotus Evora      2m37.486s
54.  FLM    Julian/Zugel/Petersen         Genoa ORECA                    no time
55.  LMP2   Erdos/Newton/Collins          RML HPD ARX-01d                no time