Lamy crash ends second Spa practice
A heavy accident involving Pedro Lamy's Peugeot and Mike Newton's RML HPD brought the second practice session for the Spa 1000km to a premature end
Lamy and Newton collided at the entrance to the Fagne chicane, sending both the LMP1 and LMP2 machines into the barriers at high speed and causing heavy damage to both.
While Lamy was unhurt, Newton was taken to the circuit's medical centre and then transferred to a hospital in nearby Verviers as a precautionary measure. The Le Mans Series said in a statement that his condition was no cause for concern.
With the barrier suffering damage as well however, a decision was taken to make the resulting red flag a permanent one.
That decision left the Audi team heading the timesheets with a lock-out of the top three positions. The Benoit Treluyer/Andre Lotterer/Marcel Fassler R18 TDI that had crashed in the earlier session was quickest in 2m03.124s, Lotterer setting the time.
The second R18 of Tom Kristensen/Allan McNish/Dindo Capello was 1.2s back in second while the Timo Bernhard/Mike Rockenfeller/Romain Dumas completed the lock-out.
Lamy's was the fastest Peugeot in fourth while the older ORECA 908 was next up, ahead of the other two factory cars.
The Zytek-Nissan of Greaves Motorsport was the quickest car in LMP2, thanks to the efforts of Tom Kimber-Smith/Gary Chalandon/Karim Ojeh, while Hope Racing again paced the small number of Formula Le Mans runners.
Ferrari again dominated proceedings in the GTE Pro category, but this time the JMW car of British duo Rob Bell and James Walker seized the advantage, and was almost half a second clear of Dominik Farnbacher/Allan Simonsen in the Farnbacher 458.
The best of the AF Corse cars was that of Giancarlo Fisichella/Gimmi Bruni in third while Porsche's best representative was the IMSA car of Wolf Henzler/Patrick Pilet and Andy Priaulx/Uwe Alzen were again the best of the BMW drivers.
IMSA was on top form in the GTE Am class, Nicolas Armindo and Raymond Narac again leading the way.
Prior to the Lamy/Newton incident, there had been an earlier red flag when Jean-Christophe Boullion hit the barriers hard at the exit of Eau Rouge in his Rebellion prototype.
Pos Cl Drivers Team/Car Time 1. LMP1 Fassler//Treluyer/Lotterer Audi R18 TDI 2m03.124s 2. LMP1 Capello/Kristensen/McNish Audi R18 TDI 2m04.361s 3. LMP1 Bernhard/Dumas/Rockenfeller Audi R18 TDI 2m04.405s 4. LMP1 Lamy/Bourdais/Pagenaud Peugeot 908 2m05.472s 5. LMP1 Lapierre/Duval/Panis ORECA Peugeot 908 Hdi-FAP 2m06.962s 6. LMP1 Gene/Wurz/Davidson Peugeot 908 2m07.150s 7. LMP1 Amaral/Pla Quifel-ASM Zytek 2m07.543s 8. LMP1 Montagny/Sarrazin/Minassian Peugeot 908 2m08.547s 9. LMP1 Lahaye/Moreau/Ragues Oak Pescarolo-Judd 2m08.859s 10. LMP1 Jani/Prost Rebellion Lola-Toyota 2m09.004s 11. LMP1 Belicchi/Boullion Rebellion Lola-Toyota 2m09.138s 12. LMP2 Ojjeh/Chalandon/Kimber-Smith Greaves Zytek-Nissan 2m10.565s 13. LMP1 Cortes/Geri/Piccini MIK Corse Zytek-Hybrid 2m12.641s 14. LMP2 Erdos/Newton/Collins RML HPD ARX-01d 2m13.676s 15. LMP2 Beche/Thiriet/Firth TDS ORECA-Nissan 2m13.795s 16. LMP2 Leventis/Watts/Kane Strakka HPD ARX-01d 2m13.850s 17. LMP1 Collard/Tinseau/Jousse Pescarolo-Judd 2m13.857s 18. LMP2 Kraihamer/de Crem Boutsen Energy ORECA-Nissan 2m15.434s 19. LMP2 Mailleux/Ordonez/Ayari Signatech ORECA-Nissan 2m16.138s 20. FLM Moro/Marroc/Zheng Hope ORECA 2m16.146s 21. LMP2 Perez Companc/Russo/Kaffer Pecom Lola-Judd 2m16.802s 22. FLM Julian/Zugel/Petersen Genoa ORECA 2m18.148s 23. LMP2 Barlesi/De Roche/Lafargue Oak Pescarolo-Judd 2m18.364s 24. LMP2 Tucker/Bouchut/Barbosa Level 5 Lola Coupe-HPD 2m18.649s 25. GTE P Bell/Walker JMW Ferrari 2m21.446s 26. GTE P Farnbacher/Simonsen Farnbacher Ferrari 2m21.899s 27. GTE P Fisichella/Bruni AF Corse Ferrari 2m22.189s 28. LMP2 Gates/Garofall/Philipps RLR MG Lola 2m22.674s 29. GTE P Pilet/Henzler IMSA Performance Porsche 2m22.706s 30. GTE P Priaulx/Alzen BMW M3 2m22.928s 31. GTE P Farfus/Muller BMW M3 2m22.933s 32. GTE P Ortelli/Makowiecki Luxury Racing Ferrari 2m23.260s 33. GTE P Lieb/Lietz Felbermayr-Proton Porsche 2m23.366s 34. LMP2 Rosier/Luco/Basso Extreme Limite Norma-Judd 2m23.946s 35. FLM Rodrigues/Menahem/Misslin JMB ORECA 2m24.335s 36. GTE P Melo/Vilander AF Corse Ferrari 2m24.918s 37. GTE A Armindo/Narac IMSA Performance Porsche 2m24.981s 38. GTE P Dolan/Hancock Jota Aston Martin 2m25.137s 39. GTE P Goossens/Holzer Prospeed Porsche 2m26.045s 40. GTE A Perazzini/Cioci/Lemeret AF Corse Ferrari 2m26.141s 41. GTE P Beltoise/Jakubowski/Deletraz Luxury Racing Ferrari 2m26.680s 42. GTE A Christodoulou/Hummel/Quaife CRS Ferrari 2m27.476s 43. GTE A Ehret/Lynn/Wills CRS Ferrari 2m27.688s 44. GTE A Ried/Hammerson Felbermayr-Proton Porsche 2m27.899s 45. GTE A Felbermayr Jr/Miller Felbermayr-Proton Porsche 2m27.989s 46. GTE P Hirschi/Rossiter/Mowlem Jetalliance Lotus Evora 2m29.276s 47. FLM Hartshorne/Keating/Keen Neil Garner ORECA 2m29.670s 48. GTE A Giroix/Goethe/Wainwright Gulf Aston Martin 2m30.685s 49. GTE A Broniszewski/Peter Kessel Ferrari 2m30.882s 50. GTE A Krohn/Jonsson Krohn Ferrari 2m31.191s 51. GTE P Rich/Slingerland Jetalliance Lotus Evora 2m31.203s 52. GTE A Kauffman/Aguas AF Corse Ferrari 2m38.816s 53. LMP2 Frey/Meichtry/Rostan Race Performance ORECA-Judd no time 54. GTE A Bornhauser/Canal/Gardel Larbre Porsche no time 55. FLM Schultis/Simon/Schell Pegasus ORECA no time
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