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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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