Petit Le Mans: Rebellion beats ALMS regulars to pole

The World Endurance Championship's top privateer LMP1 team beat the ALMS points-leading Pickett HPD to pole by 0.340 seconds after a tough battle between Jani and Pickett's Lucas Luhr.

Dyson duo Guy Smith and Chris Dyson, who are chasing Luhr and Klaus Graf for the ALMS title, will start third.

The Dyson pair are joined by Steven Kane for Petit, while Romain Dumas steps in with Luhr and Graf.

European guests also led the way in LMP2, as OAK's Olivier Pla upstaged ALMS title combatants Conquest and Level 5.

Conquest's Martin Plowman held provisional pole for a spell before fellow Morgan driver Pla eased ahead. Marino Franchitti put Scott Tucker and Christophe Bouchut's #055 Level 5 HPD third in the expanded LMP2 field.

The Nissan-powered DeltaWing was successfully repaired following its practice crash and qualified 10th overall in Gunnar Jeanette's hands, 0.8s off the LMP2 pace.

GT featured Extreme Speed's Ferraris leading the way in a qualifying one-two. Guy Cosmo and factory regular Toni Vilander were just 0.05s apart as they beat the Corvettes, BMWs and Porsches. The SRT Viper impressed in sixth.

LMPC qualifying came to a curious end when Kyle Marcelli grabbed pole in the Merchant Services car then parked with an electrical problem - which he managed to rectify just as the red flag came out for his car to be retrieved. The stoppage prevented any attempts to depose the #8 car at the head of the class field.

Alex Job's Leh Keen took GTC pole ahead of Green Hornet driver Damien Faulkner.

Pos  Cl      Drivers                         Team/Car                    Time
 1.  P1      Belicchi/Jani/Prost             Rebellion Lola-Toyota       1m09.089s
 2.  P1      Luhr/Graf/Dumas                 Pickett HPD                 1m09.428s
 3.  P1      Dyson/Smith/Kane                Dyson Lola-Mazda            1m10.176s
 4.  P1      Burgess/Patterson/McMurry       Dyson Lola-Mazda            1m11.811s
 5.  P2      Nicolet/Baguette/Pla            OAK Morgan-Nissan           1m12.046s
 6.  P2      Plowman/Heinemeier Hansson/Lux  Conquest Morgan-Nissan      1m12.048s
 7.  P2      Tucker/Franchitti/Franchitti    Level 5 HPD                 1m12.236s
 8.  P2      Hartley/Hughes/Firth            Murphy ORECA-Nissan         1m12.382s
 9.  P2      Brundle/Buncombe/Kimber-Smith   Greaves Zytek-Nissan        1m12.524s
10.  P2      Tucker/Bouchut/Diaz             Level 5 HPD                 1m12.890s
11.  UNC     Ordonez/Jeannette               Highcroft DeltaWing-Nissan  1m12.850s
12.  P2      Beche/Thiriet/Tinseau           TDS ORECA-Nissan            1m12.944s
13.  P2      Dempsey/Foster/Cameron          Dempsey Lola-Judd           1m13.214s
14.  PC      Marcelli/Downs/Ducote           Merchant FLM                1m14.099s
15.  PC      Bennett/Braun/Gonzalez          CORE FLM                    1m14.145s
16.  PC      Richard/Ende/Lewis              Dempsey FLM                 1m14.268s
17.  PC      Popow/Dalziel/Wilkins           CORE FLM                    1m14.433s
18.  PC      Junqueira/Drissi/Vera           RSR FLM                     1m14.561s
19.  PC      Junco/Dobson/Julian             PR1 Mathiasen FLM           1m14.940s
20.  GT      Brown/Cosmo/Lazzaro             Extreme Speed Ferrari       1m18.677s
21.  GT      Sharp/van Overbeek/Vilander     Extreme Speed Ferrari       1m18.729s
22.  GT      Muller/Auberlen/Summerton       RLL BMW                     1m18.972s
23.  GT      Gavin/Milner/Westbrook          Corvette                    1m19.065s
24.  GT      Magnussen/Garcia/Taylor         Corvette                    1m19.086s
25.  GT      Goossens/Kendall/Bomarito       SRT Viper                   1m19.145s
26.  GT      Bergmeister/Long/Pilet          Flying Lizard Porsche       1m19.225s
27.  GT      Muller/Alzen/Summerton          RLL BMW                     1m19.261s
28.  GT      Neiman/Holzer/Tandy             Flying Lizard Porsche       1m19.524s
29.  GT      Wittmer/Farnbacher/Hunter-Reay  SRT Viper                   1m19.839s
30.  GT      Miller/Maassen/Lietz            Miller Porsche              1m20.388s
31.  GTE-Am  Pons/Narac/Armindo              Imsa Porsche                1m20.733s
32.  GT      Henzler/Sellers/Ragginger       Falken Porsche              1m20.760s
33.  GT      Sweedler/Bell/Mowlem            Alex Job Lotus              1m21.510s
34.  GTE-AM  Perazzini/Cioci/Griffin         AF Ferrari                  1m22.630s
35.  GTC     MacNeil/Keen/von Moltke         Alex Job Porsche            1m24.060s
36.  GTC     LeSaffre/Faulkner/Wong          Green Hornet Porsche        1m24.251s
37.  GTC     Di Guida/Pumpelly/Canache       TRG Porsche                 1m24.566s
38.  GTC     Cisneros/Farnbacher/Giermaziak  NGT Porsche                 1m24.833s
39.  GTC     Cumming/Valiante/Johnston       JDX Porsche                 1m25.058s
40.  GTC     Benitez/Bullitt/Segal           NGT Porsche                 1m25.385s
41.  GTC     Davis/Avenatti/Calvert-Jones    Competition Porsche         1m25.456s
42.  GTC     Collard/Gutierrez/Hedlund       TRG Porsche                 1m25.641s