Peugeot remain on top in warm-up

Allan McNish was second fastest with a 4:03.460 for Audi, but the times were hardly representative on a wet but drying circuit.

Overnight rain spilled into the morning, but the 13.629km track dried quickly, leaving drivers with the chance to set times at the end of the session, though still more than half a minute slower than the qualifying times.

On his last lap, Marco Werner improved the lap time of the No. 1 R10 TDI to 4:04.809 ahead of Emmanuel Collard's Pescarolo, the third Audi, Jan Lammers' Dome, the Charouz Racing Lola and the second Pescarolo. Nicolas Minassian was ninth fastest in the number 7 Peugeot, ahead of the Creation driven by Jamie Campbell-Walter.

Michael Vergers set the pace in the LMP2 class, the Barazi Epsilon Zytek chassis continuing its impressive debut at Le Mans, but it was Tommy Erdos who was second fastest in the RML MG Lola, ahead of the second Barazi car of Adrian Fernandez.

Corvette led Aston Martin in the GT1 class, Oliver Gavin completing much of the session. The British driver set a time of 4:26.278 to head the Aston Martin of Tomas Enge and the Team ORECA Saleen of Jean-Philippe Belloc.

With a time of 4:37.768, Patrick Long, in the IMSA Performance Matmut Porsche, led the GT2 class for the first time.

The JLOC Lamborghini, which left the circuit on Thursday morning on the back of a flat bed lorry and covered in a grey plastic sheet, returned to the circuit in the hands of Atsushi Yogo. Though the times were not competitive, it was a remarkable achievement by the team to have repaired the car at all.

Fastest through the speed traps was the number two Audi of McNish, who broke the beam at 319km/h, ahead of the No. 1 Audi of Marco Werner at 314km/h in the warm up. The No. 8 Peugeot, the Charouz Racing Lola and the leading Pescarolo all also topped 300km/h.

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