Peugeot sets the pace in warm-up

Franck Montagny set the fastest lap of the session in the pole position-winning #8 908, just three tenths of a second quicker than Alexander Wurz in the #9 sister car. Pedro Lamy completed the top three for the French manufacturer, just another four tenths back from Wurz.

Alexandre Premat was the quickest Audi driver this morning, in the only R15 not to have a problem of some kind. But Premat's time in the #3 car was more than two seconds slower than the lead Peugeot.

Mike Rockenfeller was a couple of tenths behind Premat in fifth, after Marco Werner had spun the car at the Ford Chicane while lapping Patrick Dempsey's GT2 Ferrari 430.

The #1 Audi was only seventh quickest in the warm-up and lost significant track time when Tom Kristensen bounced across the gravel at the Dunlop Curve and crawled back to the pits. Allan McNish brought the car back out at the end of the session and lapped within four seconds of Montagny's time.

There was more drama for the #007 Lola Aston Martin this morning. The car was repaired yesterday following Jan Charouz's crash at the second Mulsanne Chicane, but it was in the wars again in the warm-up when it collided with the LMP2 RML Lola in the pitlane and sustained minor damage to the front left bodywork.

The pole-sitters also set the pace in the other three classes, with Casper Elgaard keeping the Team Essex Porsche at the head of the LMP2 times, once again edging out Team Goh's RS Spyder.

The #63 Chevrolet Corvette of Jan Magnussen, Johnny O'Connell and Antonio Garcia continued to out-pace the #64 car of Oliver Gavin, Olivier Beretta and Marcel Fassler, with one second between them in the morning run.

The Felbermayr Porsche also continued to set the pace in GT2, running a couple of seconds faster than the AF Corse Ferrari and the IMSA Porsche.