Peugeot fastest in Sebring practice
Date published : 18 Mar 2010 - 21:41:54
The #08 Peugeot was quickest in both of today's daylight practice sessions at Sebring, leading its sister #07 car in one-two formation each time as the team's domination of the build-up to the 12 Hours continued.Sebastien Bourdais topped the morning session, before Nicolas Minassian went fastest in the afternoon. The crew was using a fresh monocoque for today's running after a crack was founded in the underside during a routine inspection yesterday.Drayson Racing beat Aston Martin to third place in both sessions, getting within 0.6 seconds of the pacesetting Peugeot in the morning.Highcroft HPD extended its advantage over its LMP2 rivals to 2s in first practice, but Cytosport Porsche was the only LMP2 squad to run later on.The Rahal Letterman BMW squad showed its hand in GT2, running one-two in both sessionsIn LMPC, Ryan Hunter-Reay led a Level 5 one-two in the morning, before Green Earth Gunnar's Christian Zugel set the afternoon pace, while the Velox and TRG teams led a session apiece in GTC.Practice resumes with a night time session at 7.15pm local time this evening.Morning session:Pos Cl Drivers Car Time 1. P1 Lamy/Bourdais/Minassian Peugeot 1m45.840s 2. P1 Gene/Wurz/Davidson Peugeot 1m46.071s 3. P1 Drayson/Cocker/Pirro Lola 1m46.455s 4. P1 Mucke/Primat/Fernandez Lola-Aston Martin 1m47.103s 5. P2 Brabham/Pagenaud/Franchitti HPD 1m47.308s 6. P2 Pickett/Graf/Maassen Porsche 1m49.455s 7. P2 Dyson/Smith/Meyrick Lola-Mazda 1m49.593s 8. P1 Willman/Burgess/Ehret Lola 1m53.308s 9. PC Tucker/Hunter-Reay/Gue ORECA 1m56.289s10. PC Tucker/Bouchut/Wilkins ORECA 1m57.853s11. PC Zugel/Jeannette/Julian ORECA 1m58.867s12. PC Wallace/Sutherland/Hildebrand ORECA 1m59.340s13. PC Pagerey/Wong/Ducote ORECA 1m59.606s14. PC Feinberg/Marcelli ORECA 2m00.173s15. GT2 Auberlen/Milner/Werner BMW 2m01.556s16. GT2 Muller/Hand/Priaulx BMW 2m01.772s17. GT2 Sharp/van Overbeek/Farnbacher Ferrari 2m01.926s18. GT2 Sellers/Henzler/Pilet Porsche 2m02.047s19. GT2 Magnussen/O'Connell/Garcia Corvette 2m02.237s20. GT2 Bergmeister/Long/Lieb Porsche 2m02.282s21. GT2 Law/Neiman/Lietz Porsche 2m02.845s22. GT2 Brown/Cosmo/Barbosa Ferrari 2m02.984s23. GT2 Beretta/Gavin/Collard Corvette 2m03.052s24. GT2 Krohn/Jonsson/van de Poele Ferrari 2m03.720s25. GT2 Gentilozzi/Goossens/Dalziel Jaguar 2m04.818s26. GT2 Robertson/Robertson/Murry Doran Ford 2m05.050s27. GT2 Melo/Bruni/Kaffer Ferrari 2m05.590s28. GTC Richard/Ende/Lally Porsche 2m07.547s29. GTC Curtis/Sofronas/Pilgrim Porsche 2m07.695s30. GTC Gonzalez/Leitzinger/Keen Porsche 2m08.017s31. GTC Lewis/Vento/Aschenbach Porsche 2m08.339s32. GTC Gonzalez/Diaz/Kelly Porsche 2m09.137s33. GTC Rodriguez/Bieker/Friedman Porsche 2m11.533s34. GTC Sweedler/Kapudija/Lueders PorscheAfternoon session:Pos Cl Drivers Car Time 1. P1 Lamy/Bourdais/Minassian Peugeot 1m45.731s 2. P1 Gene/Wurz/Davidson Peugeot 1m46.539s 3. P1 Drayson/Cocker/Pirro Lola 1m46.645s 4. P1 Mucke/Primat/Fernandez Lola-Aston Martin 1m49.824s 5. P2 Pickett/Graf/Maassen Porsche 1m49.894s 6. P1 Willman/Burgess/Ehret Lola 1m53.521s 7. PC Zugel/Jeannette/Julian ORECA 1m56.118s 8. PC Wallace/Sutherland/Hildebrand ORECA 1m56.600s 9. PC Tucker/Bouchut/Wilkins ORECA 1m57.344s10. PC Feinberg/Marcelli ORECA 1m57.427s11. PC Tucker/Hunter-Reay/Gue ORECA 2m00.392s12. GT2 Auberlen/Milner/Werner BMW 2m01.256s13. GT2 Muller/Hand/Priaulx BMW 2m01.807s14. GT2 Beretta/Gavin/Collard Corvette 2m01.852s15. GT2 Bergmeister/Long/Lieb Porsche 2m01.953s16. GT2 Brown/Cosmo/Barbosa Ferrari 2m02.232s17. GT2 Magnussen/O'Connell/Garcia Corvette 2m02.250s18. GT2 Law/Neiman/Lietz Porsche 2m02.879s19. GT2 Sharp/van Overbeek/Farnbacher Ferrari 2m03.281s20. GT2 Robertson/Robertson/Murry Doran Ford 2m04.274s21. GT2 Sellers/Henzler/Pilet Porsche 2m04.675s22. GT2 Krohn/Jonsson/van de Poele Ferrari 2m05.334s23. GT2 Gentilozzi/Goossens/Dalziel Jaguar 2m06.752s24. GTC Lewis/Vento/Aschenbach Porsche 2m08.040s25. GTC Curtis/Sofronas/Pilgrim Porsche 2m08.614s26. GTC Richard/Ende/Lally Porsche 2m09.978s27. GTC Sweedler/Kapudija/Lueders Porsche 2m09.999s28. GTC Rodriguez/Bieker/Friedman Porsche 2m11.378s29. PC Pagerey/Wong/Ducote ORECA 2m16.677s30. P2 Brabham/Pagenaud/Franchitti HPD31. P2 Dyson/Smith/Meyrick Lola-Mazda32. GT2 Melo/Bruni/Kaffer Ferrari33. GTC Gonzalez/Diaz/Kelly Porsche34. GTC Gonzalez/Leitzinger/Keen Porsche
