Peugeot sets the pace in warm-up

Peugeot set the pace in the morning warm-up ahead of today's start of the Le Mans 24 Hours, while Audi suffered a few dramas.

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.

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.

Pos	Class	Drivers	Team	Car	Time	Gap
1.	LMP1	Bourdais Montagny Sarrazin	Team Peugeot Total	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	3:26.457
2.	LMP1	Brabham Gene Wurz	Peugeot Sport Total	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	3:26.793	0.336
3.	LMP1	Minassian Lamy Klien	Team Peugeot Total	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	3:27.193	0.736
4.	LMP1	Bernhard Premat Dumas	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi R15 TDI	3:28.604	2.147
5.	LMP1	Rockenfeller Werner Luhr	Audi Sport North America	Audi R15 TDI	3:28.865	2.408
6.	LMP1	Boullion Pagenaud Treluyer	Pescarolo Sport	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	3:29.526	3.069
7.	LMP1	Capello Kristensen McNish	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi R15 TDI	3:30.830	4.373
8.	LMP1	Albers Bakkerud Mondini	Kolles	Audi R10 TDI	3:32.521	6.064
9.	LMP1	Davidson Turner Verstappen	Aston Martin Racing	Lola-Aston Martin B09/60	3:33.689	7.232
10.	LMP1	Zwolsman Jr Karthikeyan Lotterer	Kolles	Audi R10 TDI	3:34.224	7.767
11.	LMP1	Belicchi Prost Jani	Speedy Racing Team Sebah	Lola B08/60-Aston Martin	3:36.113	9.656
12.	LMP1	Ortelli Senna Monteiro	Team Oreca Matmut AIM	Oreca 01-AIM	3:36.555	10.098
13.	LMP1	Tinseau Juoanny Barbosa	Pescarolo Sport	Pescarolo 01-Judd	3:36.787	10.330
14.	LMP1	Panis Lapierre Ayari	Team Oreca Matmut AIM	Oreca 01-AIM	3:36.900	10.443
15.	LMP1	Charouz Enge Mucke	AMR Eastern Europe	Lola-Aston Martin B09/60	3:38.765	12.308
16.	LMP1	Hardman Leventis Watts	Strakka Racing	Ginetta-Zytek 09S	3:41.153	14.696
17.	LMP1	Tomlinson Dean Moore	Team LNT	Ginetta-Zytek 09S	3:41.408	14.951
18.	LMP2	Elgaard Poulsen Collard	Team Essex	Porsche RS Spyder	3:41.670	15.213
19.	LMP1	Hall Primat Kox	Aston Martin Racing	Lola-Aston Martin B09/60	3:44.002	17.545
20.	LMP1	Ragues Mailleux Andre	Signature Plus	Courage-Oreca LC70E-Judd	3:44.056	17.599
21.	LMP2	Ara Kunimoto Maassen	NAVI Team Goh	Porsche RS Spyder	3:44.398	17.941
22.	LMP2	Piccini Biagi Bobbi	Racing Box	Lola B08/80-Judd	3:47.887	21.430
23.	LMP1	Campbell-Walter Ickx Ianetta	Creation Autosportif	Creation CA07-Judd	3:48.749	22.292
24.	LMP2	Amaral Pla Smith	Quifel ASM Team	Ginetta-Zytek 09S/2	3:49.394	22.937
25.	LMP2	Newton Erdos Dyson	Ray Mallock Ltd.	Lola B08/86-Mazda	3:49.719	23.262
26.	LMP2	Leuenberger Pompidou Kane	Speedy Racing Team Sebah	Lola B08/80-Judd	3:51.294	24.837
27.	LMP2	Barazi Moseley Bennett	Team Barazi-Epsilon	Zytek 07S/2	3:51.914	25.457
28.	GT1	O'Connell Magnussen Garcia	Corvette Racing	Corvette C6.R	3:55.091	28.634
29.	GT1	Gavin Beretta Fassler	Corvette Racing	Corvette C6.R	3:56.076	29.619
30.	LMP2	Ojjeh Gosselin Peter	GAC Racing Team	Zytek 07S/2	3:56.554	30.097
31.	GT1	Alphand Gregoire Goueslard	Luc Alphand Aventures	Corvette C6.R	3:59.080	32.623
32.	LMP2	Nicolet Hein Yvon	OAK Racing	Pescarolo 01-Mazda	3:59.402	32.945
33.	LMP2	Laheye Ajlani Moreau	OAK Racing	Pescarolo 01-Mazda	4:00.983	34.526
34.	LMP2	Bruneau Rostan Greaves	Bruichladdich Bruneau Team	Radical SR9-AER	4:02.334	35.877
35.	GT2	Lieb Henzler Lietz	Team Felbermayr-Proton	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	4:06.608	40.151
36.	GT2	Bruni Perez Companc Russo	AF Corse	Ferrari F430 GT2	4:08.088	41.631
37.	GT2	Pilet Narac Long	IMSA Performance Matmut	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	4:08.597	42.140
38.	GT1	Lichtner-Hoyer Gruber Muller	Jetalliance Racing	Aston Martin DBR9	4:08.734	42.277
39.	GT2	Farnbacher Simonsen Montanari	Hankook Farnbacher Racing	Ferrari F430 GT2	4:09.014	42.557
40.	GT2	Melo Kaffer Salo	Risi Competizione	Ferrari F430 GT2	4:09.035	42.578
41.	GT2	Bell Kirkaldy Sugden	JMW Motorsport	Ferrari F430 GT2	4:10.217	43.760
42.	GT2	Babini Malucelli Ruberti	BMS Scuderia Italia	Ferrari F430 GT2	4:10.295	43.838
43.	GT2	Mansell Ehret Rusinov	Team Modena	Ferrari F430 GT2	4:11.476	45.019
44.	GT2	O'Young Hesnault Kralev	Endurance Asia Team	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	4:15.165	48.708
45.	GT2	McInerney McInerney Vergers	Virgo Motorsport	Ferrari F430 GT2	4:15.439	48.982
46.	GT2	Felbermayr Sr Felbermayr Jr Lecourt	IMSA Performance Matmut	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	4:16.108	49.651
47.	GT2	Rodrigues Lebon Bouchut	JMB Racing	Ferrari F430 GT2	4:16.563	50.106
48.	GT2	Drayson Cocker Franchitti	Drayson Racing	Aston Martin V8 Vantage GT2	4:20.347	53.890
49.	GT2	Bergmeister Law Neiman	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	4:23.257	56.800
50.	GT2	Dempsey Kitch Jr Foster	Team Advanced Engineering	Ferrari F430 GT2	4:25.662	59.205
51.	GT1	Maassen Jousse Clairay	Luc Alphand Aventures	Corvette C6.R	4:36.387	1:09.930
52.	GT2	Coronel Bleekemolen Janis	Snoras Spyker Squadron	Spyker C8 Laviolette GT2-R	11:56.565	8:30.108
53.	LMP2	Noda Marsh de Pourtales	Kruse-Schiller Motorsport	Lola B07/46-Mazda
54.	GT1	Yogo Yamagishi Apicella	JLOC Isao Noritake	Lamborghini Murcielago R-GT
55.	GT2	Krohn van de Poele Jonsson	Risi Competizione	Ferrari F430 GT2