Toyota headed warm-up for the Le Mans 24 Hours with Nicolas Lapierre setting the pace in a Saturday morning session that was shortened due to a late red flag.
Three minutes remained when LMP2 driver Tor Graves smashed into the barriers in the #25 G-Drive/Delta-ADR ORECA-Nissan and came to rest in the middle of the circuit.
With the session not restarting and Audi driver Andre Lotterer being unable to complete a lap that had started with the fastest first sector of all, Lapierre’s 3m26.227s effort – which was the fastest time set by a TS030 HYBRID all weekend – was enough to keep the #7 car on top.
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Allan McNish put the polesitting #2 Audi R18 e-tron quattro second, 0.503s behind. Co-driver Tom Kristensen had earlier spun at Indianapolis after contact with GTE Am driver Pascal Gibon’s Imsa Porsche.
Lotterer’s co-driver in the #1 Audi, Marcel Fassler, was third.
John Martin, driving the sister car to Graves’ damaged machine, set the LMP2 pace, despite the G-Drive/Delta-ADR squad initially having trouble in getting the car out of the pits.
Brendon Hartley (Murphy ORECA-Nissan) was second fastest while Graves’ car was third, its best time having been set by Archie Hamilton.
The battle for GTE Pro honours was a to-and-fro between Porsche and Ferrari as the Aston Martins that set the pace in qualifying were content to focus solely on race preparation.
Romain Dumas (factory Porsche) and Giancarlo Fisichella (AF Corse Ferrari) had traded the top spot in the class several times before Toni Vilander, driving the #71 AF Corse machine with Kamui Kobayashi and Olivier Beretta, went half a second clear late on.
Pat Long was the best of the GTE Am drivers in the Dempsey Del Piero Porsche, the American quicker than all of the Pro cars bar Vilander’s.
The session featured several spins and straight-on moments at the two Mulsanne chicanes with Thomas Dagoneau, Ryan Briscoe, Oliver Gavin and Piergiuseppe Perazzini among those caught out.
The only other crasher than Graves was Philippe Dumas, who planted his #70 Larbre Corvette in the tyres at the Dunlop chicane.
Pos Cl Car Drivers Laps Time
1. P1 #7 Toyota Wurz/Lapierre/Nakajima 10 3m26.227s
2. P1 #2 Audi Kristensen/McNish/Duval 10 3m26.730s
3. P1 #1 Audi Lotterer/Treluyer/Fassler 12 3m26.963s
4. P1 #3 Audi Gene/Jarvis/di Grassi 11 3m27.124s
5. P1 #12 Lola Prost/Jani/Heidfeld 10 3m30.391s
6. P1 #8 Toyota Davidson/Sarrazin/Buemi 10 3m32.149s
7. P1 #13 Lola Beche/Belicchi/Cheng 10 3m34.437s
8. P1 #21 HPD Leventis/Kane/Watts 7 3m41.041s
9. P2 #26 Oreca Rusinov/Martin/Conway 8 3m43.158s
10. P2 #48 Oreca Hartley/Chandhok/Patterson 10 3m44.051s
11. P2 #25 Oreca Graves/Hamilton/Nakano 8 3m44.336s
12. P2 #24 Morgan Pla/Brundle/H Hansson 9 3m44.807s
13. P2 #49 Oreca P-Companc/Kaffer/Minassian 9 3m44.854s
14. P2 #38 Zytek Dolan/Turvey/Luhr 10 3m44.946s
15. P2 #35 Morgan Baguette/Plowman/Gonzalez 10 3m45.047s
16. P2 #47 Morgan Imperatori/Howson/Tung 10 3m45.170s
17. P2 #36 Alpine Ragues/Panciatici/Gommendy 10 3m45.781s
18. P2 #42 Zytek Krumm/Mardenborough/Ordonez 9 3m45.851s
19. P2 #32 Lotus Holzer/Kraihamer/Charouz 10 3m48.024s
20. P2 #43 Morgan Gachnang/Mailleux/Lombard 9 3m48.240s
21. P2 #28 Lola Giroix/Haezebrouck/Ihara 8 3m48.723s
22. P2 #33 HPD Tucker/Franchitti/Briscoe 8 3m49.220s
23. P2 #30 Lola Mowlem/Burgess/Hirschi 9 3m49.580s
24. P2 #46 Oreca Thiriet/Badey/Martin 10 3m49.694s
25. P2 #34 Oreca Frey/Niederhauser/Bleekemolen 6 3m49.800s
26. P2 #41 Zytek Rossi/K-Smith/Lux 10 3m53.803s
27. P2 #31 Lotus Weeda/Rossiter/Bouchut 4 3m55.335s
28. P2 #45 Morgan Nicolet/Merlin/Mondolot 8 3m56.644s
29. GTP #71 Ferrari Beretta/Kobayashi/Vilander 10 3m58.291s
30. GTA #77 Porsche Dempsey/Foster/Long 8 3m58.358s
31. GTP #92 Porsche Lieb/Richard Lietz/Dumas 5 3m58.796s
32. GTP #51 Ferrari Bruni/Fisichella/Malucelli 9 3m59.935s
33. GTP #91 Porsche Bergmeister/Pilet/Bernhard 7 4m00.593s
34. GTA #95 Aston Simonsen/Nygaard/Poulsen 8 4m01.401s
35. P2 #39 Lola Porta/Brandela/Raffin 4 4m02.285s
36. GTA #67 Porsche Gibon/Milesi/Henzler 7 4m03.312s
37. GTA #61 Ferrari Gerber/Griffin/Cioci 9 4m03.315s
38. GTP #66 Ferrari Bertolini/Faisal/Qubaisi 10 4m03.317s
39. GTP #74 Corvette Gavin/Milner/Westbrook 9 4m03.641s
40. GTA #88 Porsche Ried/Roda/Ruberti 9 4m03.658s
41. GTP #93 SRT Wittmer/Kendall/Bomarito 9 4m03.746s
42. GTA #81 Ferrari Potolicchio/Aguas/Bright 10 4m04.285s
43. GTP #73 Corvette Garcia/Magnussen/Taylor 8 4m05.213s
44. GTP #53 SRT Farnbacher/Goossens/Dalziel 8 4m05.700s
45. GTA #57 Ferrari Krohn/Jonsson/Mediani 10 4m05.848s
46. GTP #98 Aston Dalla Lana/Lamy/Auberlen 7 4m06.769s
47. GTA #55 Ferrari Perazzini/O’Young/Case 9 4m07.047s
48. GTA #76 Porsche Narac/Vernay/Bourret 9 4m07.945s
49. P2 #40 Oreca Dagoneau/Downs/Younessi 8 4m09.161s
50. GTA #70 Corvette MacNeil/Rodrigues/Dumas 3 4m09.880s
51. GTA #75 Porsche Collard/Perrodo/Crubile 9 4m10.378s
52. GTA #50 Corvette Bornhauser/Canal/Taylor 8 4m11.298s
53. GTA #96 Aston Goethe/Campbell-Walter/Hall 9 4m18.729s
54. GTA #54 Ferrari Mallegol/Bachelier/Blank 8 4m28.060s
55. GTP #97 Aston Mucke/Turner/Dumbreck 5
56. GTP #99 Aston Makowiecki/Senna/Bell 5
Source: http://www.iracing.com/inracingnews/real-world-racing/3rdparty/toyota-heads-le-mans-warm-up
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