Le Mans 24 Hours, Final Qualifying Session And away they go for the last two hours - We have the #80 Flying Lizards Porsche and #62 CRS Ferrari in the pits with frontal damage after Bergmeister was collected by the spinning 430. Kristensen immediately improves the time in the #3 Audi 4th fastest. Davidson spins in the Ford Chicane in the #7 Peugeot. 22:13 Dumas hammers round to go to the provisional pole - 3:25.799. Kristensen and Bourdais both improve but stay fifth and sixth. Jani drops in the fastest petrol lap so far - 3:32.883 in the #12 Rebellion Lola. Cioci takes a chunk out of the GTE Am pole mark - 4:01.282 in the #61 Ferrari 430. Farfus improves the time for the #55 BMW - but stays third - But next time around he goes much quicker - Pole for BMW - 3:57.592. 22:18 - Red Flag - Acident at Mulsanne Corner involving the #58 Luxury racing 458 (Beltoise) and #009 Aston Martin (Klien) - There's a line of oil along the final stretch of the Mulsanne straight - the Aston cruises back - no sign of oil beneath the AMR One. 22:40 - Green Flag as the #58 is towed slowly to a place of safety. Tommy Erdos aborts a run on new tyres reporting that there is a mixture of oil and water right around the circuit. We have a very quiet middle period in the session - no faster sectors whatsoever with only Tom Kimber Smith posting a faster time at all - and that just a thousandth of a second quicker in the Greaves Zytek! 23:15 - From nowhere Treluyer bangs in a pole setting time in the #2 Audi - 3:26.738 is 0.061 of a second quicker than the #1 car. Wurz pits in the #9 908 - New nose section - He's going to go for it. #15 is circulating without lights - Monteiro pulls off the circuit and stops at Karting - The Norma meanwhile stops at Arnage. 23:31 Pagenaud posts a 3:26.5 but stays 6th. 23:38 Kristensen gets an entirely clear lap and pops in a 3:26.165 - fourth quickest - splitting the Peugeot pair ahead - He's pushing on again for another flier - He goes faster in the first two sectors but goes wide avoiding a GT car in the Porsche Curves - at that point he was on schedule to grab pole - He stays fourth. 23:47 - Pagenaud third - 3:26.010 - less than three tenths shy of pole and going for it again - Kristensen is out again on new rubber too - Pagenaud sets the fastest middle sector of all though - He's on course to ruin Audi's day - but its a slow final sector - and the time is gone. Final chances for all and Kristensen looks the man most likely, he puts in a very quick first sector but then catches a kerb and the #3 Audi is off, slapped into the wall - Kristensen is out of the car and OK and Audi are confirmed on pole The R18 then has broken a stranglehold that Peugeot Sport has had on pole position at the Le Mans 24 Hours since 2007, a great record for the 908 HDI FAP broken by a man who drove one here at Le Mans – Benoit Treluyer. It was a debut pole position for the Oreca 03 and the Nissan engine courtesy of Signatech and Soheil Ayari whilst the BMW M3 GT2 scored its first Le Mans pole too with Augusto Farfus.
AF Corse scores the first ever GTE AM pole – Marco Cioci in the #61 Ferrari 430
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