Le Mans 24 Hours - Qualifying 2 - 19.00-21.00 18:50
Just 10 minutes to go before the start of Qualifying. 18:56
Race Control Audi A1 has just completed a lap and is back in the pit - 3 minutes before we go green. 18:57
We're expecting the AF Corse Ferrari #51 of Fisichella/Bruni/Vilander to return at some point tonight - the car has been reshelled. 19:00
"Pit exit is now green - session has started" - says Eduardo Freitas from race control. 19:02
The #29 Gulf Racing Middle East that crashed at Dunlop has been repaired but is not yet out on track. 19:03
The #31 Kolles Lola has stopped at the exit of Tertre Rouge - Luca Moro behind the wheel of the Lola B12/80 Lotus. 19:04
Audi's 4-3-2 return to the pit after installation lap, several cars continue. The Nissan DeltaWing has also returned to the track for this session. 19:07
Anthony Davidson on the objectives for tonight: "Drive as fast as you possibly can. We're always goin’ to be pushing. Realistically it will be the night time when things will be quicker. We'll see how it goes. Hopefully later on, in Q3, we'll have a cleaner circuit at the end." 19:08
Pescarolo 03 Judd is back on track after its crash as well - good to see the #16 Pescarolo Team car out again. 19:11
The Corvettes are hammering the curbs at the Ford Chicane...quick times by Milner and Magnussen already, but still far off the 3:55 set last night. 19:15
3:29.633 already for Stéphane Sarrazin - pretty quick this early in the session. 19:16
Car off at Tertre Rouge! 19:17
As we just had the #26 Signatech-Nissan with a little woopsie at the Ford Chicane. 19:17
ProSpeed Porsche in the wall at Tertre Rouge - Bret Curtis in the car. 19:19
Yellow car still being displayed at Tertre Rouge - race director telling the teams that Bret Curtis will continue slowly. 19:19
And yellows withdrawn 19:21
3:27.800 for Nakajima - only a couple of tenths slower than yesterday.
ProSpeed #75 stopped on track again - now pushed behind the barrier by the marshals. 19:22
Out of the Ford Chicane the #61 of Rui Aguas slowed dramatically - forcing the #26 of Pierre Ragues to slow down as well. Odd situation there. 19:25
Nicolas Prost improves to a 3:33.106 - better than last night. All lap times getting close to the times set in the final minutes of last nights qualifying session. 19:27
Race control reports yellow flags removed - ProSpeed Porsche in a safe place now. We're full course green again. 19:28
Martin Brundle 3:42.299, only a tenth behind the fastest qualifying time of the car last night. Not bad for an old man. Jota Zytek ran wide onto the straight. 19:29
Aston Martin Racing #97 going straight at the Ford Chicane - and returns to the pit. 19:29
Michel Frey (#40 Oreca) has improved to 3:46.618 - 30th overall with that time. 19:31
Romain Dumas in 3:25.858 - better than before. Second fastest time in qualifying so far. As the #74 Corvette has spun and rejoined.... 19:32
Pierre Kaffer (#49 Oreca) improved to third in LMP2 -3:40.022, still 0.8 behind the provisional pole time. 19:34
Lotterer in 3:26.097 - getting closer to that provisional pole time of 3:25.453. 19:35
Lotterer 79.7 in sector 2! 19:36
Nakajima hops into third place - 3:26.505. Now one second behind the pole. 19:36
Lotterer improves the provisional pole time - 3:24.997! 19:37
Half a second quicker than the previous pole time. 19:38
#81 Ferrari missed the entry of the Ford Curve - jumped the gravel trap and curbs and back into the pit now. Perazzini behind the wheel of that Ferrari. 19:39
Lotterer improves again - 79.8 in second sector. Sector 1 wasn't that good though it seems. 19:40
Two fastest sector times in second and third sector - but a slower sector 1 means Lotterer does not improve. There is more to come at the track though. 19:42
Jan Charouz has improved to 3:41.060 - seventh in LMP2 with that time. As the JMB Racing Ferrari was rather slow at the Pit Entry. 19:44
Romain Dumas 3:25.819 - gap between the Audi R18 e-tron quattro and the Audi R18 ultra is now 0.722. Lotterer quicker in sector 2 again - but aborts his run and returns to the pit. OAK Racing Morgan-Judd #24 of Olivier Pla in the gravel trap at Indianapolis. Yellow flags. 19:45
Nose first into the barriers for the OAK Racing car. "Car currently being snatched, yellow flags being displayed," says Eduardo Freitas on the radio. 19:46
Allan McNish 3:26.350 - pushes the Toyota #7 outside the top 3 again. Michel Frey has improved the time for the Race Performance Oreca 03 Judd into 28th overall (3:43.618). 19:46
More yellow flags - this time at the Mulsanne Corner! 19:47
Michel Frey has stopped at Mulsanne Corner - causing the yellow flags. 19:48
3:26.038 for McNish - top three within a second of each other. First Toyota at 1.5 seconds. 19:52
André Lotterer: "The track improved a lot from yesterday when it was very slippery. We focussed on setting up the car today. It was a good lap, had some traffic. There is definitely more potential." 19:58
Nicolas Prost improved to a 3:33.062 - moving up into eighth and pushing down team-mate Jeroen Bleekemolen to ninth. 20:00
A couple of minutes ago Soheil Ayari spun his Pecom Racing Oreca Nissan at the Ford Chicane - Ayari has pitted as a result. 20:02
Martin Brundle into sixth in LMP2 - 3:40.738 for Brundle Sr.
JRM still not out - the team already reporting race parts were fitted and sessions would be used for installation laps. 20:03
Marco Bonanomi 3:26.918 - improved and top 5 within 2 seconds of each other. 20:04
Jan Charouz makes it an Oreca top 4 - 3:40.273 for the Czech driver and his ADR-Delta Oreca 03 Nissan. 20:08
Another improvement by Charouz - 3:40.174. As Lapierre is on a flyer in the #7 Toyota TS030 Hybrid. 20:09
3:26.502 for Lapierre - quickest second sector for the #7 - but only brings him 0.003! 20:10
Olivier Pla back on track after his little mishap and with new bodywork and tyres the French driver has just set a 3:40.743 - eighth overall. Martin into tenth now in 3:41.336. 20:11
Improvement for Marco Bonanomi - 3:26.420 puts the #4 Audi in fourth place. 20:13
Despite traffic Davidson in 3:28.233 - lap time improvement, no position change for the #8 Toyota.
Nelson Panciatici in the #26 Signatech-Nissan into second in LMP2 - making it an Oreca-Nissan top five in the LMP2 class. 20:14
Improvement by the #8 Toyota was 0.001s....consistent lap times for sure for Toyota! 20:15
And Davidson is another fast lap - as Danny Watts sets a 3:30.733 in the Strakka Racing HPD ARX-03a! 20:16
Several cars off onto the finish straight - including Davidson launching himself over the curbs! Brilliant ;-) 20:19
Olivier Pla breaks up that LMP2 Oreca top 5 - 3:40.050 puts him into fifth.
Nelson Panciatici closing in on the Thiriet by TDS Racing laptime - 3:39.486, just two tenths short of pole in LMP2. 20:20
Olivier Pla takes provisional pole in LMP2 - 3:39.213 in the #24 OAK Racing Morgan-Judd 20:23
Michel Frey has managed to get the Race Performance Oreca 03 Judd back on track - and is now slowly on his way back to the pit. 20:24
Stefan Mücke 3:56.924 - pushes down the #73 Corvette into fourth. Corvette-Ferrari-Aston in GTE Pro at the moment. 20:25
Frey is back in the pit - no visual damage to the Race Performance Oreca as it passed here at Pit Entry. 20:29
Maxime Martin very fast again - sixth in class now with 3:40.070. As we have the #7 hitting the curbs at Ford Chicane - and slowly crawling into the pit now. 20:30
Harold Primat went straight at the second chicane - Duval fastest in sector 1. 20:30
Fastest sector time for Davidson in sector 2. 20:32
Loïc Duval in 3:24.078 - almost a second quicker than the #1 Audi! 20:33
Danny Watts meanwhile has put in a 3:29.622 - fastest petrol non-hybrid now. 20:34
And Anthony Davidson in 3:26.151 into fourth place... 20:36
New GTE Pro pole sitter - Fred Makowiecki lapping the Circuit de la Sarthe in 3:55.393, half a second quicker than the Corvette last night. Interesting developments here at Le Mans - as several drivers expect to go even quicker in the third session. 20:39
Faster lap time set by Olivier Pla - 3:38.954, first LMP2 driver to get into the 3:38s - improvement of the LMP2 pole time. 20:42
Collard has just set the fastest lap time for the Pescarolo 03 Judd - 3:37.485 doesn't get it any further, but so far it's just a tenth behind the OAK Racing Pescarolo 01 Judd. 20:44
The JRM HPD ARX-03a and the Level 5 Motorsport HPD ARX-03b have not been out this session - from the teams that didn't have any problems yesterday. 20:44
Andrea Belicchi 3:31.866 - puts him back ahead of the sister car. 20:47
Luxury Racing Ferrari #59 of Makowiecki has gone straight at the second Mulsanne chicane - as we have a slippery track at the right hand side of the pit exit. 20:49
Question of the day: Will Status GP and Murphy Prototypes return to the track for the third qualifying session - knowing that Ireland is currently playing Spain in Euro 2012? Answers on a postcard! 20:49
10 minutes remaining in this session 20:51
Nelson Panciatici into second place in LMP2 - 3:39.152
Darren Turner improves third place time in GTE Pro - 3:56.517. 20:52
Anthony Davidson suddenly slowed just after the Dunlop Bridge - another technical problem for the #8 Toyota TS030-Hybrid? 20:54
Darren Turner improves again - 2nd in GTE Pro now in the Aston Martin Racing Aston Martin Vantage V8 - 3:55.870. 20:54
As Ireland is now 1-0 down against Spain we expect the Irish drivers and teams to be back on track in the session between 22:00-00:00 ;-) 20:55
Engine revving into the pits - Davidson has returned after a slow lap that took him 5 minutes. 20:57
Sam Hancock runs wide at the last corner - hits the gravel trap onto the straight and clips the barrier. Damage to the Jota-Zytek. Debris and gravel on the finish straight and damage to the tyre barrier there as well. 20:58
Yellow flags at the final corner - with 2 minutes left that basically means the end of the session. 20:59
Installation lap for JRM - and returns to the pit.
Neel Jani improves his lap time and better sector times in all sectors - including the last where we have yellow flags.... 21:00
Chequered flag! 21:01
Cars 3, 8, 24, 26, 59, 81, 88, 97 now under parc fermé conditions - Eduardo Freitas calling the teams to stop working on those cars immediately. Toyota must not be happy about that... 21:01
Olivier Pla improves the LMP2 pole time - 3:38.598 21:02
Neel Jani improved as well - a 3:29.837 for the Rebellion Racing Lola #12. 21:04
All cars have crossed the line - or are in the pit. Where work can start on set-up changes or damage repair (Jota-Zytek). We'll be back in just under an hour. | 
