It’s almost like we’re at Imola again as we have 48 cars out on the track out of the 49 entered. The hybrid Zytek a confirmed retirement after its heavy shunt yesterday.

There was some sunshine at Silverstone, but clouds started to roll in during the session so it remains to be seen if the weather will be the same in a couple of hours.

Fastest overall in Warm Up was the #1 Audi R18 TDI of Timo Bernhard - a 1:47.667 the fastest time set. Franck Montagny was second quickest and Allan McNish third quickest. The fourth diesel, the #7 Peugeot 908 ended in tenth position. Bourdais returned to the pit early in the session with a front right wheel speed sensor problem.

Two other cars hit trouble.Rob Garofall parked the RLR Msport MG Lola EX265 - Judd on its out-lap and the CRS Racing Ferrari #62 returned to the pit after losing a lot of oil out on the track.

In the end four out of the top five LMP2 cars were Nissan powered with the TDS Oreca 03 Nissan setting the fastest lap time. Boutsen Energy Racing and Signatech Nissan completed the top three, whilst the Race Performance car made it four out of four for Oreca.

GTE Pro positions changed in the final minutes and it was Andy Priaulx who eventually topped the time sheets after setting a 2:04.476. Lietz and Bruni were second and third at almost a second from the BMW. Pat Long was the fastest driver in the GTE Am category.

The race will start at 11.35 am, but before that there will be one minute of silence in remembrance of the victims of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks.