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1000 KM of Spa: Audi makes it 3 out of 3
© Planetlemans – Marcel ten Caat
Timo Bernhard put an Audi R18 TDI on top again in the third free practice season for the second round of the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup and Le Mans Series at Spa-Francorchamps.
Andre Lotterer was the quickest driver in the first part of the session, but his teammate in the nº1 Audi R18 TDI went 0.309s quicker in the second part of the session and clocked a 2:02.697, the fastest lap time of the weekend so far. Third quickest was the nº9 Peugeot, repaired after its crash.
In LMP2 it was the Pecom Racing Lola of Pierre Kaffer that beat the Nissan powered cars. AF Corse’s Gianmaria Bruni and Giancarlo Fisichella were quickest in GTE Pro, just a tenth of a second ahead of the nº77 Team Felbermayr Proton Porsche of Lieb and Lietz.
IMSA Performance Matmut was quickest in LM GTE Am and Hope Racing was quickest in FLM.
Robert Kauffman brought out the red flags halfway through the session when he crashed the AF Corse Ferrari F430 GT2 into the wall at the Raidillon. After the car had been removed and the tyre walls were back in place the session was restarted, only to be halted four minutes before the end of the session when a part of the curbstones at Fagnes came loose and ended up on the track. The session was not restarted.
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Quite fast for a V6, the only question left is if it’s reliable.
Peugeot will be banking on Audi suffering the same fate that it did last year.
But being mostly afan of ALMS teams I just want highcroft to have a good showing at lemans. If they somehow won. I might just enjoy it as if I won it myself.
But of course Dumas in the #1 audi has always provided a good show during his days at Penske. Especially in the closing minutes of a race. I might never forget that.