LMS: Aston Martin opens the season

The first free practice session of the opening round of the Le Mans Series season which takes place this weekend in Barcelona saw Stefan Mücke at the wheel of the official Aston Martin n°007 clinch at the end of the afternoon. noon the best time (1'35''014).

Published on 03/04/2009 à 18:29

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The German driver leads in front of two other LMP1 cars: the No. 16 Pescarolo-Judd from Pescarolo Sport of Christophe Boullion (1'35) and the surprising No. 047 Ginetta-Zytek from the Strakka Racing team entrusted to Peter Hardman (23 '1 »36). The first of the two Audi R113s from Team Kolles is only in 10th place at 8”1.

The French put themselves forward in the other categories since Olivia Pla (Ginetta Zytek) set the best time in the LMP2 category (1'37"241). The Corvette C6R of Team Luc Alphand Aventures of the Alphand/Clairay/Goueslard crew, credited with a time of 1'46"354, placed at the head of the GT1. Finally in GT2, it was the Spyker C8 driven by Dutchman Tom Coronel which was the fastest in 1'49"984. Resumption of testing tomorrow at the end of the morning.