Peugeot in front, Audi on the lookout?

Unlike yesterday, the rain was present today, for the first free practices of the 1000 km of Zhuhai, the final round of the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup. If Peugeot showed itself to its advantage, Audi did better than resist?

Both sessions saw Sébastien's Peugeot 908 HDi FAP Bourdais et simon pagenaud climb to the top of the timesheet. The car wearing the number 1 posted a time of 1:28:751 in the first session, and 1:32:630 in the second.

Each time, it was the Audi R15 plus of Allan McNish and Tom Kristensen which proved the most threatening, failing respectively by 6 tenths and four hundredths. If the second 908 of the duo Stéphane Sarrazin-Franck Montagny finished fourth in the first session, it managed to take the advantage over the Audi n°8 shared by Rinaldo Capello and Romain Dumas in the next, with a time of 1?32??722. The last free practice session of the day, slower than the first due to more intense rain, saw the first three in the ranking grouped together in less than a tenth, which promises a great show for the future?

In GT1, despite two cars on the track, the duel between the Saleen Larbre Compétition of Groppi-Bornhauser-Lamy and the Lamborghini JLOC could be interesting to follow, the American and the Italian having shared the best times.

Enfin en GT2, la lutte s?annonce comme toujours des plus disputées. Après avoir laissé la Porsche 997 Felbermayr des champions LMS Marc Lieb et Richard Lietz s?illustrer, la Ferrari F430 AF Corse from Melo-Bruni-Vilander took the lead, but it was the first named who, thanks to a time of 1:43:313, set themselves the best time in the category today.

Tomorrow is the third free practice session and qualifying.