Sebring: Peugeot remains in the lead

The second four-hour test session, held yesterday afternoon in Florida, was dominated by the Audi R15 plus of Kristensen-McNish-Capello. With a time of 1'47"919, they were nevertheless unable to get closer to the time achieved. in the morning by Peugeot 908 from Montagny-Sarrazin-Lamy (1'47 »678). The newcomer from the Vélizy workshops therefore ends this first day in the lead ahead of the two four-ring prototypes, Dumas-Bernhard-Rockenfeller ranking third, 0 behind their teammates. As expected, the HPD ARX-106e from Brabham-Franchitti-Pagenaud ranked best gasoline LM P1 in fourth place (2nd time of the afternoon), ahead of the Peugeot 908 HDi FAP of Panis-Stone-Duval (8th time of the second session).

In LM P2, Signatech continues its domination. Mailleux-Ayari-Ordonez and their Oreca 03-Nissan set a time of 1'55"626, compared to the 1'58"970 of the Lola-HPD Level 5 of Bouchut-Tucker-Barbosa. In 2'01"306, the OAK Pescarolo-Judd LM P2 (Da Rocha-Lafargue-Barlesi) ranks 3rd. As for the GT category, it bodes well for some great fights in perspective. The BMW M3 of Rahal Lettermann Lanigan of Auberlen-Farfus-Werner dominated both sessions, ahead of the #3 Corvette (Beretta-Garcia-Milner) in the afternoon, the second #56 BMW RLL (Hand-Muller- Priaulx) and the Porsche Flying Lizard n°45 (Bermeister-Lieb-Long). Fifth, the Ferrari 458 from the Extreme Speed ​​team (Sharp-Van Overbeek-Farnbacher) only lost 0 seconds to the fastest BMW.