Spa-Francorchamps 1000km: Audi's Friday free practice results and photos

This weekend's 1000km race at Spa-Francorchamps marks Audi's second race of the 2010 Le Mans season. As mentioned in today's letter from Tom Kristensen, the race at Spa will act as a dress rehearsal for the 24 hours of Le Mans in June with Audi Sport Team Joest fielding three R15 TDI 'Plus' cars piloted by all nine drivers. Although both sessions of today's free practice were dominated by Peugeot, Audi's best time was set by Andre Lotterer in fourth position of the 2nd session.

Free Practice 1 (P1):

Pos - Driver - Class - Car - Time
1. Panis/Lapierre/Duval - P1 - Peugeot 908 HDi-FAP - 2m14.068s
2. Gene/Wurz/Davidson - P1 - Peugeot 908 HDi-FAP - 2m16.673s
3. Lamy/Bourdais/Pagenaud P1 - Peugeot 908 HDi-FAP - 2m17.350s
4. Belicchi/Boullion - P1 - Lola B10/60-Rebellion - 2m17.741s
6. Prost/Jani - P1 - Lola B10/60-Rebellion - 2m18.180s
7. Montagny/Sarrazin/Minassian - P1 - Peugeot 908 HDi-FAP - 2m18.391s
8. Capello/Kristensen/Mcnish - P1 - Audi R15 TDI - 2m18.715s
9. Bernhard/Dumas/Rockenfeller - P1 - Audi R15 TDI - 2m20.195s 10.Fassler/Lotterer/Treluyer P1 - Audi R15 TDI - 2m20.235s
11. Ragues/Mailleux/Ickx - P1 - Lola-Aston Martin - 2m21.504

Free Practice 2 (P1):

Pos - Driver - Class -Car - Time
1. Lamy/Bourdais/Pagenaud - P1 - Peugeot 908 HDi-FAP - 1m59.826s
2. Gene/Wurz/Davidson - P1 - Peugeot 908 HDi-FAP - 2m01.365s
3. Montagny/Sarrazin/Minassian - P1 - Peugeot 908 HDi-FAP - 2m02.771s
4. Fassler/Lotterer/Treluyer - P1 - Audi R15 TDI - 2m02.894s
5. Panis/Lapierre/Duval - P1 - Peugeot 908 HDi-FAP - 2m03.313s
6. Bernhard/Dumas/Rockenfeller - P1 - Audi R15 TDI - 2m03.394s
7. Capello/Kristensen/Mcnish - P1 - Audi R15 TDI - 2m04.037s
8. Prost/Jani - P1 - Lola B10/60-Rebellion - 2m04.284s
9. Belicchi/Boullion - P1 - Lola B10/60-Rebellion - 2m04.875s
14. Ragues/Mailleux/Ickx - P1 - Lola-Aston Martin - 2m08.952





Our friends at Endurance Magazine were kind enough to provide photos from today's practice session. Endurance Magazine will be providing photos from each event this weekend at Spa Francorchamps as well as the 24 Heures du Mans.

Photos: Geoffroy Barre
Results via autosport.com