The nr41 Greaves Motorsport Zytek-Nissan of Chris Dyson crashed heavily on the exit of Rivage to bring out the red flags after just six minutes.  The American was OK but the car was stranded in a unsafe position. 

At the restart it was the Audis that took control with the two Toyotas unable to get on terms with their rivals and at the chequered flag it was the nr7 TS030 of Alex Wurz and Kazuki Nakajima in 4th, 0.9 seconds adrift of the pole time, with teammates Anthony Davidson and Sebastien Buemi in the 2012 spec nr8 Toyota in 5th a further three tenths slower.

 

The nr12 Rebellion Lola Toyota of Nick Heidfeld and Neel Jani finished at the head of the LMP1 Privateer field in 6th overall, with an average time of 2m01.482.  Jani and Heidfeld were 1.8 seconds ahead of their teammates in the nr13 Lola Toyota and a further half a second ahead of the all British Strakka Racing HPD-Honda.

 

The LMP2 class was fought out between the nr49 Pecom Racing Oreca-Nissan of Pierre Kaffer and Nicolas Minassian and the nr38 Jota Zytek-Nissan of Oliver Turvey and Lucas Luhr.  At the chequered flag it was the Argentinian team who got the upperhand to take the class pole in a time of 2m08.540, just 0.4 seconds ahead of the Jota Zytek.  Oak Racing claimed P3 and P4 with their Nissan powered Morgans ahead of Silverstone winners Delta ADR.

 

There will be a 20 minute warm up session at 09:00 tomorrow morning with the WEC 6 Hours of Spa-Francorchamps getting underway at 14:30.