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Other Sports => Other Sports => Topic started by: cosworth151 on March 12, 2008, 04:44:25 PM
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Pedro Lamy kept Peugeot at the top of the timing sheets at Sebring International Raceway on Tuesday in the final test session for the 56th Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring presented by Fresh from Florida. Lamy's time of 1:43.710 (128.435 mph) was the best in the field by 0.725 seconds with official practice sessions starting Wednesday. The Peugeot 908 is racing in North America for the first time with Lamy, Nic Minassian and Stephane Sarrazin doing the honors.
Marco Andretti had a best lap of 1:44.435 (127.543 mph) that was fastest in LMP2 and second overall. Andretti will make his Series debut in the Acura ARX-01b for Andretti Green Racing, which won in class last year in its maiden American Le Mans Series race.
The No. 2 Audi R10 TDI, driven by Marco Werner, placed third on the lap chart on Tuesday. Allan McNish is one of the drivers of the No. 1 Audi.
In the GT1 class, former F1 driver Jan Magnussen was fastest for Corvette Racing with a lap time of 1:56.742--0.155 second better than the team's second car.
In GT2, Risi Competizione driver Jaime Melo completed a lap in 2:02.535 in the team's No. 62 Ferrari F430 GT. He was followed by the No. 45 Porsche 911 GT3 RSR from Flying Lizard Motorsports, just 0.283 second behind, and the Farnbacher Loles Racing's Porsche was third.
Today (Wednesday) there will be two official timed practice sessions, one from 10:00-10:55 am and one from 2:15-3:10pm.