Capello snatches pole!

[R]

Rinaldo Capello snatched pole in final qualifying Thursday night for the #2 Audi ahead of the Le Mans race, less than 3/100 of a second faster than Kristensen's time from Wednesday. Racing for Holland in 4th place on the grid prevents an Audi lockout on the two front rows.


Position/Driver Team Fastest Lap

1 Capello/Aiello/Pescatori Joest Audi Sport (LMP900) 3m32.429

2 Biela/Pirro/Kristensen Joest Audi Sport (LMP900) 3m32.458

3 Herbert/Kelleners/Theys Champion Racing (LMP900) 3m34.349

4 Lammers/Hillebrand/Crevels Racing for Holland (LMP900) 3m34.838

5 Johansson/Coronel/Lemarie Johansson Racing (LMP900) 3m35.128

6 Beretta/Wendlinger/Lamy Team PlayStation (LMP900) 3m36.155

7 Brundle/Ortelli/Smith Team Bentley (LM GTP) 3m36.535

8 Bernard/Collard/Goossens DAMS (LMP900) 3m37.402

9 Wallace/V' d'Poele/Leitzinger Team Bentley (LM GTP) 3m37.408

10 Gache/Beltoise/Policand SMG Racing (LMP900) 3m38.746

11 Dalmas/Montagny/Sarrazin ORECA Chrysler (LMP900) 3m38.814

12 Taylor/Angelelli/Tinseau DAMS (LMP900) 3m39.596

13 Bourdais/Boullion/Redon Pescarolo Sport (LMP900) 3m39.789

14 Reid/Hughes/Kane MG Sport (LMP675) 3m40.243

15 Nielsen/Katoh/Elgaard Den Bla Avis (LMP900) 3m40.958

16 Ara/Kondo/Amorim ORECA Chrysler (LMP900) 3m42.215

17 Blundell/Bailey/McGarrity MG Sport (LMP675) 3m42.476

18 Lupberger/Collins/Toivonen Team Ascari (LMP900) 3m42.931

19 Magnussen/Brabham/Lagorce Panoz Motorsports (LMP900) 3m42.974

20 Cottaz/Clerico/Derichebourg Pescarolo Sport (LMP900) 3m43.002

21 Graf/Davies/Formato Panoz Motorsports (LMP900) 3m43.498

22 Pompidou/Maxwell/Zwart Team Ascari (LMP900) 3m43.663

23 Gene/Deletraz/Fabre ROC Competition (LMP675) 3m44.198

24 de Radigues/Maassen/Matsuda Dick Barbour Racing (LMP675) 3m46.008

25 Terada/de Fournoux/Daoudi Welter Racing (LMP675) 3m49.986

26 Gavin/Konrad/Borcheller Saleen-Allen Speedlab (GTS) 3m52.849

27 Fellows/O'Connell/Pruett Corvette Racing Team (GTS) 3m55.552

28 Bouchut/Belloc/Monteiro Larbre Competition (GTS) 3m56.838

29 Freon/Pilgrim/Collins Corvette Racing Team (GTS) 3m57.052

30 Hurtgen/Fairbanks/Gleason Roock-KnightHawk (LMP675) 3m57.099

31 Graham/Duno/Murry Dick Barbour Racing (LMP675) 3m57.257

32 Mowlem/Lambert/McKeller Ray Mallock Ltd (GTS) 3m58.626

33 Brun/Seiler/Slater Konrad Motorsport (GTS) 3m58.868

34 O'Connell/Carway/Migault Rowan Racing (LMP675) 3m59.302

35 Terrien/Cochet/Dayraut Equipe de France (GTS) 4m00.790

36 Kumpen/Lagniez/Galzain Paul Belmondo Racing (GTS) 4m02.148

37 Vosse/Ickx/Rosenblad Paul Belmondo Racing (GTS) 4m02.971

38 Rice/Wagner/Mazzuoccola Aspen Knolls (GT) 4m10.168

39 Chereau/Dumez/Goueslard Larbre Competition (GT) 4m11.738

40 Rosa/Babini/Drudi Seikel Motorsport (GT) 4m11.787

41 Fukuyama/Yogo/Nishizawa Team Taisan Advan (GT) 4m13.158

42 Jeannette/Dumas/Haezebrouck Freisinger Motorsport (GT) 4m13.816

43 Noel/Forgeois/Laribier Noel Del Bello Racing (GT) 4m18.573

44 Youles/Day/Warnock PK Sport/Ricardo (GT) 4m18.625

45 Alpland/Ligonnet/Marques Luc Alphand Adventure (GT) 4m18.926

46 Burgess/Cohen-Olivar/Bagnall Seikel Motorsport (GT) 4m19.445

47 Perrier/Neugarten/Smith Perspective Racing (GT) 4m20.667

48 Donovan/MacAllister/Linger Racing Engineering (GT) 4m24.840


Sources: lemans.org and autosport.com

[pink69]

shame to see bently only in 7th after they almost snatched pole on wednesday. Lets hope Brundle can push his way up the order and doesn't start like the 1998 Porsche 911 GT1 did. What has happened to Panoz? even the MG's are ahead of them! they were leading last year and challenged the Audis for the first hour.

[Mekola]

Very good for the Herbert/Kelleners/Theys who catched 3rd!