Audi One-Two-Three in Testing at Donington Park
Donington Park, Friday 13th April 2001: Audi’s
dominance in 2001 continued at Donington Park with Rinaldo Capello and Tom
Kristensen posting the fastest time of in the two hour European Le Mans
Series (ELMS) test ahead of Saturdays two and three quarter hour race.
The second works Audi of Biela and Pirro was just one tenth of a
second adrift of their teammates, with the Johannson Motorsport Gulf
sponsored Audi just 0.4 seconds behind in third.
The Playstation Chrysler Oreca was the fastest non-Audi, putting in a
impressive performance its ELMS debut to be within a second of the times set
by the German marque. The Panoz LMP07 of David Brabham and Jan Magnussen was
fifth, ahead of the Pescarolo Sport Courage and Westward Racings Panoz
LMP2000, which both set identical times.
Dick
Barbour Racings Reynard driven by the Belgian pairing of Didier de Radigues
and Eric Van De Poele was the quickest car in the LeMans Prototype 675
(LMP675) class in 9th place overall.
Franz Konrad and Oliver Gavin were fastest in the GTS class, while
the two BMW M3’s built on their fine debut performance at Sebring last
month to post the two fastest times in the GT class ahead of the Porsche 911
GT3’s.
Qualifying
for Saturdays race will take place at 15:30 for the GTs and GT cars, and
16:20 for the LMP900 and LMP675 cars. Both
sessions will last 30 minutes.
A
post qualifying press conference will be held in the Paddock Suite at 17:00.
ELMS
– Test – Donington Park – 12th April 2001 – two hours
1
- LMP900 - Capello/Kristensen - Audi R8 - 1:21.684
2 - LMP 900 - Biela / Pirro - Audi R8 - +0.105
3 - LMP900 - Johansson/Smith - Audi R8 - +0.406
4 - LMP900 - Dalmas/Beretta - Chrysler Oreca - +0.997
5 - LMP900 - Brabham/Magnussen - Panoz LMP07 - +2.581
6 - LMP900 - Bourdais/Boullion/Redon - Courage C60 - +4.199
7 - LMP900 - Cochran/Boss – Panoz LMP2000 - +4.199
8 - LMP900 - Graf/Salles - Panoz LMP07- +4.640
9 - LMP675 - Van De Poole/De Radigues - Reynard 01Q - +5.564
10 - LMP675 - O’Connell / Carway - Pilbeam MP484 - +7.250
11 – GTS - Konrad/Gavin - Saleen SR7 - +8.528
12 - GTS - Lambert/McKellar Jnr - Saleen SR7 - +11.816
13 – GT - Ekblom/Muller - BMW M3 GTR - +13.254
14 - GT - Lehto/Muller - BMW M3 GTR - +13.436
15 – GT - Luhr/Maassen - Porsche 911 GT3 - +13.582
16 - GT - Pobst/Menzel - Porsche 911 GT3 - +13.803
17 - GT - Burgess/Mowlem - Porsche 911 GT3 - +15.230
18 – GT - Rosa/Drudi - Porsche 911 GT3 - +18.174
19 - GT - Wankum/Foster - Porsche 911 GT3 - +18.476
20 - GT - Masarati/Humphrey - Porsche 911 GT3 - +18.593
21 – GT- Forfeois/Sourd/Chaterlet - Porsche 911 GT3 - +19.004
22 – GT- Hayden/Earle - Porsche 911 GT3 - +21.588
-
ENDS -
For
further information contact
Martin Allerton
Telephone: +44 (0)1242 268980
Facsimile: +44 (0)1242 268981
Email: martin@elms2001.com