Petit LeMans Live Qualifying!

YOu can check out the Live Timing from the race HERE

And don't miss the live onboard cameras from the race HERE
Qualifying is now over, tune in tomorrow morning at 11 AM Eastern time to Speed TV for the start.
In qualifying the surprise is the Ford GT40 on pole for GT2 but the whole field is realy close, so it should be a good race.

Pos  Drivers                       Cl   Car             Time
1.  Minassian/Lamy                P1   Peugeot         1m06.937s
2.  Sarrazin/Montagny             P1   Peugeot         1m07.160s
3.  Capello/McNish                P1   Audi            1m08.200s
4.  Luhr/Werner                   P1   Audi            1m08.228s
5.  De Ferran/Pagenaud/Dixon      P1   Acura           1m08.348s
6.  Panis/Lapierre/Dumas          P1   ORECA           1m09.566s
7.  Field/Field                   P1   Lola            1m09.685s
8.  Leitzinger/Franchitti/Devlin  P2   Lola-Mazda      1m10.152s
9.  Drayson/Cocker/Bell           P1   Lola            1m10.552s
10.  Pickett/Graf/Maassen          P2   Porsche         1m11.405s
11.  Fernandez/Diaz                P2   Acura           1m11.758s
12.  Burgess/McMurry/Willman       P1   Lola            1m12.676s
13.  Murry/Robertson/Robertson     GT2  Doran Ford      1m20.819s
14.  Sutherland/Drissi/Bell        GT2  Riley Corvette  1m20.877s
15.  Beretta/Gavin/Fassler         GT2  Corvette        1m20.912s
16.  Muller/Milner/Muller          GT2  BMW             1m20.981s
17.  Hand/Auberlen/Priaulx         GT2  BMW             1m21.219s
18.  Bergmeister/Long/Lieb         GT2  Porsche         1m21.299s
19.  Magnussen/O'Connell/Garcia    GT2  Corvette        1m21.491s
20.  Farnbacher/James              GT2  Panoz           1m21.648s
21.  Henzler/Werner                GT2  Porsche         1m21.760s
22.  Melo/Kaffer/Salo              GT2  Ferrari         1m22.718s
23.  Sellers/Cicero                GT2  Porsche         1m23.081s
24.  Feinberg/Hall                 GT2  Dodge           1m23.121s
25.  Law/van Overbeek/Neiman       GT2  Porsche         1m25.601s

home

And if you thought Kovalainnen's crash was scary...

This is Stephane Ortelli in a Courage-Oreca LC70-Judd at the LMS 1000 km of Monza. 

Stee thinks this one is not as bad because it's a series of cartwheels rather than a single, brutal deceleration.   He may be right but I'm guessing the speed was higher when the car snaps away under braking and, I figure, Ortelli was lucky to come out of it with just a broken ankle.

Here are some highlights from the race

Insanely great racing

...when you really stop to think about it just about every form of racing pales compared to MotoGP and when you have a damp/wet race like this past week end in France, well it's just fantastic to see. I mean, a 220hp+ bike on slicks in the wet...try to pictures it. It's just nuts.

Rules allow riders to come in and swap bikes for one with full wet tires and in this race it was all a game of chicken to see how could stay out longer on slicks and not crash. Incredible stuff.
The clips below are the Italian Rete1 broadcast and I'm sure you'll get the sense of what's happening even if your italian is a bit rusty especially when Valentino Rossi is doing some numbers!