LMES 1000 KM ISTAMBUL - WARM UP TIMETABLE AND QUALIFYING STORY
ISTAMBUL 9 APRIL 2006
First Round – 8 April 2006 Istanbul Qualifying Story
After free practice sessions under the sun and on a dry track, the drivers and their teams have been surprised by the arrival of the rain. But everybody agrees with the fact that nothing is predictable at Istanbul Park! And that is one of the charming aspects of this racetrack!! The B-Racing team may disagree with the charming aspects of surprises in general: they didn't expect to leave Turkey so fast! But the Lamborghini Murcielago has lost its third engine for the beginning of the season (two during the Official Testing session at the Paul Ricard HTTT circuit), and what is they have no reserve, the German team has been obliged to withdraw from this race. But sure is that they will be more present than ever at Spa!
Cool weather, hot times at Istanbul Park Just seven hundredths of a second separated the fastest two cars in qualifying for the opening round of the Le Mans Series at the Istanbul Motopark in Turkey. Nicolas Minassian and Emmanuel Collard fought a superb duel in their Creation and Pescarolo respectively, Collard capturing the position at 1m 40.266s on a track that was not completely dry. “It took a long time to get heat into the tyres, and then I had a small flat-spot on a front tyre when I made the time” said Collard, who made two consecutive laps good enough for pole position before Nicolas Minassian challenged in the Creation, fractionally slower at 1m 40.336. This, said Minassian, was despite a gearshifting problem which had his car in the wrong gear a couple of times during the fastest lap. The superb Istanbul Motopark was hosting its second Le Mans Series race within six months, having been the venue for the final round in 2005, but the hoped-for spring weather was taking a weekend off, and as temperatures plunged to 11-degrees C in the afternoon light rain began to fall just as the Prototype cars set off for the qualifying session. On Friday the Pescarolo Sport C60 Judd and the Creation Autosportif CAO6/H set the pace in warm, dry conditions and in qualifying, it was the Racing for Holland Dome-Mugen of Jan Lammers and Alex Yoong that moved up to third place on the grid. Pescarolo has a very strong pairing in Collard and Jean-Christophe Boullion, while Minassian is teamed with the experienced endurance racers Felipe Ortiz and Beppe Gabbiani. Fourth and fifth in LMP1 were the two new Courage LC70s, the Mugen V8 powered ‘works’ car of Shinji Nakano, Haruki Kurosawa and Jean-Marc Gounon just one-fifth of a second faster than the Judd V10 powered Courage run by the new Swiss Spirit team, with Marcel Fassler and Harold Primat. Sixth and seventh were the Chamberlain Synergy Lola B06/10 AER, ready for its Le Mans Series debut, and the Lister Storm LMP Hybrid.
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First Round – 8 April 2006 Istanbul Qualifying Story
After free practice sessions under the sun and on a dry track, the drivers and their teams have been surprised by the arrival of the rain. But everybody agrees with the fact that nothing is predictable at Istanbul Park! And that is one of the charming aspects of this racetrack!! The B-Racing team may disagree with the charming aspects of surprises in general: they didn't expect to leave Turkey so fast! But the Lamborghini Murcielago has lost its third engine for the beginning of the season (two during the Official Testing session at the Paul Ricard HTTT circuit), and what is they have no reserve, the German team has been obliged to withdraw from this race. But sure is that they will be more present than ever at Spa!
Cool weather, hot times at Istanbul Park Just seven hundredths of a second separated the fastest two cars in qualifying for the opening round of the Le Mans Series at the Istanbul Motopark in Turkey. Nicolas Minassian and Emmanuel Collard fought a superb duel in their Creation and Pescarolo respectively, Collard capturing the position at 1m 40.266s on a track that was not completely dry. “It took a long time to get heat into the tyres, and then I had a small flat-spot on a front tyre when I made the time” said Collard, who made two consecutive laps good enough for pole position before Nicolas Minassian challenged in the Creation, fractionally slower at 1m 40.336. This, said Minassian, was despite a gearshifting problem which had his car in the wrong gear a couple of times during the fastest lap. The superb Istanbul Motopark was hosting its second Le Mans Series race within six months, having been the venue for the final round in 2005, but the hoped-for spring weather was taking a weekend off, and as temperatures plunged to 11-degrees C in the afternoon light rain began to fall just as the Prototype cars set off for the qualifying session. On Friday the Pescarolo Sport C60 Judd and the Creation Autosportif CAO6/H set the pace in warm, dry conditions and in qualifying, it was the Racing for Holland Dome-Mugen of Jan Lammers and Alex Yoong that moved up to third place on the grid. Pescarolo has a very strong pairing in Collard and Jean-Christophe Boullion, while Minassian is teamed with the experienced endurance racers Felipe Ortiz and Beppe Gabbiani. Fourth and fifth in LMP1 were the two new Courage LC70s, the Mugen V8 powered ‘works’ car of Shinji Nakano, Haruki Kurosawa and Jean-Marc Gounon just one-fifth of a second faster than the Judd V10 powered Courage run by the new Swiss Spirit team, with Marcel Fassler and Harold Primat. Sixth and seventh were the Chamberlain Synergy Lola B06/10 AER, ready for its Le Mans Series debut, and the Lister Storm LMP Hybrid.
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