Le Mans Qualifying Session - Thursday Night

7:52pm CET - After some rain, we get more rain. As soon as the green flag flew, a torrent hit the front straight. The team will run tonight, but there's more to lose than gain in wet weather. Eric (team manager) has said that he expects only to run a few laps to install the motor, gearbox and race brakes, and the wet weather will do nothing for times tonight. The team looks highly likely to start the race in 4th position in P2, given Jörg's time from yesterday. Eric reports that the team didn't get what they considered to be a proper shot at a qualifying lap yesterday, so the team's time bodes well for race pace.

** Radio Free Lizard will go live as soon as we are on track - probably around 8 pm CET, which is 9 hours ahead of Pacific Time. Unfortunately, we are having some power problems with our broadcasting system so you will only hear the team radio, not our commentary. Hopefully we'll be back with you on raceday *** - Jen and Shane

7:30 pm CET - Rain, rain, rain. Good evening from a soggy, sloggy Le Mans. It's been a very wet day here - not the norm for this area for this time of year. Tonight is our second qualifying session prior to the race on Saturday. The No. 80 currently has the fourth fastest time in GT2, after last night's qualifying session. Tonight's session, which was scheduled to start at 7 pm, has been delayed by 30 minutes. The crew is finishing up some final work on the car and we expect to head out around 8 pm.

Today the crew changed engines, putting in the race engine, the race gearbox and race brakes. Tonight will be the time to shake those components down prior to the race.

Each driver is required to do 3 laps in tonight's session. Let's hope the rain lets up a bit.