Qualifying Session - Thursday Night

12:07 am CET - Good night - we are safely back in the garage and heading home for the night. Tomorrow (Friday) there are no track sessions. We will be heading to Le Mans for the driver parade at 6 pm. We'll be back with you on Saturday morning for morning warmup at 9 am.

11:05 pm CET - The No. 80, which has been out for only one lap tonight, is ready to go back on track. There is less than one hour left in the session. It has stopped raining for the moment and the Johannes is in the car. Stefan Pfeiffer radios the crew that Johannes will do one timed lap and then come in for a setup change. Keep in mind that lap times are in the high 4:40s - so the crew is working against a very tight timeframe to make the setup changes they want in this last hour.


9:43 - The session is over and we are back in the garage. We'll turn the radio back on at 10 when we head out again.

9:25 CET - The No. 80 is ready to go out. There are only five minutes left in the first of tonight's session, but the crew would like to run the car at least one lap for a shakedown to determine if there are any problems from the engine, gearbox and brake changes made earlier today. Chief engineer Stefan Pfeiffer radioed Johannes to take it easy on his lap - "just roll it around." If they find problems now, they have the 1 hour break between sessions to resolve it.

Each driver must do 3 laps in tonight's sessions. There is still one 2 hour session left to go.

The rain has really hampered everyone's plans and nearly eliminated setup time. Tonight is the last chance for teams to complete race setup. The only remaining track time is raceday warmup - a 45 minute session.