Peugeot on the lookout at Sebring

In circumstances confusing, Audi has won the pole position in the first rendezvous of the season at Sebring (Florida). The Peugeot Stephane Sarrazin, Pedro Lamy and Nicolas Minassian was ambushed at the 2nd place Stephane Sarrazin (Peugeot 908 HDi-PAF) has completed Thursday the best time of the test session qualifying for the 12 Hours of Sebring, but the Audi R10 TDI of Allan McNish who will start in the lead, Saturday This meeting has been cancelled. "I am a little disgusted because the pole, we had made," said Sarrazin hot, as soon as he learned that his pole position had been cancelled. "The Audi also rolled, they made two rounds and we chrono one, which has not prevented from making the pole," said the pilot Peugeot, already author of the pole position in the 24 Hours of Le Mans, last June. The single qualifying session was interrupted by a red flag following the violent exit route of a competitor, Mazda Motor Lola, while Sarrazin had to make the best time, 1:43.117, on a single tower launched, just ahead McNish (1:43.765). "There were pieces everywhere in one of the turns, he had to taper very hard against the wall," said Sarrazin, nevertheless content to have "done well (her) work" at the wheel of a 908 " very effective. " This meeting, originally scheduled to last 25 minutes, and never regained all time were cancelled because there were still more than 10 minutes before the end of the meeting, according to Article 994 of the Rules of the American Le Mans Series (ALMS). As for the two best-Porsche RS Spyder, awaiting the end of the sitting in the stands for a time, they did not even have time to take the runway. The meeting reserved for GT, disputed earlier, has also been cancelled, even though it had not been interrupted or curtailed. As a result of this surprising decision of the race officials, the Audi N.1, best time of the three free practice sessions take place on Wednesday and Thursday morning, which will start in pole position Saturday at 10:05 local (14h05 GMT ). But Peugeot will also be on the front line, just next with 908 N.7.