By alley - Jun 18, 2016, 4:31 AM ET

LM24: Audi leads disrupted warmup

Andre Lotterer topped a heavily disrupted Le Mans 24 Hours warm-up in the #7 Audi, as two red flag stoppages prevented several cars from setting a representative laptime.

Lotterer displaced Toyota's Mike Conway at the top with 11 minutes remaining in the 45-minute session.

Both leading cars were on course to improve next time around, but David Cheng crashed the #35 BAXI DC Racing LMP2 ORECA at Indianapolis after hitting a wet kerb at the fast right-hand kink before the braking zone.

With Cheng in the barriers, race officials had no choice but to stop the session for the second time, and the decision was taken not to restart given how little time was remaining.

That was the second red flag of the session, after Paul-Loup Chatin caused a 15-minute stoppage when he crashed the Panis Barthez Competition Ligier at the Porsche Curves after just eight minutes.

Chatin hit the inside kerb at the apex of the second left-hander of the sequence, firing his LMP2 machine into the barrier on the right.

The front-right corner hit the barrier, then the right-rear and the car then slid across the track and into the gravel trap at the ensuring right-hander.

Shortly before the second red flag Romain Dumas put the polesitting #2 Porsche third in the order with a 3m27.3s, while the only other LMP1 times of note were a 3m29.1s from Loic Duval in the #8 Audi early on, and a 3m30.2s from Sebastien Buemi in the #5 Toyota.

Alexandre Imperatori put the #13 Rebellion sixth, 12.7s off the pace, while the #4 ByKolles CLM, #1 Porsche and #12 Rebellion did not even get a chance to set a meaningful laptime due to the disrupted nature of the session.

RAST ON TOP IN LMP2
By Edd Straw

Class pole position qualifier Rene Rast set the pace in LMP2, banging in a time of 3m40.724s on his first flying lap after the early red flag.

Like many in the class, the G-Drive Jota ORECA driver had no opportunity to improve due to the second red flag.

Laurens Vanthoor was second fastest in the Michael Shank Racing Ligier, which goes into the race having to take a five-minute stop/go penalty for an engine change, four tenths off Rast.

Just before the session came to an end, Andrea Pizzitola put the Algarve Pro Racing Ligier third, relegating the Signatech ORECA, in which Gustavo Menezes set the time, to fourth.

FORD STILL IN FRONT IN GTE
By Scott Mitchell

GTE Pro pole-winner Dirk Muller set the pace for Ford, with a 3m57.397s in the pegged-back GT.

That time was 1.5s faster than Aston Martin's Richie Stanaway, who was the only driver to set two proper flying laps.

Dempsey-Proton Porsche's Richard Lietz was the only other driver to dip below the four-minute barrier, highlighting the reduced pace of the session.

Patrick Pilet had a moment at Indianapolis, which may have been caused by oil on the track, leading to a quick trip through the gravel before recovering to set the fourth-best time in the #91 Porsche Motorsport 911 RSR.

In GTE Am, Patrick Long was quickest in the #88 Abu Dhabi-Proton Porsche (fourth overall in GTE), while the sister Proton Competition entry is seeking permission to replace Cooper MacNeil with Gunner Jeanette because MacNeil fell ill overnight.

Marc Miller drove the previous-generation 911 RSR in the warm-up.

WARM-UP RESULTS

Pos	Class	Driver	Team	Car	Time	Gap
1	LMP1	M.Fassler, A.Lotterer, B.Treluyer	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi	3m25.886ss	3m25.886s
2	LMP1	S.Sarrazin, M.Conway, K.Kobayashi	Toyota Gazoo Racing	Toyota	3m27.129ss	1.243s
3	LMP1	R.Dumas, N.Jani, M.Lieb	Porsche Team	Porsche	3m27.355ss	1.469s
4	LMP1	L.di Grassi, L.Duval, O.Jarvis	Audi Sport Team Joest	Audi	3m29.173ss	3.287s
5	LMP1	A.Davidson, S.Buemi, K.Nakajima	Toyota Gazoo Racing	Toyota	3m30.256ss	4.370s
6	LMP1	M.Tuscher, A.Imperatori, D.Kraihamer	Rebellion Racing	Rebellion/AER	3m38.619ss	12.733s
7	LMP2	R.Rusinov, W.Stevens, R.Rast	G-Drive Racing	ORECA/Nissan	3m40.724ss	14.838s
8	LMP2	J.Pew, O.Negri, L.Vanthoor	Michael Shank Racing	Ligier/HPD	3m41.149ss	15.263s
9	LMP2	M.Munemann, C.Hoy, A.Pizzitola	Algarve Pro Racing	Ligier/Nissan	3m43.432ss	17.546s
10	LMP2	G.Menezes, N.Lapierre, S.Richelmi	Signatech Alpine	Alpine/Nissan	3m44.326ss	18.440s
11	LMP2	S.Dolan, J.Dennis, G.van der Garde	G-Drive Racing	Gibson/Nissan	3m44.609ss	18.723s
12	LMP2	R.Gonzalez, B.Senna, F.Albuquerque	RGR Sport by Morand	Ligier/Nissan	3m44.702ss	18.816s
13	LMP1	S.Trummer, O.Webb, P.Kaffer	ByKOLLES Racing Team	CLM/AER	3m45.164ss	19.278s
14	LMP2	D.Cheng, H-Pin Tung, N.Panciatici	Baxi DC Racing Alpine	Alpine/Nissan	3m45.244ss	19.358s
15	LMP2	M.Rojas, J.Canal, N.Berthon	Greaves Motorsport	Ligier/Nissan	3m46.595ss	20.709s
16	LMP2	R.Dalziel, L.Derani, C.Cumming	Extreme Speed Motorsports	Ligier/Nissan	3m48.161ss	22.275s
17	LMP2	V.Petrov, V.Shaytar, K.Ladygin	SMP Racing	BR Engineering/Nissan	3m49.013ss	23.127s
18	LMP2	P.Thiriet, M.Beche, R.Hirakawa	Thiriet by TDS Racing	ORECA/Nissan	3m51.525ss	25.639s
19	LMP2	N.Leventis, D.Watts, J.Kane	Strakka Racing	Gibson/Nissan	3m52.006ss	26.120s
20	GTE Pro	J.Hand, D.Muller, S.Bourdais	Ford Chip Ganassi Team USA	Ford	3m57.397ss	31.511s
21	GTE Am	R.Stanaway, F.Rees, J.Adam	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin	3m58.879ss	32.993s
22	GTE Pro	R.Lietz, M.Christensen, P.Eng	Dempsey Racing - Proton	Porsche	3m59.857ss	33.971s
23	GTE Am	K.Al Qubaisi, D.Hansson, P.Long	Abu Dhabi-Proton Racing	Porsche	4m00.162ss	34.276s
24	GTE Am	P.Pilet, K.Estre, N.Tandy	Porsche Motorsport	Porsche	4m00.630ss	34.744s
25	GTE Pro	G.Bruni, J.Calado, A.P.Guidi	AF Corse	Ferrari	4m00.986ss	35.100s
26	GTE Pro	D.Rigon, S.Bird, A.Bertolini	AF Corse	Ferrari	4m01.426ss	35.540s
27	GTE Pro	C.Ried, W.Henzler, J.Camathias	KCMG	Porsche	4m01.559ss	35.673s
28	GTE Am	P.D.Lana, P.Lamy, M.Lauda	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin	4m01.637ss	35.751s
29	GTE Pro	O.Gavin, T.Milner, J.Taylor	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet	4m03.404ss	37.518s
30	LMP2	I.Taittinger, R.Striebig, L.Roussel	Pegasus Racing	Morgan/Nissan	4m07.549ss	41.663s
31	GTE Am	C.MacNeil, L.Keen, M.Miller	Proton Competition	Porsche	4m07.862ss	41.976s
32	GTE Am	Y.Yamagishi, P.Ragues, J-P.Belloc	Larbre Competition	Chevrolet	4m08.237ss	42.351s
33	GTE Am	D.Cameron, M.Griffin, A.Scott	AF Corse	Ferrari	4m08.706ss	42.820s
34	GTE Am	J.Laursen, M.Mac, C.Nielsen	Formula Racing	Ferrari	4m11.627ss	45.741s
35	GTE Am	F.Perrodo, E.Collard, R.Aguas	AF Corse	Ferrari	4m14.110ss	48.224s
36	LMP2	N.Leutwiler, S.Nakano, J.Winslow	Race Performance	ORECA/Judd	4m19.862ss	53.976s
37	GTE Am	M.Wainwright, A.Carroll, B.Barker	Gulf Racing UK	Porsche	4m22.171ss	56.285s
38	LMP1	T.Bernhard, M.Webber, B.Hartley	Porsche Team	Porsche	-	-
39	LMP1	N.Prost, N.Heidfeld, N.Piquet Jr.	Rebellion Racing	Rebellion/AER	-	-
40	LMP2	V.Capillaire, E.Maris, J.Coleman	So24 ! By Lombard Racing	Ligier/Judd	-	-
41	LMP2	F.Barthez, P-L.Chatin, T.Buret	Panis Barthez Competition	Ligier/Nissan	-	-
42	LMP2	N.Minassian, M.Mediani, M.Aleshin	SMP Racing	BR Engineering/Nissan	-	-
43	LMP2	S.Sharp, E.Brown, J.van Overbeek	Extreme Speed Motorsports	Ligier/Nissan	-	-
44	LMP2	P.Jun Jin, T.Gommendy, N.de Bruijn	Eurasia Motorsport	ORECA/Nissan	-	-
45	LMP2	T.Krohn, N.Jonsson, J.Barbosa	Krohn Racing	Ligier/Nissan	-	-
46	LMP2	T.Graves, M.Rao, R.Merhi	Manor	ORECA/Nissan	-	-
47	LMP2	T.Matsuda, M.Howson, R.Bradley	KCMG	ORECA/Nissan	-	-
48	LMP2	B.Keating, J.Bleekemolen, M.Goossens	Murphy Prototypes	ORECA/Nissan	-	-
49	GTE Am	J.O'Connell, O.Bryant, M.Patterson	Team AAI	Chevrolet	-	-
50	GTE Am	W.Sun Mok, K.Sawa, R.Bell	Clearwater Racing	Ferrari	-	-
51	GTE Am	B.Sweedler, T.Bell, J.Segal	Scuderia Corsa	Ferrari	-	-
52	GTE Pro	J.Magnussen, A.Garcia, R.Taylor	Corvette Racing	Chevrolet	-	-
53	GTE Pro	O.Pla, S.Mucke, B.Johnson	Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK	Ford	-	-
54	GTE Pro	M.Franchitti, A.Priaulx, H.Tincknell	Ford Chip Ganassi Team UK	Ford	-	-
55	GTE Pro	R.Briscoe, R.Westbrook, S.Dixon	Ford Chip Ganassi Team USA	Ford	-	-
56	GTE Pro	G.Fisichella, T.Vilander, M.Malucelli	Risi Competizione	Ferrari	-	-
57	Innov	F.Sausset, C.Tinseau, J-B.Bouvet	SRT41 By Oak Racing	Morgan/Nissan	-	-
58	GTE Am	F.Makowiecki, E.Bamber, J.Bergmeister	Porsche Motorsport	Porsche	-	-
59	GTE Am	N.Thiim, M.Sorensen, D.Turner	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin	-	-
60	GTE Am	A.Howard, L.Griffin, G.Hirsch	Aston Martin Racing	Aston Martin	-	-