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LMS: Team ORECA dominated Paul Ricard tests

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Khatir Soltani
Team ORECA set the two best performances in the LMS testing day at Paul Ricard on Sunday, with the proto ORECA-AIM ahead of the french team’s Peugeot 908.

Team ORECA Peugeot 908

The best performance overall was set by Soheil Ayari with the proto ORECA-AIM ahead of ORECA’s Peugeot 908 driven by Olivier Panis. On Saturday, ORECA unveiled his Peugeot 908 that the Hugues de Chaunac’s team will run in LMS and Le Mans 24 hours.

Both Rebellion team Lola B10-60 set 3rd and 4th best performances ahead of the Lola Aston Martin. Mansell Team’s Ginetta-Zytek was 6th quickest, Nigel Mansell sharing the wheel with sons Leo and Greg.

Ginetta- Mansell Family

Best LMP2 performance was set by Olivier Pla’s Ginetta Zytek, while Turner, Nyggard and Enge’s Aston Martin DBR9 was the quickest of the GT cars. Jean Alesi, Giancarlo Fisichella and Tony Vilander had a difficult day aboard their AF Corse Ferrari F430, as they set the 13th time (from 17 GT cars).

Marco Andretti and grandfather Mario, Alain Prost and his son Nicolas.



Khatir Soltani
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