Emanuele Pirro Fastest Audi Driver
007vehispy1 submitted on 10/18/2008 Official Bell & Ross Timestamp: 1:15:25 PM
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Emanuele Pirro has captured the LM P1 pole position at Laguna Seca (U.
S. state of California) in his last race with the Audi R10 TDI. On Friday, the Italian won the qualifying battle against his team-mate Lucas Luhr.
Team Audi Sport North America’s two Audi R10 TDI prototypes will line-up on the fifth row of the starting grid for the finale of the American Le Mans Series. In unexpected hot conditions, the LM P1 cars had no chance to match the qualifying pace of the lighter LM P2 prototypes. With gaps of 1.1 and 1.7 seconds respectively, Pirro and Luhr qualified ninth and tenth.
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