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ELMS - 16/08/2008
Last year Marc Gené started the German round of the Le Mans Series from pole position at 1m41.867s and in the space of 12 months he has shaved 2.3 seconds off this time, underlining the progress made by the Peugeot team in 2008. Winners of the first three rounds of the Le Mans Series, Peugeot look now to sew up the series and move ahead in the driver championship, with one more round to be held at Silverstone on September 15. “It is our goal to win the series” says Gené, the day after competitions director Michael Barge confirmed that Peugeot would travel to America to contest the Petit Le Mans with two cars at the beginning of October.
Maybe the uphill chicane is a little faster this year as the kerbs have been eased, tempting drivers to widen the track at little. “The chicane is a downforce corner” says Jamie Campbell-Walter, who qualified 14th on his welcome comeback after his big accident at Spa. “Our telemetry shows the Creation is doing 174 km/h in the chicane, which is flat-out in fourth gear!” Stéphane Ortelli also returned to Team Oreca Matmut after breaking his right ankle in an accident at Monza, and although the Monagasque declares himself fit, team director Hugues de Chaunac has drafted Loic Duval into the team as third driver, with Soheil Auari qualifing 8th, two places behind Oliver Panis in the team's Courage sister-car. Team Epsilon Eskudi from Spain's Basque region set a goal of starting a car in the top 10, and Adrian Valles obliged by qualifying his black, Judd powered coupe in 10th position, having out-paced the two Pescarolo Sport entries, separated by thousandths of a second in 11th and 12th positions.
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