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16 August 2008 | Posted in News
The diesel-engined Audi of Allan McNish starts the fourth round of the Le Mans Series from fifth place on the 45-car grid at the Nürburgring tomorrow (17 Aug).
The 38-year-old Scotsman’s co-driver Dindo Capello set a 1min 41.027secs (113.74mph) around the 3.19-mile German track near Cologne in today’s (SAT) 20-minute qualifying session.
Allan commented: “We’ve experienced frustrating and disappointing practice and qualifying sessions because we expected to be closer to Peugeot.
“We’re not able to extract the maximum from our car due to an inconsistency regarding the handling and we’ve not been able to solve it which is not normal for us.
“However I’m optimistic that overnight our engineers will solve the problem so we can at least have a good fight with the Peugeots in the race.”
McNish and Capello, along with Tom Kristensen, won this year’s Le Mans 24 Hours two months ago. They will be hoping for a change of LMS fortune in tomorrow’s 1,000km race after posting fifth ( Barcelona ), sixth ( Monza ) and fourth (Spa) place finishes in the three previous rounds.
Their Audi Sport Team Joest team-mates Alexandre Prémat ( France ) and Mike Rockenfeller ( Germany ) lie second in the LM P1 classification having finished second in the three previous races. They start the race from fourth position with the Peugeot of Marc Gene (1:39.492s, 115.5mph) in pole-position.
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