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SEBRING, FL — There was morning test session that brought everyone out to try out their race-day combinations. It is interesting to see the various strategies that are being used. Last night the No. 08 Peugeot had the fastest time of the evening and while the one of the Audi team ran just behind the Peugeot in terms of time, it seemed as if the Team Audi was simply out to check set-ups on various sections of the course without really running hard anywhere.

This morning however, the Audis looked very smooth around the race course. They posted the top two times and were fractionally faster (.07 seconds) than the time that the Acura posted yesterday. Not a lot of the other cars — just the Peugeot and the Audi.

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The Audi leads one of the Lolas through one of the many turns in the course.

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A nice tight shot of the new Audi r-15.

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This is actually from last night but it was lost in the upload shuttle.

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Here is another tight shot of the Audi. It’s profile is much lower than the R-10.

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And this is the Audi through one of the chicanes at Sebring.

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The Peugeot looked steady in the morning session — but two big questions remain — is it fast enough and can it last for the 12 hours. Time will tell.

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The Audi leading a pack through the first turn during the Friday morning session.

SEBRING, Fl — Here are a few additional images from the Thursday test session. As you can see we got about 30 minutes of rain Thursday around 5:30 pm. It is very strange for the area since they are basically not able to even water their lawn since their are faced with a drought.

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SEBRING, Fl — Just posting a couple of more images from Thursday evening of Sebring.

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The Cooper Tire Chicks got plenty of attention for obvious reasons. Thier chaperone, however, was a evil and wicked looking person who cracked the whip on the young ladies with regularily — bring them into NFL (No Fun League) compliance 🙂

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This is shot over the pit wall and gives you an idea of what the from of the race course looks like. As many of you have heard the Sebring course is known as a very rough course to drive. We will endeavor to bring you some samles of the cars reacting during the next couple of days.

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In LMP2 the Lowes team seems to have their act together. They spent a goodly amount of time during the off season getting everything dialed in and turn top time for the class.

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The Jean Richard team does not have a major domo budget but these folks work hard and get as much as they can out of their car and their individual abilities. Last year was their first try at Le Mans.

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Just walking through the pits and found this interesting juxtaposition.

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Racing takes wheels — and as you can see one team — sorry I can not remember whom — is prepared.

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Two of the Audi tire technicans discuss the tires of the day.

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Then it is time to finish the tires up.

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And when the tires are good, the driver  in  this case Tom Kristensen, reacts with a smile when he is being interviewed.

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The No. 9 Patron Vodka car is an Acura ARX-02a that is driven by Brabham,Sharp, and Franchitti. This seems to be the slower of the two Acuras.