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LE Mans, France — Peugeot continued it’s impressive string of qualifying wins at the Circuit du la Sarthe in the evening qualifying session and the French Lion will hold the top three positions on the grid when they drop the green flag on the race Saturday at 3 pm (+1 GMT).

The French team showed no signs of slowing down and the Audis showed no sign of getting faster during the evening session though one report indicated that when the teams were running together in racing trim both were turning laps in the 3:26-27 range.

LE MANS, France — The Peugeot Team, perhaps not to the surprise of anyone who has been watching the sport this year, threw down a challenge to the rest of the world and in particular the Audi Team during qualifying today as it took the top three qualifying spots — and it was not even close for fourth place as the quickest Audi was four seconds behind the third fastest Peugeot and nearly six seconds off the pace of the top qualifying Peugeot (Lamy, Sarrazkin, and Wurz, A.).

Of course the Peugeot was fast last year as well as both of the Peugeot cars topped qualifying but were unable to translate their speed into a win as the vaunted Audis jumped the French team at the start of the 75th running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans to win for a seventh time in eight years.