Murphy Prototypes Le Mans 2013 Qualifying Report

Car 48Qualifying Practice 2                          No timeQualifying Practice 3Time: 3:41.569 Gap: +17.873 +0.527 221.4kphP7Brendon Hartley (NZL)We could have been much better, but its qualifying for a 24-hour race. We had some kind of issue with the steering rackKarun commented on it yesterday and that made it very tricky in the beginning. We tired to rectify the problem we spent another half an hour in the pitsbut obviously I got used to the problem with the steering rack which was tricky. Then I was setting my first dry laps in the darkness, so it was getting all my references again, and in the end I think I had one lap after a red flag which was clear, didnt really nail it, then the next lap I was already one second up which almost put us in the to three. Two or three times I had traffic in my last sector but Im sure everyone has a similar story. But P7 its not a big deal such a long race tomorrow we have little issue to fix, but were in good shape.Mark Patterson (RSA/USA)"Today we were going to go out at 7 oclock, and the rains came as the session started and we waited 40 minutes and eventually we put Brendon out there was nothing to do, there was really nothing to docars were sliding off left, right and centre, it was very dangerous and a couple of cars were wiped out. But we werent and Brendon, in the latter session in pitch, pitch, pitch dark put in unbelievable lap times and moved us up from ninth to seventh but we probably had a third, fourth start in that car for sure. Greg Murphy Team Principal (IRL)We were pretty disappointed to be honest, every time we went for a lap we got traffic, we got red flags Im sure its a common story up and down the pitlane, but yeah, we really struggled. We had a lot more pace in the car, than we showed today. But seventh position, I think Starworks when they won it last year started in 11th, so were reasonable happy, 24 hours to go, were here to fight and were here to win so I think we have some good speed in the car. We had a problem with all the red flags and stuff, we didnt get a rhythm, and I feel a little bit for Karun he had very little running, but hes such a good driver its not going to be a problem.

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