Oreca drivers Olivier Panis and Nicolas Lapierre recorded the same time as the Peugeot trio of Marc Gene, Alexander Wurz and David Brabham in free practice for the Le Mans series race at Spa Francorchamps in Belgium.

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Both posted quickest times of exactly two minutes 6.740 seconds in a session that was disrupted by both rain and a pair of red flag incidents.

In the first, the Aston Martin 007 car stopped on the track with Darren Turner at the wheel; then, Jose Ibanez went off the track in his Courage LC75 Ibanez Racing Service car.

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