Peugeot on top again

"For a driver pole is important, for the team it's not."

Stephane Sarrazin will most certainly be agreeing with Allan McNish's comment after setting the fastest time in qualifying at Le Mans and becoming only the second driver after Jacky Ickx in the history of the race to qualify in pole on three consecutive occasions.

The French driver put in three stunning laps in the last half hour of qualifying in a desperate bid to snatch pole from McNish, who had topped the times at the end of the first session in the the #1 Audi. His time of 3m23.650s was the target but it wasn't until the final 10 minutes that Sarrazin took the position with a time of 3.22.880s.