Suzuki Endurance Racing Team will start from pole position at the 24 Hours of Le Mans, first event of the 2008 FIM Qtel Endurance World Championship. The average time of the three riders, which determines the position of the starting grid, put the Suzuki number 1 of Matthieu Lagrive, Vincent Philippe and Julien da Costa ahead of the Yamaha GMT 94 by less than half a second. Like yesterday during the first qualifying session, the team Kawasaki France took third position, Suzuki Endurance Racing Team 2 being fourth.

Several teams did improve their qualifying time during the second session, as a wet track at the beginning of practice started to dry towards the end. Only Suzuki number 1 rider to improve his own individual lap time, Matthieu Lagrive now hold the best one in 1’38.313. Lagrive, however, remains cool: "It is easy to do a fast lap with a qualifying tyre, but it will be harder tomorrow on race
tyres".

David Checa, on the Yamaha GMT 94, second on the starting grid, also improved his own lap time this morning. The official French team is rather confident and proud of the psychological advantage taken over the team Kawasaki France, third on the starting grid after a significant improvement of Julian Mazuecos times.

Kawasaki France stays ahead the Suzuki Endurance Racing Team 2 by a slight margin. The second official Suzuki also improved their
average lap time, with Guillaume Dietrich and Barry Veneman, latest SERT recruit, getting along with the Le Mans track.

Yamaha Austria Racing Team and Kawasaki Bolliger Switzerland did well, by taking respectively fifth and sixth places on the starting
grid. They relegate the Junior Team Suzuki LMS, first in the Superstock class, in the seventh position.

Midi Pyrénées MV Agusta Racing did not do any better this morning and they will finally start from eight position, unlike YMES Folch
Endurance, moving up to eleventh position after their riders got more familiar with the Bugatti track.

Endurance Moto 45 is sixteenth and second Superstock, and is surrounded by several permanent teams in Formula EWC, such as RT
Racing Moto Virus, Endurance Moto 38, Phase One Endurance, and Maco Moto Racing. Team LTG 57, third in the Superstock class, will start from the eighteenth position.

National Moto achieved a performance below expectations. The Honda team is still battling with chassis and suspensions set-up on the
CBR 1000 RR and Denis Bouan crashed during the second qualifying session this morning. Engaged in Formula EWC, the Honda 55 National
Moto will start from forty-fifth position, behind the Honda National Superstock.

Endurance Moto 74 had also some hard time, as they have to find another rider after Damien Chêne broke his collarbone after a crash
during yesterday’s qualifying session.

The final starting grid will be announced tomorrow, after the warm-up session, which will start at 10:30 am. This afternoon, the
pit lane will be traditionally open to the spectators from 5 pm; teams and machines will be accessible for eye-sighting.