Thanks to their very homogenous trio of riders, Julien da Costa, Olivier Four and Grégory Leblanc, the Team GSR Kawasaki managed to score the provisional pole position after the second qualification session of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, ahead of the Suzuki Endurance Racing Team of Vincent Philippe, Guillaume Dietrich and Freddy Foray. The two official machines are leading the private Honda BMP Elf 99 of Matthieu Lagrive, Damian Cudlin and Werner Daemen. Mainly composed by volunteers, the Team BMP Elf 99 is with no doubt a serious contender for the 2010 Qtel FIM Endurance World Championship title chase. Matthieu Lagrive and Damian Cudlin were the two fastest riders on track this morning. Within the same second, at the average time of the three riders, are the Honda National Motos of Sébastien Scarnato, Emeric Jonchière and Sylvain Barrier (third best lap time of the session) and the Honda Michelin Power Research Team of William Costes, Hugo Marchand and Josep Monge. Yamaha Austria Racing Team is quietly in ambush in sixth place, keeping their resources for the Superpole sessions this afternoon for the twenty fastest teams from the qualifications. The YART is ahead of the BMW Michelin (which had to recruit Bertrand Stey, previously at the Michelin PRT, to replace at the last minute Sébastien Charpentier who finally gave up from his participation for these 24 Hours of Le Mans), the Suzuki RAC 41 City Bike and the Suzuki of Junior Team LMS, first Superstock machine. The Yamaha France GMT 94 Ipone is still working hard to make the best from their Bridgestone tyres. The R1 of David Checa, Gregorio Lavilla and Kenny Foray is in tenth place, just ahead of the best private BMW, the Superstock S 1000 RR from team Andalucia. In the Superstock class, the Aprilia Loïc Moto Racing signs the third best performance, with Patrick Piot, David Morillon and Cyril Brivet. The Superstock Suzuki of Qatar Endurance Racing Team was delayed as Anthony Delhalle crashed on an oil patch, is in 21st place. Dani Ribalta also crashed on the Yamaha BK Maco Moto Racing. With a broken forearm, the Spanish rider unfortunately won’t be on the starting grid. From 3:15 pm, the Endurance fanatics will discover the Superpole new format, disputed in three sessions. The first will be open to the fastest twenty teams after the qualifications; the second to the sixteen fastest from Superpole 1 and the third to the eight fastest machines from Superpole 2. Only one rider per team can enter and just one set of tyres is permitted for the whole sessions.