Pescarolo reports 'all normal' before Ayari off.

Various rumours have been doing the rounds following the demise of the #17 Pescarolo-Judd at Le Mans, to the point that the team decided to investigate exactly what caused the incident that saw Soheil Ayari run out of road on the Mulsanne.

The Frenchman had been running fifth in the blue-and-white machine, recovering from an early brush with Patrick Bourdais' GT class Panoz that dropped the Pescarolo down the order, when he appeared to make a mistake at the first chicane on the famous stretch of public road. Although he managed to get back to the pits, the mechanics decided that there was sufficient damage to the car to pull the garage door down behind it.

Since the race, the Pescarolo Sport team has downloaded the telemetry recordings for the #17 and viewed various television pictures in an effort to determine the cause of the accident, but no abnormality could be found with either front or rear aerodynamics. Furthermore, the tyre pressures also revealed themselves to be normal. Indeed, the only thing that the data pointed too was an excessively late braking point for the lightly dishevelled car...