Rain Vortex: There was so much rain on Friday, it must have seemed to the drivers like they were driving through a vortex of water. In this special effect shot by the photographer, the lead car is the Oreca FLM09 LMPC entry driven by Scott Tucker and Christophe Bouchut. They got the class pole in the wet, but when they went to tune their dry set up in Saturday morning's warm up, the car went off badly damaging the under tray. The Level 5 Motorsports team was unable to repair the car in time for the race.