With the senior member of the Bourdais family starting from 27th on the grid - the eight-time 24 Hours of Le Mans driver charged through the field up to 10th spot before handing over to his son, Sebastian.

After topping the timesheets in Thursday's second practice session, Sebastien again proved to be right on the pace - setting the second fastest lap time of any Mustang FR500C runner in the field.

The #1 Mustang was back up to seventh place at the checkered flag. Five Multimatic-built Ford Racing Technologies Mustang FR500C racecars finished in the top ten including three in the top five.

"Patrick did a fantastic job at the start to work his way up to 10th, I really didn't expect that," said Multimatic Vice President and Technical Director, Larry Holt.

"With contact with the Porsche and the stop-go penalty we probably missed the chance to grab a top five finish but Sebastien and Patrick had a great time out there today.

"Sebastien is a little upset because he is so competitive, but the fact he set the second fastest Mustang FR500C time of the race proved he is a fantastic talent. Both the guys said the car was perfect. I think we will see a lot more Mustang success in 2006."

Multimatic Motorsports clinched a Grand Am Cup "grand-slam" in 2005 - clinching the drivers', teams' and manufactuers' championships.