2009 Petit Le Mans

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The 2009 Petit Le Mans powered by Mazda6 was the twelfth running of the Petit Le Mans and the ninth round of the 2009 American Le Mans Series season. It took place at the Road Atlanta circuit in Braselton, Georgia, on September 26, 2009. Originally scheduled to run for a distance of 1,000 miles (1,600 km) or a time of ten hours, the race was stopped after four hours due to heavy rains. The race was not restarted and the results were determined from the final lap prior to the stoppage. [1]

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When race officials decided to not restart the event Nicolas Minassian and Stéphane Sarrazin of the #08 Peugeot were declared the winners, leading their team car #07. Audi, who had won this race every year since 2000, finished in third and fourth places. This race was the first time Audi lost at Petit Le Mans since its first run since 2000. This was also the first time that neither of the Volkswagen Group marques (Audi and Porsche) won (or finished in the top two, in all cases) its classes. In the LMP2 category Dyson Racing Team won their second race of the season with the #20 Lola-Mazda of Marino Franchitti, Ben Devlin, and Butch Leitzinger ranking 13th overall and 29 laps ahead of their nearest class competitor. The GT2 category was won by Risi Competizione Ferrari leading the Rahal Letterman Racing BMW and Farnbacher-Loles Porsche on the podium.

During Thursday practice on September 24, which took place in dry, sunny conditions, Scott Sharp had a violent crash in the Acura ARX-02a exiting turn one after making contact with the Farnbacher-Loles Porsche entry, which was leaving the pits. Sharp's car turned on its left side, hit the fence, then barrel-rolled three-and-a-half times before landing right-side up. [2] Sharp walked away from the incident. On Friday, September 25, at 9:30 AM Eastern Daylight Time, a new tub arrived from the Honda Performance Development Center in Los Angeles. [2] The Highcroft Racing team then spent the next 24 hours rebuilding the car, getting some assistance from archrival de Ferran Motorsports. [2] The team only used 10 percent of the parts from the original car, [2] and were forced to start the race from pit road. [2]

Report

Qualifying

Qualifying result

Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold. [3]

PosClassTeamQualifying DriverLap Time
1LMP1#07 Team Peugeot Total Nicolas Minassian 1:06.937
2LMP1#08 Team Peugeot Total Franck Montagny 1:07.160
3LMP1#2 Audi Sport Team Joest Rinaldo Capello 1:08.200
4LMP1#1 Audi Sport North America Lucas Luhr 1:08.228
5LMP1#66 de Ferran Motorsports Simon Pagenaud 1:08.348
6LMP1#7 Team Oreca Matmut AIM Nicolas Lapierre 1:09.566
7LMP1#37 Intersport RacingJon Field1:09.685
8LMP2#20 Dyson Racing Team Marino Franchitti 1:10.152
9LMP1#88 Drayson Racing Jonny Cocker 1:10.552
10LMP2#6 Team Cytosport Klaus Graf 1:11.405
11LMP2#15 Lowe's Fernández Racing Adrian Fernández 1:11.758
12LMP1#12 Autocon MotorsportsChris McMurry1:12.676
13GT2#40 Robertson RacingDavid Murry1:20.819
14GT2#28 LG MotorsportsTom Sutherland1:20.877
15GT2#4 Corvette Racing Olivier Beretta 1:20.912
16GT2#92 BMW Rahal Letterman Racing Dirk Müller 1:20.981
17GT2#90 BMW Rahal Letterman Racing Joey Hand 1:21.219
18GT2#45 Flying Lizard Motorsports Patrick Long 1:21.299
19GT2#3 Corvette Racing Johnny O'Connell 1:21.491
20GT2#21 Panoz Team PTG Dominik Farnbacher 1:21.648
21GT2#87 Farnbacher-Loles Racing Wolf Henzler 1:21.760
22GT2#62 Risi Competizione Jaime Melo 1:22.718
23GT2#17 Team Falken Tires Bryan Sellers 1:23.081
24GT2#11 Primetime Race Group Chris Hall1:23.121
25GT2#44 Flying Lizard Motorsports Seth Neiman1:25.601
LMP1#9 Patrón Highcroft Racing Did Not Participate
LMP1#10 ECO RacingDid Not Participate
UNC#16 Dyson Racing Team Did Not Participate
LMP2#19 van der Steur RacingDid Not Participate

Race

Race result

Class winners are marked in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance are marked as Not Classified (NC). [4]

PosClassNoTeamDriversChassisTireLaps
Engine
1LMP108 Flag of France.svg Team Peugeot Total Flag of France.svg Franck Montagny
Flag of France.svg Stéphane Sarrazin
Peugeot 908 HDi FAP M 184
Peugeot HDi 5.5 L Turbo V12
(Diesel)
2LMP107 Flag of France.svg Team Peugeot Total Flag of France.svg Nicolas Minassian
Flag of Portugal.svg Pedro Lamy
Peugeot 908 HDi FAP M 184
Peugeot HDi 5.5 L Turbo V12
(Diesel)
3LMP12 Flag of Germany.svg Audi Sport Team Joest Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Allan McNish
Flag of Italy.svg Rinaldo Capello
Audi R15 TDI M 184
Audi TDI 5.5 L Turbo V10
(Diesel)
4LMP11 Flag of Germany.svg Audi Sport North America Flag of Germany.svg Marco Werner
Flag of Germany.svg Lucas Luhr
Audi R15 TDI M 183
Audi TDI 5.5 L Turbo V10
(Diesel)
5LMP17 Flag of France.svg Team Oreca Matmut AIM Flag of France.svg Nicolas Lapierre
Flag of France.svg Olivier Panis
Flag of France.svg Romain Dumas
Oreca 01 M 181
AIM YS5.5 5.5 L V10
6LMP19 Flag of the United States.svg Patrón Highcroft Racing Flag of Australia (converted).svg David Brabham
Flag of the United States.svg Scott Sharp
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Dario Franchitti
Acura ARX-02a M 180
Acura AR7 4.0 L V8
7UNC16 Flag of the United States.svg Dyson Racing Team Flag of the United States.svg Chris Dyson
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Guy Smith
Lola B09/86 M 177
Mazda MZR-R 2.0 L Turbo I4
(Butanol)
8GT262 Flag of the United States.svg Risi Competizione Flag of Brazil.svg Jaime Melo
Flag of Germany.svg Pierre Kaffer
Flag of Finland.svg Mika Salo
Ferrari F430GT M 170
Ferrari 4.0 L V8
9GT292 Flag of the United States.svg BMW Rahal Letterman Racing Flag of the United States.svg Tommy Milner
Flag of Germany.svg Dirk Müller
Flag of Germany.svg Jörg Müller
BMW M3 GT2 D 169
BMW 4.0 L V8
10GT287 Flag of the United States.svg Farnbacher-Loles Motorsports Flag of Germany.svg Wolf Henzler
Flag of Germany.svg Dirk Werner
Porsche 997 GT3-RSR M 169
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
11GT24 Flag of the United States.svg Corvette Racing Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Oliver Gavin
Flag of Monaco.svg Olivier Beretta
Flag of Switzerland (Pantone).svg Marcel Fässler
Chevrolet Corvette C6.R M 169
Chevrolet 6.0 L V8
12GT245 Flag of the United States.svg Flying Lizard Motorsports Flag of the United States.svg Patrick Long
Flag of Germany.svg Jörg Bergmeister
Flag of Germany.svg Marc Lieb
Porsche 997 GT3-RSR M 169
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
13LMP220 Flag of the United States.svg Dyson Racing Team Flag of the United States.svg Butch Leitzinger
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Marino Franchitti
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Ben Devlin
Lola B08/86 M 168
Mazda MZR-R 2.0 L Turbo I4
14GT23 Flag of the United States.svg Corvette Racing Flag of the United States.svg Johnny O'Connell
Flag of Denmark.svg Jan Magnussen
Flag of Spain.svg Antonio García
Chevrolet Corvette C6.R M 168
Chevrolet 6.0 L V8
15GT244 Flag of the United States.svg Flying Lizard Motorsports Flag of the United States.svg Darren Law
Flag of the United States.svg Seth Neiman
Flag of the United States.svg Johannes van Overbeek
Porsche 997 GT3-RSR M 162
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
16GT228 Flag of the United States.svg LG Motorsports Flag of the United States.svg Tom Sutherland
Flag of the United States.svg Tomy Drissi
Flag of the United States.svg Matt Bell
Chevrolet Corvette C6 D 157
Chevrolet LS3 6.3 L V8
17
DNF
LMP137 Flag of the United States.svg Intersport Racing Flag of the United States.svg Jon Field
Flag of the United States.svg Clint Field
Lola B06/10 D 152
AER P32C 4.0 L Turbo V8
18GT221 Flag of the United States.svg Panoz Team PTG Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Ian James
Flag of Germany.svg Dominik Farnbacher
Panoz Esperante GT-LM Y 152
Ford 5.0 L V8
19
DNF
LMP112 Flag of the United States.svg Autocon Motorsports Flag of the United States.svg Bryan Willman
Flag of the United States.svg Chris McMurry
Flag of Canada (Pantone).svg Tony Burgess
Lola B06/10 D 144
AER P32C 4.0 L Turbo V8
20GT240 Flag of the United States.svg Robertson Racing Flag of the United States.svg David Robertson
Flag of the United States.svg Andrea Robertson
Flag of the United States.svg David Murry
Ford GT-R Mk. VII D 142
Ford 5.0 L V8
21LMP215 Flag of Mexico.svg Lowe's Fernández Racing Flag of Mexico.svg Adrian Fernández
Flag of Mexico.svg Luis Díaz
Acura ARX-01B M 139
Acura AL7R 3.4 L V8
22LMP26 Flag of the United States.svg Team Cytosport Flag of the United States.svg Greg Pickett
Flag of Germany.svg Klaus Graf
Flag of Germany.svg Sascha Maassen
Porsche RS Spyder Evo M 136
Porsche MR6 3.4 L V8
23GT217 Flag of the United States.svg Team Falken Tire Flag of the United States.svg Bryan Sellers
Flag of the United States.svg Dominic Cicero
Porsche 997 GT3-RSR F 136
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
24LMP166 Flag of the United States.svg de Ferran Motorsports Flag of Brazil.svg Gil de Ferran
Flag of France.svg Simon Pagenaud
Flag of New Zealand.svg Scott Dixon
Acura ARX-02a M 136
Acura AR7 4.0 L V8
25GT290 Flag of the United States.svg BMW Rahal Letterman Racing Flag of the United States.svg Bill Auberlen
Flag of the United States.svg Joey Hand
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Andy Priaulx
BMW M3 GT2 D 133
BMW 4.0 L V8
26
DNF
GT211 Flag of the United States.svg Primetime Race Group Flag of the United States.svg Joel Feinberg
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Chris Hall
Dodge Viper Competition Coupe Y 129
Dodge 8.3 L V10
27
NC
LMP188 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Drayson Racing Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Paul Drayson
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Jonny Cocker
Flag of the United Kingdom.svg Rob Bell
Lola B09/60 M 123
Judd GV5.5 S2 5.5 L V10
DNSLMP110 Flag of the United Kingdom.svg ECO Racing Flag of Japan.svg Hideki Noda
Flag of Argentina.svg José Manuel Balbiani
Flag of South Africa.svg Dion von Moltke
Radical SR9 D
ECO (AER) 5.0 L Turbo V10
(Diesel)
DNSLMP219 Flag of the United States.svg van der Steur Racing Flag of the United States.svg Gunnar van der Steur
Flag of the United States.svg Adam Pecorari
Flag of the United States.svg Robbie Pecorari
Radical SR9 K
AER P07 2.0 L Turbo I4

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