1000 km race on the Hungaroring 2010

Olivier Pla in the second-placed Ginetta-Zytek GZ09S

The 1000 km race on the Hungaroring 2010 , also 1000 km of Hungaroring , took place on August 22nd on the Hungaroring and was the fourth round of the Le Mans Series of this year.

The race

The 1000 km race was the first long-distance race on the Hungaroring, the Hungarian race track near Mogyoród . Since 1986 has been on this track Hungarian Grand Prix of Formula 1 is discharged. The race took place in August, on a date originally intended for the 1000 km race at the Nürburgring . The traditional race at the Nürburgring , which was held on the Nordschleife for many years , was dropped from the racing calendar after the organizer failed to finance it. The sports car race at Hungaroring was designed as a night race. Of the expected six hours of driving time, the last two took place in the dark.

During training it quickly became apparent that the route with many bends and only one long straight did not favor the powerful LMP1 prototypes . The favored Oreca - Peugeot 908 HDi FAP only reached fourth place in qualifying. The fastest in training was Danny Watts in an HPD ARX-01c , a less powerful but also lighter LMP2 car. With a time of 1: 32.431 minutes (average 170.631 km / h) it was 0.4 seconds faster than the best-placed LMP1; the Rebellion-Racing- Lola B10 / 60, driven by Andrea Belicchi .

Belicchi took the lead after the start and held it until lap 33, then he was overtaken by Olivier Panis in the Peugeot. With the race set-up, the Peugeot was much better on the track, which allowed Panis and his teammates Stéphane Sarrazin and Nicolas Lapierre to gain a stable lead up to the 129th lap. At that time, Belicchi's Lola had failed due to a technical defect and the second Rebellion Lola had fallen far behind. Lapierre pits in the leading Peugeot on lap 130. After just one lap, Lapierre headed for the pits again. This time the car was pushed into the garage for a 40-minute repair. The resulting transmission problems could not be resolved, so that after several attempts to get the car ready to race again, the Peugeot stayed in the pits until the last lap. Then Sarrazin drove a slow lap to get into the ranking. Due to the LMP1 disaster, an LMP2 car won the overall ranking. Pole setter Danny Watts won with teammates Nick Leventis and Jonny Kane in the HPD ARX-01c.

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	LMP2	42	Strakka Racing	Jonny Kane Danny Watts Nick Leventis	HPD ARX-01c	206
2	LMP2	40	Quifel ASM team	Olivier Pla Miguel Amaral	Ginetta-Zytek GZ09S	205
3	LMP2	24	OAK Racing	Matthieu Lahaye Jacques Nicolet	Pescarolo 01 Evo	204
4th	LMP2	25th	RML	Thomas Erdos Mike Newton Ben Collins	Lola B08 / 80	202
5	LMP2	41	Team Bruichladdich	Thor-Christian Ebbesvik Karim Ojjeh Tim Greaves	Ginetta-Zytek GZ09S	201
6th	LMP2	29	Racing box	Marco Cioci Piergiuseppe Perazzini Luca Pirri	Lola B09 / 80	200
7th	LMP1	5	Beechdean Mansell	Greg Mansell Leo Mansell	Ginetta-Zytek 09	199
8th	LMP1	12	Rebellion Racing	Neel Jani Nicolas Prost	Lola B10 / 60	193
9	LMP2	35	OAK Racing	Richard Hein Guillaume Moreau	Pescarolo 01 Evo	192
10	GT2	77	Team Felbermayr Proton	Richard Lietz Marc Lieb	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	192
11	GT2	91	CRS Racing	Andrew Kirkaldy Tim Mullen	Ferrari F430 GTC	192
12	GT2	76	IMSA Performance Matmut	Patrick Pilet Raymond Narac	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	192
13	GT2	95	AF Corse	Jean Alesi Toni Vilander Giancarlo Fisichella	Ferrari F430 GTC	192
14th	GT2	96	AF Corse	Álvaro Parente Álvaro Barba	Ferrari F430 GTC	191
15th	GT2	92	JMW Motorsport	Rob Bell Darren Turner	Aston Martin V8 Vantage	191
16	GT2	88	Team Felbermayr Proton	Romain Dumas Martin Ragginger Christian Ried	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	190
17th	GT2	94	AF Corse	Luís Pérez Companc Matías Russo	Ferrari F430 GTC	189
18th	LMP2	31	RLR Msport	Barry Gates Warren Hughes Rob Garofall	MG Lola EX265	189
19th	GT2	85	Spyker Squadron	Tom Coronel Peter Dumbreck	Spyker C8 Laviolette GT2-R	188
20th	GT2	89	Hankook Team Farnbacher	Dominik Farnbacher Allan Simonsen	Ferrari F430 GTC	188
21st	GT1	50	Larbre Compétition	Gabriele Gardel Patrice Goueslard Fernando Rees	Saleen S7-R	187
22nd	FLM	43	DAMS	Alessandro Cicognani Gary Chalandon Andrea Barlesi	Oreca FLM09	187
23	LMP1	008	Signature Plus	Franck Mailleux Vanina Ickx Pierre Ragues	Lola Aston Martin DBR1	184
24	LMP1	27	Race performance	Michel Frey Chris Buncombe	Radical SR9	182
25th	LMP2	30th	Racing box	Fabio Babini Federico Leo Ferdinando Geri	Lola B09 / 80	179
26th	FLM	46	JMB Racing	Peter Kutemann Maurice Basso John Hartshorne	Oreca FLM09	178
27	GT2	86	Team Felbermayr Proton	Marco Seefried Horst Felbermayr junior Horst Felbermayr senior	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	174
28	GT2	90	CRS Racing	Phil Quaife Pierre Ehret	Ferrari F430 GTC	167
29	FLM	47	Hope Polevision Racing	Olivier Lombard Steve Zacchia Luca Moro	Oreca FLM09	156
30th	FLM	45	Boutsen Energy Racing	Dominik Kraihamer Nicolas De Crem Bernard Delhez	Oreca FLM09	146
31	LMP1	4th	Team Oreca Matmut	Olivier Panis Stéphane Sarrazin Nicolas Lapierre	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	146
Failed
32	GT2	75	Prospeed Competition	Richard Westbrook Marco Holzer	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	133
33	LMP1	13	Rebellion Racing	Jean-Christophe Boullion Andrea Belicchi	Lola B10 / 60	124
34	LMP2	36	Pegasus Racing	Julien Schell Frédéric Da Rocha	Courage-Oreca LC75	77
35	GT1	66	Atlas FX Team Full Speed	Carlo van Dam Stéphane Lémeret Norbert Walchhofer	Saleen S7-R	68
36	FLM	49	Applewood Seven	Damien Toulemonde Mathias Beche	Oreca FLM09	35
37	FLM	44	DAMS	Darren Manning Jody Firth	Oreca FLM09	20th
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38	FLM	48	Hope Polevision Racing	Nico Verdonck Christophe Pillon Vincent Capillaire	Oreca FLM09	1

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Only in the entry list

Here you will find teams, drivers and vehicles that were originally registered for the race but did not take part for a variety of reasons.

Item	class	No.	team	driver	chassis
39	LMP2	39	KSM	Jean de Pourtales Hideki Noda Jonathan Kennard	Lola B08 / 47

Class winner

class	driver	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
LMP1	Leo Mansell	Greg Mansell		Ginetta-Zytek GZ09S	Rank 7
LMP2	Danny Watts	Nick Leventis	Jonny Kane	HPD ARX-01c	Overall victory
FLM	Alessandro Cicognani	Andrea Barlesi	Gary Chalandon	Oreca FLM09	Rank 22
GT1	Patrice Goueslard	Gabriele Gardel	Fernando Rees	Saleen S7-R	Rank 21
GT2	Richard Lietz	Marc Lieb		Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Rank 10

Racing data

• Registered: 39
• Started: 37
• Rated: 31
• Race classes: 5
• Spectator: unknown
• Race day weather: dry and hot
• Route length: 4.381 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 6: 01: 02.752 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 206
• Total distance of the winning team: 902.486 km
• Winner's average: 149.979 km / h
• Pole position: Danny Watts - HPD ARX-01c (# 42) - 1: 32.431 = 170.631 km / h
• Fastest race lap: Stéphane Sarrazin - Peugeot 908 HDi FAP (# 4) - 1: 34.934 = 166.132 km / h
• Racing series: 4th round of the Le Mans Series 2010

Web links

• Official website of the Le Mans Series
• Race report
• Results

Previous race Algarve 1000 km race 2010

Le Mans Series

Successor to the 1000 km race at Silverstone 2010