1000 km race on the Nürburgring 2007

Peugeot 908 HDi FAP with starting number 8; Winning car from Pedro Lamy and Stéphane Sarrazin

MG Lola EX264 with starting number 25. Here at the 1000 km race in Spa-Francorchamps in 2005 . At the Nürburgring, Thomas Erdos and Mike Newton won the LMP2 class with this car

The 41st 1000 km race on the Nürburgring , also ADAC Internationales 1000KM-Rennen, Nürburgring , took place on July 1, 2007 on the Nürburgring and was the third valuation run of the Le Mans Series of this year.

Before the race

When the Sports Car World Championship was launched in 1953 by the Commission Sportive Internationale , the 1000 km race on the Nürburgring was one of the championship races. Alberto Ascari and Giuseppe Farina won on a plant - Ferrari 375 MM Vignale . The duo had to cover 44 laps on the Nordschleife in order to achieve the necessary 1000 kilometers, which were stipulated as the race distance. This took them 8:20:44,000 hours. This endurance race quickly established itself as one of the most traditional sports car races . By the end of the sports car world championship in 1992 , the race had been held 34 times - with different race distances. The last world championship run was in 1991 over a distance of 430 kilometers and ended with the overall victory of David Brabham and Derek Warwick in the Jaguar XJR-14 .

After nearly a decade of absence, the 2000 race returned to the international racing calendar as part of the American Le Mans Series . In 2007 it was part of the European Le Mans Series for the fourth time in a row .

The race

With the factory Peugeot 908 HDi FAP , there was a Le Mans prototype superior to the competition in 2007 . Similar to the Audi R10 TDI , this racing car was powered by a diesel engine. In practice, Marc Gené achieved the fastest lap time in the number 7 Peugeot. With 1: 41.867 minutes he was 0.3 seconds faster than his teammate Pedro Lamy in the car with the number 8. The gap to the third-placed vehicle - Tom Chilton in the Zytek 07S - was already three seconds.

The two Peugeots dominated the race from the start. Pedro Lamy and Stéphane Sarrazin in the car with the number 8 turned out to be the faster team over the course of the race and continuously set themselves apart from team-mates Gené and Nicolas Minassian . At the finish line, they had achieved a lead of 56 seconds after a driving time of almost six hours. In third place was the Courage LC70 driven by Jean-Marc Gounon and Guillaume Moreau for a long time . Almost halfway through the race, Emmanuel Collard and Jean-Christophe Boullion's Pescarolo Sport 07 took this position and held it until the end of the race. Thomas Erdos and Mike Newton won the LMP2 class in the RML -MG-Lola EX264. In the GT1 class, Stéphane Ortelli and Soheil Ayari remained successful in the Saleen S7-R registered by Oreca . The race in the small GT class was unspectacular. Rob Bell and Allan Simonsen led from start to finish.

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	LMP1	8th	Team Peugeot Total	Pedro Lamy Stéphane Sarrazin	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	195
2	LMP1	7th	Team Peugeot Total	Marc Gené Nicolas Minassian	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	194
3	LMP1	16	Pescarolo sport	Emmanuel Collard Jean-Christophe Boullion	Pescarolo Sport 07	191
4th	LMP1	15th	Charouz Racing	Alex Yoong Stefan Mücke Jan Charouz	Lola B07 / 17	188
5	LMP1	9	Creation Autosportif	Jamie Campbell-Walter Felipe Ortiz Shinji Nakano	Creation CA07	188
6th	LMP2	25th	RML	Thomas Erdos Mike Newton	MG Lola EX264	188
7th	LMP2	32	Barazi Epsilon	Juan Barazi Michael Vergers Karim Ojjeh	Zytek 07S	187
8th	LMP1	10	Arena motorsport	Tom Chilton Hayanari Shimoda	Zytek 07S	187
9	LMP1	14th	Racing For Holland	Jan Lammers David Hart Jeroen Bleekemolen	Dome S101.5	187
10	LMP2	40	Quifel ASM team	Miguel Amaral Miguel Ángel de Castro Angel Burgueño	Lola B05 / 40	187
11	LMP2	27	Horag Racing	Fredy Lienhard Didier Theys Eric van de Poele	Lola B05 / 40	186
12	LMP1	13	Courage Compétition	Jean-Marc Gounon Guillaume Moreau	Courage LC70	185
13	LMP2	45	Embassy Racing	Warren Hughes Neil Cunningham	Radical SR9	185
14th	LMP2	31	Binnie Motorsports	William Binnie Allen Timpany Chris Buncombe	Lola B05 / 40	183
15th	LMP2	35	Saulnier Racing	Jacques Nicolet Alain Filhol Bruce Jouanny	Courage LC75	182
16	GT1	55	Team Oreca	Stéphane Ortelli Soheil Ayari	Saleen S7-R	181
17th	LMP1	18th	Rollcentre Racing	João Barbosa Stuart Hall Martin Short	Pescarolo Sport 07	180
18th	GT1	59	Team Modena	Antonio García Christian Fittipaldi	Aston Martin DBR9	180
19th	GT1	72	Alphand Aventures	Jérôme Policand Patrice Goueslard Luc Alphand	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	180
20th	GT1	50	AMR Larbre	Christophe Bouchut Gabriele Gardel Fabrizio Gollin	Aston Martin DBR9	180
21st	LMP1	19th	Chamberlain Synergy	Gareth Evans Bob Berridge Peter Owen	Lola B06 / 10	179
22nd	GT1	61	Racing box	Piergiuseppe Perazzini Marco Cioci Salvatore Tavano	Saleen S7-R	178
23	GT1	73	Alphand Aventures	Jean-Luc Blanchemain Sébastien Dumez Vincent Vosse	Chevrolet Corvette C5-R	177
24	GT1	51	AMR Larbre	Gregor Fisken Steve Zacchia Gregory Franchi	Aston Martin DBR9	176
25th	LMP1	12	Courage Compétition	Alexander Frei Jonathan Cochet	Courage LC70	175
26th	GT2	96	Virgo Motorsport	Rob Bell Allan Simonsen	Ferrari F430 GT	173
27	GT2	77	Felbermayr proton	Marc Lieb Xavier Pompidou	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	173
28	GT2	90	Farnbacher Racing	Dirk Werner Pierre Ehret Lars-Erik Nielsen	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	172
29	GT2	97	GPC sport	Matteo Bobbi Alessandro Bonetti Fabrizio De Simone	Ferrari F430 GT	171
30th	LMP2	20th	Pierre Bruneau	Marc Rostan Pierre Bruneau Simon Pullan	Pilbeam MP93	170
31	GT2	94	Speedy Racing Team	Andrea Belicchi Andrea Chiesa Jonny Kane	Spyker C8 Spyder GT2R	170
32	GT2	82	Team LNT	Lawrence Tomlinson Richard Dean	Panoz Esperante GTLM	170
33	GT2	98	Ice Pol Racing Team	Yves Lambert Christian Lefort Stéphane Lémeret	Ferrari F430 GT	169
34	GT2	92	Thierry Perrier	Philippe Hesnault Nigel Smith Anthony Beltoise	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	169
35	LMP2	21st	Bruichladdich Radical	Stuart Moseley Tim Greaves	Radical SR9	165
36	GT2	76	Imsa performance	Raymond Narac Richard Lietz	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	165
37	GT2	78	Scuderia Villorba	Alex Caffi Denny Zardo	Ferrari F430 GT	165
38	GT2	95	James Watt	Paul Daniels Dave Cox Joël Camathias	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	165
39	GT2	99	JMB Racing	Maurice Basso Bo McCormick	Ferrari F430 GT	163
40	GT2	88	Felbermayr proton	Christian Ried Horst Felbermayr junior Thomas Gruber	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	162
41	GT2	79	Felbermayr proton	Horst Felbermayr senior Gerold Ried Philip Collin	Porsche 996 GT3-RSR	161
42	LMP2	29	T2M motorsport	Robin Longechal Yutaka Yamagishi	Dome S101.5	159
Not classified
43	GT2	84	Chad Peninsula Panoz	John Hartshorne Sean McInerney Michael McInerney	Panoz Esperante GTLM	97
Failed
44	LMP2	44	Kruse Motorsport	Tony Burgess Jean de Pourtales Norbert Siedler	Pescarolo Sport 07	151
45	GT2	85	Spyker Squadron	Jaroslav Janiš Peter Kox	Spyker C8 Spyder GT2R	79
46	GT2	81	Team LNT	Tom Kimber-Smith Danny Watts	Panoz Esperante GTLM	76
47	LMP1	17th	Pescarolo sport	Harold Primate Christophe Tinseau	Pescarolo Sport 07	54
48	GT2	89	Markland Racing	Kurt Thiim Thorkild Thyrring Henrik Møller Sørensen	Chevrolet Corvette C6 Z06	54
49	LMP1	3	Scuderia Lavaggi	Giovanni Lavaggi Cristian Corsini	Lavaggi LS1	29
50	GT2	83	GPC sport	Luca Drudi Johnny Mowlem Gabrio Rosa	Ferrari F430 GT	21st

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
51	LMP1	5	Swiss Spirit	Jean-Denis Delétraz Marcel Fässler Iradj Alexander	Lola B07 / 10
52	LMP2	24	Noël del Bello Racing	Vitaly Petrov Jean-Marc Gounon	Courage LC75
53	LMP2	26th	Ranieri Randaccio	Fabio Mancini Ranieri Randaccio	Lucchini LMP2-04

Class winner

class	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
LMP1	Pedro Lamy	Stéphane Sarrazin	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	Overall victory
LMP2	Thomas Erdos	Mike Newton	MG Lola EX264	Rank 6
GT1	Stéphane Ortelli	Soheil Ayari	Saleen S7-R	Rank 16
GT2	Rob Bell	Allan Simonsen	Ferrari F430 GT	Rank 26

Racing data

• Registered: 53
• Started: 50
• Rated: 42
• Race classes: 4
• Spectator: unknown
• Weather on race day: unknown
• Route length: 5.137 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 6:01: 13.828 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 195
• Total distance of the winning team: 1001.715 km
• Winner's average: 166.384 km / h
• Pole position: Marc Gené - Peugeot 908 HDi FAP (# 7) - 1: 41.867
• Fastest race lap: Marc Gené - Peugeot 908 HDi FAP (# 7) - 1: 44.406 = 177.741 km / h
• Racing series: 3rd round of the Le Mans Series 2007

literature

• Andrew Cotton, Alfredo Filippone, Olivier Loisy, Jean-Marc Teissedre: 2007 Le Mans Series Yearbook. Apollo Publishing, ISBN 2-9521044-7-6 .

Web links

• Results

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Le Mans Series

Successor to the 1000 km race of Spa-Francorchamps 2007