1000 km race on the Nürburgring 2008

Mike Rockenfeller in the Audi R10 TDI with starting number 2

The 42nd 1000 km race on the Nürburgring , also ADAC Internationales 1000KM-Rennen, Nürburgring , took place on August 17th, 2008 on the Nürburgring and was the fourth round of the Le Mans Series of this year.

The race

At the race at the Nürburgring, a remarkable streak of sporty victories continued. Since debuting at the Monza 1000 km race in 2007 , the Peugeot 908 HDi FAP's chassis had won nine Le Mans Series races in a row. In the Eifel , the tenth overall victory in a row followed with a double victory. For the race at the Ring, Peugeot registered two racing cars with two drivers each. In preparation for the 24-hour race at Le Mans , the French team entered the Spa-Francorchamps race with three drivers per vehicle. Jacques Villeneuve and Alexander Wurz were therefore absent from the Nürburgring. The regular cast were in the car with the number 7 Nicolas Minassian and Marc Gené and in the car with the number 7 Pedro Lamy and Stéphane Sarrazin . A third Peugeot was only registered in Le Mans. Franck Montagny , Ricardo Zonta and Christian Klien drove their 908 HDi FAP to third place overall.

The strongest opponents of the Peugeots were those of Joest Racing used Audi R10 TDI , driven by Alexandre Premat , Mike Rockenfeller , Allan McNish and Rinaldo Capello . Over the distance of 1000 kilometers, the Peugeots proved to be the faster Le Mans prototypes . Neither the Peugeots nor the Audis had any technical problems and unplanned pit stops and at the finish line the 908 HDi FAP had a complete lap ahead of the Joest Audis. The overall victory was primarily determined by the shorter fuel and tire change stops on Lamy and Sarrazin 's cars, who had been 16 seconds behind their teammates at the finish. At the start of the race, Stefan Mücke and Jan Charouz were able to keep up with the racing speed of the two Audis in a Lola B08 / 60 with a 6-liter V12 engine from Aston Martin . For a while, Stefan Mücke was even third behind the Peugeots. At the finish, after a few unplanned pit stops, it was enough for fifth place overall.

The LMP2 class was dominated by the Porsche RS Spyder . Jos Verstappen and Jeroen Bleekemolen in their RS Spyder had a four-lap lead over the second-placed LMP2 racing car, a Pescarolo 01 driven by Pierre Ragues and Matthieu Lahaye . The Embassy WF01 achieved the best result of the season so far, ranking 11th overall. The big GT class was won by Antonio García and Tomáš Enge in the Aston Martin DBR9 . The GT2 car race ended with the success of Rob Bell and Gianmaria Bruni in the Ferrari F430 GTC .

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	195
3	LMP1	2	Audi Sport Team Joest	Alexandre Prémat Mike Rockenfeller	Audi R10 TDI	194
4th	LMP1	1	Audi Sport Team Joest	Rinaldo Capello Allan McNish	Audi R10 TDI	194
5	LMP1	10	Charouz Racing System	Stefan Mücke Jan Charouz	Lola B08 / 60	189
6th	LMP1	5	Team Oreca Matmut	Stéphane Ortelli Soheil Ayari Loïc Duval	Courage-Oreca LC70	188
7th	LMP2	34	Van Merksteijn Motorsport	Jos Verstappen Jeroen Bleekemolen	Porsche RS Spyder	188
8th	LMP1	15th	Creation AIM	Jamie Campbell-Walter Stuart Hall	Creation CA07	187
9	LMP2	35	Saulnier Racing	Pierre Ragues Matthieu Lahaye	Pescarolo 01	184
10	LMP2	31	Team Essex	Casper Elgaard John Nielsen	Porsche RS Spyder	184
11	LMP2	46	Embassy Racing	Darren Manning Joey Foster	WF01	183
12	LMP2	40	Quifel ASM team	Olivier Pla Miguel Amaral	Lola B05 / 40	182
13	LMP2	25th	RML	Thomas Erdos Mike Newton	MG Lola EX265	181
14th	LMP2	45	Embassy Racing	Warren Hughes Jonny Kane	WF01	180
15th	LMP2	32	Barazi Epsilon	Michael Vergers Juan Barazi Fernando Rees	Zytek 07S	180
16	LMP2	33	Speedy Racing Team	Xavier Pompidou Andrea Belicchi Steve Zacchia	Lola B08 / 80	179
17th	LMP2	41	Trading performance	Claude-Yves Gosselin Karim Ojjeh	Zytek 07S	179
18th	LMP1	17th	Pescarolo sport	Harold Primate Christophe Tinseau	Pescarolo 01	176
19th	LMP1	18th	Rollcentre Racing	João Barbosa Vanina Ickx Martin Short	Pescarolo 01	175
20th	GT1	59	Team Modena	Antonio García Tomáš Enge	Aston Martin DBR9	172
21st	LMP1	44	Kruse Schiller Motorsport	Hideki Noda Jean de Pourtales	Lola B05 / 40	172
22nd	LMP1	14th	Creation AIM	Stephen Simpson Liz Halliday	Creation CA07	172
23	LMP2	27	Horag Racing	Didier Theys Fredy Lienhard Jan Lammers	Porsche RS Spyder	170
24	GT2	96	Virgo Motorsport	Rob Bell Gianmaria Bruni	Ferrari F430 GTC	169
25th	GT2	77	Felbermayr-Proton team	Marc Lieb Alex Davison	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	167
26th	GT2	76	Imsa Performance Matmut	Richard Lietz Raymond Narac	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	167
27	GT2	99	JMB Racing	Stéphane Daoudi Ben Aucott	Ferrari F430 GTC	166
28	GT2	85	Snora's Spyker Squadron	Peter Dumbreck Ralf Kellener's Alex Vassiliev	Spyker C8 Laviolette GT2R	165
29	GT2	75	Imsa Performance Matmut	Jean-Philippe Belloc Richard Balandras Michel Lecourt	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	164
30th	LMP1	4th	Saulnier Racing	Jacques Nicolet Richard Hein	Pescarolo 01	164
31	GT2	98	JMB Racing	Johan-Boris Sheier Peter Kutemann Maurice Basso	Ferrari F430 GTC	163
32	GT2	95	James Watt Automotive	Paul Daniels Markus Palttala Tim Sugden	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	162
33	LMP1	20th	Epsilon Euskadi	Angel Burgueño Miguel Ángel de Castro	Epsilon Euskadi ee1	160
34	LMP2	26th	Bruichladdich Radical	Jens Petersen Marc Rostan Jan-Dirk Lueders	Radical SR9	159
35	GT2	88	Felbermayr-Proton team	Horst Felbermayr junior Christian Ried Horst Felbermayr senior	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	157
36	GT2	90	Farnbacher Racing	Pierre Kaffer Pierre Ehret Anthony Beltoise	Ferrari F430 GTC	156
37	GT1	72	Luc Alphand Aventures	Luc Alphand Guillaume Moreau Patrice Goueslard	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	140
Not classified
38	LMP1	3	Scuderia Lavaggi	Giovanni Lavaggi Wolfgang Kaufmann	Lavaggi LS1	110
Failed
39	LMP1	6th	Team Oreca Matmut	Olivier Panis Nicolas Lapierre	Courage-Oreca LC70	167
40	LMP1	21st	Epsilon Euskadi	Adrián Vallés Shinji Nakano	Epsilon Euskadi ee1	163
41	GT2	94	Speedy Racing Team	Andrea Chiesa Benjamin Leuenberger	Spyker C8 Laviolette GT2R	145
42	GT1	55	IPB Spartak Racing	Peter Kox Roman Rusinov	Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT	131
43	LMP2	37	WR Salini	Stéphane Salini Philippe Salini Patrice Roussel	WR LMP 2008	126
44	GT2	91	Farnbacher Racing	Richard Westbrook Lars-Erik Nielsen Allan Simonsen	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	101
45	LMP1	16	Pescarolo sport	Jean-Christophe Boullion Emmanuel Collard	Pescarolo 01	97
46	GT1	73	Luc Alphand Aventures	Olivier Beretta Jérôme Policand	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	50
Not started
47	LMP2	30th	Racing box	Andrea Ceccato Ferdinando Geri Filippo Francioni	Lucchini LMP2-08	1
48	LMP2	42	Ranieri Randaccio	Ranieri Randaccio Raffaele Giammaria	Lucchini LMP2-08	2

¹ Technical acceptance failed. ² Technical acceptance failed

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
49	GT2	93	James Watt Automotive	Alan van der Merwe	Aston Martin V8 Vantage GT2

Class winner

class	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
LMP1	Pedro Lamy	Stéphane Sarrazin	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	Overall victory
LMP2	Jos Verstappen	Jeroen Bleekemolen	Porsche RS Spyder	Rank 7
GT1	Antonio García	Tomáš Enge	Aston Martin DBR9	Rank 20
GT2	Rob Bell	Gianmaria Bruni	Ferrari F430 GTC	Rank 24

Racing data

• Registered: 49
• Started: 46
• Rated: 37
• Race classes: 4
• Spectators: 22,000
• Race day weather: dry and cloudy
• Route length: 5.137 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 5: 44: 58.174 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 195
• Total distance of the winning team: 1001.715 km
• Winner's average: 174.227 km / h
• Pole position: Marc Gené - Peugeot 908 HDi FAP (# 7) - 1: 39.492 = 185.876 km / h
• Fastest race lap: Nicolas Minassian - Peugeot 908 HDi FAP (# 7) - 1: 40.501 = 184.010 km / h
• Racing series: 4th round of the Le Mans Series 2008

literature

• Andrew Cotton, Michael Cotton, Alfredo Filippone, Thierry Jaglain, Olivier Loisy, Jean-Marc Teissèdre: 2008 Le Mans Series Yearbook Apollo Publishing, ISBN 978-2-9521044-1-8 .

Web links

• Race report at Classic Driver
• Results

Previous race 1000 km at Spa-Francorchamps 2008

Le Mans Series

Successor to the Silverstone 1000 km race in 2008