Monza 1000 km race 2007

Peugeot 908 HDi FAP 2007

The 36th 1000 km race of Monza , also 1000 km di Monza, Le Mans Series, Monza , took place on April 15, 2007 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza and was the first championship run of the Le Mans Series of that year.

The race

The Peugeot 908 HDi FAP made its racing debut in Monza . The two prototypes, powered by a 5.5-liter V12 diesel engine, were driven by Marc Gené , Nicolas Minassian , Pedro Lamy and Stéphane Sarrazin . Nicolas Minassian achieved pole position in the Peugeot in qualifying in a time of 1: 34.503 minutes, ahead of team-mate Stéphane Sarrazin. In the LMP2 class, Angel Burgueño placed his Lola B05 / 40 in 10th overall position. Among the GT1 cars, the ORECA team achieved the fastest time with 1: 45.443 minutes. Richard Lietz was able to set the best time in the GT2 for IMSA Performance Matmut, with 1: 50.381 minutes that was enough for 28th place overall.

In the race, the two Peugeots were able to break away from the rest of the field, the closest pursuers to Pedro Lamy and Marc Gené were Jean-Christophe Boullion in the Pescarolo Sport 07 from the team of Henri Pescarolo and Stefan Mücke in the Lola B07 / 17 from Charouz Racing. Before the two-hour mark, Pedro Lamy and Stéphane Sarrazin's Peugeot ran into technical problems and lost four laps in the pits. While the first two places had now been taken by the driver duo Nicolas Minassian / Marc Gené and Emmanuel Collard / Jean-Christophe Boullion, the second Peugeot overtook one opponent after the other and was able to move up to third place by the time it crossed the finish line, having meanwhile been overall 10 had fallen back.

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	LMP1	7th	Team Peugeot Total	Marc Gené Nicolas Minassian	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	173
2	LMP1	16	Pescarolo sport	Emmanuel Collard Jean-Christophe Boullion	Pescarolo Sport 07	172
3	LMP1	8th	Team Peugeot Total	Pedro Lamy Stéphane Sarrazin	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	171
4th	LMP1	17th	Pescarolo sport	Harold Primate Christophe Tinseau	Pescarolo Sport 07	170
5	LMP1	13	Courage Compétition	Jean-Marc Gounon Guillaume Moreau	Courage LC70	168
6th	LMP2	27	Horag Racing	Fredy Lienhard Didier Theys Eric van de Poele	Lola B05 / 40	165
7th	LMP1	18th	Rollcentre Racing	João Barbosa Phil Keen Stuart Hall	Pescarolo Sport 07	163
8th	LMP2	25th	RML	Thomas Erdos Mike Newton	MG Lola EX264	161
9	GT1	72	Alphand Aventures	Luc Alphand Jérôme Policand Patrice Goueslard	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	160
10	GT1	50	Aston Martin Larbre	Christophe Bouchut Gabriele Gardel Fabrizio Gollin	Aston Martin DBR9	159
11	GT1	73	Alphand Aventures	Jean-Luc Blanchemain Sébastien Dumez Vincent Vosse	Chevrolet Corvette C5-R	159
12	GT1	59	Team Modena	Antonio García Liz Halliday	Aston Martin DBR9	158
13	GT1	61	Racing box	Piergiuseppe Perazzini Marco Cioci Salvatore Tavano	Saleen S7-R	155
14th	GT2	97	GPC sport	Fabrizio De Simone Sergio Hernández Alessandro Bonetti	Ferrari F430 GT	154
15th	GT2	78	Scuderia Villorba	Alex Caffi Denny Zardo	Ferrari F430 GT	154
16	GT2	96	Virgo Motorsport	Rob Bell Allan Simonsen	Ferrari F430 GT	154
17th	GT2	81	Team LNT	Tom Kimber-Smith Danny Watts	Panoz Esperante GTLM	153
18th	GT2	83	GPC sport	Luca Drudi Gabrio Rosa Johnny Mowlem	Ferrari F430 GT	152
19th	GT2	76	Imsa performance	Raymond Narac Richard Lietz	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	152
20th	GT2	94	Speedy Racing Team	Andrea Belicchi Andrea Chiesa Jonny Kane	Spyker C8 Spyder GT2R	151
21st	GT2	77	Felbermayr Proton	Marc Lieb Xavier Pompidou	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	151
22nd	LMP1	12	Courage Compétition	Alexander Frei Jonathan Cochet	Courage LC70	150
23	LMP2	31	Binnie Motorsports	William Binnie Allen Timpany Chris Buncombe	Lola B05 / 40	150
24	GT2	92	Thierry Perrier	Philippe Hesnault Nigel Smith Anthony Beltoise	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	149
25th	LMP1	14th	Racing For Holland	Jan Lammers David Hart Jeroen Bleekemolen	Dome S101.5	146
26th	GT2	90	Farnbacher Racing	Dirk Werner Pierre Ehret Lars-Erik Nielsen	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	144
27	LMP2	35	Saulnier Racing	Jacques Nicolet Alain Filhol Bruce Jouanny	Courage LC75	143
28	GT2	79	Felbermayr Proton	Horst Felbermayr senior Gerold Ried Philip Collin	Porsche 996 GT3-RSR	143
29	LMP2	44	Kruse Motorsport	Tony Burgess Jean de Pourtales Norbert Siedler	Pescarolo Sport 07	139
30th	LMP1	15th	Charouz Racing	Jan Charouz Stefan Mücke	Lola B07 / 17	138
31	GT2	84	Chad Peninsula Panoz	John Hartshorne Sean McInerney Michael McInerney	Panoz Esperante GTLM	134
32	GT2	99	JMB Racing	Maurice Basso Bo McCormick Stéphane Daoudi	Ferrari F430 GT	133
33	LMP2	20th	Pierre Bruneau	Marc Rostan Pierre Bruneau Simon Pullan	Pilbeam MP93	125
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34	GT2	85	Spyker Squadron	Peter Kox Jaroslav Janiš	Spyker C8 Spyder GT2R	125
35	LMP1	19th	Chamberlain Synergy	Gareth Evans Bob Berridge Peter Owen	Lola B06 / 10	123
36	GT2	88	Felbermayr Proton	Christian Ried Horst Felbermayr junior Thomas Gruber	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	94
37	LMP2	40	Quifel ASM team	Miguel Amaral Miguel Ángel de Castro Angel Burgueño	Lola B05 / 40	90
38	LMP1	3	Scuderia Lavaggi	Giovanni Lavaggi Marcelo Puglisi	Lavaggi LS1	57
39	GT1	55	Team Oreca	Stéphane Ortelli Soheil Ayari	Saleen S7-R	52
40	LMP2	45	Embassy Racing	Warren Hughes Neil Cunningham	Radical SR9	49
41	GT2	95	James Watt	Paul Daniels Dave Cox Joël Camathias	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	43
42	GT2	82	Team LNT	Lucas Lasserre Richard Dean Lawrence Tomlinson	Panoz Esperante GTLM	38
43	GT2	89	Markland Racing	Kurt Thiim Thorkild Thyrring Henrik Møller Sørensen	Chevrolet Corvette C6 Z06	29
44	GT2	98	Ice Pol Racing Team	Yves Lambert Christian Lefort Frédéric Bouvy	Ferrari F430 GT	25th
45	GT1	51	Aston Martin Larbre	Gregor Fisken Steve Zacchia Gregory Franchi	Aston Martin DBR9	17th
46	LMP2	21st	Bruichladdich Radical	Tim Greaves Stuart Moseley	Radical SR9	3
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47	LMP2	32	Barazi Epsilon	Juan Barazi Karim Ojjeh Michael Vergers	Zytek 07S	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
48	LMP1	5	Swiss Spirit	Jean-Denis Delétraz Marcel Fässler Iradj Alexander	Lola B07 / 10
49	LMP1	10	Arena International Motorsport	Hayanari Shimoda Tom Chilton	Zytek 07S
50	LMP2	23	Noël del Bello Racing		Courage LC75

Class winner

class	driver	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
LMP1	Marc Gené	Nicolas Minassian		Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	Overall victory
LMP2	Fredy Lienhard	Didier Theys	Eric van de Poele	Lola B05 / 40	Rank 6
GT1	Luc Alphand	Jérôme Policand	Patrice Goueslard	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Rank 9
GT2	Fabrizio De Simone	Sergio Hernández	Alessandro Bonetti	Ferrari F430 GT	Rank 14

Racing data

• Registered: 50
• Started: 46
• Rated: 33
• Race classes: 4
• Spectator: unknown
• Weather on race day: unknown
• Route length: 5.793 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 4: 59: 20.735 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 173
• Total distance of the winning team: 1002.189 km
• Winner's average: 200.876 km / h
• Pole position: Nicolas Minassian - Peugeot 908 HDi FAP (# 7) - 1: 34.503
• Fastest race lap: Pedro Lamy - Peugeot 908 HDi FAP (# 8) - 1: 36.500
• Racing series: 1st round of the 2007 Le Mans Series

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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