2008 Monza 1000km race

Peugeot 908 HDi FAP 2008

The 37th 1000 km race in Monza , also 1000 KM di Monza, Le Mans Series, Monza , took place on April 27, 2008 at the Autodromo Nazionale Monza and was the second championship run of the Le Mans Series of this year.

The race

As at the season opening in Barcelona , the two Peugeot prototypes secured the front row of the grid in qualifying . With a time of 1: 31.470 minutes, Nicolas Minassian lapped the track fastest in the Peugeot 908 HDi FAP with starting number 8.

The race was overshadowed by the serious accident of Stéphane Ortelli from Monaco in the Courage-Oreca LC70 . Almost an hour before the end of the race, the rear wing of the car broke at more than 300 km / h when approaching the Rettifilo chicane. The vehicle swerved to the right, vented, and took off. After several overturns - the Audi R10 TDI , in which Allan McNish was sitting at the time , the Oreca missed by only centimeters - the completely destroyed wreck got caught on a boundary fence. Ortelli was able to get out of the wreck himself and, besides bruises, only had to complain about a broken ankle.

Right from the start, the two Peugeot led in the order Marc Gené before Stéphane Sarrazin . In third place, Rinaldo Capello drove in the Audi with the number 1, which had to pits after just 15 minutes because of a punctured tire. As a result, an intense three-way battle between the two Peugeot and the Audi of Alexandre Prémat and Mike Rockenfeller developed , which became a duel because Nicolas Minassian in the Peugeot with the number 7 lost a lot of time in the pits after a problem with the drive shaft. The Ortelli accident triggered a lengthy safety car phase . Then Pedro Lamy and Mike Rockenfeller fought a tough duel for the lead. There were several tight overtaking maneuvers that ultimately ended in a collision. Both vehicles had to head for the pits; Rockenfeller for repairs and Lamy for serving a stop-and-go penalty , as the race management identified him as the culprit in the vehicle collision. Since the repair work on the Audi took longer than the penalty stop at Peugeot, Lamy won in the end with a lead of 45 seconds over Rockenfeller in the Audi. It was the eighth consecutive victory for a Peugeot 908 HDi FAP in a Le Mans Series race.

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	LMP1	8th	Team Peugeot Total	Pedro Lamy Stéphane Sarrazin	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	173
2	LMP1	2	Audi Sport Team Joest	Alexandre Prémat Mike Rockenfeller	Audi R10 TDI	173
3	LMP1	17th	Pescarolo sport	Harold Primate Christophe Tinseau	Pescarolo 01	169
4th	LMP1	15th	Creation AIM	Robbie Kerr Bruce Jouanny Stuart Hall	Creation CA07	169
5	LMP1	7th	Team Peugeot Total	Marc Gené Nicolas Minassian	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	167
6th	LMP1	1	Audi Sport Team Joest	Rinaldo Capello Allan McNish	Audi R10 TDI	166
7th	LMP1	18th	Rollcentre Racing	Duncan Tappy Vanina Ickx Martin Short	Pescarolo 01	166
8th	LMP2	31	Team Essex	Casper Elgaard John Nielsen	Porsche RS Spyder	165
9	LMP2	34	Van Merksteijn Motorsport VAN	Peter van Merksteijn senior Jos Verstappen	Porsche RS Spyder	165
10	LMP2	27	Horag Racing	Didier Theys Fredy Lienhard Jan Lammers	Porsche RS Spyder	164
11	LMP2	25th	RML	Thomas Erdos Mike Newton	MG Lola EX265	164
12	LMP2	35	Saulnier Racing	Pierre Ragues Matthieu Lahaye	Pescarolo 01	163
13	LMP1	44	Kruse Schiller Motorsport	Hideki Noda Jean de Pourtales	Lola B05 / 40	162
14th	LMP2	40	Quifel ASM team	Olivier Pla Miguel Amaral	Lola B05 / 40	161
15th	GT1	59	Team Modena	Antonio García Tomáš Enge	Aston Martin DBR9	159
16	GT1	72	Luc Alphand Aventures	Olivier Beretta Guillaume Moreau Patrice Goueslard	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	159
17th	LMP1	10	Charouz Racing System	Stefan Mücke Jan Charouz	Lola B08 / 60	158
18th	LMP2	45	Embassy Racing	Warren Hughes Mario Haberfeld	WF01	155
19th	GT1	73	Luc Alphand Aventures	Jean-Luc Blanchemain Sébastien Dumez Patrice Manopoulos	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	155
20th	GT1	55	IPB Spartak Racing	Peter Kox Roman Rusinov	Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT	153
21st	GT2	91	Farnbacher Racing	Richard Westbrook Lars-Erik Nielsen Allan Simonsen	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	151
22nd	LMP2	33	Speedy Racing Team Sebah	Xavier Pompidou Andrea Belicchi Steve Zacchia	Lola B08 / 80	151
23	GT2	90	Farnbacher Racing	Pierre Kaffer Pierre Ehret	Ferrari F430 GTC	151
24	GT2	99	JMB Racing	Stéphane Daoudi Ben Aucott	Ferrari F430 GTC	150
25th	GT2	94	Speedy Racing Team	Andrea Chiesa Benjamin Leuenberger	Spyker C8 Laviolette GT2R	147
26th	GT2	98	JMB Racing	Peter Kutemann Bo McCormick Mauro Casadei	Ferrari F430 GTC	146
27	GT2	77	Felbermayr-Proton team	Marc Lieb Alex Davison	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	141
28	GT2	95	James Watt Automotive	Paul Daniels Markus Palttala Tim Sugden	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	135
Not classified
29	GT2	85	Snora's Spyker Squadron	Peter Dumbreck Ralf Kellener's Alex Vassiliev	Spyker C8 Laviolette GT2R	149
Disqualified
30th	GT2	76	Imsa Performance Matmut	Richard Lietz Raymond Narac	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	152
Failed
31	LMP2	46	Embassy Racing	Jonny Kane Joey Foster	WF01	146
32	LMP1	4th	Saulnier Racing	Marc Faggionato Jacques Nicolet Richard Hein	Pescarolo 01	134
33	LMP1	5	Team Oreca Matmut	Stéphane Ortelli Soheil Ayari	Courage-Oreca LC70	130
34	LMP1	16	Pescarolo sport	Jean-Christophe Boullion Emmanuel Collard	Pescarolo 01	121
35	GT2	96	Virgo Motorsport	Rob Bell Gianmaria Bruni	Ferrari F430 GTC	119
36	LMP2	32	Barazi Epsilon	Michael Vergers Juan Barazi Fernando Rees	Zytek 07S	116
37	LMP2	30th	Racing box	Filippo Francioni Marco Didao	Lucchini LMP2-08	115
38	LMP2	41	Trading performance	Claude-Yves Gosselin Karim Ojjeh Julian Schroyen	Zytek 07S	94
39	GT2	75	Imsa Performance Matmut	Jean-Philippe Belloc Richard Balandras Michel Lecourt	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	86
40	LMP1	20th	Epsilon Euskadi	Angel Burgueño Miguel Ángel de Castro	Epsilon Euskadi ee1	73
41	LMP2	37	WR Salini	Stéphane Salini Philippe Salini Patrice Roussel	WR LMP 2008	71
42	LMP1	6th	Team Oreca Matmut	Olivier Panis Nicolas Lapierre	Courage-Oreca LC70	27
43	GT2	88	Felbermayr-Proton team	Horst Felbermayr junior Christian Ried Horst Felbermayr senior	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	22nd
44	LMP2	26th	Bruichladdich Radical	Jens Petersen Marc Rostan Jan-Dirk Lueders	Radical SR9	6th
Not started
45	LMP1	14th	Creation AIM	Jamie Campbell-Walter Stuart Hall	Creation CA07	1

¹ accident in training

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
46	LMP1	12	Charouz Racing System	Greg Pickett Klaus Graf	Lola B07 / 17
47	LMP1	19th	Chamberlain Synergy	Bob Berridge Gareth Evans Amanda Stretton	Lola B06 / 10
48	LMP1	21st	Epsilon Euskadi		Epsilon Euskadi ee1
49	GT1	50	Larbre Compétition	Christophe Bouchut Frédéric Makowiecki Patrick Bornhauser	Saleen S7-R
50	GT2	93	James Watt Automotive	Alan van der Merwe Stéphane Lémeret Michael Outzen	Aston Martin V8 Vantage GT2

Class winner

class	driver	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
LMP1	Pedro Lamy	Stéphane Sarrazin		Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	Overall victory
LMP2	Casper Elgaard	John Nielsen		Porsche RS Spyder	Rank 8
GT1	Antonio García	Tomáš Enge		Aston Martin DBR9	Rank 15
GT2	Richard Westbrock	Lars-Erik Nielsen	Allan Simonsen	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Rank 21

Racing data

• Registered: 50
• Started: 44
• Rated: 28
• Race classes: 4
• Spectator: unknown
• Race day weather: warm and dry
• Route length: 5.793 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 4: 59: 07.955 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 173
• Total distance of the winning team: 1002.189 km
• Winner's average: 201.019 km / h
• Pole position: Nicolas Minassian - Peugeot 908 HDi FAP (# 7) - 1: 31.470 = 227.996 km / h
• Fastest race lap: Nicolas Minassian - Peugeot 908 HDi FAP (# 7) - 1: 32.449 = 225.852 km / h
• Racing series: 2nd 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

• Results

Individual evidence

1. ↑ The Ortelli accident

Previous race of the 1000 km of Catalonia 2008

Le Mans Series

Successor race 1000 km at Spa-Francorchamps 2008