Spa-Francorchamps 1000 km race 2007

The precipitated by a wheel bearing damage Peugeot 908 HDi FAP of Marc Gene and Nicolas Minassian at the start and finish line

The 24th 1000 km race of Spa-Francorchamps , also 1000 km of Spa, Le Mans Series, Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps , took place on August 19, 2007 in Spa-Francorchamps and was the fourth round of the Le Mans Series of this Year.

The race

As in the first three championship races of the season, the two diesel- powered Peugeot 908 HDi FAPs were the favorites for overall victory in Spa . The Le Mans prototypes were driven by Marc Gené , Nicolas Minassian , Pedro Lamy and Stéphane Sarrazin . Nicolas Minassian was able to achieve the fastest lap time in qualifying and with a time of 2: 00.105 minutes he failed just barely at the 2-minute mark. It was the fourth pole position in a row for the Peugeot team with starting number 7. Once again, the gap between the competition and the two Peugeot was enormous. Stefan Mücke was four seconds slower in the third-placed Lola B07 / 17 on his fastest lap.

The race was decided by a defective wheel bearing on the Peugeot from Gené and Minassian, who had to park the car in the pits at an early stage of the race. As a result, teammates Lamy and Sarrazin celebrated their third overall victory in a row.

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	LMP1	8th	Team Peugeot Total	Pedro Lamy Stéphane Sarrazin	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	143
2	LMP1	16	Pescarolo sport	Emmanuel Collard Jean-Christophe Boullion	Pescarolo Sport 07	141
3	LMP2	25th	RML	Thomas Erdos Mike Newton	MG Lola EX264	140
4th	LMP1	17th	Pescarolo sport	Harold Primate Christophe Tinseau	Pescarolo Sport 07	138
5	LMP2	40	Quifel ASM team	Miguel Amaral Miguel Ángel de Castro Angel Burgueño	Lola B05 / 40	137
6th	GT1	55	Team Oreca	Stéphane Ortelli Soheil Ayari	Saleen S7-R	137
7th	LMP2	27	Horag Racing	Frey Lienhard Didier Theys Eric van de Poele	Lola B05 / 40	136
8th	GT1	50	AMR Larbre	Christophe Bouchut Gabriele Gardel Fabrizio Gollin	Aston Martin DBR9	136
9	GT1	72	Alphand Aventures	Jérôme Policand Patrice Goueslard Luc Alphand	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	134
10	GT1	59	Team Modena	Antonio García Christian Fittipaldi	Aston Martin DBR9	134
11	LMP2	35	Saulnier Racing	Jacques Nicolet Alain Filhol Bruce Jouanny	Courage LC75	133
12	LMP1	18th	Rollcentre Racing	João Barbosa Stuart Hall Martin Short	Pescarolo Sport 07	133
13	GT1	65	Jetalliance Racing	Karl Wendlinger Thomas Gruber Lukas Lichtner-Hoyer	Aston Martin DBR9	132
14th	LMP2	31	Binnie Motorsports	William Binnie Allen Timpany Chris Buncombe	Lola B05 / 40	132
15th	LMP1	19th	Chamberlain Synergy	Gareth Evans Bob Berridge Peter Owen	Lola B06 / 10	132
16	LMP1	9	Creation Autosportif	Jamie Campbell-Walter Felipe Ortiz Shinji Nakano	Creation CA07	130
17th	GT2	77	Felbermayr proton	Marc Lieb Xavier Pompidou	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	130
18th	GT2	96	Virgo Motorsport	Rob Bell Allan Simonsen	Ferrari F430 GT	129
19th	GT2	97	GPC sport	Alessandro Bonetti Fabrizio De Simone Sergio Hernández	Ferrari F430 GT	128
20th	GT2	90	Farnbacher Racing	Dirk Werner Pierre Ehret Lars-Erik Nielsen	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	128
21st	GT1	51	AMR Larbre	Gregor Fisken Steve Zacchia Gregory Franchi	Aston Martin DBR9	126
22nd	GT2	78	Scuderia Villorba	Alex Caffi Denny Zardo	Ferrari F430 GT	126
23	GT2	98	Ice Pol Racing Team	Yves Lambert Christian Lefort Stéphane Lémeret	Ferrari F430 GT	126
24	GT2	88	Felbermayr proton	Christian Ried Horst Felbermayr junior Marc Basseng	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	126
25th	LMP1	15th	Charouz Racing	Stefan Mücke Jan Charouz	Lola B07 / 17	125
26th	GT2	94	Speedy Racing Team	Andrea Belicchi Andrea Chiesa Jonny Kane	Spyker C8 Spyder GT2R	124
27	GT2	80	Prospeed Competition	Rudi Penders Franz Lamot Bart Couwberghs	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	123
28	GT2	99	JMB Racing	Maurice Basso Bo McCormick Peter Kutemann	Ferrari F430 GT	122
29	GT2	95	James Watt	Paul Daniels Dave Cox Joël Camathias	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	120
30th	GT2	79	Felbermayr proton	Horst Felbermayr senior Gerold Ried Philip Collin	Porsche 996 GT3-RSR	112
31	LPM2	45	Embassy Racing	Warren Hughes Darren Manning	Radical SR9	110
Not classified
32	LPM2	26th	Ranieri Randaccio	Ranieri Randaccio Gianni Collini	Lucchini LMP2-04	97
Failed
33	LMP2	32	Barazi Epsilon	Juan Barazi Michael Vergers Karim Ojjeh	Zytek 07S	125
34	GT2	83	GPC sport	Luca Drudi Johnny Mowlem Gabrio Rosa	Ferrari F430 GT	113
35	GT2	85	Spyker Squadron	Jaroslav Janiš Peter Kox	Spyker C8 Spyder GT2R	108
36	GT2	76	Imsa performance	Raymond Narac Richard Lietz	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	83
37	LMP2	21st	Bruichladdich Radical	Stuart Moseley Tim Greaves	Radical SR9	81
38	GT2	84	Chad Peninsula Panoz	John Hartshorne Sean McInerney	Panoz Esperante GTLM	66
39	GT2	81	Team LNT	Tom Kimber-Smith Danny Watts	Panoz Esperante GTLM	58
40	GT2	82	Team LNT	Lawrence Tomlinson Richard Dean	Panoz Esperante GTLM	58
41	GT1	73	Alphand Aventures	Jean-Luc Blanchemain Sébastien Dumez Vincent Vosse	Chevrolet Corvette C5-R	53
42	LMP1	3	Scuderia Lavaggi	Giovanni Lavaggi Wolfgang Kaufmann	Lavaggi LS1	49
43	LMP2	44	Kruse Motorsport	Jean de Pourtales Norbert Siedler	Pescarolo Sport 07	46
44	LMP2	20th	Pierre Bruneau	Marc Rostan Pierre Bruneau Simon Pullan	Pilbeam MP93	37
45	LMP1	10	Arena motorsport	Stefan Johansson Hayanari Shimoda	Zytek 07S	33
46	LMP1	7th	Team Peugeot Total	Marc Gené Nicolas Minassian	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	32
47	GT1	61	Racing box	Piergiuseppe Perazzini Marco Cioci Kurt Mollekens	Saleen S7-R	29
48	GT2	89	Markland Racing	Kurt Thiim Thorkild Thyrring	Chevrolet Corvette C6 Z06	25th
49	LMP1	13	Courage Compétition	Jean-Marc Gounon Guillaume Moreau Vitaly Petrov	Courage LC70	23
50	LMP1	12	Courage Compétition	Alexander Frei Jonathan Cochet	Courage LC70	15th

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	Courage LC75
53	LMP2	29	T2M motorsport	Robin Longechal Yutaka Yamagishi	Dome S101.5
54	GT1	60	JMT Racing Team	Wolfgang Kaufmann Fabrice Walfish	Porsche 996 GT2-R
55	GT2	92	Thierry Perrier	Philippe Hesnault Nigel Smith Anthony Beltoise	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR

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 3
GT1	Stéphane Ortelli	Soheil Ayari	Saleen S7-R	Rank 6
GT2	Marc Lieb	Xavier Pompidou	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Rank 17

Racing data

• Registered: 55
• Started: 50
• Rated: 31
• Race classes: 4
• Spectator: unknown
• Race day weather: warm and dry, with light showers in between
• Route length: 7.004 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 5: 47: 47.313 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 143
• Total distance of the winning team: 1001.572 km
• Winner's average: 172.790 km / h
• Pole position: Nicolas Minassian - Peugeot 908 HDi FAP (# 7) - 2: 00.105
• Fastest race lap: Pedro Lamy - Peugeot 908 HDi FAP (# 8) - 2: 03.316 = 204.470 km / h
• Racing series: 4th 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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Le Mans Series

Successor to the Silverstone 1000 km race in 2007