Spa-Francorchamps 1000 km race in 2009

Peugeot 908 HDi FAP with starting number 7. Winner car from Nicolas Minassian , Simon Pagenaud and Christian Klien

Bruce Jouanny's Pescarolo 01 in an accident

The 26th 1000 km race of Spa-Francorchamps , also 1000 KM of Spa (Le Mans Series), Spa-Francorchamps , took place on May 10, 2009 in Spa-Francorchamps and was the second round of the Le Mans Series of this year .

The race

In 2009, the works teams from Peugeot and Audi largely refrained from participating in the Le Mans Series. While the Joest team the new Audi R15 TDI in the American Le Mans Series began, the Peugeot team focused almost exclusively on the 24-hour race at Le Mans , where they finally wanted to create the overall victory with a double victory also import . The endurance race on the Spa circuit served the French team as preparation for the 24-hour race in western France.

In qualifying training, the guest starters from Peugeot secured the front row, with Simon Pagenaud in the Peugeot 908 HDi FAP with the number 7 and Alexander Wurz in the car with the number 9 only 27/1000 seconds apart. Paugenaud lapped the course in a time of 2: 01.056 minutes. The fastest lap times in the LMP2 and GT1 class also went to guest starters with Casper Elgaard in the Porsche RS Spyder Evo and Alexander Müller in the Aston Martin DBR9 . In the GT2, Marc Lieb , who drove a Porsche 997 GT3 RSR , drove to the top of his category and finished his best lap with 2: 21.870 minutes.

On the first lap there was a collision between Darren Turner in the Lola Aston Martin DBR1 and Jean-Christophe Boullion in the Pescarolo 01 from Henri Pescarolo's team , which threw both cars back to the end of the field. Right from the start, the two Peugeot vehicles led in front of the factory Oreca 01 with Bruno Senna at the wheel. 10 minutes after the start of the race, Senna had to go to the pit with a burst tire. Since there were a lot of rubber parts on the track, the safety car had to go out onto the slopes. After the restart, David Brabham collided with the Ibanez Racing LMP2 in the second-placed Peugeot. Brabham had to pit for repairs and later received a stop-and-go penalty for pushing the competitor away. A few minutes later Bruce Jouanny hit the road barrier in the second factory Pescarolo in the Raidillon and damaged the car considerably. The safety car was used again.

At half time, Simon Pagenaud led the Peugeot. The accident of a GT2 Ferrari brought the safety car onto the track again, but this did not affect the overall victory. Simon Pagenaud, Nicolas Minassian and Christian Klien won with a start-to-finish victory for Peugeot.

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	LMP1	7th	Team Peugeot Total	Nicolas Minassian Simon Pagenaud Christian Klien	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	143
2	LMP1	16	Pescarolo sport	Jean-Christophe Boullion Christophe Tinseau	Pescarolo 01	143
3	LMP1	007	Aston Martin Racing	Stefan Mücke Jan Charouz Tomáš Enge	Lola Aston Martin DBR1	142
4th	LMP1	11	Team Oreca Matmut - AIM	Nicolas Lapierre Olivier Panis	Oreca 01	142
5	LMP1	009	Aston Martin Racing	Darren Turner Miguel Ramos Harold Primate	Lola Aston Martin DBR1	142
6th	LMP1	14th	Kolles	Andrew Meyrick Narain Karthikeyan Charles Zwolsman Junior	Audi R10 TDI	141
7th	LMP1	15th	Kolles	Christijan Albers Christian Bakkerud Giorgio Mondini	Audi R10 TDI	139
8th	LMP2	31	Team Essex	Emmanuel Collard Casper Elgaard Kristian Poulsen	Porsche RS Spyder Evo	139
9	LMP2	33	Speedy Racing Team Sebah	Xavier Pompidou Benjamin Leuenberger Jonny Kane	Lola B08 / 80	139
10	LMP2	13	Speedy Racing Team Sebah	Marcel Fässler Nicolas Prost Andrea Belicchi	Lola B08 / 80	139
11	LMP1	12	Signature Plus	Franck Mailleux Pierre Ragues	Courage-Oreca LC70	138
12	LMP1	9	Team Peugeot Total	Marc Gené Alexander Wurz David Brabham	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	136
13	GT1	72	Luc Alphand Aventures	Patrice Goueslard Luc Alphand Yann Clairay	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	132
14th	LMP2	35	Oak Racing	Karim Ajlani Matthieu Lahaye	Pescarolo 01	132
15th	GT1	55	IPB Spartak Racing	Peter Kox Erik Janiš Filip Salaquarda	Lamborghini Murciélago R-GT	131
16	LMP1	22nd	Team LNT	Guy Smith Robbie Kerr Lawrence Tomlinson	Ginetta-Zytek GZ09S	130
17th	LMP1	23	Strakka Racing	Peter Hardman Nick Leventis Danny Watts	Ginetta-Zytek GZ09S	129
18th	GT2	77	Team Felbermayr - Proton	Marc Lieb Richard Lietz Horst Felbermayr senior	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	129
19th	GT2	84	Team Modena	Jaime Melo Leo Mansell Antonio García	Ferrari F430 GTC	129
20th	GT2	92	JMW Motorsport	Gianmaria Bruni Rob Bell	Ferrari F430 GTC	128
21st	GT2	90	FBR	Pierre Ehret Dominik Farnbacher	Ferrari F430 GTC	128
22nd	GT2	85	Snora's Spyker Squadron	Tom Coronel Peter Dumbreck	Spyker C8 Laviolette GT2-R	128
23	GT2	76	IMSA Performance Matmut	Patrick Pilet Raymond Narac	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	127
24	LMP2	38	Pegasus Racing	Julien Schell Philippe Thirion	Courage-Oreca LC75	127
25th	GT2	87	Drayson Racing	Jonathan Cocker Paul Drayson	Aston Martin V8 Vantage GT2	126
26th	GT2	96	Virgo Motorsport	Michael Vergers Sean McInerney Michael McInerney	Ferrari F430 GTC	125
27	GT2	78	Advanced engineering	Matt Griffin Peter Bamford	Ferrari F430 GTC	124
28	GT2	94	Prospeed Competition	Markus Palttala Paul Daniels	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	124
29	LMP2	39	KSM	Hideki Noda Francesco Sini Matthew Marsh	Lola B07 / 46	115
30th	GT1	66	Jetalliance	Alexander Müller Lukas Lichtner-Hoyer Thomas Gruber	Aston Martin DBR9	113
31	GT2	88	Team Felbermayr - Proton	Christian Ried Horst Felbermayr junior Francisco Cruz Martins	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	112
32	LMP2	37	WR Salini	Tristan Gommendy Philippe Salini Stéphane Salini	WR LMP 2008	110
33	LMP2	40	Quifel - ASM team	Olivier Pla Miguel Amaral	Ginetta-Zytek GZ09S / 2	101
Not classified
34	GT2	79	Engineering tab	Christophe Bouchut Albert von Thurn and Taxis	Lamborghini Gallardo LP560	99
35	LMP2	53	Q8 Oils Hache team	Máximo Cortés Chavarri Pierre Combot Nile Montserrat	Lucchini LMP2-08	88
36	LMP1	3	Scuderia Lavaggi	Giovanni Lavaggi Wolfgang Kaufmann	Lavaggi LS1	49
Disqualified
37	LMP2	29	Racing box	Filippo Francioni Andrea Ceccato Giacomo Piccini	Lola B08 / 80	137
38	LMP2	32	Team Barazi - Epsilon	Fernando Rees Juan Barazi	Zytek 07S / 2	134
39	LMP2	26th	Bruichladdich Bruneau	Tim Greaves Pierre Bruneau Jonathan Coleman	Radical SR9	129
Disqualified
40	LMP1	10	Team Oreca Matmut - AIM	Bruno Senna Stéphane Ortelli	Oreca 01	129
41	GT2	89	Hankook - Team Farnbacher	Pierre Kaffer Allan Simonsen	Ferrari F430 GTC	110
42	LMP2	41	GAC Racing Team	Philipp Peter Claude-Yves Gosselin Karim Ojjeh	Zytek 07S / 2	80
43	GT2	81	Easyrace	Giampaolo Tenchini Maurice Basso Roberto Plati	Ferrari F430 GTC	75
44	GT2	99	JMB Racing	Manuel Rodrigues John Hartshorne Plamen Kralev	Ferrari F430 GTC	57
45	LMP1	17th	Pescarolo sport	Bruce Jouanny João Barbosa	Pescarolo 01	53
46	GT2	91	FBR	Andrea Montermini Giacomo Petrobelli Gabrio Rosa	Ferrari F430 GTC	53
47	LMP2	25th	RML	Thomas Erdos Mike Newton	Lola B08 / 80	47
48	LMP2	28	Ibanez Racing Service	William Cavailhes José Ibanez Frédéric Da Rocha	Courage LC75	41
49	LMP2	42	Ranieri Randaccio	Ranieri Randaccio Glauco Solieri	Lucchini LMP2-08	35
50	LMP2	30th	Racing box	Andrea Piccini Matteo Bobbi Thomas Biagi	Lola B08 / 80	7th
Not started
51	LMP2	24	Oak Racing	Jacques Nicolet Richard Hein Shinji Nakano	Pescarolo 01	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
52	LMP2	27	Horag Racing	Didier Theys	Porsche RS Spyder
53	GT1	51	ARC Bratislava - Kaneko Racing	Sean Edwards Andrej Studenic Miro Konôpka Stéphane Lémeret Olivier Muytjens	Saleen S7-R
54	GT2	93	James Watt Automotive		Aston Martin V8 Vantage GT2
54	GT2	95	James Watt Automotive		Aston Martin V8 Vantage GT2
55	GT2	98	JMB Racing		Ferrari F430 GTC

Class winner

class	driver	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
LMP1	Nicolas Minassian	Simon Pagenaud	Christian Klien	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	Overall victory
LMP2	Emmanuel Collard	Casper Elgaard	Kristian Poulsen	Porsche RS Spyder Evo	Rank 8
GT1	Patrice Goueslard	Luc Alphand	Yann Clairay	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	Rank 13
GT2	Marc Lieb	Richard Lietz	Horst Felbermayr senior	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Rank 18

Racing data

• Registered: 55
• Started: 50
• Rated: 33
• Race classes: 4
• Spectators: 30,000
• Race day weather: cool and dry
• Route length: 7.004 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 5:45: 35.429 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 143
• Total distance of the winning team: 1001.572 km
• Winner's average: 173.889 km / h
• Pole position: Simon Pagenaud - Peugeot 908 HDi FAP (# 7) - 2: 01.056 = 208.287 km / h
• Fastest race lap: Nicolas Minassian - Peugeot 908 HDi FAP (# 7) - 2: 02.569 = 205.716 km / h
• Racing series: 2nd round of the Le Mans Series 2009

literature

• Cécile Bonardel, Michael Cotton, Marc Laffeas, Olivier Loisy, Jean-Marc Teissèdre: 2009 Le Mans Series Yearbook Apollo Publishing, ISBN 978-2-9521044-4-9 .

Web links

Commons : Spa-Francorchamps 1000 km race 2009  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

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