Spa-Francorchamps 1000 km race 2010

Peugeot 908 HDi FAP with starting number 3; Winning car from Pedro Lamy , Sébastien Bourdais and Simon Pagenaud

The Audi R15 TDI (start number 9) with Romain Dumas at the wheel in the pit lane

Olivier Panis had an accident in the Oreca- Peugeot 908HDi FAP on lap four after a collision in the Eau Rouge

Vanina Ickx in the Lola Aston Martin DBR1

The 27th 1000 km race of Spa-Francorchamps , also 1000 km de Spa Francorchamps, Spa-Francorchamps , took place on May 9, 2010 in Spa-Francorchamps and was the second round of the Le Mans Series of this year.

Before the race

As in previous years, the 1000 km race at Spa-Francorchamps was used by the works teams from Peugeot and Audi as a preparatory race for the 24 Hours of Le Mans . For Peugeot, Pedro Lamy , Sébastien Bourdais and Simon Pagenaud drove the 908 HDi FAP with the number 3. Franck Montagny , Stéphane Sarrazin and Nicolas Minassian were registered for the car with the number 2 . Due to health problems, Minassian could not compete on race day, so the two remaining drivers had to contest the race as a team of two in accordance with the regulations. The third Peugeot was driven by Marc Gené , Alexander Wurz and Anthony Davidson . Gené and Wurz won the Le Mans 24-hour race for Peugeot in 2009 with David Brabham as the third driver. Brabham, who had a Honda contract and drove Acura prototypes in the American Le Mans Series , was released from the races at Spa and Le Mans last year . In 2010, he was refused entry for Peugeot. That is how Anthony Davidson came into the team. A fourth 908 was used by Oreca in 2010 and driven by Olivier Panis , Nicolas Lapierre and Loïc Duval .

Also Joest Racing announced three police cars. Tom Kristensen started with his regular partners Allan McNish and Rinaldo Capello in the Audi R15 TDI . Timo Bernhard and Romain Dumas , both Porsche factory drivers and on loan to the Group's sister company Audi, drove the Audi with the number 9 together with Mike Rockenfeller . André Lotterer , Benoît Tréluyer and Marcel Fässler formed a new trio in the car with the number 8.

The race

Sébastien Bourdais achieved the fastest training time in the Peugeot with the number 3, who drove a time of 1: 57.884 minutes in qualifying with an average speed of 213.892 km / h. The actual race started turbulent. At the start of the warm-up lap , all vehicles had slick tires when light rain set in and surprised the drivers as they approached the Le Combes and Malmedy sections. André Lotterer, who started the race from fifth place on the grid in the Audi R15 TDI, slid off the track while warming up the tires to Le Combes and hit the piles of tires first with the rear and then with the front of the car. Olivier Panis also spun in the Oreca-Peugeot, but the car fell by the wayside and Panis was able to regain fourth place on the grid. While the race management sent the field into the 1000 km distance by means of an Indianapolis start , Lotterer in the Audi came slowly to the pits for emergency repairs.

The first accident occurred after a few meters. Pedro Lamy was in the lead in front of Olivier Panis and Allan McNish in the best Audi when it began to rain heavier in the Eau Rouge , which is why Filippo Francioni , who was driving at the bottom of the field in the Lola B09 / 80 , crashed into the tire wall after a spin when exiting the corner . The marshals recovered the wreck in such a short time that the safety car only stayed three laps on the track. On the fourth lap, immediately after the end of the safety car phase, another accident happened in the Eau Rouge. Jean-Christophe Boullion met in Lola B10 / 60 of Rebellion Racing at the curve exit the Oreca Peugoet Olivier Panis in the rear, which thereby slid off the track and struck in the safety barriers. While Boullion could continue with the Lola, Panis had to give up.

In the first two hours of the race, Allan McNish was leading the Audi ahead of the Peugeots with the numbers 2 and 3. Just before half of the race, Stéphane Sarrazin had a collision at Stavelot while lapping. With a damage to the stern, he drove back to the pits. Fortunately for the Peugeot team, the race was stopped with the red flag almost at the same time, as the power went out on the entire route. When the race resumed after a long break, the Peugeot, now driven by Franck Montagny, had only lost half a lap. The decision about overall victory was made after the final safety car phase, which was necessary after Christoffer Nygaard's accident in the Aston Martin DBR9 in Blanchimont. After the race was approved, light rain set in again and Simon Pagenaud drove Tom Kristensen up and away in the Audi. Kristensen had problems keeping the Audi on the damp track. Four minutes before the end of the race, he was overtaken by Stéphane Sarrazin in a Peugeot, who despite his accident with partner Montagny still finished second overall. Victory went to the number 3 works Peugeot, driven by Lamy, Bourdais and Pagenaud.

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	LMP1	3	Team Peugeot Total	Pedro Lamy Sébastien Bourdais Simon Pagenaud	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	139
2	LMP1	2	Team Peugeot Total	Franck Montagny Stéphane Sarrazin	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	139
3	LMP1	7th	Audi Sport Team Joest	Allan McNish Rinaldo Capello Tom Kristensen	Audi R15 TDI	139
4th	LMP1	1	Team Peugeot Total	Marc Gené Anthony Davidson Alexander Wurz	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	138
5	LMP1	9	Audi Sport North America	Timo Bernhard Romain Dumas Mike Rockenfeller	Audi R15 TDI	137
6th	LMP2	40	Quifel ASM team	Olivier Pla Miguel Amaral	Ginetta-Zytek 09S	130
7th	LMP2	25th	RML	Thomas Erdos Mike Newton Andy Wallace	Lola B08 / 80	130
8th	LMP2	35	OAK Racing	Richard Hein Guillaume Moreau	Pescarolo 01 Evo	129
9	LMP2	24	OAK Racing	Matthieu Lahaye Jacques Nicolet	Pescarolo 01 Evo	128
10	LMP2	30th	Racing box	Ferdinando Geri Andrea Piccini Giacomo Piccini	Lola B09 / 80	128
11	LMP1	13	Rebellion Racing	Jean-Christophe Boullion Andrea Belicchi	Lola B10 / 60	127
12	LMP1	8th	Audi Sport Team Joest	André Lotterer Benoît Tréluyer Marcel Fässler	Audi R15 TDI	126
13	LMP1	008	Signature Plus	Franck Mailleux Vanina Ickx Pierre Ragues	Lola Aston Martin DBR1	125
14th	FLM	47	Hope Polevision Racing	Wolfgang Kaufmann Steve Zacchia Luca Moro	Oreca FLM09	124
15th	GT2	77	Team Felbermayr Proton	Richard Lietz Marc Lieb	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	124
16	LMP2	36	Pegasus Racing	Julien Schell Jean-Christophe Metz Frédéric Da Rocha	Courage-Oreca LC75	123
17th	GT1	70	Marc VDS Racing Team	Bas Leinders Markus Palttala Eric de Doncker	Ford GT	123
18th	FLM	45	Boutsen Energy Racing	Dominik Kraihamer Nicolas De Crem Bernard Delhez	Oreca FLM09	123
19th	GT2	96	AF Corse	Jaime Melo Gianmaria Bruni	Ferrari F430 GTC	123
20th	GT2	95	AF Corse	Jean Alesi Toni Vilander Giancarlo Fisichella	Ferrari F430 GTC	231
21st	GT2	79	BMW Team Schnitzer	Dirk Müller Augusto Farfus Andy Priaulx	BMW M3	123
22nd	GT2	76	IMSA Performance Matmut	Patrick Pilet Raymond Narac	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	123
23	GT1	60	Matech Competition	Thomas Mutsch Jonathan Hirschi Mathias Beche	Ford GT	123
24	GT2	91	CRS Racing	Andrew Kirkaldy Tim Mullen	Ferrari F430 GTC	122
25th	GT2	85	Spyker Squadron	Peter Dumbreck Tom Coronel	Spyker C8 Laviolette GT2-R	121
26th	GT2	88	Team Felbermayr Proton	Martin Ragginger Patrick Long Christian Ried	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	121
27	GT2	75	Prospeed Competition	Richard Westbrook Marco Holzer	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	121
28	GT1	61	Matech Competition	Rahel Frey Yan Zimmer Cyndie Allemann	Ford GT	121
29	GT2	89	Hankook Team Farnbacher	Dominik Farnbacher Allan Simonsen	Ferrari F430 GTC	120
30th	GT2	94	AF Corse	Luís Pérez Companc Matías Russo	Ferrari F430 GTC	120
31	GT1	50	Larbre Compétition	Gabriele Gardel Patrice Goueslard Fernando Rees	Saleen S7-R	120
32	GT1	72	Luc Alphand Aventures	Stéphan Grégoire David Hart Julien Jousse	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	120
33	GT1	66	Atlas FX Team Full Speed	Carlo van Dam Julian Schroyen Adam Lacko	Saleen S7-R	120
34	GT2	78	BMW Team Schnitzer	Jörg Müller Dirk Werner Uwe Alzen	BMW M3	120
35	GT2	98	Prospeed Competition	Louis Machiels Paul van Splunteren Niek Hommerson	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	119
36	FLM	46	JMB Racing	Peter Kutemann Maurice Basso John Hartshorne	Oreca FLM09	117
37	GT2	93	JWA Racing	Niki Lanik Paul Daniels Oskar Slingerland	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	116
38	GT2	90	CRS Racing	Pierre Kaffer Phil Quaife Pierre Ehret	Ferrari F430 GTC	105
39	LMP2	27	Race performance	Michel Frey Ralph Meichtry Pierre Bruneau	Radical SR9	103
Not classified
40	GT2	92	JMW Motorsport	Rob Bell Darren Turner	Aston Martin V8 Vantage	86
Failed
41	GT1	52	Young Driver AMR	Tomáš Enge Christoffer Nygaard Stefan Mücke	Aston Martin DBR9	82
42	LMP2	39	KSM	Jean de Pourtales Hideki Noda Jonathan Kennard	Lola B08 / 47	77
43	LMP2	42	Strakka Racing	Jonny Kane Danny Watts Nick Leventis	HPD ARX-01c	69
44	FLM	49	Applewood Seven	Damien Toulemonde David Zollinger Ross Zampatti	Oreca FLM09	67
45	LMP1	12	Rebellion Racing	Neel Jani Nicolas Prost	Lola B10 / 60	65
46	FLM	48	Hope Polevision Racing	Nico Verdonck Christophe Pillon Vincent Capillaire	Oreca FLM09	30th
47	FLM	43	DAMS	Alessandro Cicognani Gary Chalandon Andrea Barlesi	Oreca FLM09	23
48	LMP2	41	Team Bruichladdich	Thor-Christian Ebbesvik Karim Ojjeh Tim Greaves	Ginetta-Zytek 09S	15th
49	LMP1	4th	Team Oreca Matmut	Loïc Duval Nicolas Lapierre Olivier Panis	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	4th
50	LMP2	29	Racing box	Filippo Francioni Luca Pirri	Lola B09 / 80	1

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	Beechdean Mansell	Nigel Mansell Greg Mansell Leo Mansell	Ginetta-Zytek 09
52	FLM	44	DAMS	Edoardo Piscopo Luke Hines Dean Stirling	Oreca FLM09

Class winner

class	driver	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
LMP1	Pedro Lamy	Sébastien Bourdais	Simon Pagenaud	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	Overall victory
LMP2	Olivier Pla	Miguel Amaral		Ginetta-Zytek 09S	Rank 6
FLM	Wolfgang Kaufmann	Steve Zacchia	Luca Moro	Oreca FLM09	Rank 14
GT1	Bas Leinders	Markus Palttala	Eric de Doncker	Ford GT	Rank 17
GT2	Marc Lieb	Richard Lietz		Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	Rank 15

Racing data

• Registered: 52
• Started: 50
• Rated: 39
• Race classes: 5
• Spectator: unknown
• Race day weather: rain at the beginning and at the end
• Route length: 7.004 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 6:00: 39.012 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 139
• Total distance of the winning team: 973.556 km
• Winner's average: 161.967 km / h
• Pole position: Sébastien Bourdais - Peugeot 908 HDi FAP (# 3) - 1: 57.884 = 213.892 km / h
• Fastest race lap: Franck Montagny - Peugeot 908 HDi FAP (# 2) - 1: 59.797 = 210.476 km / h
• Racing series: 2nd round of the Le Mans Series 2010

Web links

Commons : Spa-Francorchamps 1000 km race 2010  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Official website of the Le Mans Series
• Results

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Minassian did not start because of health problems (French)

Previous race 8-hour Le Castellet 2010

Le Mans Series

Follow -up race 1000 km Algarve 2010