Petit Le Mans 2009

Klaus Graf in the Porsche RS Spyder

David Brabham in the Acura ARX-02a

The twelfth Petit Le Mans , also the 12th Annual Petit Le Mans powered by Mazda 6, Road Atlanta Grand Prix Road Course, Braselton , took place on September 26, 2009 in Road Atlanta and was the ninth round of the American Le Mans Series of that year.

The race

In 1998 , with the Petit Le Mans, a North American endurance race was created, which was derived from the Le Mans 24-hour race that had existed since 1923 . The duration of the race was 10 hours or 1000 miles. The race was waved when one of the two distances was reached. Since the success of Allan McNish , Rinaldo Capello and Michele Alboreto in the Audi R8 in 2002 , only Audi racing cars had won the overall standings.

In the first practice session, which took place on the Friday before race day, Scott Sharp had a serious accident in the Acura ARX-02a . After Turn 1 he collided with a Porsche 997 GT3 RSR coming out of the pits . The Acura overturned several times and came to rest on its side. Sharp was able to get out of the wreck unharmed and take part in the race in a newly constructed chassis. On the day of the race there were bad weather conditions, which led to the race being stopped after 185 laps. After 180 laps, the two Audi R15 TDIs of Allan McNish / Rinaldo Capello and Marco Werner / Lucas Luhr were just ahead of the Peugeot 908 HDi FAP of Stéphane Sarrazin / Franck Montagny and Pedro Lamy / Nicolas Minassian . First the two Audis came to the pits for a routine stop, then the two Peugeots. After all four cars had been processed, Montagny in the Peugeot was just ahead of McNish in the Audi, his team-mate Lamy and Marco Werner in the lead as the rain got heavier. First the second McNish turned and lost this position to Lamy. Marco Werner also lost his way. When the Drayson- Lola B09 / 60 crashed into a barrier, the race was stopped and because of the persistent heavy rain, it was not restarted .

The ranking after 184 laps became the official race result and the Peugeot from Montagny and Sarrazin the winner. This ended Audi's winning streak at Road Atlanta.

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	LMP1	08	Team Peugeot Total	Stéphane Sarrazin Franck Montagny	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	184
2	LMP1	07	Team Peugeot Total	Pedro Lamy Nicolas Minassian	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	184
3	LMP1	2	Audi Sport North America	Allan McNish Rinaldo Capello	Audi R15 TDI	184
4th	LMP1	1	Audi Sport North America	Marco Werner Lucas Luhr	Audi R15 TDI	183
5	LMP1	7th	Oreca Matmut AIM	Nicolas Lapierre Romain Dumas Olivier Panis	Oreca 01	181
6th	LMP1	9	Patrón Highcroft Racing	David Brabham Scott Sharp Dario Franchitti	Acura ARX-02a	180
7th	LMP2	16	Dyson Racing Team Inc.	Chris Dyson Guy Smith	Lola B09 / 86	177
8th	GT2	62	Risi Competizione	Jaime Melo Pierre Kaffer Mika Salo	Ferrari F430 GTC	170
9	GT2	92	BMW Rahal Letterman Racing Team	Tommy Milner Dirk Müller Jörg Müller	BMW E92 M3	169
10	GT2	87	Farnbacher Loles Racing	Wolf Henzler Dirk Werner	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	169
11	GT2	4th	Corvette Racing	Oliver Gavin Olivier Beretta Marcel Fässler	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	169
12	GT2	45	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Patrick Long Jörg Bergmeister Marc Lieb	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	169
13	LMP2	20th	Dyson Racing Team Inc.	Marino Franchitti Butch Leitzinger Ben Devlin	Lola B08 / 86	168
14th	GT2	3	Corvette Racing	Johnny O'Connell Jan Magnussen Antonio García	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	168
15th	GT2	44	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Seth Neiman Darren Law Johannes van Overbeek	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	162
16	GT2	28	LG Motorsports	Tom Sutherland Tomy Drissi Matt Bell	Chevrolet Corvette C6	157
17th	GT2	21st	Panoz Team PTG	Ian James Dominik Farnbacher	Panoz Esperante GTLM	152
18th	GT2	40	Robertson Racing LLC	David Murry Andrea Robertson David Robertson	Ford GT-R Mk.7	142
19th	LMP2	15th	Lowe's Fernández Racing	Luis Díaz Adrián Fernández	Acura ARX-01bb	139
20th	LMP2	6th	Team Cytosport	Klaus Count Sascha Maassen	Porsche RS Spyder	136
21st	GT2	17th	Team Falken Tire	Bryan Sellers Dominic Cicero II	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	136
22nd	LMP1	66	de Ferran Motorsports	Gil de Ferran Scott Dixon Simon Pagenaud	Acura ARX-02a	136
23	GT2	90	BMW Rahal Letterman Racing Team	Bill Auberlen Andy Priaulx Joey Hand	BMW E92 M3	133
24	LMP1	88	Drayson Racing	Jonathan Cocker Paul Drayson Rob Bell	Lola B09 / 60	123
Failed
25th	LMP1	37	Intersport Racing	Jon Field Clint Field	Lola B06 / 10	152
26th	LMP1	12	Autocon Motorsports	Bryan Willman Tony Burgess Chris McMurry	Lola B06 / 10	144
27	GT2	11	Primetime Race Group	Joel Feinberg Chris Hall	Dodge Viper Competition Coupe	129
Not started
28	LMP1	10	ECO racing	Hideki Noda Jose Manuel Balbiani Dion von Moltke	Radical SR10	1
29	LMP2	19th	van der Steur Racing Inc.	Gunnar van der Steur Adam Pecorari Robbie Pecorari	Radical SR9	2
30th	GT2	33	RSR		Jaguar XKR	3

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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
31	LMP1	48	Corsa Motorsports	Johnny Mowlem Stefan Johansson	Ginetta-Zytek 09HS

Class winner

class	driver	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
LMP1	Stéphane Sarrazin	Franck Montagny		Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	Overall victory
LMP2	Chris Dyson	Guy Smith		Lola B09 / 86	Rank 7
GT2	Jaime Melo	Pierre Kaffer	Mika Salo	Ferrari F430 GTC	Rank 8

Racing data

• Registered: 31
• Started: 27
• Valued: 24
• Race classes: 3
• Spectator: unknown
• Race day weather: first dry, then heavy rain
• Route length: 4.088 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 4: 48: 11.557 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 184
• Total distance of the winning team: 752.143 km
• Winner's average: 156.592 km / h
• Pole position: Nicolas Minassian - Peugeot 908 HDi FAP (# 07) - 1: 06.937 = 219.846 km / h
• Fastest race lap: Allan McNish - Audi R15 TDI (# 2) - 1: 08.063 = 212.209 km / h
• Racing series: 9th round of the 2009 ALMS season

Web links

Commons : Petit Le Mans 2009  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Results

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American Le Mans Series

Successor to the 4-hour race at Laguna Seca 2009