Petit Le Mans 2011

Peugeot 908 , winning car from Franck Montagny , Stéphane Sarrazin and Alexander Wurz

Third placed Lola B09 / 60 by Adrián Fernández , Harold Primat and Stefan Mücke

The Audi R18 TDI of Marcel Fässler , Timo Bernhard and Romain Dumas who had an accident in the race

The 14th Petit Le Mans , also Petit Le Mans, Road Atlanta , took place on October 1, 2011 in Road Atlanta and was the ninth round of the American Le Mans Series of this year.

The race

The 2011 American Le Mans Series season ended with the Petit Le Mans . Since the race and the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup counted, both the works cars were of Peugeot and the prototypes of Audi at the start. The two factory Peugeot 908s were driven by the teams Franck Montagny / Stéphane Sarrazin / Alexander Wurz and Sébastien Bourdais / Simon Pagenaud / Anthony Davidson . A third Peugeot was used by Oreca . Their 908 HDi FAPs were driven by Nicolas Lapierre , Marc Gené and Nicolas Minassian .

The two Audi R18 TDIs registered by Joest Racing were entrusted to the three-person teams Tom Kristensen / Allan McNish / Rinaldo Capello and Marcel Fässler / Timo Bernhard / Romain Dumas . After the disaster with AMR-One at the 24 Hours of Le Mans , Aston Martin Racing returned to the Lola B09 / 60 later in the season. Adrián Fernández , Harold Primat and Stefan Mücke drove the car with starting number 007 in Road Atlanta .

The fastest practice time was achieved by Anthony Davidson, who drove a time of 1: 07.428 minutes in the Peugeot with the number 7 in qualifying. He was only a tenth of a second ahead of the best-placed Audi with Allan McNish at the wheel. On the circuit, which is only 4.088 kilometers long, the lap times of the fastest LMP1 cars were just over 1: 10,000 minutes, even in the race. With 52 vehicles started, this led to an abundance of laps, which helped to decide the race. Even in the early stages, Tom Kristensen had two collisions with slower GT cars in the Audi with the number 2 . The consequence of the first was a tire damage, the second the body was significantly damaged. Later in the race, the car stood for more than an hour to repair the clutch on the pits and fell far behind in the ranking. After driving 302 laps, the Audi race management withdrew the R18 TDI from the race for safety reasons. Peugeot lost a vehicle early on. After only 78 laps, the 908 with the number 7 had to be parked due to a gearbox damage.

The decision about overall victory was made in the seventh hour of the race. Romain Dumas in the number 1 Audi caught up with the leading Peugeot with Montagny at the wheel. When he tried to overtake the leader in heavy traffic, he collided with a GT car and crashed violently into the left lane. The car was so badly damaged that it had to be abandoned. The Audi team management accused Montagny of steering to the left during the overtaking process and thus forcing the Audi into the GT car. Head of Audi Motorsport Wolfgang Ullrich declared angrily: “Montagny will certainly never drive a works Audi.” Dumas also criticized his long-time friend after the event had ended. However, the race management saw no reason for an investigation. Repetitions of the television images and the evaluation of the telemetry data of the Peugeot relieved Montagny. He had neither slowed down nor left the racing line. There was also no contact between the Dumas Audi and the Peugeot. After the incident, the factory Peugeot won by a clear five laps over the Oreca-908 HDi FAP.

Results

Final ranking

Item	class	No.	team	driver	vehicle	Round
1	LMP1	8th	Peugeot Sport Total	Franck Montagny Stéphane Sarrazin Alexander Wurz	Peugeot 908	394
2	LMP1	10	Team Oreca Matmut	Nicolas Lapierre Marc Gené Nicolas Minassian	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	389
3	LMP1	007	Aston Martin Racing	Adrián Fernández Harold Primat Stefan Mücke	Lola B09 / 60	388
4th	LMP1	24	OAK Racing	Olivier Pla Jean-François Yvon Alexandre Prémat	OAK Pescarolo 01	384
5	LMP1	12	Rebellion Racing	Nicolas Prost Neel Jani Andrea Belicchi	Lola B10 / 60	381
6th	LMP2	33	Level 5 motorsports	Scott Tucker Christophe Bouchut João Barbosa	HPD ARX-01g	375
7th	LMP1	15th	OAK Racing	Guillaume Moreau Pierre Ragues Matthieu Lahaye	OAK Pescarolo 01	370
8th	LMPC	52	PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports	Ryan Lewis Ken Dobson Henri Richard	Oreca FLM09	368
9	LMPC	89	Intersport Racing	Kyle Marcelli Chapman Ducote Tomy Drissi	Oreca FLM09	368
10	GT	51	AF Corse	Gianmaria Bruni Giancarlo Fisichella Pierre Kaffer	Ferrari 458 Italia	367
11	GT	045	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Jörg Bergmeister Patrick Long Patrick Pilet	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	367
12	GT	55	BMW Motorsports	Dirk Werner Bill Auberlen Augusto Farfus	BMW M3 E92 GT	367
13	LMP2	22nd	United Autosports	Stefan Johansson Mark Patterson Zak Brown	OAK Pescarolo 01	367
14th	GT	4th	Corvette Racing	Oliver Gavin Richard Westbrook Jan Magnussen	Chevrolet Corvette C6 ZR1	366
15th	GT	17th	Team Falken Tire	Bryan Sellers Martin Ragginger Wolf Henzler	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	365
16	GT	01	Extreme speed motorsports	Scott Sharp Johannes van Overbeek Dominik Farnbacher	Ferrari 458 Italia	365
17th	GT	58	Luxury racing	François Jakubowski David Hallyday Ralph Firman	Ferrari 458 Italia	361
18th	GT	044	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Darren Law Seth Neiman Marco Holzer	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	361
19th	GT	56	BMW Motorsport	Dirk Müller Joey Hand Andy Priaulx	BMW M3 E92 GT	359
20th	GT	002	Extreme speed motorsports	Guy Cosmo Ed Brown Rob Bell	Ferrari 458 Italia	357
21st	LMP2	26th	Signatech Nissan	Franck Mailleux Lucas Ordoñez Jean Karl Vernay	Oreca 03	357
22nd	GT	048	Paul Miller Racing	Bryce Miller Sascha Maassen Emmanuel Collard	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	357
23	GTE Am	57	Krohn Racing	Tracy Krohn Niclas Jönsson Michele Rugolo	Ferrari F430 GTC	355
24	GTE Am	50	Larbre Compétition	Patrick Bornhauser Julien Canal Gabriele Gardel	Chevrolet Corvette C6-ZR1	353
25th	GT	49	Robertson Racing	David Murry Andrea Robertson Melanie Snow	Doran Ford GT	350
26th	GTC	54	Black Swan Racing	Jeroen Bleekemolen Tim Pappas Sebastiaan Bleekemolen	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	346
27	GTC	23	Alex Job Racing	Leh Keen Bill Sweedler Brian Wong	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	346
28	GTC	66	TRG	Duncan Ende Spencer Pumpelly Peter Ludwig	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	345
29	LMPC	006	Core autosport	Gunnar Jeannette Ricardo González Rudy Junco	Oreca FLM09	340
30th	GTE Am	61	AF Corse	Rui Águas Robert Kauffman Justin Bell	Ferrari F430 GTC	338
31	GTE Am	60	Gulf AMR Middle East	Roald Goethe Mike Wainwright Fabien Giroix	Aston Martin V8 Vantage	332
32	LMPC	063	Genoa Racing	Christian Zugel Elton Julian Éric Lux	Oreca FLM09	327
33	LMP2	35	OAK Racing	Frédéric Da Rocha Patrice Lafargue Jacques Nicolet	OAK Pescarolo 01	324
34	LMP2	055	Level 5 motorsports	Luis Díaz Marino Franchitti Scott Tucker	HPD ARX-01g	314
35	GTE Am	62	CRS Racing	Pierre Ehret Roger Wills Tim Mullen	Ferrari F430 GTC	310
36	LMPC	18th	Performance Tech Motorsports	Jan-Dirk Lueders Anthony Nicolosi Jarrett Boon	Oreca FLM09	293
37	GTC	68	TRC	Jim Norman Dion by Moltke Ben Keating	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	247
38	GT	65	Lotus Jetalliance	David Heinemeier Hansson James Rossiter Johnny Mowlem	Lotus Evora	237
Failed
39	LMP1	16	Dyson Racing Team Inc.	Chris Dyson Jay Cochran Guy Smith	Lola B09 / 86	363
40	LMP1	012	Autocon	Chris McMurry Tony Burgess Bryan Willman	Lola B06 / 10	336
41	LMPC	005	Core autosport	Ryan Dalziel Jon Bennett Frankie Montecalvo	Oreca FLM09	324
42	GT	59	Luxury racing	Anthony Beltoise Frédéric Makowiecki Stéphane Ortelli	Ferrari 458 Italia	316
43	LMP1	2	Audi Sport Team Joest	Tom Kristensen Allan McNish Rinaldo Capello	Audi R18 TDI	302
44	LMP1	1	Audi Sport Team Joest	Marcel Fässler Timo Bernhard Romain Dumas	Audi R18 TDI	296
45	GT	64	Lotus Jetalliance	Oskar Slingerland Jensen Kasper Martin Rich	Lotus Evora	197
46	GTE Am	63	Proton Competition	Richard Lietz Mark Bullitt Christian Ried	Porsche 997 GT3 RSR	163
47	GT	99	Jaguar RSR	Bruno Junqueira Ken Wilden	Jaguar XKR	92
48	LMP1	7th	Peugeot Sport Total	Sébastien Bourdais Simon Pagenaud Anthony Davidson	Peugeot 908	78
49	GT	3	Corvette Racing	Tommy Milner Olivier Beretta Antonio García	Chevrolet Corvette C6 ZR1	76
50	LMP1	60	Muscle Milk Aston Martin Racing	Greg Pickett Klaus Graf Lucas Luhr	Lola B08 / 62	63
51	LMP1	20th	Oryx Dyson Racing	Butch Leitzinger Humaid Al Masaood Steven Kane	Lola B09 / 86	29
52	GT	98	Jaguar RSR	Rocky Moran junior PJ Jones	Jaguar XKR	27
Not started
53	GT	062	Risi Competizione	Jaime Melo Toni Vilander Raphael Matos	Ferrari 458 Italia	1
54	GTC	11	JDX Racing	Nick Ham Chris Thompson Scott Blackett	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	2
55	LMPC	36	Genoa Racing	Jordan Grogor Aldous Mitchell Bassam Kronfi	Oreca FLM09	3
56	GTC	77	Magnus Racing	John Potter Craig Stanton Ryan Eversley	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	4th
57	LMP2	26T	Signatech Nissan		Oreca 03	5
58	LMPC	37	Intersport Racing	Jon Field Clint Field	Oreca FLM 09	6th

¹ not started ² accident during training ³ not started ⁴ not started ⁵ replacement car ⁶ not started

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
59	GTC	34	Green Hornet Black Swan Racing	Peter LeSaffre	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup

Class winner

class	driver	driver	driver	vehicle	Placement in the overall ranking
LMP1	Franck Montagny	Stéphane Sarrazin	Alexander Wurz	Peugeot 908	Overall victory
LMP2	Scott Tucker	Christophe Bouchut	João Barbosa	HPD ARX-01g	Rank 6
LMPC	Ryan Lewis	Ken Dobson	Henri Richard	Oreca FLM09	Rank 8
GT	Giancarlo Fisichella	Gianmaria Bruni	Pierre Kaffer	Ferrari 458 Italia	Rank 10
GTE Am	Tracy Krohn	Niclas Jönsson	Michele Rugolo	Ferrari F430 GTC	Rank 24
GTC	Jeroen Bleekemolen	Tim Pappas	Sebastiaan Bleekemolen	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	Rank 27

Racing data

• Registered: 59
• Started: 52
• Rated: 38
• Race classes: 6
• Spectator: unknown
• Weather on race day: unknown
• Route length: 4.088 km
• Driving time of the winning team: 9:34: 23.972 hours
• Total laps of the winning team: 394
• Total distance of the winning team: 1610.567 km
• Winner's average: 168.234 km / h
• Pole position: Anthony Davidson - Peugeot 908 (# 7) - 1: 07.428 = 218.245 km / h
• Fastest race lap: Sébastien Bourdais - Peugeot 908 (# 7) - 1: 08.836
• Racing series: Round 9 of the 2011 ALMS season
• Racing series: 6th round of the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup 2011

Web links

Commons : Petit Le Mans 2011  - album with pictures, videos and audio files

• Results

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Audi press release on the race

Previous race 6 Hours of Laguna Seca 2011

American Le Mans Series

Succession race 2012 12 Hours of Sebring