The2009 Petit Le Mans powered by Mazda6was the twelfth running of thePetit Le Mansand the ninth round of the2009 American Le Mans Series season.It took place at theRoad Atlantacircuit inBraselton, Georgia,on September 26, 2009. Originally scheduled to run for a distance of 1,000 miles (1,600 km) or a time of ten hours, the race was stopped after four hours due to heavy rains. The race was not restarted and the results were determined from the final lap prior to the stoppage.[1]

The Track map of Road Atlanta

When race officials decided to not restart the eventNicolas MinassianandStéphane Sarrazinof the #08Peugeotwere declared the winners, leading their team car #07.Audi,who had won this race every year since2000,finished in third and fourth places. This race was the first time Audi lost at Petit Le Mans since its first run since 2000. This was also the first time that neither of theVolkswagen Groupmarques (Audi and Porsche) won (or finished in the top two, in all cases) its classes. In the LMP2 categoryDyson Racing Teamwon their second race of the season with the #20Lola-MazdaofMarino Franchitti,Ben Devlin,andButch Leitzingerranking 13th overall and 29 laps ahead of their nearest class competitor. The GT2 category was won byRisi CompetizioneFerrarileading theRahal Letterman RacingBMWand Farnbacher-LolesPorscheon the podium.

During Thursday practice on September 24, which took place in dry, sunny conditions,Scott Sharphad a violent crash in theAcura ARX-02aexiting turn one after making contact with the Farnbacher-Loles Porsche entry, which was leaving the pits. Sharp's car turned on its left side, hit the fence, then barrel-rolled three-and-a-half times before landing right-side up.[2]Sharp walked away from the incident. On Friday, September 25, at 9:30 AMEastern Daylight Time,a new tub arrived from the Honda Performance Development Center inLos Angeles.[2]TheHighcroft Racingteam then spent the next 24 hours rebuilding the car, getting some assistance from archrivalde Ferran Motorsports.[2]The team only used 10 percent of the parts from the original car,[2]and were forced to start the race from pit road.[2]

Report

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Qualifying

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Qualifying result

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Pole positionwinners in each class are marked inbold.[3]

Pos Class Team Qualifying Driver Lap Time
1 LMP1 #07Team PeugeotTotal Nicolas Minassian 1:06.937
2 LMP1 #08Team PeugeotTotal Franck Montagny 1:07.160
3 LMP1 #2Audi Sport Team Joest Rinaldo Capello 1:08.200
4 LMP1 #1Audi Sport North America Lucas Luhr 1:08.228
5 LMP1 #66de Ferran Motorsports Simon Pagenaud 1:08.348
6 LMP1 #7Team OrecaMatmut AIM Nicolas Lapierre 1:09.566
7 LMP1 #37 Intersport Racing Jon Field 1:09.685
8 LMP2 #20Dyson Racing Team Marino Franchitti 1:10.152
9 LMP1 #88Drayson Racing Jonny Cocker 1:10.552
10 LMP2 #6Team Cytosport Klaus Graf 1:11.405
11 LMP2 #15Lowe'sFernández Racing Adrian Fernández 1:11.758
12 LMP1 #12 Autocon Motorsports Chris McMurry 1:12.676
13 GT2 #40 Robertson Racing David Murry 1:20.819
14 GT2 #28 LG Motorsports Tom Sutherland 1:20.877
15 GT2 #4Corvette Racing Olivier Beretta 1:20.912
16 GT2 #92BMWRahal Letterman Racing Dirk Müller 1:20.981
17 GT2 #90BMWRahal Letterman Racing Joey Hand 1:21.219
18 GT2 #45Flying Lizard Motorsports Patrick Long 1:21.299
19 GT2 #3Corvette Racing Johnny O'Connell 1:21.491
20 GT2 #21PanozTeam PTG Dominik Farnbacher 1:21.648
21 GT2 #87 Farnbacher-Loles Racing Wolf Henzler 1:21.760
22 GT2 #62Risi Competizione Jaime Melo 1:22.718
23 GT2 #17Team Falken Tires Bryan Sellers 1:23.081
24 GT2 #11Primetime Race Group Chris Hall 1:23.121
25 GT2 #44Flying Lizard Motorsports Seth Neiman 1:25.601
LMP1 #9PatrónHighcroft Racing Did Not Participate
LMP1 #10 ECO Racing Did Not Participate
UNC #16Dyson Racing Team Did Not Participate
LMP2 #19 van der Steur Racing Did Not Participate

Race

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Race result

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Class winners are marked inbold.Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance are marked as Not Classified (NC).[4]

Pos Class No Team Drivers Chassis Tire Laps
Engine
1 LMP1 08 Team PeugeotTotal Franck Montagny
Stéphane Sarrazin
Peugeot 908 HDi FAP M 184
PeugeotHDi5.5 L Turbo V12
(Diesel)
2 LMP1 07 Team PeugeotTotal Nicolas Minassian
Pedro Lamy
Peugeot 908 HDi FAP M 184
PeugeotHDi5.5 L Turbo V12
(Diesel)
3 LMP1 2 Audi Sport Team Joest Allan McNish
Rinaldo Capello
Audi R15 TDI M 184
AudiTDI5.5 L Turbo V10
(Diesel)
4 LMP1 1 Audi Sport North America Marco Werner
Lucas Luhr
Audi R15 TDI M 183
AudiTDI5.5 L Turbo V10
(Diesel)
5 LMP1 7 Team OrecaMatmut AIM Nicolas Lapierre
Olivier Panis
Romain Dumas
Oreca 01 M 181
AIM YS5.5 5.5 L V10
6 LMP1 9 PatrónHighcroft Racing David Brabham
Scott Sharp
Dario Franchitti
Acura ARX-02a M 180
AcuraAR7 4.0 L V8
7 UNC 16 Dyson Racing Team Chris Dyson
Guy Smith
Lola B09/86 M 177
MazdaMZR-R2.0 L Turbo I4
(Butanol)
8 GT2 62 Risi Competizione Jaime Melo
Pierre Kaffer
Mika Salo
Ferrari F430GT M 170
Ferrari4.0 L V8
9 GT2 92 BMWRahal Letterman Racing Tommy Milner
Dirk Müller
Jörg Müller
BMW M3 GT2 D 169
BMW4.0 L V8
10 GT2 87 Farnbacher-Loles Motorsports Wolf Henzler
Dirk Werner
Porsche 997 GT3-RSR M 169
Porsche4.0 L Flat-6
11 GT2 4 Corvette Racing Oliver Gavin
Olivier Beretta
Marcel Fässler
Chevrolet Corvette C6.R M 169
Chevrolet6.0 L V8
12 GT2 45 Flying Lizard Motorsports Patrick Long
Jörg Bergmeister
Marc Lieb
Porsche 997 GT3-RSR M 169
Porsche4.0 L Flat-6
13 LMP2 20 Dyson Racing Team Butch Leitzinger
Marino Franchitti
Ben Devlin
Lola B08/86 M 168
MazdaMZR-R2.0 L Turbo I4
14 GT2 3 Corvette Racing Johnny O'Connell
Jan Magnussen
Antonio García
Chevrolet Corvette C6.R M 168
Chevrolet6.0 L V8
15 GT2 44 Flying Lizard Motorsports Darren Law
Seth Neiman
Johannes van Overbeek
Porsche 997 GT3-RSR M 162
Porsche4.0 L Flat-6
16 GT2 28 LG Motorsports Tom Sutherland
Tomy Drissi
Matt Bell
Chevrolet Corvette C6 D 157
ChevroletLS3 6.3 L V8
17
DNF
LMP1 37 Intersport Racing Jon Field
Clint Field
Lola B06/10 D 152
AERP32C 4.0 L Turbo V8
18 GT2 21 PanozTeam PTG Ian James
Dominik Farnbacher
Panoz EsperanteGT-LM Y 152
Ford5.0 L V8
19
DNF
LMP1 12 Autocon Motorsports Bryan Willman
Chris McMurry
Tony Burgess
Lola B06/10 D 144
AERP32C 4.0 L Turbo V8
20 GT2 40 Robertson Racing David Robertson
Andrea Robertson
David Murry
Ford GT-R Mk. VII D 142
Ford5.0 L V8
21 LMP2 15 Lowe'sFernández Racing Adrian Fernández
Luis Díaz
Acura ARX-01B M 139
AcuraAL7R 3.4 L V8
22 LMP2 6 Team Cytosport Greg Pickett
Klaus Graf
Sascha Maassen
Porsche RS SpyderEvo M 136
PorscheMR6 3.4 L V8
23 GT2 17 Team Falken Tire Bryan Sellers
Dominic Cicero
Porsche 997 GT3-RSR F 136
Porsche4.0 L Flat-6
24 LMP1 66 de Ferran Motorsports Gil de Ferran
Simon Pagenaud
Scott Dixon
Acura ARX-02a M 136
AcuraAR7 4.0 L V8
25 GT2 90 BMWRahal Letterman Racing Bill Auberlen
Joey Hand
Andy Priaulx
BMW M3 GT2 D 133
BMW4.0 L V8
26
DNF
GT2 11 Primetime Race Group Joel Feinberg
Chris Hall
Dodge ViperCompetition Coupe Y 129
Dodge8.3 L V10
27
NC
LMP1 88 Drayson Racing Paul Drayson
Jonny Cocker
Rob Bell
Lola B09/60 M 123
JuddGV5.5 S2 5.5 L V10
DNS LMP1 10 ECO Racing Hideki Noda
José Manuel Balbiani
Dion von Moltke
RadicalSR9 D
ECO (AER) 5.0 L Turbo V10
(Diesel)
DNS LMP2 19 van der Steur Racing Gunnar van der Steur
Adam Pecorari
Robbie Pecorari
RadicalSR9 K
AERP07 2.0 L Turbo I4

References

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  1. ^"Peugeot wins a wet Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta".American Le Mans Series.September 26, 2009. Archived fromthe originalon September 30, 2009.RetrievedSeptember 26,2009.
  2. ^abcde– Scott Sharp Incredible Wreck Petit Le Mans 9-24-09
  3. ^"ALMS Qualifying Result"(PDF).International Motor Sports Association.2009-09-25.Retrieved2009-09-25.[dead link]
  4. ^"ALMS Final Race Results"(PDF).International Motor Sports Association.2009-09-26. Archived fromthe original(PDF)on 2012-03-30.Retrieved2009-09-28.
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