2009 Petit Le Mans

The 2009 Petit Le Mans powered by Mazda6 was the twelfth running of the Petit Le Mans and the ninth round of the 2009 American Le Mans Series season. It took place at the Road Atlanta circuit in Braselton, 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]

When race officials decided to not restart the event Nicolas Minassian and Stéphane Sarrazin of the #08 Peugeot were declared the winners, leading their team car #07. Audi, who had won this race every year since 2000, 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 the Volkswagen Group marques (Audi and Porsche) won (or finished in the top two, in all cases) its classes. In the LMP2 category Dyson Racing Team won their second race of the season with the #20 Lola-Mazda of Marino Franchitti, Ben Devlin, and Butch Leitzinger ranking 13th overall and 29 laps ahead of their nearest class competitor. The GT2 category was won by Risi Competizione Ferrari leading the Rahal Letterman Racing BMW and Farnbacher-Loles Porsche on the podium.

During Thursday practice on September 24, which took place in dry, sunny conditions, Scott Sharp had a violent crash in the Acura ARX-02a exiting 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 AM Eastern Daylight Time, a new tub arrived from the Honda Performance Development Center in Los Angeles.^[2] The Highcroft Racing team then spent the next 24 hours rebuilding the car, getting some assistance from archrival de 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

Qualifying

Qualifying result

Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.

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

Race

Race results

Class winners are marked in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance are marked as Not Classified (NC).

Pos	Class	No	Team	Drivers	Chassis	Tire	Laps
					Engine
1	LMP1	08	Team Peugeot Total	Franck Montagny  Stéphane Sarrazin	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	M	184
					Peugeot HDi 5.5 L Turbo V12 (Diesel)
2	LMP1	07	Team Peugeot Total	Nicolas Minassian  Pedro Lamy	Peugeot 908 HDi FAP	M	184
					Peugeot HDi 5.5 L Turbo V12 (Diesel)
3	LMP1	2	Audi Sport Team Joest	Allan McNish  Rinaldo Capello	Audi R15 TDI	M	184
					Audi TDI 5.5 L Turbo V10 (Diesel)
4	LMP1	1	Audi Sport North America	Marco Werner  Lucas Luhr	Audi R15 TDI	M	183
					Audi TDI 5.5 L Turbo V10 (Diesel)
5	LMP1	7	Team Oreca Matmut AIM	Nicolas Lapierre  Olivier Panis  Romain Dumas	Oreca 01	M	181
					AIM YS5.5 5.5 L V10
6	LMP1	9	Patrón Highcroft Racing	David Brabham  Scott Sharp  Dario Franchitti	Acura ARX-02a	M	180
					Acura AR7 4.0 L V8
7	UNC	16	Dyson Racing Team	Chris Dyson  Guy Smith	Lola B09/86	M	177
					Mazda MZR-R 2.0 L Turbo I4 (Butanol)
8	GT2	62	Risi Competizione	Jaime Melo  Pierre Kaffer  Mika Salo	Ferrari F430GT	M	170
					Ferrari 4.0 L V8
9	GT2	92	BMW Rahal Letterman Racing	Tommy Milner  Dirk Müller  Jörg Müller	BMW M3 GT2	D	169
					BMW 4.0 L V8
10	GT2	87	Farnbacher-Loles Motorsports	Wolf Henzler  Dirk Werner	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	M	169
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
11	GT2	4	Corvette Racing	Oliver Gavin  Olivier Beretta  Marcel Fässler	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	M	169
					Chevrolet 6.0 L V8
12	GT2	45	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Patrick Long  Jörg Bergmeister  Marc Lieb	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	M	169
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
13	LMP2	20	Dyson Racing Team	Butch Leitzinger  Marino Franchitti  Ben Devlin	Lola B08/86	M	168
					Mazda MZR-R 2.0 L Turbo I4
14	GT2	3	Corvette Racing	Johnny O'Connell  Jan Magnussen  Antonio García	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	M	168
					Chevrolet 6.0 L V8
15	GT2	44	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Darren Law  Seth Neiman  Johannes van Overbeek	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	M	162
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
16	GT2	28	LG Motorsports	Tom Sutherland  Tomy Drissi  Matt Bell	Chevrolet Corvette C6	D	157
					Chevrolet LS3 6.3 L V8
17 DNF	LMP1	37	Intersport Racing	Jon Field  Clint Field	Lola B06/10	D	152
					AER P32C 4.0 L Turbo V8
18	GT2	21	Panoz Team PTG	Ian James  Dominik Farnbacher	Panoz Esperante GT-LM	Y	152
					Ford 5.0 L V8
19 DNF	LMP1	12	Autocon Motorsports	Bryan Willman  Chris McMurry  Tony Burgess	Lola B06/10	D	144
					AER P32C 4.0 L Turbo V8
20	GT2	40	Robertson Racing	David Robertson  Andrea Robertson  David Murry	Ford GT-R Mk. VII	D	142
					Ford 5.0 L V8
21	LMP2	15	Lowe's Fernández Racing	Adrian Fernández  Luis Díaz	Acura ARX-01B	M	139
					Acura AL7R 3.4 L V8
22	LMP2	6	Team Cytosport	Greg Pickett  Klaus Graf  Sascha Maassen	Porsche RS Spyder Evo	M	136
					Porsche MR6 3.4 L V8
23	GT2	17	Team Falken Tire	Bryan Sellers  Dominic Cicero	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	F	136
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
24	LMP1	66	de Ferran Motorsports	Gil de Ferran  Simon Pagenaud  Scott Dixon	Acura ARX-02a	M	136
					Acura AR7 4.0 L V8
25	GT2	90	BMW Rahal Letterman Racing	Bill Auberlen  Joey Hand  Andy Priaulx	BMW M3 GT2	D	133
					BMW 4.0 L V8
26 DNF	GT2	11	Primetime Race Group	Joel Feinberg  Chris Hall	Dodge Viper Competition Coupe	Y	129
					Dodge 8.3 L V10
27 NC	LMP1	88	Drayson Racing	Paul Drayson  Jonny Cocker  Rob Bell	Lola B09/60	M	123
					Judd GV5.5 S2 5.5 L V10
DNS	LMP1	10	ECO Racing	Hideki Noda  José Manuel Balbiani  Dion von Moltke	Radical SR9	D	–
					ECO (AER) 5.0 L Turbo V10 (Diesel)
DNS	LMP2	19	van der Steur Racing	Gunnar van der Steur  Adam Pecorari  Robbie Pecorari	Radical SR9	K	–
					AER P07 2.0 L Turbo I4

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