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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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