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The Bahrain International Circuit

The 2012 6 Hours of Bahrain was an auto race held at Bahrain International Circuit, Sakhir, Bahrain on Saturday 29 September 2012. It was the inaugural running of the 6 Hours of Bahrain and the sixth round of the 2012 FIA World Endurance Championship season.

The race was dominated by Audi Sport Team Joest who swept to a 1-2 victory with Benoît Tréluyer, Marcel Fässler and André Lotterer taking a one lap win over the Audi R18 e-tron quattro of Allan McNish and Tom Kristensen. Nicolas Lapierre for Toyota lead early in the race only to pit with faulty number plate illumination, losing over ten minutes in the pits before ultimately retired after a collision. The Strakka Racing HPD claimed third, six laps behind the winners.

The LMP2 category was won by the Pecom Racing Oreca 03 driven by Pierre Kaffer, Nicolas Minassian and Luís Pérez Companc, who held a two lap gap over the bulk of the class Signatech's of Jordan Tresson, Olivier Lombard and Franck Mailleux finished in second place. The AF Corse Ferrari pair of Toni Vilander and Giancarlo Fisichella won LMGTE Pro by a lap over Aston Martin Racing, which allowed AF Corse to wrap up the class championship. AF Corse's Olivier Beretta, driving another Ferrari, was excluded from the event after making avoidable contact with Greaves Motorsports' Ricardo González.[1] Porsche won LMGTE Am class with the Team Felbermayr-Proton 997 of Christian Ried, Gianluca Roda and Paolo Ruberti leading by a lap over the Waltrip Ferrari.

Qualifying[]

Qualifying result[]

Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.[2]

Pos Class Team Driver Lap Time Grid
1 LMP1 #2 Audi Sport Team Joest Allan McNish 1:45.814 1
2 LMP1 #1 Audi Sport Team Joest Marcel Fässler 1:45.888 2
3 LMP1 #7 Toyota Racing Nicolas Lapierre 1:46.254 3
4 LMP1 #12 Rebellion Racing Neel Jani 1:47.638 4
5 LMP1 #21 Strakka Racing Danny Watts 1:48.446 5
6 LMP1 #22 JRM Karun Chandhok 1:48.784 6
7 LMP2 #44 Starworks Motorsport Stéphane Sarrazin 1:51.798 7
8 LMP2 #25 ADR-Delta John Martin 1:52.285 8
9 LMP2 #24 OAK Racing Olivier Pla 1:52.368 9
10 LMP2 #35 OAK Racing Dominik Kraihamer 1:52.609 10
11 LMP2 #49 Pecom Racing Nicolas Minassian 1:52.624 11
12 LMP2 #32 Lotus James Rossiter 1:52.696 12
13 LMP2 #26 Signatech-Nissan Roman Rusinov 1:53.328 13
14 LMP2 #31 Lotus Thomas Holzer 1:53.733 14
15 LMP2 #23 Signatech-Nissan Jordan Tresson 1:53.793 15
16 LMP2 #29 Gulf Racing Middle East Fabien Giroix 1:55.465 16
17 LMP2 #41 Greaves Motorsport Christian Zugel 1:58.603 17
18 LMGTE Pro #97 Aston Martin Racing Stefan Mücke 2:00.234 18
19 LMGTE Pro #77 Team Felbermayr-Proton Richard Lietz 2:00.532 19
20 LMGTE Pro #51 AF Corse Giancarlo Fisichella 2:01.522 20
21 LMGTE Pro #71 AF Corse Olivier Beretta 2:01.861 21
22 LMGTE Am #61 AF Corse-Waltrip Rui Águas 2:02.812 22
23 LMGTE Am #50 Larbre Compétition Fernando Rees 2:03.253 23
24 LMGTE Am #88 Team Felbermayr-Proton Paolo Ruberti 2:03.686 24
25 LMGTE Am #70 Larbre Compétition Christophe Bourret 2:04.934 25
26 LMGTE Am #55 JWA-Avila Joël Camathias 2:05.572 26
27 LMGTE Am #57 Krohn Racing Tracy Krohn 2:06.806 27
LMP1 #13 Rebellion Racing No Time 28

Race[]

Race result[]

Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).[3]

Pos Class No Team Drivers Chassis Tyre Laps
Engine
1 LMP1 1 25px Germany Audi Sport Team Joest 25px France Benoît Tréluyer
25px Switzerland Marcel Fässler
25px Germany André Lotterer
Audi R18 e-tron quattro M 191
Audi TDI 3.7 L Turbo V6
(Hybrid Diesel)
2 LMP1 2 25px Germany Audi Sport Team Joest 25px Great Britain Allan McNish
25px Flag of Denmark Tom Kristensen
Audi R18 e-tron quattro M 190
Audi TDI 3.7 L Turbo V6
(Hybrid Diesel)
3 LMP1 21 25px Great Britain Strakka Racing 25px Great Britain Jonny Kane
25px Great Britain Danny Watts
25px Great Britain Nick Leventis
HPD ARX-03a M 185
Honda LM-AR6 3.4 L V8
4 LMP1 12 25px Switzerland Rebellion Racing 25px France Nicolas Prost
25px Switzerland Neel Jani
Lola B12/60 M 184
Toyota RV8KLM 3.4 L V8
5 LMP1 13 25px Switzerland Rebellion Racing 25px Switzerland Harold Primat
25px Italy Andrea Belicchi
Lola B12/60 M 181
Toyota RV8KLM 3.4 L V8
6 LMP2 49 25px Argentina Pecom Racing 25px Germany Pierre Kaffer
25px France Nicolas Minassian
25px Argentina Luís Pérez Companc
Oreca 03 D 179
Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
7 LMP2 23 25px France Signatech-Nissan 25px France Jordan Tresson
25px France Olivier Lombard
25px France Franck Mailleux
Oreca 03 D 177
Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
8 LMP2 44 25px USA Starworks Motorsport 25px France Stéphane Sarrazin
25px Great Britain Tom Kimber-Smith
25px The flag of Venezuela Enzo Potolicchio
HPD ARX-03b D 177
Honda HR28TT 2.8 L Turbo V6
9 LMP2 32 25px Germany Lotus 25px USA Kevin Weeda
25px Great Britain James Rossiter
25px Italy Vitantonio Liuzzi
Lola B12/80 D 177
Lotus 3.6 L V8
10 LMP2 26 25px France Signatech-Nissan 25px France Pierre Ragues
25px The flag of the Russian Federation Roman Rusinov
25px France Nelson Panciatici
Oreca 03 D 176
Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
11 LMP2 24 25px France OAK Racing 25px France Olivier Pla
25px France Matthieu Lahaye
25px France Jacques Nicolet
Morgan LMP2 D 172
Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
12 LMP2 41 25px Great Britain Greaves Motorsport 25px ECU Elton Julian
25px Mexico Ricardo González
25px Germany Christian Zugel
Zytek Z11SN D 170
Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
13 LMGTE
Pro
51 25px Italy AF Corse 25px Finland Toni Vilander
25px Italy Giancarlo Fisichella
Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 M 170
Ferrari F142 4.5 L V8
14 LMGTE
Pro
97 25px Great Britain Aston Martin Racing 25px Great Britain Darren Turner
25px Germany Stefan Mücke
Aston Martin Vantage GTE M 169
Aston Martin 4.5 L V8
15 LMGTE
Pro
77 25px Germany Team Felbermayr-Proton 25px Austria Richard Lietz
25px Germany Marc Lieb
Porsche 997 GT3-RSR M 169
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
16 LMGTE
Pro
71 25px Italy AF Corse 25px Monaco Olivier Beretta1
25px Italy Andrea Bertolini
Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 M 169
Ferrari F142 4.5 L V8
17 LMGTE
Am
88 25px Germany Team Felbermayr-Proton 25px Germany Christian Ried
25px Italy Gianluca Roda
25px Italy Paolo Ruberti
Porsche 997 GT3-RSR M 165
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
18 LMGTE
Am
61 25px Italy AF Corse-Waltrip 25px USA Robert Kauffman
25px USA Brian Vickers
25px Flag of Portugal Rui Águas
Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 M 164
Ferrari F142 4.5 L V8
19 LMGTE
Am
57 25px USA Krohn Racing 25px USA Tracy Krohn
25px Sweden Niclas Jönsson
25px Italy Michele Rugolo
Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 M 162
Ferrari F142 4.5 L V8
20 LMP2 25 25px Great Britain ADR-Delta 25px Template:Country alias THA Tor Graves
25px Australia John Martin
Oreca 03 D 161
Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
21 LMGTE
Am
50 25px France Larbre Compétition 25px France Patrick Bornhauser
25px France Julien Canal
25px Brazil Fernando Rees
Chevrolet Corvette C6.R M 157
GM LS1 5.5 L V8
22 LMGTE
Am
70 25px France Larbre Compétition 25px France Jean-Philippe Belloc
25px France Christophe Bourret
25px France Pascal Gibon
Chevrolet Corvette C6.R M 153
GM LS1 5.5 L V8
23 LMGTE
Am
55 25px Great Britain JWA-Avila 25px Switzerland Joël Camathias
25px Flag of Denmark Benny Simonsen
25px Great Britain Paul Daniels
Porsche 997 GT3-RSR P 150
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
DNF LMP1 7 25px Japan Toyota Racing 25px Austria Alexander Wurz
25px France Nicolas Lapierre
Toyota TS030 Hybrid M 144
Toyota 3.4 L V8
(Hybrid)
DNF LMP2 31 25px Germany Lotus 25px Italy Luca Moro
25px Germany Thomas Holzer
Lola B12/80 D 103
Lotus 3.6 L V8
DNF LMP2 29 25px UAE Gulf Racing Middle East 25px Switzerland Jean-Denis Délétraz
25px Japan Keiko Ihara
25px France Fabien Giroix
Lola B12/80 D 97
Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
DNF LMP1 22 25px Great Britain JRM 25px Great Britain Peter Dumbreck
25px Flag of India Karun Chandhok
25px Australia David Brabham
HPD ARX-03a M 61
Honda LM-AR6 3.4 L V8
DNF LMP2 35 25px France OAK Racing 25px Great Britain Alex Brundle
25px Austria Dominik Kraihamer
25px Belgium Bertrand Baguette
Morgan LMP2 D 14
Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
  • ^1  Olivier Beretta was excluded from the race by the stewards for making avoidable contact. The No. 71 Ferrari's result was not affected.[1]

References[]


FIA World Endurance Championship
Previous race:
6 Hours of São Paulo
2012 season Next race:
6 Hours of Fuji
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