ALMS

Winning Peugeot early in the race when it was running second.

 SEBRING, FL — Fast. Efficient. Consistent. That was the French Peugeot team during the week leading up to the 58th running of the Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring presented by Fresh From Florida. And that performance culminated in the No. 07 Peugeot (Gene/ Wurz/ Davidson) winning the race. Second place went to its sister car, the No. 07 Peugeot (Lamy/ Bourdais/ Minassian) that finished 7.495 seconds behind the winner. In third place was the Aston Martin (Primat/ Mucke/ Fernandez) that was two laps down to the winners at the end of the race. 

The LMP2 class was won by the Muscle Milk team in the Porsche RS Spyder (Pickett/ Maassen/ Graf) while GT2 was won by the Ferarri 430 GT (Melo/ Kaffer/ Bruni). 

Results of the 58th Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring: 

Alexander Wurz (#07-P1 Peugeot 908 HDI FAP): First ALMS victory in his First ALMS event.
Marc Gene (#07-P1 Peugeot 908 HDI FAP): First ALMS victory in 3 ALMS events.
Anthony Davidson (#07-P1 Peugeot 908 HDI FAP): First ALMS victory in 3 events. 

Klaus Graf (#6-P2 Porsche RS Spyder): 2nd class win in 26 events.
Greg Pickett (#6-P2 Porsche RS Spyder): 1st class win in 11 events.
Sascha Maassen (#6-P2 Porsche RS Spyder): 30th class win in 83 races. 

Jaime Melo (#62-GT2 Ferrari 430 GT): 15th class win in 39 races.
Gianmaria Bruni (#62-GT2 Ferrari 430 GT): 1st class win in 11 races.
Pierre Kaffer (#62-GT2 Ferrari 430 GT): 5th class win in 17 races. 

Christophe Bouchut (#55-LMPC Oreca FLM09): 1st win in 13 races.
Mark Wilkins (#55-LMPC Oreca FLM09): 1st class win in his 1st ALMS event.
Scott Tucker (#55-LMPC Oreca FLM09): 1st class win in his 1st ALMS event, also finished 6th in LMPC. 

Leh Keen (#81-GTC Porsche 911 GT3 Cup): 1st class win in his 2nd ALMS event.
Juan Gonzalez (#81-GTC Porsche 911 GT3 Cup): 1st class win in his 1st ALMS event.
Butch Leitzinger (#81-GTC Porsche 911 GT3 Cup): 8th class win in his 89th ALMS event. 

More coverage a little later.

SEBRING, Fl — At the halfway point in the race, Peugeot is still one-two — and although the two French diesels have swapped the first and second place back and forth based mainly on pitstops. The Aston-Martin remains in third place and the Drayson Team Lola Judd had gamely tried to rally from being more than 10 laps early in the race when a recalcitrant alternator had to be replaced.

The GT2 race has provided the most excitement as the No. 62 Ferarri and the No. 45 Porsche have been dueling back and forth with the two white “Beamers” sandwiched jumping as high as second and third at one point in the race when the Porsche fell out of the top three. However, late in the fifth hour, the Porsche moved into the lead when the Ferarri pitted and then dropped back to second when it had to pit.

At 5:46 pm (7h 18m running), top three in class:.
(1) #07-P1 Marc Gene (Peugeot 908 HDI FAP) 226 laps (0.000-)
(2) #08-P1 Sebastien Bourdais (Peugeot 908 HDI FAP) 226 laps (6.633-)
(3) #007-P1 Stefan Mucke (Lola B09 60/Aston Martin) 222 laps (-4 Laps)

(4) #1-P2 Simon Pagenaud (HPD ARX-01c) 221 laps (-5 Laps)
(5) #6-P2 Greg Pickett (Porsche RS Spyder) 216 laps (-10 Laps)
(28) #16-P2 Chris Dyson (Lola B09 86/Mazda) 170 laps (-56 Laps)

(7) #62-GT2 Gianmaria Bruni (Ferrari 430 GT) 202 laps (-24 Laps)
(8) #45-GT2 Jorg Bergmeister (Porsche 911 GT3 RSR) 202 laps (-24 Laps)
(9) #92-GT2 Tommy Milner (BMW E92 M3) 202 laps (-24 Laps)

(10) #55-LMPC Christophe Bouchut (Oreca FLM09) 201 laps (-25 Laps)
(17) #99-LMPC Gunnar Jeannette (Oreca FLM09) 194 laps (-32 Laps)
(27) #36-LMPC JR Hildebrand (Oreca FLM09) 176 laps (-50 Laps)

(20) #81-GTC Leh Keen (Porsche 911 GT3 Cup) 190 laps (-36 Laps)
(21) #23-GTC Romeo Kapudija (Porsche 911 GT3 Cup) 188 laps (-38 Laps)
(22) #40-GT2 David Robertson (Doran Design Ford GT) 188 laps (-38 Laps)