Le Mans

With a little under 2 hours until we have reached the half way mark for the 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans, Peugeot still leads the way. The Audi R15 is still hanging in second place, but the 908 HDI FAP still looks very strong, This could be Peugeot’s year to win it all, of course it is still their race to loose, and Le Mans has a way of handing teams upsets.

Le Mans, France – With just over 7 hours of the 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans completed, Lucas Luhr has crashed the No. 2 Audi R15 TDI in the Porsche Curves. Lucas is ok, however the car is very badly damages, with substantial damage to the rear end, and has been retired officially from the race.

Le Mans, France – With just a little over six hours of the 2009 24 Hours of Le Mans completed, we have entered the quarter mark. The last hour has seen a lot of action. Contact between the No. 009 Aston Martin and the No. 26 Radical just after the Ford Chicane, bringing out the Safety car, and a round of pit stops for all of the front runners. The No. 3 Audi R15 TDI was running slowly, and returned to the pits, where it was taken into the garage. Currently the front and rear is off of the car, and the crew is busily working on it. The Navi Team Goh from Japan in their Porsche RS Spyder has taken over the lead of LMP2.

In LMGT2 Ferrari has a One, Two, Three after problems with the No. 76 Porsche 911 GT3 RSR Team IMSA Performance Matmut of France. Currently the No. 82 Ferrari F430 GT Risi Compitizione is leading, with No. 92 JMW Motorsports Ferrari F430 Second. The No. 78 Team AF Corse Ferrari of Italy is Third.

Current Running order by Class:

Pos # Team Driver in Pit Laps

LMP1
1 9 Peugeot Sport Total WURZ Alexander  99
2 1 Audi Sport Team Joest CAPELLO Rinaldo  98
3 2 Audi Sport North America LUHR Lucas  98
4 008 Aston Martin Racing DAVIDSON A  97
5 17 Pescarolo Sport TRELUYER Benoit  97
6 8 Team Peugeot Total BOURDAIS Sebastien  97
7 007 AMR Eastern Europe CHAROUZ Jan  96
8 14 Kolles ZWOLSMAN Charles  96
9 15 Kolles MONDINI Giorgio  95
10 11 Team Oreca Matmut AIM AYARI Soheil  95

LMP2
1 5 Navi Team Goh KUNIMOTO Keisuke  93
2 31 Team Essex COLLARD Emmanuel  93
3 33 Speedy Racing Sebah KANE Jonny  91
4 25 RML DYSON Chris  89
5 41 G.A.C. Racing Team GOSSELIN Claude-Yves  88
6 32 Team Barazi Epsilon BARAZI Juan  88
7 30 Racing Box BOBBI Matteo  88
8 35 OAK Racing AJLANI Karim  87
9 24 OAK Racing HEIN Richard  85
10 26 Bruichladdich Bruneau GREAVES Tim  65

LMGT1
1 63 Corvette Racing MAGNUSSEN Jan  88
2 64 Corvette Racing GAVIN Olivier  88
3 72 Alphand Aventures ALPHAND Luc  86
4 73 Alphand Aventures CLAIRAY Yan  86
5 66 Jetalliance Racing Gmbh MULLER Alex  56
6 68 JLOC YAMAGISHI Yutaka  1

LMGT2
1 82 Risi Competizione KAFFER Pierre  85
2 78 AF Corse BRUNI Gianmaria  84
3 92 JMW Motorsport KIRKALDY Andrew  84
4 76 Imsa Performance Matmut NARAC Raymond  84
5 97 BMS Scuderia Italia RUBERTI Paolo  83
6 80 Flying Lizard Motorsport LAW Darren  83
7 85 Snoras Spyker Squadron BLEEKEMOLEN Jeroen  83
8 89 Hankook-Farnbacher FARNBACHER Dominik  83
9 83 Risi Competizione KROHN Tracy  83
10 99 JMB Racing RODRIGUES Manuel  82