{"id":795,"date":"2009-06-14T09:15:18","date_gmt":"2009-06-14T14:15:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.tertrerougetimes.com\/?p=795"},"modified":"2009-06-14T09:31:32","modified_gmt":"2009-06-14T14:31:32","slug":"at-the-end-the-peugeot-lion-finally-roars","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/tertrerougetimes.com\/?p=795","title":{"rendered":"At the End, the Peugeot Lion finally roars"},"content":{"rendered":"
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The 2009 Peugeot 908 HDI FAP crosses the finish line of the 24 hours of Le Mans for victory<\/div>\n<\/div>Le Mans, France – In the end it was\u00a0three long years of\u00a0 hard work that finally paid off at 3:00PM on Sunday June 14th 2009 for the Total Peugeot 908 HDI FAP team.<\/p>\n

The French lion finally roared to a win at the 24 hours of Le Mans with a wire-to-wire victory. The Peugeot 908 HDI FAP team of Alex Wurz, David Brabham, and Marc Gene led for most of the race, and had\u00a0few\u00a0problems. Second place was the\u00a0Peugeot 908 HDI FAP of Stephane Sarrazin, Franck Montagny, and local Sabastien Bourdais .<\/p>\n

Te win seemd to\u00a0prove that\u00a0Peugeot’s reliability issues are a thing of the past.<\/p>\n

The third place Audi R15 TDI driven by Tom Kristensen, Dindo Cappelo, and Allan McNish suffered problems thoughout the race, including overheating of the turbos, and also requiring \u00a0a steering wheel, replacement, \u00a0and ECU change Sunday. The vaunted Audi team which had won eight of the last 10 years finished six laps off the Peugeot pace.<\/p>\n

Wolfgang Ullrich, the Audi Director of Racing, \u00a0indicated that if it were up to him the Audi team would return to take up the Peugeot challenge — but the decision lies with the Audi Board and no decision either way has been made at this writing.<\/p>\n

\u00a0In the end, the winning LMP1 Peugeot 908 HDI FAP drove 382 laps for approxamatly 3235 miles, roughly driving from Seattle, WA USA, to Miami, FL USA in the 24 hour period.<\/p>\n

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Final Results by Class:<\/p>\n

Pos # Team Driver in Pit Laps<\/p>\n

LMP1
\n1. 9 Peugeot Sport Total GENE Marc\u00a0 382
\n2. 8 Team Peugeot Total BOURDAIS Sebastien\u00a0 381
\n3. 1 Audi Sport Team Joest KRISTENSEN Tom\u00a0 375
\n4. 007 AMR Eastern Europe ENGE Thomas\u00a0 373
\n5. 11 Team Oreca Matmut AIM AYARI Soheil\u00a0 370
\n6. 7 Team Peugeot Total MINASSIAN Nicolas\u00a0 369
\n7. 14 Kolles LOTTERER Andre\u00a0 369
\n8. 16 Pescarolo Sport TINSEAU Christophe\u00a0 368
\n9. 15 Kolles ALBERS Christian\u00a0 360
\n10. 12 Signature Plus RAGUES Pierre\u00a0 344<\/p>\n

LMP2
\n1. 31 Team Essex ELGAARD Casper\u00a0 357
\n2. 33 Speedy Racing Sebah POMPIDOU Xavier\u00a0 343
\n3. 5 Navi Team Goh ARA Seiji\u00a0 339
\n4. 24 OAK Racing NICOLET Jacques\u00a0 325
\n5. 32 Team Barazi Epsilon MOSELEY Stuart\u00a0 306
\n6. 25 RML ERDOS Tommy\u00a0 273
\n7. 39 KSM NODA Hideki\u00a0 261
\n8. 35 OAK Racing LAHAYE Matthieu\u00a0 208
\n9. 30 Racing Box PICCINI Andrea\u00a0 203\u00a0
\n10. 41 G.A.C. Racing Team PETER Philipp\u00a0 102<\/p>\n

GT1
\n1. 63 Corvette Racing O CONNELL Johny\u00a0 342
\n2. 73 Alphand Aventures JOUSSE Julien\u00a0 336
\n3. 64 Corvette Racing FASSLER Marcel\u00a0 311
\n4. 66 Jetalliance Racing Gmbh LICHTNER-HOYER Lukas\u00a0 294
\n5. 72 Alphand Aventures GOUESLARD Patrice\u00a0 99\u00a0
\n6. 68 JLOC YAMAGISHI Yutaka\u00a0 1<\/p>\n

GT2
\n1. 82 Risi Competizione MELO Jaime\u00a0 329
\n2. 97 BMS Scuderia Italia BABINI Fabio\u00a0 327
\n3. 83 Risi Competizione KROHN Tracy\u00a0 323
\n4. 92 JMW Motorsport BELL Robert\u00a0 320
\n5. 85 Snoras Spyker Squadron JANIS Jarek\u00a0 319
\n6. 78 AF Corse RUSSO Matias\u00a0 317
\n7. 84 Team Modena MANSELL Leo\u00a0 314
\n8. 99 JMB Racing RODRIGUES Manuel\u00a0 304
\n9. 81 Advanced Engineering DEMPSEY Patrick\u00a0 301
\n10. 96 Virgo Motorsport McINERNEY Michael\u00a0 280<\/p>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The 2009 Peugeot 908 HDI FAP crosses the finish line of the 24 hours of Le Mans for victory Le Mans, France – In the end it was\u00a0three long years of\u00a0 hard work that finally paid off at 3:00PM on Sunday June 14th 2009 for the Total Peugeot 908 HDI FAP team. The French lion […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-795","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-le-mans-2009"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/tertrerougetimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/tertrerougetimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/tertrerougetimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tertrerougetimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tertrerougetimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=795"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"http:\/\/tertrerougetimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":859,"href":"http:\/\/tertrerougetimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/795\/revisions\/859"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/tertrerougetimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=795"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tertrerougetimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=795"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/tertrerougetimes.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=795"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}