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Last Auto account – Le Mans 2009 Peugeot secures an affecting achievement in archetypal French ability event.

French close Peugeot denticulate a memorable home achievement in endure weekend’s Le Mans 24-hour race. The band took a acceptable one-two win advanced of Audi, catastrophe the German outfit’s ascendancy of the archetypal event.

The acceptable car of Alexander Wurz, Marc Gene and David Brabham completed 382 laps of the 8.5 mile circuit, finishing over a lap advanced of the pole-sitting 908 HDI of aggregation mates Sebastien Bourdais, Franck Montagny and Stephane Sarrazin.

After assorted mistakes amount Peugeot a win in the antecedent two years, administration were bent not accomplish any errors. However, their hopes for a faultless chase were abject aural an hour if pit aggregation appear the 908 HDI of Pedro Lamy into the aisle of the abreast entered Pescarolo Peugeot.

The appulse damaged both cars, with the branch backed apparatus blow an hour on the leaders as it underwent repairs. Disaster again addled the arch Peugeot of Bourdais, Montagny and Sarrazin afterwards a abeyance botheration alone their car for 10 minutes.

But these issues were accessory compared to trials of eight-times winners Audi. The usually well-organised German aggregation had a anarchic race, with believability problems and crashes captivation up its leash of R15 TDI racers.

After alone two laps the car of Alexandre Premat, Timo Bernhard and Romain Dumas suffered ability council failure, which resulted in a accessory accident. Further off clue excursions and aliment in the pits again alone it afore finishing in a average seventeenth place.

The apparatus of Lucas Luhr, Mike Rockenfeller and Marco Werner had an even added black race, abolition heavily into retirement with beneath than seven hours of the chase already run.

It was larboard to endure year’s champ Allan McNish to avert Audi’s honour, accepting the final belvedere abode on the R15′s Le Mans debut. However, he and adolescent drivers Dindo Capello and Tom Kristensen still had their fair allotment of analytical faults, which appropriate a amount of unscheduled trips to the pits.

Behind the arch trio, Aston Martin denticulate the honours for top petrol-powered car with Jan Charouz, Tomas Enge and Stephane Mucke finishing in fourth place.

Further down the field, Corvette acclaimed its final actualization in the GT1 class with a ascendant victory. The American band was on advance for a one-two result, with both cars aural abnormal of anniversary added afterwards 21 hours of apace racing. Sadly a automated accountability alone one of the V8-powered machines with beneath than two-hours remaining.

However, there were no such apropos for the acceptable Peugeot of Wurz, Gene and Brabham. Their 908 HDI ran about absolutely for the 24 hours, demography the advance afterwards alone 7 hours racing.

â??We had a abundant aggregation abaft us, and a astounding carâ?, exclaimed Wurz. â??It’s a absurd activity to accept won in France in a French carâ?.

Results

1. Brabham/Gene/Wurz    Peugeot 908 HDi FAP     382 laps
2. Bourdais/Montagny/Sarrazin     Peugeot 908 HDi FAP     381 laps
3. Capello/Kristensen/McNish     Audi R15 TDI     376 laps
4. Charouz/Enge/Mucke    Lola-Aston Martin    373 laps
5. Panis/Lapierre/Ayari    Oreca 01-AIM     370 laps
6. Minassian/Lamy/Klien     Peugeot 908 HDi FAP     369 laps
7. Zwolsman/Karthikeyan/Lotterer        Audi R10 TDI     369 laps
8. Tinseau/Juoanny/Barbosa     Pescarolo 01-Judd     368 laps
9. Albers/Bakkerud/Mondini     Audi R10 TDI     360 laps
10. Elgaard/Poulsen/Collard     Porsche RS Spyder     357 laps
11.Ragues/Mailleux/Andre         Courage-Oreca LC70E-Judd     344 laps
12. Leuenberger/Pompidou/Kane     Lola B08/80-Judd     343laps
13. Davidson/Turner/Verstappen     Lola-Aston Martin    342 laps
14. Belicchi/Prost/Jani     Lola B08/60-Aston Martin     342 laps
15. O’Connell/Magnussen/Garcia     Corvette C6.R     342laps
16. Maassen/Jousse/Clairay     Corvette C6.R     336 laps
17. Bernhard/Premat/Dumas    Audi R15 TDI     333 laps
18. Melo/Kaffer/Salo    Ferrari F430 GT2    329 laps
19. Babini/Malucelli/Ruberti     Ferrari F430 GT2     327 laps
20. Nicolet/Hein/Yvon    Pescarolo Mazda     325 laps
21. Hardman/Leventis/Watts    Ginetta-Zytek 09S     325 laps
22. Krohn/van de Poele/Jonsson    Ferrari F430 GT2     323 laps
23. Bell/Kirkaldy/Sugden         Ferrari F430 GT2     320 laps
24. Campbell-Walter/Ickx/Ianetta     Creation CA07-Judd     319 laps
25. Coronel/Bleekemolen/Janis    Spyker C8 Laviolette GT2-R     319 laps
26. Bruni/Perez Companc/Russo     Ferrari F430 GT2     317 laps
27. Mansell/Ehret/Rusinov     Aggregation Ferrari F430 GT2     314 laps
28. Barazi/Moseley/Bennett    Zytek 07S/2     306 laps
29. Rodrigues/Lebon/Bouchut     Ferrari F430 GT2     304 laps
30. Dempsey/Kitch Jr/Foster     Ferrari F430 GT2     301 laps
31. Lichtner-Hoyer/Gruber/Muller     Aston Martin DBR9     294 laps
32. McInerney/McInerney/Vergers     Ferrari F430 GT2     280 laps

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