Petit Le Mans

The Petit Le Mans is an endurance sports cars racing on the track at Road Atlanta in Braselton, Georgia.

The racing event

The race was first held on 10 October 1998 as a race in the IMSA series. Since 1999, it counted for the American Le Mans Series. It is carried out according to the rules for the 24 Hours of Le Mans of the Automobile Club de l' Ouest (ACO ), which also can be modified, however slightly, to allow for the launch other vehicles. The race distance is 1000 miles, or 10 hours, whichever is reached first. In all sweeps until 2008 the winning team could travel 1000 miles so far.

2009, the race was, however, paused by heavy rain after 4.5 hours initially and later stopped completely. In addition to overall victory is fought in different classes in each case to the class wins. 2011, these were the three prototype classes, LMP1, LMP2 and LMPC and the three GT classes GT, GTE and GTC AM. The winners of the classes will be held at Le Mans, are automatically invited to next year's 24 -hour race in Le Mans.

Results

Overall and class winner

Overall winners are highlighted in bold.

Nicolas Lapierre Sports car racing Georgia (U.S. state) International Motor Sports Association Italy Eric van de Poele Wayne Taylor France Emmanuel Collard Bob Wollek Freisinger Motorsport Australia David Brabham Andy Wallace (racing driver) Panoz LMP-1 Roadster-S Oreca Olivier Beretta Karl Wendlinger Chrysler Viper GTS-R Sascha Maassen Audi Sport North America Allan McNish Rinaldo Capello Chevrolet Corvette C5-R Frank Biela Emanuele Pirro Milka Duno Hans-Joachim Stuck BMW M3 Tom Kristensen Lucas Luhr Finland Johnny Herbert MG-Lola EX257 Prodrive Alain Menu Peter Kox Timo Bernhard Romain Dumas Marco Werner Jan Magnussen Chevrolet Corvette C6.R Team Penske Porsche RS Spyder Aston Martin Racing Darren Turner Aston Martin DBR9 Max Papis Flying Lizard Motorsports Marc Lieb Ryan Briscoe Brazil Franck Montagny Peugeot 908 HDi FAP Butch Leitzinger Pierre Kaffer Portugal Level 5 Motorsports Alexander Wurz Ryan Lewis AF Corse Giancarlo Fisichella Gianmaria Bruni Michele Rugolo Jeroen Bleekemolen Rebellion Racing Neel Jani Nicolas Prost Andrea Belicchi Ryan Dalziel Toni Vilander
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