Puegeot's single car entry will start from pole for the 2008 Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta. Stephane Sarrazin's time of 1:06.242 (138.039 mph) just edged out the Audi Sport North America's R10 of Allan McNish by 0.085 seconds to set up another classic confrontation between the two giants of international sports prototype racing.
“We are very happy,“ said Sarrazin, who also captured pole position at the 24 Hours of Le Mans the last two years for Peugeot. “It is very good for us and the team. We will focus now on a good start and a long race for tomorrow. It is a different target now than Sebring (in March). We were a newer car then and we did not finish. Then we advanced at Le Mans, so now we have even more time with the car.“
The rapid improvement in Le Mans racing was clearly evident as in the top 15 qualifiers were all under Marco Werner's pole-winning time of 1:08.906 (132.703 mph) from 2006, with Sarrazin 2.564 seconds under. Werner, himself qualified third in the second of the Audi R10 TDIs at 1:06.818 (136.849 mph).
Penske Racing's Ryan Briscoe led a Porsche sweep of the top three qualifying positions in LMP2.
Briscoe made a triumphant return to Road Atlanta with a class-record pole run of 1:07.061 (136.353 mph) in one of Penske's three Porsche RS Spyders that he will share with two-time Indianapolis 500 winner Helio Castroneves.
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Peugeot dominated the Nurbugring 1000 with a win for the driving team of Stephane Sarrazin and Pedro Lamy. It was the perfect weekend for the French marque with pole position and a race one, two all at the home circuit of major rival Audi.
Nicolas Minassian and Marc Gene also in a Peugeot 908 were second, one lap ahead of the first Audi of Alexandre Premat and Mike Rockenfeller.
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Saturday, October 4, 2008
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