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Peugeot instead of Audi claimed a double victory during the 1000 kms of Spa. Alexander Wurz, Marc Gene |
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and Anthony Davidson claimed the first spot, Stephane Sarrazin, Franck Montagny and Nicolas Minassian |
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completed the success for Peugeot claiming second place. Wouldn’t the nr. 9 Peugeot suffer from |
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suspension problems, Peugeot would have crushed Audi with a 1, 2, 3 podium. After six hours the Audi |
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R18 of Tom Kristensen, Rinaldo Capello and Allan McNish finished third. |
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As expected Audi took the lead but as soon as the front runners breaked for Les Combes, Allan McNish |
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spun his R18 due to late braking. One of the other early run offs was the Team Felbermayr-Proton Porsche |
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of Porsche factory driver Marc Lieb. His Porsche ended up in the kitty litter after contact with the AF Corse |
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Ferrari F458 of Giancarlo Fisichella. Lieb managed to get back to his team and after losing several laps he |
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rejoined the race. Peugeot managed to close the gap with the Audi’s significant and after the first pit |
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stops Alexander Wurz took the lead of the Spa 1000 kms. With 150 minutes the French lion’s claimed first, |
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second and third spot. The safetycar was deployed after Christophe Bouchout crashed his Lola HPD heavily |
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after suffering from a suspension failure. The Frenchman was unhurt what rather couldn’t be said from his |
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heavily damaged LMP2 car. After six hours Peugeot claimed a double victory in front of the Audi of Tom |
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Kristensen who finished third. In LMP2 victory was claimed by the TDS Racing Oreca Nissan of Mathias |
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Beche, Pierre Thiriet and Jody Firth. Second place went to Boutsen Energy Racing Oreca-Nissan of Dominik |
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Kraihamer and Nicolas de Crem. Jonny Kane, Nick Leventis and Danny Watts took the final spot on the |
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podium with the HPD-ARX. In LME GTE Pro former F1 driver Giancarlo Fisichella and his team mate Gianmaria |
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Bruni claimed victory in the AF Corse Ferrari F458 Italia. Dominik Farnbacher and Allan Simonsen finished |
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second in their ‘458’. BMW drivers Andy Priaulx and Uwe Alzen scored the third and final spot on the |
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podium. Raymond Narac and Nicolas Armindo claimed victory in the LM GTE Am division, in Formula Le Mans |
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victory went to the Pegasus Racing Oreca of Julien Schell, Mirco Schultis and Patrick Simon. |
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ATS Formel 3 Cup |
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The German ATS Formel 3 Cup settled down at Spa for two races during the LMS weekend. Marco |
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Sörensen claimed his first F3 victory during the race on Friday. Polesitter Richie Stanaway finally managed a |
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second place, Alon Day finished third. The second race became a prey for championship leader Stanaway |
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who crossed the finish line first. Marco Sörensen scored his second podium of the weekend, Klaus Bachler |
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claimed the final and third spot on the podium. |
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Furthermore both Speed Series and the Radical Masters had races over the weekend. |
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Reports in Dutch can be found here: |
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Sportdome.nl : LMS: Audi geeft Peugeot het nakijken in Spa |
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Sportdome.nl : LMS: Team Joest Audi´s geven tempo aan in Spa |
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Sportdome.nl : LMS: Audi pakt met overmacht pole in Spa |
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Sportdome.nl : LMS: pole voor AF Corse Ferrari 458 in Spa |
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Sportdome.nl : LMS: Peugeot slaat Audi om de oren met een dubbele overwinning in Spa |
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More photographs of this event can be found here : |
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