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Petit Le Mans - Final: Audi wins, but lots of drama in the end

The final minutes of the 2006 Petit Le Mans turned out to be a real horror movie for some teams. With only 10 laps to go the #1 Audi came into the pit in what looked like a splash-and-dash. But whe […]

Petit Le Mans - Hour 9: It’s not over yet…

Well into the final part of the race with the only light coming from the floodlights and headlights the race seemed to be consolidating. There was no real fighting for position in the last hour and […]

Petit Le Mans - Hour 8: Into the dark

It was getting darker as the race went into its eighth hour and most teams are now switching their headlights on. Tomas Enge in the Aston Martin overtook Ron Fellows in the Corvette and a nice batt […]

Petit Le Mans - Hour 7: The drama continues

Into the seventh hour and with just over 250 laps done the battle in LMP2 continued. The Intersport Racing was still ahead of the Penske Motorsport Porsche. Marcel Tiemann touched the wall in […]

Petit Le Mans - Hour 6: The LMP2 battle starts again

With a big cloud of smoke and a lot of flames the #16 Dyson Lola, with Andy Wallace behind the steering wheel, left the Petit Le Mans race. The engine blow-up also meant the fifth full course yello […]

Petit Le Mans - Hour 5: Halfway there!

The fifth hour of the Petit Le Mans American Le Mans Series race did not have as much action as the previous hours. The Audi’s R10 in the hands of McNish and Pirro were sti […]

Petit Le Mans - Hour 4: GT2 action time!

The fourth hour of the race finally brought real action in the GT2 class. Farnbacher in the #23 Alex Job Racing Porsche and Wolf Henzler in the #45 Flying Lizard Porsche were within a few tenths of […]

Petit Le Mans - Hour 3: Smith crashes out, Audi 1-2

The first real action in the third hour came from Guy Smith. The British driver passed the Audi R10 of Capello and started chasing the leading Audi in the hands of Biela. Both Penske Motorsport Spy […]

Petit Le Mans - Hour 2 Update

At the start of the second hour the #6 Penske Motorsport Porsche RS Spyder got into major troubles in the pit lane. The team removed the bonnet and were still investigating the problem when the gre […]

Petit Le Mans underway - Hour 1 report

The Petit Le Mans race at Road Atlanta has started at 17:45 CET without any major problems. After the warmup laps Minassian came on the throttle too early and instead of a green flag there were yel […]

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