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The N°7 car leads for Peugeot
14.06.2008:
The N°7 car leads for Peugeot
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LE MANS 24 HOURS (after 5½ hours) Saturday, June 14, 2008
After five and a half hours of racing, Team Peugeot Total leads the 2008 Le Mans 24 Hours after being momentarily dislodged from top-spot when the N°8 Peugeot 908 HDi FAP of early pacesetters Lamy/Sarrazin/Wurz lost six laps following a gear selection problem.
The N°9 car (Montagny/Klien/Zonta) also lost a little ground when it was forced to make an unscheduled pit-stop to repair a faulty headlamp, leaving the N°2 Audi to emerge ahead until the N°7 car (Gené/Minassian/Villeneuve) recovered top-spot at 7.15pm.
At the stroke of 8pm, a sequence of pit-stops for the top-three runners meant that the time-sheets were officially (albeit briefly) topped by the N°9 car. However, once the order had settled again, Jacques Villeneuve found himself back in front… with Montagny chasing hard in the N°9 car.
(Conditions: dry and bright. 20°C à 18°C)
Provisional positions at 20.30:
1, Gené/Minassian/Villeneuve Peugeot 908 HDi FAP (N°7) 93 laps (1,267km)
2, Montagny/Klien/Zonta Peugeot 908 HDi FAP (N°9) +16.357s
3, Capello/Kristensen/McNish Audi R10 +32.500s
4, Luhr/Premat/Rockenfeller Audi R10 +1 lap
...10, Lamy/Sarrazin/Wurz Peugeot 908 HDi FAP (N°8) +6 laps
Etc.
Pit stops and incidents:
N°7 Peugeot 908 HDi FAP (Marc Gené / Nicolas Minassian / Jacques Villeneuve):
17.18: pit-stop (fuel and tyres). Driver change: Marc Gené takes over from Jacques Villeneuve
17.58: pit-stop (fuel).
18.36: Pit-stop (fuel and tyres). Driver change: Nicolas Minassian takes over from Marc Gené.
19.15: Pit-stop (fuel)
19.53: pit-stop (fuel and tyres). Driver change: Jacques Villeneuve takes over from Nicolas Minassian.
N°8 Peugeot 908 HDi FAP (Pedro Lamy / Stéphane Sarrazin / Alexander Wurz):
17.13: pit-stop (fuel and tyres). Driver change: Alexander Wurz takes over from Stéphane Sarrazin. However, the car is pushed back into pits to repair a gear selection problem.
17:36: car leaves pits in 31st position (Wurz six laps behind the leader).
18.14: pit-stop (fuel)
18.54: pit-stop (fuel and tyres). Driver change: Pedro Lamy takes over from Alexander Wurz.
19.30: pit-stop (fuel)
20.09: pit-stop (fuel and tyres). Lamy stays in car
N°9 Peugeot 908 HDi FAP (Franck Montagny / Ricardo Zonta / Christian Klien):
17.18: pit-stop (fuel and tyres). Driver change: Ricardo Zonta takes over from Christian Klien.
17:21: pit-stop to change front-end because of faulty headlights, plus fuel
18.02: pit-stop (fuel).
18.40: pit-stop (fuel and tyres). Driver change: Franck Montagny takes over from Ricardo Zonta.
19.19: pit-stop (tyres)
19.58: pit-stop (fuel and tyres). Franck Montagny stays in car.
Observations:
Just after the two-hour mark, Team Peugeot Total had something of a hectic half hour as first the N°8 car had to be pushed into the garage for work on a gear selection problem box which Sarrazin reported at the very end of his stint. The car rejoined the race six laps later in 31st place. However, with Wurz and Lamy taking turns at the wheel, it had moved up to 17th spot by the four-hour mark.
Meanwhile, the N°9 car was forced to make an unscheduled stop to repair a faulty headlight (change of front cover), and was then called in for a drive-through penalty for failing to comply immediately with the race direction's instruction to stop to repair the light.
These incidents left the N°7 car as the best-placed Peugeot runner on the track in 2nd place, eventually regaining the lead for the French make when he rejoined the track ahead after a pit-stop at 19.15.
The N°8 car continued to move up the order thanks to some extremely fast laps, including a 3m20.931s on Lap 55, the fastest lap of the race so far, and the second fastest lap at Le Mans since Jackie Oliver (1971, 3m18.4s). Montagny then edged a little closer to the outright record with a 3m20.668s, then a 3m20.600 at 8.06pm as he homed in on car N°7.
Quotes:
Marc GENE (N°7 Peugeot 908 HDi FAP): "We've only stopped one more time than our rivals but we're perhaps two or three seconds a lap quicker in general. Our car is quick, and very nicely balanced. It's shaping up to be a great race. I preferred not to take any risks when there was traffic about, but I pushed whenever the track was clear."
Stéphane SARRAZIN (N°8 Peugeot 908 HDi FAP): "My first run in the car went perfectly and we were in the lead when I handed over to Alexander. It was then, though, that I realised there was a problem with the gearshift selection. It's such a shame because it was going so well..."
- Cécile Estenave - photos Peugeot & automobilsport.com
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