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Wednesday, October 10, 2007
The Braselton News
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only realized when I crossed the
line that I knew Romain was the
closest car to me. If the yellow
had not have come out, I don’t
think I could have caught him.
He had a very good pace. In
the second half of the race, they
became very, very fast and gave
us a hard time.”
Dumas, Timo Bernhard and
Patrick Long won in LMP2 but it
could have been a landmark win
for a Penske and Porsche effort
that had taken the previous eight
overall wins. It very well could
have been nine were it not for the
last caution period.
“The target was to do 70 per
cent of the race to take the points
for the championships,” Dumas
said. “Unfortunately the safety
car came out and took away our
gap. We won Mosport with luck
and today the luck was on the
other side. I tried to keep pres
sure on Dindo. It was a great race
and a good race.”
Dumas drove the last hour on
a single set of tires and tank of
fuel in a heroic effort that also
clinched the P2 championship
for the two Porsche factory driv
ers. It is the first for Dumas and
second for Bernhard.
Dumas finished eight laps up
on the No. 20 Dyson Racing
Porsche of Chris Dyson and Guy
Smith, who recorded their best
finish of the season. Third in class
and fourth overall was the fac
tory Zytek No. 5 of Jan Charouz,
Stefan Mucke and Danny Watts.
Next was the No. 88 Creation
Autosportif entry of Jamie
Campbell-Walter, Harold Primat
and Christophe Tinseau, which
finished second in Pi.
Oliver Gavin and Olivier
Beretta wrapped up their third
straight GT1 championship
with a class victory in the No. 4
Corvette C6.R with Max Papis.
The trio survived the carnage
as both the No. 3 Corvette and
Lista Doran Racing’s pole-sitting
Maserati MCI2 went out of the
race with accidents.
“At the start of the race I was
behind Jan (Magnussen) which
was interesting because we had
a pretty good race until he was
punted by the 26 car,” Gavin
said. “From then on we were
managing ourselves against the
Maserati. The traffic was sui
cidal at some points today, peo
ple making some bold moves.
Fortunately everyone in the No.
4 car kept it on the road.”
Gavin, Beretta and Papis repeat
ed their 12-hour win at Sebring
with a smooth and consistent run.
Their scariest moment was a tap
by the No. 2 Audi going through
the esses, which sent the Audi off
track and into the outside wall.
“Today was a very tough day
in terms of traffic,” said Papis,
who was in the Corvette at the
time. “We had our plan set up in
the beginning and drive as hard
as we could to fight with the No.
3 car. I was pretty upset when
I saw the accident with Jan and
my semi-accident with the Audi.
There is no room to pass there
and there’s no way you should
stick your nose in there. I think
the prototype driver was caught
out by the speed of the Corvette.
We have corner speeds that are
similar to some of the prototypes.
I was pretty disappointed to see
the situation.”
The early Corvette accident
also eliminated Flowery Branch
driver Johnny O’Connell’s streak
of 58 consecutive starts come to
It was another victory at the Petit Le Mans for Audi, as the diesel powered racer, piloted by Scottish driver Allan McNish and Italian
Dindo Capello made a late pass in the 10 th running of the sports car classic. It was the duo’s second straight Petit victory.
Photo by Lyn Sengupta.
an end even before he was able to
get into the car.
Flying Lizard Motorsports
led a Porsche parade in GT2
as Jorg Bergmeister, Johannes
van Overbeek and Marc Lieb
drove the No. 45 Porsche 911
GT3 RSR to a three-lap victory
over the Tafel Racing entry of
Dominik Farnbacher and Wolf
Henzler.
“Our car performed pretty well
here thanks to the long straights,”
said Bergmeister, who won at
Petit Le Mans for the fifth year
in a row. “Laguna is going to be
a lot tougher than here because it
suits the Ferrari very well. I don’t
think it looks like we can win the
driver championship.”
The final round of the 2007
American Le Mans Series
is the Monterey Sports Car
Championships atMazda Raceway
Laguna Seca in California. The
four hour event will be held on
Saturday, October 20.
Oliver Gavin and Olivier Beretta grabbed the GT1 class victory, and their third straight championship
for the Corvette team Saturday in the Petit Le Mans at Road Atlanta. Photo by Lyn Sengupta.
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