Sebring Hour 1: Audi and Peugeot up front

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03/21/09
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Sebring Hour 1: Audi and Peugeot up front

Mike Rockenfeller in the No. 2 Audi running in 2nd place

Peugeot's Pedro Lamy and Audi's Allan McNish waged an incredible battle for the overall lead at Sebring at the one-hour mark of the 57th Mobil 1 Twelve Hours of Sebring presented by Fresh from Florida. McNish in the new Audi R15 TDI got around Lamy in the Peugeot 908 at the 1:05 mark as the two diesel powers locked horns.

The pairing was six seconds clear of Mike Rockenfeller in the second diesel Audi. The pole winning De Ferran Acura was fading fast, obviously slower on the straights than the Audi and Peugeot.

In LMP2, the pole-sitting Lowe's Fernandez Racing Acura ARX-01b and Luis Diaz held a 35-second lead over Dyson Racing's Butch Leitzinger and his Mazda-powered Lola coupe.

Johnny O'Connell had gotten around Corvette Racing teammate Olivier Beretta to reclaim the class lead for the GT1 pole-sitting Corvette C6.R. This is the last race at Sebring for the GT1 C6.R.

Dirk Werner held a 25-second lead for Farnbacher Loles Racing and its Porsche 911 GT3 RSR in GT2. The German pole-winner led over the Ferrari F430 GTs of Mika Salo from Risi Competizione and Mathias Russo for Advanced Engineering Pecom Racing.

Standings at 1.5-Hour mark (Noon ET)

Pos	Num	CL	CP	Car	Driver	Laps	Behind	Gap	Best Lap
1	2	P1	1	Audi R15 TDI	Allan McNish	48	---	---	1:45.232
2	1	P1	2	Audi R15 TDI	Mike Rockenfeller	48	-3.127	-3.127	1:45.371
3	08	P1	3	Peugeot 908 HDI FAP	Franck Montagny	48	-27.873	-24.746	1:45.282
4	66	P1	4	Acura ARX-02a	Gil de Ferran	48	-86.950	-59.077	1:47.648
5	07	P1	5	Peugeot 908 HDI FAP	Nicolas Minassian	48	-95.096	-8.146	1:45.512
6	9	P1	6	Acura ARX-02a	David Brabham	47	-1 lap	-1 lap	1:47.451
7	15	P2	1	Acura ARX-01B	Luis Diaz	46	-2 lap	-1 lap	1:51.367
8	20	P2	2	Lola B09 86 Mazda	Butch Leitzinger	45	-3 lap	-1 lap	1:53.321
9	16	P2	3	Lola B09 86 Mazda	Chris Dyson	45	-3 lap	-9.746	1:52.075
10	12	P1	7	Lola B06/10 AER	Tony Burgess	44	-4 lap	-1 lap	1:51.773
11	37	P1	8	Lola B06/10 AER	Chapman Ducote	44	-4 lap	-0.171	1:51.721
12	3	GT1	1	Corvette C6-R	Johnny O'Connell	44	-4 lap	-55.627	1:57.801
13	4	GT1	2	Corvette C6-R	Olivier Beretta	44	-4 lap	-8.971	1:57.696
14	87	GT2	1	Porsche 911 GT3 RSR	Dirk Werner	42	-6 lap	-2 lap	2:03.754
15	62	GT2	2	Ferrari F430 GT	Jaime Melo	42	-6 lap	-37.123	2:04.311
16	95	GT2	3	Ferrari 430 GT	Mathias Russo	42	-6 lap	-14.418	2:04.126
17	92	GT2	4	BMW E92 M3	Dirk Mueller	41	-7 lap	-1 lap	2:04.887
18	21	GT2	5	Panoz Esperante GTLM Ford	Ian James	41	-7 lap	-0.837	2:04.716
19	61	GT2	6	Ferrari F430 GT	Nic Jonsson	41	-7 lap	-37.825	2:05.073
20	11	GT2	7	Dodge Viper Comp Coupe	Chris Hall	40	-8 lap	-1 lap	2:06.479
21	28	GT2	8	Chevrolet Riley Corvette C6	Lucas Molo	40	-8 lap	-84.335	2:07.254
22	44	GT2	9	Porsche 911 GT3 RSR	Darren Law	40	-8 lap	-16.914	2:05.545
23	40	GT2	10	Doran Ford GT MK 7	Andrea Robertson	38	-10 lap	-2 lap	2:05.581
24	007	GT2	11	Aston Martin Vantage GT2	Jonny Cocker	36	-12 lap	-2 lap	2:05.468
25	45	GT2	12	Porsche 911 GT3 RSR	Patrick Long	36	-12 lap	-14.399	2:03.551
26	90	GT2	13	BMW E92 M3	Bill Auberlen	19	-29 lap	-17 lap	2:05.175

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