Motorsports News: Peugeot 1-2 Finish at Sebring

The No 07 car driven by Alexander Wurz, Marc Gené and new boy Anthony Davidson finished ahead of the N0 08 sister car of Sébastien Bourdais, Nicolas Minassian and Pedro Lamy.

After starting the 12 Hours of Sebring from the front row of the grid, the two Peugeot 908 HDi FAPs were never separated by more than a handful of seconds, despite the searing heat, traffic, safety car appearances and race incidents.

The two Peugeot 908 HDi FAPs were not slowed by the slightest mechanical problem, and the team will be looking to confirm further the car’s excellent reliability when it stays on for two more days of testing at the circuit, today and Tuesday.

At the end of the day, all that split the two machines at the finish were a puncture, two spins and their respective pit stops. After 12 hours of racing, it was finally the No 07 Peugeot of Marc Gené, Alexander Wurz and Anthony Davidson which took the chequered flag in first place after 367 laps, closely followed by the sister car in the hands of Sébastien Bourdais, Nicolas Minassian and Pedro Lamy.

After the 2009 Le Mans and last autumn’s Petit Le Mans, Sebring is Peugeot’s third straight one-two finish. It is also the first win for a French car in the American classic and puts an end to 11 years of German domination of the race.

Final Positions

1 – Peugeot 908 HDi FAP 07 (Davidson/Gené/Wurz), 367 laps in 12h 0m 54.362s
2 – Peugeot 908 HDi FAP 08 (Bourdais/Lamy/Minassian), + 13.817s
3 – Lola-Judd (Mucke/Primat/Fernandez), + 3 laps
4 – Porsche RS Spyder (Pickett/Graf/Maassen), +14 laps
5 – Honda (Pagenaud/Brabham/Franchitti), + 18 laps

Credits: wilswong