2012 Petit Le Mans

The 15h Annual Petit Le Mans was an endurance auto race held at the Road Atlanta circuit in Braselton, Georgia on October 20, 2012. The race served as the final round of both the American Le Mans Series and European Le Mans Series seasons.

Nicolas Prost, Neel Jani, and Andrea Belicchi of Rebellion Racing won the event by a three lap margin after qualifying on pole position in only the team's second attempt at the race. Level 5 Motorsports's two cars finished in second and third overall and lead the P2 category, while TDS Racing led home the European Le Mans Series contingent with fourth place overall. CORE Autosport won the PC category by two laps over RSR Racing. In GT Extreme Speed Motorsports led the class for Ferrari over Corvette Racing, while IMSA Performance Matmut was the sole survivor in the GTE Am category. NGT Motorsport dominated the GTC class with five laps over TRG who held second and third place.

Race

Result

Rebellion Racing won the race overall and in P1

Level 5 Motorsports won the P2 class.

CORE Autosport won the LMPC class.

The GT class winners were Extreme Speed Motorsports.

The GTE-Am class for ELMS competitors was won by IMSA Performance.

NGT Motorsports took honors in the GTC class.

Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of their class winner's distance are marked as Not Classified (NC).^[1]

Pos	Class	No	Team	Drivers	Chassis	Tire	Laps
					Engine
1	P1	12	Rebellion Racing	Neel Jani Nicolas Prost Andrea Belicchi	Lola B12/60	M	394
					Toyota RV8KLM 3.4 L V8
2	P2	95	Level 5 Motorsports	Scott Tucker Christophe Bouchut Luis Díaz	HPD ARX-03b	D	391
					Honda HR28TT 2.8 L Turbo V6
3	P2	055	Level 5 Motorsports	Scott Tucker Dario Franchitti Marino Franchitti	HPD ARX-03b	D	390
					Honda HR28TT 2.8 L Turbo V6
4	P2	46	Thiriet by TDS Racing	Pierre Thiriet Christophe Tinseau Mathias Beche	Oreca 03	D	390
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
5		0	DeltaWing Nissan	Gunnar Jeannette Lucas Ordoñez	DeltaWing	M	388
					Nissan 1.6 L Turbo I4
6	PC	06	CORE Autosport	Alex Popow Ryan Dalziel Mark Wilkins	Oreca FLM09	M	385
					Chevrolet 6.2 L V8
7	P2	35	OAK Racing	Jacques Nicolet Olivier Pla Bertrand Baguette	Morgan LMP2	D	383
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
8	PC	9	RSR Racing	Bruno Junqueira Tomy Drissi Ricardo Vera	Oreca FLM09	M	383
					Chevrolet 6.2 L V8
9	PC	52	PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports	Rudy Junco, Jr. Ken Dobson Elton Julian	Oreca FLM09	M	382
					Chevrolet 6.2 L V8
10	PC	05	CORE Autosport	Colin Braun Jon Bennett Ricardo González	Oreca FLM09	M	381
					Chevrolet 6.2 L V8
11	PC	8	Merchant Services Racing	Kyle Marcelli Matt Downs Chapman Ducote	Oreca FLM09	M	376
					Chevrolet 6.2 L V8
12	GT	01	Extreme Speed Motorsports	Scott Sharp Johannes van Overbeek Toni Vilander	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	M	375
					Ferrari 4.5 L V8
13	GT	3	Corvette Racing	Jan Magnussen Antonio García Jordan Taylor	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	M	375
					Chevrolet 5.5 L V8
14	GT	55	BMW Team RLL	Bill Auberlen Jörg Müller Jonathan Summerton	BMW M3 GT2	D	374
					BMW 4.0 L V8
15	GT	56	BMW Team RLL	Dirk Müller Uwe Alzen Jonathan Summerton	BMW M3 GT2	D	373
					BMW 4.0 L V8
16	GT	45	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Patrick Long Jörg Bergmeister Patrick Pilet	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	M	373
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
17	GT	17	Team Falken Tire	Bryan Sellers Wolf Henzler Martin Ragginger	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	F	372
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
18	PC	25	Dempsey Racing	Duncan Ende Henri Richard Ryan Lewis	Oreca FLM09	M	372
					Chevrolet 6.2 L V8
19	GT	44	Flying Lizard Motorsports	Seth Neiman Marco Holzer Nick Tandy	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	M	369
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
20	GT	91	SRT Motorsports	Kuno Wittmer Dominik Farnbacher Ryan Hunter-Reay	SRT Viper GTS-R	M	369
					SRT 8.0 L V10
21	GT	02	Extreme Speed Motorsports	Ed Brown Guy Cosmo Anthony Lazzaro	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	M	368
					Ferrari 4.5 L V8
22	GT	48	Paul Miller Racing	Bryce Miller Sascha Maassen Richard Lietz	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	D	367
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
23	GTE Am	67	IMSA Performance Matmut	Anthony Pons Nicolas Armindo Raymond Narac	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR	M	363
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
24	GT	23	Lotus Alex Job Racing	Townsend Bell Bill Sweedler Johnny Mowlem	Lotus Evora GTE	Y	360
					Toyota-Cosworth 3.5 L V6
25	GTC	30	NGT Motorsport	Henrique Cisneros Mario Farnbacher Jakub Giermaziak	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	Y	356
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
26	GTC	66	TRG	Emilio Di Guida Spencer Pumpelly Nelson Canache	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	Y	351
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
27	GTC	68	TRG	Emmanuel Collard Mike Hedlund Manuel Gutierrez, Jr.	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	Y	351
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
28	GTC	11	JDX Racing	Chris Cumming Michael Valiante Sean Johnston	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	Y	351
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
29 DNF	GTC	22	Alex Job Racing	Leh Keen Cooper MacNeil Dion von Moltke	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	Y	349
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
30	GT	4	Corvette Racing	Oliver Gavin Richard Westbrook Tommy Milner	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R	M	348
					Chevrolet 5.5 L V8
31	P1	16	Dyson Racing Team	Chris Dyson Guy Smith Steven Kane	Lola B12/60	D	338
					Mazda MZR-R 2.0 L Turbo I4 (Hybrid Butanol)
32	P2	1	Greaves Motorsport	Alex Brundle Alex Buncombe Tom Kimber-Smith	Zytek Z11SN	D	338
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
33	P1	6	Muscle Milk Pickett Racing	Klaus Graf Lucas Luhr Romain Dumas	HPD ARX-03a	M	334
					Honda 3.4 L V8
34 DNF	P2	118	Murphy Prototypes	Warren Hughes Jody Firth Brendon Hartley	Oreca 03	D	330
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
35 DNF	P1	20	Dyson Racing Team	Tony Burgess Chris McMurry Mark Patterson	Lola B11/66	D	322
					Mazda MZR-R 2.0 L Turbo I4 (Butanol)
36	GTC	31	NGT Motorsport	Angel Benitez, Jr. Mark Bullitt Jeff Segal	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	Y	318
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
37 DNF	GTC	24	Competition Motorsports	Andrew Davis Michael Avenatti David Calvert-Jones	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	Y	267
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
38 DNF	GTE Am	60	AF Corse	Piergiuseppe Perazzini Marco Cioci Matt Griffin	Ferrari 458 Italia GT2	M	232
					Ferrari 4.5 L V8
39 DNF	GT	93	SRT Motorsports	Tommy Kendall Jonathan Bomarito Marc Goossens	SRT Viper GTS-R	M	224
					SRT 8.0 L V10
40 DNF	P2	27	Dempsey Racing	Patrick Dempsey Joe Foster Dane Cameron	Lola B12/87	M	220
					Judd DB 3.6 L V8
41 DNF	GTC	34	Green Hornet Racing	Peter LeSaffre Brian Wong Damien Faulkner	Porsche 997 GT3 Cup	Y	40
					Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
DSQ 1	P2	37	Conquest Endurance	Martin Plowman David Heinemeier Hansson Eric Lux	Morgan LMP2	D	391
					Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8

• ^ – The #37 Conquest Morgan-Nissan was disqualified for exceeding the maximum amount of hours a single driver could be in the car.^[1]

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