Peugeot takes top 2 spots in 12 Hours of Sebring
March 21, 2010
SEBRING, Fla. (AP)—Alexander Wurz teamed with Marc Gene and Anthony Davidsonto give Peugeot its first victory in the Twelve Hours of Sebring, leading theFrench manufacturer’s sweep Saturday night in the endurance race.
Wurz drove the diesel-powered Peugeot 908 HDi FAP to a 13.817-second victoryover the sister Peugeot driven by Sebastien Bourdais, Nicolas Minassian andPedro Lamy. The Peugeots completed 367 laps on the road course.
Wurz and Gene also teamed for Peugeot’s victory in June in the Le Mans 24Hours.
Greg Pickett, Klaus Graf and Sascha Maassen won in LMP2 in a Porsche RSSpyder, and Jaime Melo, Gimmi Bruni and Pierre Kaffer topped the GT2 class in aFerrari F430 GT to give Risi Competizione its sixth straight victory in a majorendurance race.
In the new LMPC class, Level 5 Motorsports’ Scott Tucker, Christophe Bouchutand Mark Wilkins won handily in their ORECA FLM09 prototype.
Alex Job Racing swept the GT Challenge podium, with Butch Leitzinger, JuanGonzalez and Leh Keen beating Bill Sweedler, Romeo Kapudija and Jan-DirkLueders.