The 2019 Petit Le Mans (formally known as the 2019 MOTUL Petit Le Mans for sponsorship reasons) was the 22nd running of the Petit Le Mans, and was held on October 12, 2019. It was the last race in the 2019 IMSA WeatherTech Sportscar Championship, and the last race of the 2019 Michelin Endurance Cup, and was run at Road Atlanta in Braselton, Georgia. The race was won overall by the #31 Whelen Engineering Racing Cadillac DPi-V.R after its sister car fell out with brake failure with less than 30 minutes remaining. The distance covered was a race record.[1]

The Track map of Road Atlanta

Background

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Michelin Raceway Road Atlanta, where the race was held.

International Motor Sports Association's (IMSA) president Scott Atherton confirmed the race was part of the schedule for the 2019 IMSA SportsCar Championship (IMSA SCC) in August 2018.[2] It was the sixth consecutive year the event was held as part of the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship. The 2019 Petit Le Mans was the last of twelve sports car races of 2019 by IMSA, and it was the last of four rounds held as part of the Michelin Endurance Cup.[3] The race took place at the 12-turn, 2.540-mile (4.088 km) Road Atlanta in Braselton, Georgia on October 12, 2019.[4]

As the final race for the 2019 season, the race concluded IMSA's 50th anniversary season.

Scott Atherton would retire from his position as President of the International Motor Sports Association following the event.[5] In his final race as president, Scott Atherton served as the events grand marshal.[6] John Doonan would replace Scott Atherton as president of the International Motor Sports Association beginning in 2020.[7]

This would be the final race for the Ford GT as Ford was ending their factory involvement following the 2019 season.[8] The Nissan Onroak DPi made its final appearance as Jon Bennett would retire from full time driving.[9][10]

The Chevrolet Corvette C7.R and Porsche 911 RSR also entered their final IMSA events, ahead of the switch to new-generation GTE machinery for both manufacturers in 2020.[11][12][13] Chevrolet would transition to the Chevrolet Corvette C8.R,[14] while Porsche introduced the Porsche 911 RSR-19.[15]

Heading into the final race of the season, Dane Cameron and Juan Pablo Montoya led the DPi Drivers' Championship with 274 points; the duo held a twelve-point advantage over Pipo Derani and Felipe Nasr in second.[16] With 235 points, Matt McMurry led the LMP2 Drivers' Championship, ahead of Cameron Cassels.[16] In GTLM, Earl Bamber and Laurens Vanthoor led the Drivers' Championship with 304 points, 12 points ahead of Patrick Pilet and Nick Tandy.[16] The GTD Drivers' Championship was led by Mario Farnbacher and Trent Hindman with 264 points, 32 points clear of Zacharie Robichon in second.[16] Acura, Porsche, and Lamborghini were leading their respective Manufacturers' Championships, while Acura Team Penske, PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports, Porsche GT Team, and Meyer Shank Racing each led their own Teams' Championships.[16]

Entries

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A total of 34 cars took part in the event split across 4 classes. 11 cars were entered in DPi, 2 in LMP2, 9 in GTLM, and 12 in GTD.[17] In DPi, Juncos Racing made its first appearance since the Canadian Tire Motorsport Park round.[18] Graham Rahal substituted for Alexander Rossi in the No. 7 Acura Team Penske entry due to a clash with the Bathurst 1000.[19] In GTLM, Risi Competizione returned for the first time since the season opening round at Daytona.[20][21] In GTD, Park Place Motorsports were absent due to not having a spare chassis.[22] Montaplast by Land-Motorsport and Precision Performance Motorsports made their first appearances since the Watkins Glen round. Compass Racing skipped the event. Marco Seefried joined Bryan Sellers and Corey Lewis in the Paul Miller Racing entry.[23] Parker Chase joined Jack Hawksworth and Richard Heistand in the No. 14 AIM Vasser-Sullivan entry.[24]

Practice

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There were four practice sessions preceding the start of the race on Saturday, three on Thursday and one on Friday. The first two sessions on Thursday morning and afternoon were 60 minutes and 75 minutes in length, while the third held later that evening ran for 90 minutes, and the fourth on Friday morning lasted one hour.[25]

In the first practice session, Felipe Nasr set the fastest lap in the No. 31 Cadillac at 1 minute, 09.093 seconds, 0.642 seconds faster than Ricky Taylor's No. 7 Acura.[26] Dane Cameron in the No. 6 Acura was third, and Colin Braun was fourth in the No. 54 Nissan.[27] Matthieu Vaxiviere was fifth fastest for Konica Minolta Cadillac while Timo Bernhard in the No. 77 Mazda was sixth.[27][28] Gabriel Aubry led LMP2 in the No. 52 PR1/ Mathiasen Motorsports Oreca 07.[28] The GTLM class was topped by Richard Westbrook's No. 67 Ford GT with a lap of 1 minute, 16.810 seconds, 0.092 seconds faster than James Calado's No. 62 Ferrari 488.[27] Dirk Müller was third in the No. 66 Ford GT and Nick Tandy was fourth fastest in the No. 911 Porsche.[29] In GTD, Bill Auberlen in Turner Motorsport's No. 96 BMW M6 lapped fastest with a time of 1 minute, 19.306 seconds, with Jack Hawksworth second in the No. 14 Lexus.[28] The session was red flagged two times. 6 minutes into the session, Hawksworth stopped on track with a puncture.[29] The final stoppage came when Marco Seefried crashed the No. 48 Paul Miller Racing Lamborghini into the tire barrier at turn three.[28]

In the second practice session, Cameron was fastest with a time of 1 minute, 09.095 seconds, ahead of the No. 85 Cadillac of Tristan Vautier and Albuquerque's No. 5 Mustang Sampling car.[30][31] van der Zande placed the No. 10 Konica Minolta Cadillac entry fourth and Ricky Taylor's No. 7 Acura rounded out the top five. Aubry led LMP2 in the No. 52 PR1/ Mathiasen Motorsports Oreca 07.[31] Daniel Serra led GTLM in the No. 62 Ferrari with a 1-minute, 16.708 seconds lap. Antonio García's No. 3 Corvette was second. Dixon in the No. 66 CGR Ford GT was third.[32] Felipe Fraga No. 33 Riley Motorsports Mercedes-AMG GT3 was fastest in GTD, while Morad was 0.409 seconds slower in the No. 29 Land-Motorsport Audi.[28] Chris Miller caused the first caused the session's first stoppage when he spun his No. 84 JDC-Miller Cadillac at turn 10a and got beached in the gravel trap. Later, Nunez, Marks, and Piedrahita spun and got their cars beached at turns 6 and 10a, respectively.[31]

The third practice session ran at night and saw Derani's No. 31 Cadillac set the fastest time overall at 1 minute, 09.455 seconds. Albuquerque was almost two-tenths of a second behind in second, with the No. 7 Team Penske Acura of Ricky Taylor was third.[33] Vautier in the No. 85 Cadillac was fourth and Jarvis' No. 77 Mazda was fifth.[33] René Binder necessitated the showing of a red flag when he spun and beached the No. 50 Juncos Racing in the gravel trap at turn 10a halfway through the session.[34] Aubry was the fastest LMP2 driver in the PR1/ Mathiasen Motorsports entry.[34] In GTLM, Müller was fastest in class with a lap of 1 minute, 16.552 seconds. Blomqvist was second-fastest in the No. 25 BMW M8 and Briscoe took third in the No. 67 Ford GT.[28][34] In GTD, Auberlen was again fastest in the class, followed by Jeroen Bleekemolen's No. 33 Riley Motorsports Mercedes-AMG GT3.[35]

Nasr led the final session in the No. 31 WER car with a lap of 1 minute, 08.419 seconds. Ricky Taylor's No. 7 Acura was second-fastest. The No. 5 Cadillac of Albuquerque set the third-quickest lap. van der Zande's No. 10 Cadillac, along with Bernhard's No. 77 Mazda car were fourth and fifth. [36] Misha Goikhberg necessitated the showing of a red flag when he spun and beached the No. 85 JDC-Miller Cadillac in the gravel trap at turn 10 with 17 minutes remaining in the session.[37][27] Aubry was fastest again in LMP2.[37] Calado's No. 62 Ferrari was fastest in GTlM while, Robby Foley, driving the No. 96 Turner Motorsport BMW M6, was the fastest driver in GTD.[27]

Qualifying

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Felipe Nasr (pictured in 2015) helped put the No. 31 Cadillac on pole position in qualifying.

Friday's afternoon qualifying session was broken into three sessions that were scheduled for 15 minutes each.[25] Cars in GTD were sent out first before those grouped in GTLM and DPi/LMP2 had two separate identically timed sessions. All cars were required to be driven by one participant and the starting order was determined by the competitor's fastest lap.[25] IMSA then arranged the grid so that the DPi, LMP2, and GTLM cars started in front of the GTD field.

Felipe Nasr in the No. 31 Cadillac set a new track record to clinch pole position with a time of 1 minute and 08.457 seconds.[38][39] He was joined on the grid's front row by Ricky Taylor's No. 7 Acura who was 0.141 seconds slower.[39] Filipe Albuquerque qualified the No. 5 Cadillac in third, ahead of Dane Cameron's fourth-placed No. 6 Acura.[40] The two Mazdas were fourth and fifth (the No. 77 car driven by Bernhard in front of the No. 55 vehicle of Tincknell).[40] Trummer's No. 84 Cadillac took sixth and van der Zande's No. 10 Cadillac qualified seventh.[41] Pigot's No. 50 Juncos Racing Cadillac took eighth, ahead of Goikhberg in the No. 85 JDC-Miller MotorSports Cadillac and the No. 54 CORE Autosport Nissan driven by Jon Bennett rounded out the DPi qualifiers.[40] In LMP2, Masson set the fastest time in the Performance Tech Motorsports entry, with his fastest lap being 0.131 seconds faster than McMurry in the No. 52 PR1/ Mathiasen Motorsports Oreca.[39]

In GTLM, James Calado in the No. 62 Ferrari set a new category track record to take pole position with a time of 1 minute and 15.639 seconds.[42] García in the No. 3 Corvette set the second fastest time, but would start at the back of the GTLM field after his car failed the post-qualifying technical inspection where it was discovered that the Corvette was found to not have complied with mandated ride height. As a result, Philipp Eng would start in second position followed Vanthoor's No. 912 Porsche in third.[41]

In GTD, Corey Lewis took his second consecutive pole position of the season with a lap of 1 minute and 19.530 seconds. He was joined by Ben Keating's No. 33 Mercedes-AMG on the grid's front row with his best lap being 0.135 second slower, and Jeff Westphal drove the No. 63 Scuderia Corsa Ferrari to third place.[39][40] Justin Marks qualified the No. 86 Acura fourth, ahead of Christina Nielsen's fifth placed No. 57 Acura.[41] The No. 96 Turner Motorsport BMW failed to record a time due to Robby Foley spinning at turn 10a and beaching the car at the gravel trap on his outlap.[42][41] The No. 29 Montaplast by Land-Motorsport and No. 47 Precision Performance Motorsports entries lost all their lap times due to both teams crew touching their respective cars.[42]

Qualifying results

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Pole positions in each class are indicated in bold and by ‡.

Pos. Class No. Team Driver Time Gap Grid
1 DPi 31   Whelen Engineering Racing   Felipe Nasr 1:08.457 _ 1
2 DPi 7   Acura Team Penske   Ricky Taylor 1:08.598 +0.141 2
3 DPi 5   Mustang Sampling Racing   Filipe Albuquerque 1:08.629 +0.172 3
4 DPi 6   Acura Team Penske   Dane Cameron 1:08.802 +0.345 4
5 DPi 77   Mazda Team Joest   Timo Bernhard 1:08.847 +0.390 5
6 DPi 55   Mazda Team Joest   Harry Tincknell 1:09.204 +0.747 6
7 DPi 84   JDC-Miller MotorSports   Simon Trummer 1:09.243 +0.786 7
8 DPi 10   Konica Minolta Cadillac   Renger van der Zande 1:09.253 +0.796 8
9 DPi 50   Juncos Racing   Spencer Pigot 1:09.507 +1.050 9
10 DPi 85   JDC-Miller MotorSports   Misha Goikhberg 1:09.673 +1.216 10
11 LMP2 38   Performance Tech Motorsports   Kyle Masson 1:10.722 +2.265 12
12 LMP2 52   PR1/ Mathiasen Motorsports   Matt McMurry 1:10.853 +2.396 11
13 DPi 54   CORE Autosport   Jon Bennett 1:11.511 +3.054 13
14 GTLM 62   Risi Competizione   James Calado 1:15.639 +7.182 14‡
15 GTLM 3   Corvette Racing   Antonio García 1:15.702 +7.245 221
16 GTLM 24   BMW Team RLL   Philipp Eng 1:15.784 +7.327 15
17 GTLM 912   Porsche GT Team   Laurens Vanthoor 1:15.842 +7.385 16
18 GTLM 66   Ford Chip Ganassi Racing   Joey Hand 1:15.856 +7.399 17
19 GTLM 67   Ford Chip Ganassi Racing   Richard Westbrook 1:15.967 +7.510 18
20 GTLM 911   Porsche GT Team   Nick Tandy 1:16.037 +7.580 19
21 GTLM 4   Corvette Racing   Oliver Gavin 1:16.048 +7.591 20
22 GTLM 25   BMW Team RLL   Colton Herta 1:16.327 +8.870 21
23 GTD 48   Paul Miller Racing   Corey Lewis 1:19.530 +11.073 23‡
24 GTD 33   Mercedes-AMG Team Riley Motorsports   Ben Keating 1:19.665 +11.208 24
25 GTD 63   Scuderia Corsa   Jeff Westphal 1:19.721 +11.264 25
26 GTD 86   Meyer Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian   Justin Marks 1:19.820 +11.363 26
27 GTD 57   Heinricher Racing w/Meyer Shank Racing   Christina Nielsen 1:19.952 +11.495 27
28 GTD 9   Pfaff Motorsports   Zacharie Robichon 1:20.200 +11.743 28
29 GTD 14   AIM Vasser Sullivan   Richard Heistand 1:20.260 +11.803 29
30 GTD 12   AIM Vasser Sullivan   Frankie Montecalvo 1:20.323 +11.866 30
31 GTD 44   Magnus Racing   John Potter 1:21.234 +12.777 31
32 GTD 29   Montaplast by Land-Motorsport   Christopher Mies No time1 _ 33
33 GTD 47   Precision Performance Motorsports   Shinya Michimi No time2 _ 34
34 GTD 96   Turner Motorsport   Robby Foley No time _ 32
Sources:[43][44]
  • 1 The No. 3 Corvette Racing entry was moved to the back of the GTLM classification for violating competition rules regarding the car's rear wing.[45][46]
  • 2 The No. 29 Montaplast by Land-Motorsport entry had all qualifying laps forfeited as per Article 40.2.9. of the Sporting regulations (car was touched by the crew during qualifying without permission by the officials).[47]
  • 3 The No. 47 Precision Performance Motorsports entry had all qualifying laps forfeited as per Article 40.2.9. of the Sporting regulations (car was touched by the crew during qualifying without permission by the officials).[47]

Race

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Post-race

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Cameron and Montoya took the DPi Drivers' Championship with 302 points. They were five points clear of Derani and Nasr.[48] With 270 points, McMurry won the LMP2 Drivers' Championship, 11 points clear of Cassels.[48] Bamber and Vanthoor took the GTLM Drivers' Championship with 330 points. They were 17 points clear of Pilet and Tandy in second. García and Magnussen were third with 317 points.[48] Farnbacher and Hindman won the GTD Drivers' Championship with 283 points, 21 points ahead of Auberlen and Foley. Robichon was third with 262 points.[48] Acura, Porsche, and Lamborghini won their respective Manufactures' Championships, while Acura Team Penske, PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports, Porsche GT Team, and Meyer Shank Racing won their respective Teams' Championships.[48]

Race Results

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Class winners are denoted in bold and ‡.

Pos Class No Team Drivers Chassis Laps Time/Retired
Engine
1 DPi 31   Whelen Engineering Racing   Felipe Nasr
  Pipo Derani
  Eric Curran
Cadillac DPi-V.R 465 10:00:40.809‡
Cadillac 5.5 L V8
2 DPi 10   Konica Minolta Cadillac   Jordan Taylor
  Matthieu Vaxivière
  Renger van der Zande
Cadillac DPi-V.R 465 +0.996
Cadillac 5.5 L V8
3 DPi 7   Acura Team Penske   Ricky Taylor
  Hélio Castroneves
  Graham Rahal
Acura ARX-05 465 +9.842
Acura AR35TT 3.5 L Turbo V6
4 DPi 6   Acura Team Penske   Dane Cameron
  Juan Pablo Montoya
  Simon Pagenaud
Acura ARX-05 464 +1 Lap
Acura AR35TT 3.5 L Turbo V6
5 DPi 84   JDC-Miller MotorSports   Simon Trummer
  Stephen Simpson
  Chris Miller
Cadillac DPi-V.R 464 +1 Lap
Cadillac 5.5 L V8
6 DPi 77   Mazda Team Joest   Timo Bernhard
  Oliver Jarvis
  Tristan Nunez
Mazda RT24-P 463 +2 Laps
Mazda MZ-2.0T 2.0 L Turbo I4
7 DPi 5   Mustang Sampling Racing   João Barbosa
  Filipe Albuquerque
  Mike Conway
Cadillac DPi-V.R 459 +6 Laps
Cadillac 5.5 L V8
8 DPi 54   CORE Autosport   Colin Braun
  Romain Dumas
  Jon Bennett
Nissan Onroak DPi 457 +8 Laps
Nissan VR38DETT 3.8 L Turbo V6
9 DPi 85   JDC-Miller MotorSports   Tristan Vautier
  Juan Piedrahita
  Misha Goikhberg
Cadillac DPi-V.R 446 +19 Laps
Cadillac 5.5 L V8
10 GTLM 62   Risi Competizione   James Calado
  Alessandro Pier Guidi
  Daniel Serra
Ferrari 488 GTE 434 +31 Laps‡
Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Turbo V8
11 GTLM 67   Ford Chip Ganassi Racing   Ryan Briscoe
  Richard Westbrook
  Scott Dixon
Ford GT 434 +31 Laps
Ford EcoBoost 3.5 L Turbo V6
12 GTLM 25   BMW Team RLL   Tom Blomqvist
  Connor De Phillippi
  Colton Herta
BMW M8 GTE 433 +32 Laps
BMW S63 4.0 L Twin-turbo V8
13 GTLM 3   Corvette Racing   Antonio García
  Jan Magnussen
  Mike Rockenfeller
Chevrolet Corvette C7.R 433 +32 Laps
Chevrolet LT5.5 5.5 L V8
14 GTLM 912   Porsche GT Team   Earl Bamber
  Laurens Vanthoor
  Mathieu Jaminet
Porsche 911 RSR 433 +32 Laps
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
15 GTLM 911   Porsche GT Team   Nick Tandy
  Frédéric Makowiecki
  Patrick Pilet
Porsche 911 RSR 432 +33 Laps
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
16 GTLM 4   Corvette Racing   Oliver Gavin
  Tommy Milner
  Marcel Fässler
Chevrolet Corvette C7.R 431 +34 Laps
Chevrolet LT5.5 5.5 L V8
17 GTLM 66   Ford Chip Ganassi Racing   Joey Hand
  Dirk Müller
  Sébastien Bourdais
Ford GT 430 +35 Laps
Ford EcoBoost 3.5 L Turbo V6
18 GTD 96   Turner Motorsport   Bill Auberlen
  Robby Foley
  Dillon Machavern
BMW M6 GT3 418 +47 Laps‡
BMW 4.4 L Turbo V8
19 GTD 29   Montaplast by Land-Motorsport   Ricardo Feller
  Christopher Mies
  Daniel Morad
Audi R8 LMS Evo 418 +47 Laps
Audi 5.2 L V10
20 GTD 9   Pfaff Motorsports   Scott Hargrove
  Zacharie Robichon
  Lars Kern
Porsche 911 GT3 R 418 +47 Laps
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
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GTD 33   Mercedes-AMG Team Riley Motorsports   Ben Keating
  Jeroen Bleekemolen
  Felipe Fraga
Mercedes-AMG GT3 417 Out of Fuel
Mercedes-AMG M159 6.2 L V8
22 DPi 50   Juncos Racing   Will Owen
  René Binder
  Spencer Pigot
Cadillac DPi-V.R 417 +48 Laps
Cadillac 5.5 L V8
23 GTD 63   Scuderia Corsa   Cooper MacNeil
  Toni Vilander
  Jeff Westphal
Ferrari 488 GT3 417 +48 Laps
Ferrari F154 3.9 L Turbo V8
24 GTD 48   Paul Miller Racing   Bryan Sellers
  Corey Lewis
  Marco Seefried
Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo 417 +48 Laps
Lamborghini 5.2 L V10
25 GTD 57   Heinricher Racing w/Meyer Shank Racing   Katherine Legge
  Bia Figueiredo
  Christina Nielsen
Acura NSX GT3 Evo 417 +48 Laps
Acura 3.5 L Turbo V6
26 GTLM 24   BMW Team RLL   Jesse Krohn
  John Edwards
  Philipp Eng
BMW M8 GTE 412 +53 Laps
BMW S63 4.0 L Twin-turbo V8
27 GTD 44   Magnus Racing   John Potter
  Andy Lally
  Spencer Pumpelly
Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo 401 +64 Laps
Lamborghini 5.2 L V10
28 GTD 14   AIM Vasser Sullivan   Richard Heistand
  Jack Hawksworth
  Parker Chase
Lexus RC F GT3 329 +136 Laps
Lexus 5.0 L V8
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GTD 47   Precision Performance Motorsports   Brandon Gdovic
  Don Yount
  Shinya Michimi
Lamborghini Huracán GT3 Evo 317 Did not finish
Lamborghini 5.2 L V10
30 GTD 12   AIM Vasser Sullivan   Frankie Montecalvo
  Townsend Bell
  Aaron Telitz
Lexus RC F GT3 219 +246 Laps
Lexus 5.0 L V8
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GTD 86   Meyer Shank Racing w/Curb-Agajanian   Mario Farnbacher
  Trent Hindman
  Justin Marks
Acura NSX GT3 Evo 201 Engine
Acura 3.5 L Turbo V6
32

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LMP2 52   PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports   Matt McMurry
  Gabriel Aubry
  Dalton Kellett
Oreca 07 201 Mechanical‡
Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8
33

DNF

DPi 55   Mazda Team Joest   Jonathan Bomarito
  Harry Tincknell
  Olivier Pla
Mazda RT24-P 196 Misfire
Mazda MZ-2.0T 2.0 L Turbo I4
34

DNF

LMP2 38   Performance Tech Motorsports   Cameron Cassels
  Kyle Masson
  Andrew Evans
Oreca 07 65 Crash
Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8
Sources:[49][50]

Standings after the race

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  • Note: Only the top five positions are included for all sets of standings.
  • Note: Only the top five positions are included for all sets of standings.


  • Note: Only the top five positions are included for all sets of standings.
  • Note: Bold names include the Drivers', Teams', and Manufactures' Champion respectively.

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