{"id":490300,"date":"2008-10-07T08:30:27","date_gmt":"2008-10-07T12:30:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sportscardigest.com\/?p=1837"},"modified":"2024-01-25T23:09:39","modified_gmt":"2024-01-25T23:09:39","slug":"petit-le-mans-results-and-photo-gallery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/petit-le-mans-results-and-photo-gallery\/","title":{"rendered":"Petit Le Mans (2008) &#8211; Recap &#038; Photo Gallery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/100608-1931-petitlemans1.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter wp-image-805074 size-full\" src=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/100608-1931-petitlemans1.jpg\" alt=\"Petit Le Mans 2008\" width=\"357\" height=\"249\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/100608-1931-petitlemans1.jpg 357w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/100608-1931-petitlemans1-300x209.jpg 300w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/100608-1931-petitlemans1-100x70.jpg 100w, https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/100608-1931-petitlemans1-293x204.jpg 293w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 357px) 100vw, 357px\" \/><\/a>The battle that everyone expected at Petit Le Mans lived up to its billing. Audi remained unbeaten at Road Atlanta as Allan McNish, Dindo Capello and Emanuele Pirro spotted the field two laps at the start of the race but came back for\u00a0a stunning victory in the 11th annual 1,000-mile\/10-hour endurance classic.<\/p>\n<p>McNish and his Audi R10 TDI crossed the finish line 4.512 seconds ahead of Peugeot&#8217;s Christian Klien and the Peugeot 908 HDi that he drove with Stephane Sarrazin and Nic Minassian. A record weekend crowd of 113,000 witnessed the week-long fight between the top two powers in sports car racing.<\/p>\n<p>The victory was sweet redemption for McNish, who crashed the car on the grid formation lap prior to the race. The team got the Scot on track two laps behind the field but was back on the lead lap after a two-hour, 45-minute stint.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.americanlemans.com\/News\/Article.aspx?ID=4878\">Click here<\/a> for the complete story on the ALMS website.<\/p>\n<p><strong>2008 Petit Le Mans Photo Gallery<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The battle that everyone expected at Petit Le Mans lived up to its billing. Audi remained unbeaten at Road Atlanta as Allan McNish, Dindo Capello and Emanuele Pirro spotted the field two laps at the start of the race but came back for\u00a0a stunning victory in the 11th annual 1,000-mile\/10-hour endurance classic. McNish and his Audi R10 TDI crossed the finish line 4.512 seconds ahead of Peugeot&#8217;s Christian Klien and the Peugeot 908 HDi that he drove with Stephane Sarrazin [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":106,"featured_media":805074,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[261,255,16918],"tags":[548,17243,17225,18151],"class_list":["post-490300","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-motorsport-racing","category-news","category-races","tag-motorsport","tag-race-petit-le-mans","tag-race-recap","tag-racing-news"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.5 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Petit Le Mans Results and Photo Gallery<\/title>\n<meta name=\"description\" content=\"The battle that everyone expected at Petit Le Mans powered by the Totally New MAZDA6 lived up to its billing.\" \/>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/petit-le-mans-results-and-photo-gallery\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Petit Le Mans Results and Photo Gallery\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"The battle that everyone expected at Petit Le Mans powered by the Totally New MAZDA6 lived up to its billing.\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/petit-le-mans-results-and-photo-gallery\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Supercars.net\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:publisher\" content=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Supercars.net\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2008-10-07T12:30:27+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:modified_time\" content=\"2024-01-25T23:09:39+00:00\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:image\" content=\"https:\/\/www.supercars.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2008\/10\/100608-1931-petitlemans1.jpg\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:width\" content=\"357\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:height\" content=\"249\" \/>\n\t<meta property=\"og:image:type\" content=\"image\/jpeg\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"Sports Car Digest\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:creator\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:site\" content=\"@supercars_net\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:label1\" content=\"Written by\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data1\" content=\"Sports Car Digest\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:label2\" content=\"Est. reading time\" \/>\n\t<meta name=\"twitter:data2\" content=\"1 minute\" \/>\n<script type=\"application\/ld+json\" class=\"yoast-schema-graph\">{\"@context\":\"https:\\\/\\\/schema.org\",\"@graph\":[{\"@type\":\"Article\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/petit-le-mans-results-and-photo-gallery\\\/#article\",\"isPartOf\":{\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/petit-le-mans-results-and-photo-gallery\\\/\"},\"author\":{\"name\":\"Sports Car Digest\",\"@id\":\"https:\\\/\\\/www.supercars.net\\\/blog\\\/#\\\/schema\\\/person\\\/188bd99a52d1e69543c54566c30e906b\"},\"headline\":\"Petit Le Mans (2008) &#8211; 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