Petit Lemans 2009

[Jon325i]

Effin' weather. Race was stopped around the 5 hour mark (normally a 10 hour -or- 1000 mile race, which ever comes first) due to heavy rain. It sucks....I was looking forward to watching it. But I guess this is one of those unavoidable things in life.

BTW, Pugeot was declared the winner with their 1-2 finish (or positions) they held when the race was halted.

Discuss.

[bmwguy87]

It's BS... By the way I think we all were watching it.

No win for audi in the rain=FTL

[BimmerDread]

A real disappointment

[E-Thirty]

Big let down, but that track is notorious when it comes to raining. Just not possible to drive.

[kishg]

literally a petit le mans this time..

[Asbradley21]

Yep, I went this year, fucking sucked. Yesterday was fun though.

[M5wanaB]

I would have been pissed if I went out there for that. Road Atlanta is suicide in the rain though.

[Asbradley21]

It is. All in all, it was still a load of fun to go. The most irritating part were the goddamned announcers that babbled on for HOURS after they called the red flag.

[gazellebeigem3]

i almost went but backed out at the last minute. good thing!

[Ben Carufel]

My buddy Matt Bell was driving a GT2 Corvette. His first drive in that car (he drives a Koni GS Turner M3). I haven't talked to him since the race, but I'm pretty sure he's bummed about it being cut short.

[Asbradley21]

everyone was pretty unhappy about the whole thing. Acura just got one of their prototypes back on the track for about 2 laps before the red flag was pulled.

[Moberg12]

I was at the race, The weather was not all that bad until just before the red flag. I knew the race wasn't going to restart after that so I left.

[quickervicar]

So they canceled it? I tuned in for the first few hours, went outside to work on a friend's car, then came back in to Mosport replay. I tuned in again around 7pm, but NASCAR was on (of course). I didn't realize that they pulled the plug on it. Shame.

[TDE30]

The fam and I went there as well. The race sucked due to the monsoon, it would have been nice to see the Pugs and the Audis fighting it out in a little bit of rain, but this shit was a mess. It was a shame that McNish's hiccup led to Peugeot getting a 1-2 finish, but at the same time it was neat to see them get a win; I'm sure that will change Audi's mind about not going to the Sebring 12H race.

The BMW corral was pretty impressive though, two E34 M5's (including my father's), an E36 325is M-Technic (the first I have seen in person,) some heavily modified E90 M3 from UUC Motorwerks, and many others. It was awesome to see RLR get a class podium finish too.

[Stu]

I wasn't at the race but I passed Braselton on I-85 around 5:15 and it was a monsoon. Traffic was running 40-45mph for quite a while. There were a few wrecks roadside on I-85, saw an early 325es/is that spun and went to the ditch about 20ft from the shoulder.