The 15th 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
Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of their class winner's distance are marked as Not Classified (NC).
Pos Class No Team Drivers Chassis Tire Laps Engine 1 P1 12 Rebellion Racing Neel Jani Nicolas Prost Andrea Belicchi Lola B12/60 394 Toyota RV8KLM 3.4 L V8 2 P2 95 Level 5 Motorsports Scott Tucker Christophe Bouchut Luis Díaz HPD ARX-03b 391 Honda HR28TT 2.8 L Turbo V6 3 P2 055 Level 5 Motorsports Scott Tucker Dario Franchitti Marino Franchitti HPD ARX-03b 390 Honda HR28TT 2.8 L Turbo V6 4 P2 46 Thiriet by TDS Racing Pierre Thiriet Christophe Tinseau Mathias Beche Oreca 03 390 Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 5 0 DeltaWing Nissan Gunnar Jeannette Lucas Ordóñez DeltaWing 388 Nissan 1.6 L Turbo I4 6 PC 06 CORE Autosport Alex Popow Ryan Dalziel Mark Wilkins Oreca FLM09 385 Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8 7 P2 35 OAK Racing Jacques Nicolet Olivier Pla Bertrand Baguette Morgan LMP2 383 Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 8 PC 9 RSR Racing Bruno Junqueira Tomy Drissi Ricardo Vera Oreca FLM09 383 Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8 9 PC 52 PR1 Mathiasen Motorsports Rudy Junco, Jr. Ken Dobson Elton Julian Oreca FLM09 382 Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8 10 PC 05 CORE Autosport Colin Braun Jon Bennett Ricardo González Oreca FLM09 381 Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8 11 PC 8 Merchant Services Racing Kyle Marcelli Matt Downs Chapman Ducote Oreca FLM09 376 Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8 12 GT 01 Extreme Speed Motorsports Scott Sharp Johannes van Overbeek Toni Vilander Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 375 Ferrari F136 4.5 L V8 13 GT 3 Corvette Racing Jan Magnussen Antonio García Jordan Taylor Chevrolet Corvette C6.R 375 Chevrolet LS5.5R 5.5 L V8 14 GT 55 BMW Team RLL Bill Auberlen Jörg Müller Jonathan Summerton BMW M3 GT2 374 BMW S65 4.0 L V8 15 GT 56 BMW Team RLL Dirk Müller Uwe Alzen Jonathan Summerton BMW M3 GT2 373 BMW S65 4.0 L V8 16 GT 45 Flying Lizard Motorsports Patrick Long Jörg Bergmeister Patrick Pilet Porsche 997 GT3-RSR 373 Porsche M97/74 4.0 L Flat-6 17 GT 17 Team Falken Tire Bryan Sellers Wolf Henzler Martin Ragginger Porsche 997 GT3-RSR 372 Porsche M97/74 4.0 L Flat-6 18 PC 25 Dempsey Racing Duncan Ende Henri Richard Ryan Lewis Oreca FLM09 372 Chevrolet LS3 6.2 L V8 19 GT 44 Flying Lizard Motorsports Seth Neiman Marco Holzer Nick Tandy Porsche 997 GT3-RSR 369 Porsche M97/74 4.0 L Flat-6 20 GT 91 SRT Motorsports Kuno Wittmer Dominik Farnbacher Ryan Hunter-Reay SRT Viper GTS-R 369 SRT 8.0 L V10 21 GT 02 Extreme Speed Motorsports Ed Brown Guy Cosmo Anthony Lazzaro Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 368 Ferrari F136 4.5 L V8 22 GT 48 Paul Miller Racing Bryce Miller Sascha Maassen Richard Lietz Porsche 997 GT3-RSR 367 Porsche M97/74 4.0 L Flat-6 23 GTEAm 67 IMSA Performance Matmut Anthony Pons Nicolas Armindo Raymond Narac Porsche 997 GT3-RSR 363 Porsche M97/74 4.0 L Flat-6 24 GT 23 Lotus Alex Job Racing Townsend Bell Bill Sweedler Johnny Mowlem Lotus Evora GTE 360 Toyota-Cosworth 3.5 L V6 25 GTC 30 NGT Motorsport Henrique Cisneros Mario Farnbacher Jakub Giermaziak Porsche 997 GT3 Cup 356 Porsche M97/74 4.0 L Flat-6 26 GTC 66 TRG Emilio Di Guida Spencer Pumpelly Nelson Canache Porsche 997 GT3 Cup 351 Porsche M97/74 4.0 L Flat-6 27 GTC 68 TRG Emmanuel Collard Mike Hedlund Manuel Gutierrez, Jr. Porsche 997 GT3 Cup 351 Porsche M97/74 4.0 L Flat-6 28 GTC 11 JDX Racing Chris Cumming Michael Valiante Sean Johnston Porsche 997 GT3 Cup 351 Porsche M97/74 4.0 L Flat-6 29DNF GTC 22 Alex Job Racing Leh Keen Cooper MacNeil Dion von Moltke Porsche 997 GT3 Cup 349 Porsche M97/74 4.0 L Flat-6 30 GT 4 Corvette Racing Oliver Gavin Richard Westbrook Tommy Milner Chevrolet Corvette C6.R 348 Chevrolet LS5.5R 5.5 L V8 31 P1 16 Dyson Racing Team Chris Dyson Guy Smith Steven Kane Lola B12/60 338 Mazda MZR-R 2.0 L Turbo I4(Hybrid Butanol) 32 P2 1 Greaves Motorsport Alex Brundle Alex Buncombe Tom Kimber-Smith Zytek Z11SN 338 Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 33 P1 6 Muscle Milk Pickett Racing Klaus Graf Lucas Luhr Romain Dumas HPD ARX-03a 334 Honda AR6-LMV8 3.4 L V8 34DNF P2 118 Murphy Prototypes Warren Hughes Jody Firth Brendon Hartley Oreca 03 330 Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8 35DNF P1 20 Dyson Racing Team Tony Burgess Chris McMurry Mark Patterson Lola B11/66 322 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 318 Porsche M97/74 4.0 L Flat-6 37DNF GTC 24 Competition Motorsports Andrew Davis Michael Avenatti David Calvert-Jones Porsche 997 GT3 Cup 267 Porsche M97/74 4.0 L Flat-6 38DNF GTEAm 60 AF Corse Piergiuseppe Perazzini Marco Cioci Matt Griffin Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 232 Ferrari F136 4.5 L V8 39DNF GT 93 SRT Motorsports Tommy Kendall Jonathan Bomarito Marc Goossens SRT Viper GTS-R 224 SRT 8.0 L V10 40DNF P2 27 Dempsey Racing Patrick Dempsey Joe Foster Dane Cameron Lola B12/87 220 Judd DB 3.6 L V8 41DNF GTC 34 Green Hornet Racing Peter LeSaffre Brian Wong Damien Faulkner Porsche 997 GT3 Cup 40 Porsche M97/74 4.0 L Flat-6 DSQ P2 37 Conquest Endurance Martin Plowman David Heinemeier Hansson Eric Lux Morgan LMP2 391 Nissan VK45DE 4.5 L V8
– The #37 Conquest Morgan-Nissan was disqualified for exceeding the maximum number of hours a single driver could be in the car.
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