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2009 FIA GT Paul Ricard 2 Hours

Circuit Paul Ricard (1C-V2)

The 2009 FIA GT Paul Ricard 2 Hours was the penultimate round of the 2009 FIA GT Championship season. It took place at Circuit Paul Ricard on 4 October 2009. The race was won by the Corvette of Enrique Bernoldi and Roberto Streit for Sangari Team Brazil, ahead of the No. 2 Vitaphone Racing Team Maserati and Selleslagh Racing Team Corvette. In the GT2 category, Toni Vilander and Gianmaria Bruni won from pole position in the AF Corse Ferrari, leading the Prospeed Competition Porsche and the second AF Corse Ferrari.

Vitaphone Racing Team and AF Corse both secured the FIA GT Teams Championships for the GT1 and GT2 categories in this race.

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Qualifying

Qualifying was led by the No. Sangari Corvette of Enrique Bernoldi, however the car had been given a five grid spot penalty prior to qualifying for causing an avoidable accident during pre-qualifying practice. This moved the Sangari car back to sixth, and moved Alex Müller to pole position and allowing Vitaphone Racing Team to lock out the front row. In the GT2 category Gianmaria Bruni of AF Corse secured an all Ferrari front row alongside CRS Racing.

Qualifying results

Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.

Pos	Class	Team	Driver	Lap Time
GT1	No. 8 Sangari Team Brazil	Enrique Bernoldi	2:00.919	6
GT1	No. 2 Vitaphone Racing Team	Alex Müller	2:01.856	1
GT1	No. 33 Vitaphone Racing Team DHL	Alessandro Pier Guidi	2:02.043	2
GT1	No. 1 Vitaphone Racing Team	Andrea Bertolini	2:02.044	3
GT1	No. 3 Selleslagh Racing Team	James Ruffier	2:02.300	4
GT1	No. 4 Peka Racing	Mike Hezemans	2:02.328	5
GT1	No. 19 Luc Alphand Aventures	Thomas Biagi	2:02.541	7
GT1	No. 21 Solution F	Olivier Panis	2:04.796	8
GT1	No. 40 Marc VDS Racing Team	Bas Leinders	2:05.853	9
GT1	No. 44 Matech GT Racing	Thomas Mutsch	2:07.108	10
GT2	No. 50 AF Corse	Gianmaria Bruni	2:08.314	11
GT2	No. 55 CRS Racing	Tim Mullen	2:08.480	12
GT2	No. 97 Brixia Racing	Martin Ragginger	2:08.924	13
GT2	No. 59 Trackspeed Racing	Sascha Maassen	2:08.972	14
GT2	No. 51 AF Corse	Álvaro Barba	2:09.436	15
GT2	No. 61 Prospeed Competition	Darryl O'Young	2:09.483	16
GT2	No. 60 Prospeed Competition	Emmanuel Collard	2:09.534	17
GT2	No. 95 PeCom Racing Team	Matías Russo	2:09.551	18
GT2	No. 56 CRS Racing	Andrew Kirkaldy	2:09.722	19
GT2	No. 77 BMS Scuderia Italia	Matteo Malucelli	2:09.743	20
GT2	No. 78 BMS Scuderia Italia	Diego Romanini	2:11.078	21

Race

Race results

Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 75% of winner's distance are marked as Not Classified (NC).

Pos	Class	No	Team
DNF	20
DNF	DSQ
GT1	8	BRA Sangari Team Brazil	BRA Enrique Bernoldi
BRA Roberto Streit	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R		57
Chevrolet LS7.R 7.0 L V8
GT1	2	DEU Vitaphone Racing Team	PRT Miguel Ramos
DEU Alex Müller	Maserati MC12 GT1		57
Maserati 6.0 L V12
GT1	3	BEL Sellesagh Racing Team	BEL Bert Longin
FRA James Ruffier	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R		57
Chevrolet LS7.R 7.0 L V8
GT1	19	FRA Luc Alphand Aventures	NLD Xavier Maassen
ITA Thomas Biagi	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R		57
Chevrolet LS7.R 7.0 L V8
GT1	1	DEU Vitaphone Racing Team	DEU Michael Bartels
ITA Andrea Bertolini	Maserati MC12 GT1		57
Maserati 6.0 L V12
GT1	33	DEU Vitaphone Racing Team DHL	ITA Alessandro Pier Guidi
ITA Matteo Bobbi	Maserati MC12 GT1		57
Maserati 6.0 L V12
GT1	21	FRA Solution F	FRA Ange Barde
FRA Olivier Panis	Ferrari 550-GTS Maranello		55
Ferrari 5.9 L V12
GT1	44	CHE Matech GT Racing	DEU Thomas Mutsch
CHE Henri Moser	Ford GT1		55
Ford 5.0 L V8
GT2	50	ITA AF Corse	FIN Toni Vilander
ITA Gianmaria Bruni	Ferrari F430 GT2		55
Ferrari 4.0 L V8
GT2	60	BEL Prospeed Competition	FRA Emmanuel Collard
GBR Richard Westbrook	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR		55
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
GT2	51	ITA AF Corse	ESP Álvaro Barba
ITA Niki Cadei	Ferrari F430 GT2		55
Ferrari 4.0 L V8
GT2	95	ARG PeCom Racing Team	ARG Luis Pérez Companc
ARG Matías Russo	Ferrari F430 GT2		55
Ferrari 4.0 L V8
GT2	55	GBR CRS Racing	CAN Chris Niarchos
GBR Tim Mullen	Ferrari F430 GT2		55
Ferrari 4.0 L V8
GT1	40	BEL Marc VDS Racing Team	BEL Bas Leinders
BEL Renaud Kuppens	Ford GT1		55
Ford 5.0 L V8
GT2	97	ITA Brixia Racing	ITA Luigi Lucchini
AUT Martin Ragginger	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR		54
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
GT2	77	ITA BMS Scuderia Italia	ITA Matteo Malucelli
ITA Paolo Ruberti	Ferrari F430 GT2		54
Ferrari 4.0 L V8
GT2	56	GBR CRS Racing	GBR Andrew Kirkaldy
GBR Rob Bell	Ferrari F430 GT2		54
Ferrari 4.0 L V8
GT2	59	GBR Trackspeed Racing	DEU Sascha Maassen
GBR David Ashburn	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR		54
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6
GT2	78	ITA BMS Scuderia Italia	ITA Ettore Bonaldi
ITA Diego Romanini	Ferrari F430 GT2		45
Ferrari 4.0 L V8
GT1	4	BEL Peka Racing	NLD Mike Hezemans
BEL Anthony Kumpen	Chevrolet Corvette C6.R		40
Chevrolet LS7.R 7.0 L V8
GT2	61	BEL Prospeed Competition	HKG Darryl O'Young
DEU Marco Holzer	Porsche 997 GT3-RSR		53
Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6

References

(2009-10-03). "Qualifying". [[FIA GT Championship]].
(2009-10-04). "Race Result". [[FIA GT Championship]].

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