An Historic One-Two Finish for Peugeot 908 at Sebring Team Peugeot Total made history with an astonishing one-two finish at Sebring last weekend. The 908 HDi FAP is the first French car to win since the Sebring race was first held in 1952. Peugeot have now set their sights firmly on a second consecutive win at the infamous 24-Hours of Le Mans race in June and the Sebring race proved an invaluable practice run.


Pictured above - The one-two winners: No 07 and No 08 908 HDi FAP

After starting the 12 Hours of Sebring from the front row of the grid, the two Peugeot 908 HDi FAPs were never separated by more than a handful of seconds, despite the searing heat, traffic, safety car appearances and race incidents. After 12 hours of racing and 367 laps, it was finally the No 07 Peugeot of Marc Gené, Alexander Wurz and Anthony Davidson which took first place, closely followed by the No 08 sister car in the hands of Sébastien Bourdais, Nicolas Minassian and Pedro Lamy. All that split the two machines at the finish were a puncture, two spins and their respective pit stops.

After the 2009 Le Mans and last autumn's Petit Le Mans, Sebring is Peugeot's third straight one-two finish. It is also the first win for a French car in the American classic and puts an end to 11 years of German domination of the race.

Oliver Quesnel, Head of Peugeot Sports said, "Our mission here was to validate a certain number of developments and we achieved that goal to the letter. Despite the absence of our main rival, Audi, I believe we put on a great show. Reliability promises to play a key role at Le Mans, and the two 908 HDi FAPs ran like clockwork here, and our  refuelling work, race strategy and the work of the entire team were all very strong, too. We can be proud to have added a French victory to this race's roll of honour, and the 908 has now succeeded in winning all the main endurance races. It's a promising result, but we can't afford to take our eye off the ball."


Pictured above - Celebrating - Team Peugeot Total

Final Positions
1.Peugeot 908 07 (Davidson/Gené/Wurz), 367 laps / 12h0m 54.362s 2.Peugeot 908 08 (Bourdais/Lamy/Minassian), +13.817s 3.Lola-Judd (Mucke/Primat/Fernandez), +3 laps 4.Porsche RS Spyder (Pickett/Graf/Maassen), +14 laps 5. Honda (Pagenaud/Brabham/Franchitti), +18 laps Etc...

Fastest race lap: S.Bourdais (1m 44.972s) Next Race: Spa-Francorchamps May 7-9, 2010