{"id":459,"date":"2009-09-26T22:28:12","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T03:28:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/racinginfocus.com\/rif\/?p=459"},"modified":"2009-12-15T22:42:02","modified_gmt":"2009-12-16T03:42:02","slug":"race-report-risi-competizione-petit-le-mans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/alms\/race-report-risi-competizione-petit-le-mans\/","title":{"rendered":"Race report-Risi Competizione | Petit Le Mans"},"content":{"rendered":"<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">MID RACE REPORT | RACE SUSPENDED DUE TO HEAVY RAIN | Petit Le Mans 2009<\/span><\/h5>\n<h5><span style=\"color: #000080;\">\u00a0<\/span><\/h5>\n<p><span style=\"color: #000000;\">At just under the midway point of the 10 hour\/1000 Mile <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadatlanta.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Petit Le Mans<\/a> race, track action has been suspended by the Race Director due to extremely heavy rain and unsafe track conditions at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.roadatlanta.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Road Atlanta<\/a>.\u00a0 Mika Salo\u2019s Ferrari F430 GT is currently leading the GT2 class with a lap in hand thanks to an inspired early strategy call for wet Michelin tires.\u00a0\u00a0 The cars are currently lined up in pit lane, all covered to protect them from the rain, and will remain there until such time that the Race Officials decide the future of the race.<!--more--><br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nAs the skies darkened and the rain started to fall, the #62 car was the first in the GT class to make the change from slick to wet tires, while under the sixth of the seven (to date) full course yellow periods.\u00a0 This allowed Salo \u2013 in increasingly heavy rain \u2013 to pass all his competitors, first on the track and then additionally as they all had to pit for their own wet tires.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nMika Salo, said at the time the red flag was thrown, \u201cIt was really, really bad; the officials had no choice but to stop the race.\u00a0 We hope we can get things going again, but the weather radar shows a lot more heavy rain to come so we\u2019ll have to wait and see.\u201d<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nDeclared a \u201cwet race\u201d prior to the start, Jaime Melo took the Ferrari up to fifth place in class by fifth lap and ran strongly in changing track conditions to keep in touch with the two Corvettes and two Porsches ahead.\u00a0 Pierre Kaffer continued the good work, despite continual pressure from the #87 Farnbacher Porsche, and great pit work by the Risi crew \u2013 together with the tire call \u2013 ensured that the team holds its current position leading the class.<br \/>\n\u00a0<br \/>\nCurrent GT2 placings are:\u00a0 1-62; 2-92; 3-87; 4-4; 5-45; 6-3<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MID RACE REPORT | RACE SUSPENDED DUE TO HEAVY RAIN | Petit Le Mans 2009 \u00a0 At just under the midway point of the 10 hour\/1000 Mile Petit Le Mans race, track action has been suspended by the Race Director due to extremely heavy rain and unsafe track conditions at Road Atlanta.\u00a0 Mika Salo\u2019s Ferrari &#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"ngg_post_thumbnail":0},"categories":[9],"tags":[5264,99,100,104,109,106,110],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=459"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":462,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/459\/revisions\/462"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=459"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=459"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.racinginfocus.com\/rif\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=459"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}