2017 Petit Le Mans Explained

The 20th Annual Motul Petit Le Mans was the 2017 edition of the Petit Le Mans automotive endurance race, held on October 4–7, 2017, at the Road Atlanta circuit in Braselton, Georgia, United States. It was the 12th and final race of the 2017 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship, and the fourth Petit Le Mans run since the formation of the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship in 2014.

Background

IMSA's president Scott Atherton confirmed Petit Le Mans was part of the series' schedule for the 2017 WeatherTech SportsCar Championship at Road America's victory lane in August 2016.^[1] It was the fourth consecutive year the event was held as part of the WeatherTech SportsCar Championship and the 20th annual running of the race.^[2] The race was the final of 2017's twelve scheduled IMSA automobile endurance races, and the last of four North American Endurance Cup (NAEC) events.^[3] It was held at the 12-turn, 2.54miles Road Atlanta in Braselton, Georgia on October 7, 2017. Event creator, Don Panoz served as the grand marshal for the 2017 event.^[4]

As the final race of the 2017 season, the race marked the swansong for the PC class. First introduced in 2010, the category ran for eight seasons before a lack of interest lead to IMSA ending the class after the 2017 season.^{[5] [6]}

The BMW M6 GTLM also entered it its final IMSA event, ahead of the switch to new-generation GTE machinery for BMW in 2018.^[7] BMW would introduce the M8 GTE as it was based on the upcoming G15 8 Series.^[8]

This would be the final race for entry for Alex Job Racing as the team would step back from professional racing and focus on their historic restorations.^[9]

Stevenson Motorsports also entered their final race after announcing they would shut down operations following the event.^[10]

After the Monterey Grand Prix 1 week earlier, Jordan Taylor and Ricky Taylor led the Prototype Drivers' Championship with 288 points, ahead of Dane Cameron and Eric Curran with 259 points, and João Barbosa and Christian Fittipaldi with 258 points.^[11] With 252 points, James French and Patricio O'Ward clinched the PC Drivers' Championship with one race to spare.^[12] Antonio García and Jan Magnussen led the GTLM Drivers' Championship with 302 points, ahead of Ryan Briscoe and Richard Westbrook with 283 points. In GTD, the Drivers' Championship was led by Alessandro Balzan and Christina Nielsen with 318 points, ahead of Jeroen Bleekemolen with 292 points. Cadillac, Chevrolet, and Ferrari were leading their respective Manufacturers' Championships, while Wayne Taylor Racing, Performance Tech Motorsports, Corvette Racing, and Scuderia Corsa each led their own Teams' Championships.

Entries

A total of 39 cars took part in the event split across four classes. 10 cars were entered in P, 3 in PC, 9 in GTLM, and 17 in GTD.^[13] In P, Team Penske made their IMSA SportsCar Championship debut.^[14] Rebellion Racing made their first appearance since the Sebring round.^[15] Jonathan Bomarito joined Marc Goossens and Renger van der Zande in the VisitFlorida Racing entry.^[16] Brendon Hartley returned to the #2 Tequila Patrón ESM entry.^[17] Ryan Hunter-Reay joined Jordan Taylor and Ricky Taylor in the Wayne Taylor Racing entry.^[18] Julien Canal joined Olivier Pla and José Gutiérrez in the PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports entry. In PC, John Falb joined Garett Grist and Tomy Drissi and in the #26 BAR1 Motorsports entry. In GTLM, Nick Tandy and Earl Bamber made their first IMSA SportsCar Championship starts since the 2016 Petit Le Mans.^{[19] [20]} Alessandro Pier Guidi replaced James Calado in the Risi Competizione entry. In GTD, Montaplast by Land-Motorsport made their first appearance since Sebring while Alex Job Racing made their first appearance since the Lime Rock round. Michael Christensen and Michael de Quesada returned to the Alegra Motorsports entry. Sheldon van der Linde joined Connor De Phillippi and Christopher Mies in the Montaplast by Land-Motorsport entry. Patrick Long joined Gunnar Jeannette and Cooper MacNeil in the Riley Motorsports - WeatherTech Racing entry.^[21] Trent Hindman joined Bryan Sellers and Madison Snow in the Paul Miller Racing entry.

Practice

There were four practice sessions preceding the start of the race on Saturday, three on Thursday and one on Friday. The first two one-hour sessions were on Thursday morning and afternoon. The third held later that evening ran for 90 minutes; the fourth on Friday morning lasted an hour.^[22]

Practice 1

The first practice session took place at 11:10 am ET on Thursday and ended with Renger van der Zande topping the charts for VisitFlorida Racing, with a lap time of 1:12.650.^[23] James French set the fastest time in PC.^[24] The GTLM class was topped by the #912 Porsche GT Team Porsche 911 RSR of Laurens Vanthoor with a time of 1:18.320. Jeroen Mul was fastest in GTD.

	Class		Team	Driver	Time
1	P	90	VisitFlorida Racing	Renger van der Zande	1:12.650	_
2	P	10	Wayne Taylor Racing	Jordan Taylor	1:12.683	_0.033
3	P	6	Team Penske	Hélio Castroneves	1:12.691	+0.041
Sources:^[25] ^[26]

Practice 2

The second practice session took place at 3:15 pm ET on Thursday and ended with Juan Pablo Montoya topping the charts for Team Penske, with a lap time of 1:12.445.^[27] The PC class was topped by the #38 Performance Tech Motorsports Oreca FLM09 of Patricio O'Ward with a time of 1:16.152.^[28] Alessandro Pier Guidi was fastest in GTLM while Katherine Legge set the fastest time in GTD.^[29]

	Class		Team	Driver	Time
1	P	6	Team Penske	Juan Pablo Montoya	1:12.445	_
2	P	13	Rebellion Racing	Mathias Beche	1:12.697	+0.252
3	P	31	Whelen Racing Engineering	Dane Cameron	1:12.759	+0.314
Sources:^[30] ^[31]

Night Practice

The night practice session took place at 7:30 pm ET on Thursday and ended with Brendon Hartley topping the charts for Tequila Patrón ESM, with a lap time of 1:12.017.^[32] Patricio O'Ward set the fastest time PC by 0.407 seconds ahead of Buddy Rice in the #20 BAR1 Motorsports entry.^[33] The GTLM class was topped by the #25 BMW Team RLL BMW M6 GTLM of Alexander Sims with a time of 1:17.818. Nicky Catsburg was second in the sister #24 car and Tommy Milner rounded out the top 3.^[34] Jack Hawksworth was fastest in GTD.

	Class		Team	Driver	Time
1	P	2	Tequila Patrón ESM	Brendon Hartley	1:12.017	_
2	P	5	Mustang Sampling Racing	Filipe Albuquerque	1:12.327	+0.310
3	P	90	VisitFlorida Racing	Renger van der Zande	1:12.488	+0.471
Sources:^[35] ^[36]

Final Practice

The fourth and final practice session took place at 11:40 am ET on Friday and ended with Hélio Castroneves topping the charts for Team Penske, with a lap time of 1:11.968.^[37] James French set the fastest time in PC.^[38] The GTLM class was topped by the #62 Risi Competizione Ferrari 488 GTE of Toni Vilander with a time of 1:17.497.^[39] Connor De Phillippi was fastest in GTD with a time of 1:20.175.

	Class		Team	Driver	Time
1	P	6	Team Penske	Hélio Castroneves	1:11.968	_
2	P	2	Tequila Patrón ESM	Brendon Hartley	1:11.991	+0.023
3	P	22	Tequila Patrón ESM	Pipo Derani	1:12.019	+0.051
Source:^[40]

Qualifying

In Friday afternoon's 90-minute four-group qualifying, each category had separate 15-minute sessions. Regulations stipulated that teams nominate one qualifying driver, with the fastest laps determining each class' starting order. IMSA arranged the grid to put Prototypes ahead of the PC, GTLM and GTD cars.^[41]

The first was for cars in GTD class. Matteo Cressoni qualified on pole for the class driving the #63 Scuderia Corsa entry, besting Andy Lally in the #93 Michael Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian entry.^[42]

The second session of qualifying was for cars in the GTLM class. Toni Vilander qualified on pole driving the #62 car for Risi Competizione, beating Richard Westbrook in the #67 Ford Chip Ganassi Racing car by less than one tenth of a second.^[43]

The third session of qualifying was for cars in the PC class. James French set the fastest time driving the #38 Performance Tech Motorsports entry.

The final session of qualifying was for the P class. Hélio Castroneves qualified on pole driving the #6 car for Team Penske, besting Pipo Derani in the #22 Tequila Patrón ESM entry.^[44]

Qualifying results

Pole positions in each class are indicated in bold and by . All Prototype and Prototype Challenge cars were grouped together on the starting grid, regardless of qualifying position.

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1	P	6	Team Penske	Hélio Castroneves	1:11.314	_	1
2	P	22	Tequila Patrón ESM	Pipo Derani	1:11.475	+0.161	2
3	P	2	Tequila Patrón ESM	Brendon Hartley	1:11.499	+0.185	3
4	P	13	Rebellion Racing	Mathias Beche	1:11.623	+0.309	4
5	P	90	VisitFlorida Racing	Renger van der Zande	1:11.934	+0.620	5
6	P	52	PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports	Olivier Pla	1:12.106	+0.792	6
7	P	10	Wayne Taylor Racing	Ricky Taylor	1:12.121	+0.807	13
8	P	85	JDC-Miller MotorSports	Mikhail Goikhberg	1:12.388	+1.074	7
9	P	5	Mustang Sampling Racing	Christian Fittipaldi	1:12.393	+1.079	8
10	P	31	Whelen Racing Engineering	Eric Curran	1:13.051	+1.737	9
11	PC	38	Performance Tech Motorsports	James French	1:16.059	+4.755	10
12	PC	26	BAR1 Motorsports	Garett Grist	1:17.244	+5.930	11
13	PC	20	BAR1 Motorsports	Don Yount	1:17.628	+6.314	12
14	GTLM	62	Risi Competizione	Toni Vilander	1:17.660	+6.346	14
15	GTLM	67	Ford Chip Ganassi Racing	Richard Westbrook	1:17.705	+6.391	39
16	GTLM	3	Corvette Racing	Antonio García	1:17.714	+6.400	15
17	GTLM	66	Ford Chip Ganassi Racing	Joey Hand	1:17.729	+6.415	16
18	GTLM	25	BMW Team RLL	Bill Auberlen	1:17.731	+6.417	17
19	GTLM	4	Corvette Racing	Oliver Gavin	1:17.823	+6.509	18
20	GTLM	24	BMW Team RLL	Martin Tomczyk	1:18.084	+6.770	19
21	GTLM	912	Porsche GT Team	Gianmaria Bruni	1:18.161	+6.847	20
22	GTLM	911	Porsche GT Team	Patrick Pilet	1:18.426	+7.112	21
23	GTD	63	Scuderia Corsa	Matteo Cressoni	1:20.661	+9.347	22
24	GTD	93	Michael Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian	Andy Lally	1:20.739	+9.425	23
25	GTD	15	3GT Racing	Jack Hawksworth	1:20.798	+9.484	24
26	GTD	29	Montaplast by Land-Motorsport	Sheldon van der Linde	1:20.830	+9.516	25
27	GTD	96	Turner Motorsport	Jesse Krohn	1:20.904	+9.590	26
28	GTD	28	Alegra Motorsports	Michael Christensen	1:20.968	+9.654	27
29	GTD	86	Michael Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian	Oswaldo Negri Jr.	1:20.998	+9.684	28
30	GTD	16	Change Racing	Jeroen Mul	1:21.063	+9.749	29
31	GTD	14	3GT Racing	Sage Karam	1:21.115	+9.801	30
32	GTD	57	Stevenson Motorsports	Andrew Davis	1:21.220	+9.906	31
33	GTD	48	Paul Miller Racing	Madison Snow	1:21.393	+10.079	32
34	GTD	73	Park Place Motorsports	Patrick Lindsey	1:21.470	+10.156	33
35	GTD	23	Alex Job Racing	Townsend Bell	1:21.648	+10.334	34
36	GTD	75	SunEnergy1 Racing	Dion von Moltke	1:21.915	+10.601	35
37	GTD	33	Riley Motorsports - Team AMG	Ben Keating	1:21.959	+10.645	37
38	GTD	50	Riley Motorsports - WeatherTech Racing	Cooper MacNeil	1:22.177	+10.863	36
39	GTD	54	CORE Autosport	Jon Bennett	1:23.379	+12.605	38
Sources:^[45] ^[46]

• The No. 10 Wayne Taylor Racing entry was moved to the back of the P field as per Article 43.6 of the Sporting regulations (Change of starting tires).
• The No. 67 Ford Chip Ganassi Racing entry was moved to the back of the GTLM field due to failing post qualifying technical inspection.
• The No. 33 Riley Motorsports - Team AMG entry was moved to the back of the GTD field as per Article 43.6 of the Sporting regulations (Change of starting tires).
• The No. 54 CORE Autosport entry was moved to the back of the GTD field as per Article 43.6 of the Sporting regulations (Change of starting tires).

Race

Post-race

Jordan Taylor, and Ricky Taylor took the Prototype Drivers' Championship with 310 points. They were 19 points ahead of Cameron, and Curran in second position. Barbosa and Fittipaldi followed in third place with 291 points, ahead of Goikhberg and Simpson in fourth with 277 points and Ryan Dalziel and Sharp in fifth with 273 points.^[47] With 283 points, French and O'Ward won the PC Drivers' Championship, 39 points ahead of Yount in second. García and Magnussen took the GTLM Drivers' Championship with 334 points. They were 17 points ahead of Auberlen and Sims in second position. Hand and Müller followed in third place with 306 points, ahead of Briscoe and Westbrook with 306 points and Pilet and Werner with 295 points. With 340 points, Balzan and Nielsen won the GTD Drivers' Championship, 20 points ahead of Bleekemolen in second. Lindsey was in third position with 298 points and Klingmann was fourth with 294 points. Cadillac, Chevrolet, and Ferrari won their respective Manufactures' Championships while Wayne Taylor Racing, Performance Tech Motorsports, Corvette Racing, and Scuderia Corsa won their respective Teams' Championships.

Race result

Class winners are denoted in bold and with

!rowspan=2 Class Team Drivers Chassis Tire Time/Retired Engine 1 P 2 Tequila Patrón ESM Ryan Dalziel Brendon Hartley Scott Sharp Nissan Onroak DPi 402 10:00:22.867 Nissan VR38DETT 3.8 L Twin-turbo V6 2 P 31 Whelen Engineering Racing Dane Cameron Mike Conway Eric Curran Cadillac DPi-V.R 402 +7.633 Cadillac 6.2 L V8 3 P 6 Team Penske Hélio Castroneves Juan Pablo Montoya Simon Pagenaud Oreca 07 402 +8.058 Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 4 P 22 Tequila Patrón ESM Pipo Derani Bruno Senna Johannes van Overbeek Nissan Onroak DPi 402 +19.285 Nissan VR38DETT 3.8 L Twin-turbo V6 5 P 5 Mustang Sampling Racing Filipe Albuquerque João Barbosa Christian Fittipaldi Cadillac DPi-V.R 401 +1 Lap Cadillac 6.2 L V8 6 P 85 JDC-Miller MotorSports Misha Goikhberg Chris Miller Stephen Simpson Oreca 07 399 +3 Laps Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 7 GTLM 25 BMW Team RLL Bill Auberlen Alexander Sims Kuno Wittmer BMW M6 GTLM 392 +10 Laps BMW 4.4 L Turbo V8 8 GTLM 3 Corvette Racing Antonio García Jan Magnussen Mike Rockenfeller Chevrolet Corvette C7.R 392 +10 Laps Chevrolet LT5.5 5.5 L V8 9 GTLM 62 Risi Competizione Giancarlo Fisichella Alessandro Pier Guidi Toni Vilander Ferrari 488 GTE 392 +10 Laps Ferrari F154CB 4.0 L Twin-turbo V8 10 GTLM 4 Corvette Racing Marcel Fässler Oliver Gavin Tommy Milner Chevrolet Corvette C7.R 392 +10 Laps Chevrolet LT5.5 5.5 L V8 11 GTLM 912 Porsche GT Team Earl Bamber Gianmaria Bruni Laurens Vanthoor Porsche 911 RSR 392 +10 Laps Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 12 GTLM 911 Porsche GT Team Patrick Pilet Nick Tandy Dirk Werner Porsche 911 RSR 392 +10 Laps Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 13 GTLM 66 Ford Chip Ganassi Racing Sébastien Bourdais Joey Hand Dirk Müller Ford GT 392 +10 Laps Ford EcoBoost 3.5 L Twin-turbo V6 14 GTLM 67 Ford Chip Ganassi Racing Ryan Briscoe Scott Dixon Richard Westbrook Ford GT 390 +12 Laps Ford EcoBoost 3.5 L Twin-turbo V6 15 PC 26 BAR1 Motorsports Tomy Drissi John Falb Garett Grist Oreca FLM09 384 +18 Laps Chevrolet 6.2 L V8 16 GTD 29 Montaplast by Land-Motorsport Connor De Phillippi Christopher Mies Sheldon van der Linde Audi R8 LMS 382 +20 Laps Audi 5.2 L V10 17 GTD 28 Alegra Motorsports Michael Christensen Daniel Morad Michael de Quesada Porsche 911 GT3 R 382 +20 Laps Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 18 GTD 73 Park Place Motorsports Jörg Bergmeister Patrick Lindsey Matt McMurry Porsche 911 GT3 R 382 +20 Laps Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 19 GTD 33 Riley Motorsports - Team AMG Jeroen Bleekemolen Mario Farnbacher Ben Keating Mercedes AMG GT3 381 +21 Laps Mercedes AMG M159 6.2 L V8 20DNF P 90 Visit Florida Racing Jonathan Bomarito Marc Goossens Renger van der Zande Ligier JS P217 380 Header Gibson GK428 4.2 V8 21 GTD 54 CORE Autosport Jon Bennett Colin Braun Niclas Jönsson Porsche 911 GT3 R 380 +22 Laps Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 22 GTD 23 Alex Job Racing Townsend Bell Frankie Montecalvo Bill Sweedler Audi R8 LMS 380 +22 Laps Audi 5.2 L V10 23 PC 20 BAR1 Motorsports Daniel Burkett Buddy Rice Don Yount Oreca FLM09 376 +26 Laps Chevrolet 6.2 L V8 24 GTD 48 Paul Miller Racing Trent Hindman Bryan Sellers Madison Snow Lamborghini Huracán GT3 375 +27 Laps Lamborghini 5.2 L V10 25 PC 38 Performance Tech Motorsports James French Kyle Masson Patricio O'Ward Oreca FLM09 367 +35 Laps Chevrolet 6.2 L V8 26 GTD 15 3GT Racing Austin Cindric Jack Hawksworth Scott Pruett Lexus RC F GT3 364 +38 Laps Lexus 5.4 L V8 27 GTD 63 Scuderia Corsa Alessandro Balzan Matteo Cressoni Christina Nielsen Ferrari 488 GT3 349 +53 Laps Ferrari F154CB 3.9 L Twin-turbo V8 28DNF GTLM 24 BMW Team RLL Nicky Catsburg John Edwards Martin Tomczyk BMW M6 GTLM 338 Cooling BMW 4.4 L Turbo V8 29DNF GTD 14 3GT Racing Robert Alon Ian James Sage Karam Lexus RC F GT3 308 Crash Lexus 5.4 L V8 30DNF GTD 16 Change Racing Corey Lewis Jeroen Mul Brett Sandberg Lamborghini Huracán GT3 300 Fuel Pressure Lamborghini 5.2 L V10 31DNF GTD 86 Michael Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian Tom Dyer Oswaldo Negri Jeff Segal Acura NSX GT3 292 Handling Acura 3.5 L Twin-turbo V6 32DNF GTD 57 Stevenson Motorsports Lawson Aschenbach Matt Bell Andrew Davis Audi R8 LMS 229 Crash Audi 5.2 L V10 33DNF GTD 93 Michael Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian Andy Lally Katherine Legge Mark Wilkins Acura NSX GT3 219 Crash Acura 3.5 L Twin-turbo V6 34DNF GTD 96 Turner Motorsport Jens Klingmann Jesse Krohn Justin Marks BMW M6 GT3 213 Electrical BMW 4.4 L Twin-turbo V8 35DNF GTD 75 SunEnergy1 Racing Kenny Habul Dion von Moltke Tristan Vautier Mercedes AMG GT3 210 Water Pump Mercedes AMG M159 6.2 L V8 36DNF P 13 Rebellion Racing Mathias Beche Nick Heidfeld Gustavo Menezes Oreca 07 205 Crash Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 37DNF P 10 Wayne Taylor Racing Ryan Hunter-Reay Jordan Taylor Ricky Taylor Cadillac DPi-V.R 97 Engine Cadillac 6.2 L V8 38DNF P 52 PR1/Mathiasen Motorsports Julien Canal José Gutiérrez Olivier Pla Ligier JS P217 62 Crash Gibson GK428 4.2 L V8 39DNF GTD 50 Riley Motorsports - WeatherTech Racing Gunnar Jeannette Patrick Long Cooper MacNeil Porsche 911 GT3 R 15 Gearbox Porsche 4.0 L Flat-6 Sources:^[48] ^[49]

Key Symbol Tyre manufacturer Continental Michelin

Standings after the race

+Prototype Drivers' Championship standings		+/–	Driver	Points
1		Jordan Taylor Ricky Taylor	310
2		Dane Cameron Eric Curran	291
3		João Barbosa Christian Fittipaldi	284
4		Misha Goikhberg Stephen Simpson	277
5		Ryan Dalziel Scott Sharp	273

+PC Drivers' Championship standings		+/–	Driver	Points
1		James French Patricio O'Ward	283
2		Don Yount	244
3		Buddy Rice	182
4	1	Kyle Masson	139
5	1	Gustavo Yacamán	121

+GTLM Drivers' Championship standings		+/–	Driver	Points
1		Antonio García Jan Magnussen	334
2	1	Bill Auberlen Alexander Sims	317
3	1	Joey Hand Dirk Müller	306
4	2	Ryan Briscoe Richard Westbrook	306
5		Patrick Pilet Dirk Werner	295

+GTD Drivers' Championship standings		+/–	Driver	Points
1		Alessandro Balzan Christina Nielsen	340
2		Jeroen Bleekemolen	320
3	2	Patrick Lindsey	298
4	1	Jens Klingmann	294
5	2	Ben Keating	290

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for all sets of standings.

+Prototype Teams' Championship standings		+/–	Team	Points
1		#10 Wayne Taylor Racing	310
2		#31 Whelen Engineering Racing	291
3		#5 Mustang Sampling Racing	284
4		#85 JDC-Miller MotorSports	277
5		#2 Tequila Patrón ESM	273

+PC Teams' Championship standings		+/–	Team	Points
1		#38 Performance Tech Motorsports	283
2		#26 BAR1 Motorsports	252
3		#20 BAR1 Motorsports	244
4		#8 Starworks Motorsport	58
5		#88 Starworks Motorsport	28

+GTLM Teams' Championship standings		+/–	Team	Points
1		#3 Corvette Racing	334
2	1	#25 BMW Team RLL	317
3	1	#66 Ford Chip Ganassi Racing	306
4	2	#67 Ford Chip Ganassi Racing	306
5		#911 Porsche GT Team	295

+GTD Teams' Championship standings		+/–	Team	Points
1		#63 Scuderia Corsa	340
2		#33 Riley Motorsports Team AMG	320
3	2	#73 Park Place Motorsports	298
4	1	#96 Turner Motorsport	294
5	1	#93 Michael Shank Racing with Curb-Agajanian	286

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for all sets of standings.

+Prototype Manufacturers' Championship standings		+/–	Manufacturer	Points
1		Cadillac	344
2		Nissan	320
3		Mazda	216

+GTLM Manufacturers' Championship standings		+/–	Manufacturer	Points
1		Chevrolet	348
2	1	BMW	342
3	1	Ford	338
4		Porsche	325
5		Ferrari	204

+GTD Manufacturers' Championship standings		+/–	Manufacturer	Points
1		Ferrari	352
2	1	Mercedes-AMG	348
3		Porsche	345
4		Acura	334
5	2	Audi	334

• Note: Only the top five positions are included for all sets of standings.

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