Audi The German team managed to win today in the traditional circuit event "La Sarthe" 24 Hours "Le Mans" by his team "Audi Sport North America," composed by the German pilots Mike Rockenfeller, Timo Bernhard and Frenchman Romain Dumas.
Second team arrived "Audi Sport Team Joest" with A. Lotterer, M. Fassler and B. Treluyer.
While others arrived pilots: Tom Kristensen, Dindo Capello and Alan Mc Nish also the same German team "Joest".
All handled the Audi R15 TDI and now the brand with 9 victories in this race equals Ferrari, Porsche being the winningest with 13 victories.
The winning team ran 397 laps of 13.650 km the path one more than the crew that arrived second.
Peugeot, the champion of the 2009 edition, was the favorite after winning the first four places in the standings. They were undoubtedly the fastest cars, but all vehicles had problems during the grueling test, while the Audi took advantage of their greater reliability.
Audi director Wolfgang Ullrich told the assembled press after the race: ... "At first we had some bad luck, but in the end everything went well, it's a great reward for the hard work everyone has done. I think it was the career of "Le Mans" more difficult than we have done. "
The latest Peugeot 908 HDI FAP was left in the race, that of Alexander Wurz, Marc Gene and Anthony Davidson, retired with an engine failure jumper with just two hours of competition, while four hours earlier, the leader Stephane Sarrazin Peugeot Franck Montagny and Nicolas Minassian had to abandon your turbocharger failure.
A beautiful picture with lens "fisheye"
The winners of the race
A happy winner waving to the crowd
An Audi, in this case handled by Scottish Alan Mc Nish
Beautiful night shot at Le Mans
Another night making where the brake discs are the "red"
Night is falling on the HPD ARX 0.1 of David Brabham
Here is a "Oreca AIM" managed by André Meyrick Ayari
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