Audi and Peugeot fight for the lead in the first six hours, but the main fact was the
horrifying crash of Alan McNish’s Audi.
At 9.00 PM (French hour), the leading car was the Peugeot 908 driven by Gene, Wurz and Davidson, which led by only 30 seconds ahead of the Audi R18 driven by Lotterer/Treluyer/Fassler.
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Behind, it was Peugeot-Audi-Peugeot, with one Audi missing, the car driven by McNish, Kristensen and Capello which retired in the first hour after McNish’s horrifying crash while laping a Ferrari GT. Both Aston Martin AMR One retired in the first laps of the race.
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In the LMP1 fuel-powered cars classification, it was also a great fight between the work Pescarolo-Judd and both Team Rebellion’s Lola-Toyota. Saturday evening, the French prototype was in the lead, but was followed closely from its rivals.
LMP2 race was leading by the ORECA-Nissan driven by Premat/Hallyday/Kraihamer, after the Signatech’s ORECA-Nissan, fastest in qualifying, suffered a puncture which cost it several laps.
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It’s also a great battle in GTE Pro, with Corvette and BMW fighting for the lead since the beginning of the race, while Porsche was a little bit behind. Corvette had the lead at 9.00 PM but the quickest of the BMW was only 30 seconds behind, ahead of Luxury Racing team’s Ferrari F458.
Finally, in GTE Am, the category was dominated by Larbre Competition, who put its Corvette C6 Z and its Porsche 997 RSR.
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