From Audi
Audi Sport managed a dream start of the 2015 motorsport year. In the season opener of the FIA World Endurance Championship (WEC) at Silverstone, the Audi R18 e-tron quattro of Marcel Fässler, André Lotterer and Benoît Tréluyer took victory after a thrilling six-hour race in which the lead kept changing and was fiercely contested. At the beginning, events in the race did not seem to augur well for car No. 7. As the correct gear could not immediately be engaged, Benoît Tréluyer, who had started from position five, lost a lot of ground and had to battle his way forwards again through half of the field on the first laps.
After two and a half hours, André Lotterer took over driving duties from Marcel Fässler and 30 minutes later the lead in the race. "A perfect day for Audi and for our team," said Lotterer. "We were under pressure from the first to the last lap and could not afford to slip. We managed to do this and the team did everything right at the pit stops and with the perfect strategy. Now, we’re going to take this momentum with us to Spa and to Le Mans." Race results* 1 Fässler/Lotterer/Tréluyer (Audi R18 e-tron quattro) 201 laps 2 Dumas/Jani/Lieb (Porsche) +4.160s 3 Davidson/Buemi/Nakajima (Toyota) +14.816s 4 Conway/Sarrazin/Wurz (Toyota) -1 lap 5 di Grassi/Duval/Jarvis (Audi R18 e-tron quattro) -4 laps 6 Rusinov/Canal/Bird (Ligier-Nissan) -16 laps 7 Yacaman/Derani/Gonzalez (Ligier-Nissan) -17 laps 8 Dalziel/Sharp/Heinemeier Hansson (HPD-Honda) -18 laps 9 Leventis/Watts/Kane (Dome-Nissan) -23 laps 10 Bruni/Vilander (Ferrari) -29 laps *Unofficial Recent Articles
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