From press release
The 82nd 24 Hours of Le Mans kept fans on the edge of their seats from the moment that Fernando Alonso waved the French Tricoleur to the chequered flag at the finish, with elation and despair being experienced in equal measure. Deserving and joyful winners of the world’s most famous endurance race were André Lotterer, Benoît Tréluyer and Marcel Fässler in the No.2 Audi R18 e-tron quattro. Tom Kristensen, Lucas di Grassi and Marc Gené made it an Audi 1-2, but it was a bitter-sweet podium place as that car had been in a strong position for victory until a turbo problem delayed it in the pits.
Recovering from accident damage in the first of two heavy rain showers in the first quarter of the race, and finishing in the final overall podium place was the No.8 Toyota TS040 Hybrid of Anthony Davidson, Sébastien Buemi and Nicolas Lapierre, the result allowing them to keep their lead in the World Endurance Drivers Championship. LMP2 was a triumph for ELMS entrants and a disappointment for its FIA WEC runners, and the result was too close to call until the very end. It was the No.38 JOTA Sport Zytek Z11SN of Simon Dolan, Harry Tincknell and late replacement Oliver Turvey who lifted the winner’s trophy.
World GTE Champion driver Gianmaria Bruni, his teammates Toni Vilander and Giancarlo Fisichella were in a class of their own in the LMGTE Pro class, bringing the No.51 Ferrari 458 Italia home for their second class win in three years. It was undoubtedly a very emotional LMGTE Am class victory for the No.95 Danish-crewed Aston Martin Vantage V8 of Kristian Poulsen, David Heinemeier Hansson and Nicki Thiim, who lost teammate Allan Simonsen last year.
Race results* – 24 Hours of Le Mans 1 - Treluyer-Fassler-Lotterer (Audi R18 e-tron) - Audi - 379 laps 2 - Genè-Di Grassi-Kristensen (Audi R18 e-tron) - Audi - 3 laps 3 - Lapierre-Davidson-Buemi (Toyota TS040 Hybrid) - Toyota - 5 laps 4 - Heidfeld-Prost-Beche (Rebellion R One-Toyota) - Rebellion - 19 laps 5 - Dolan-Tincknell-Turvey (Zytek Z11SN-Nissan) - Jota - 23 laps 6 - Thiriet-Badey-Gommendy (Ligier JS P2-Nissan) - Thiriet By TDS – 24 laps 7 - Chatin-Webb-Panciatici (Alpine A450b-Nissan) - Signatech - 24 laps 8 - Capillaire-Rast-Charouz (Oreca 03R-Nissan) - Loeb Racing - 25 laps 9 - Brundle-Mardenborough-Shulzhitsky (Ligier JS P2-Nissan) - OAK - 25 laps 10 - Klien-Hirsch-Brandela (Morgan-Judd) - Newblood By Morand - 27 laps (...) *Unofficial results
Retirements Ragues-Taylor-Ihara (Morgan-Judd) - Larbre Competition Bernhard-Webber-Hartley (Porsche 919 Hybrid) - Porsche Sarrazin-Wurz-Nakajima (Toyota TS040 Hybrid) - Toyota Bertolini-Shaitar-Basov (Ferrari 458) - SMP Perrodo-Collard-Palttala (Porsche 911 GT3-RSR) - Prospeed Griffin-Parente-Leo (Ferrari 458) - RAM Rusinov-Pla-Canal (Morgan-Nissan) - G Drive Mann-Casè-Giammaria (Ferrari 458) - AF Corse Howson-Bradley-Imperatori (Oreca 03R-Nissan) - KCMG Belicchi-Leimer-Krahamer (Rebellion R One-Toyota) - Rebellion Berthon-Gonzalez-Chandock (Oreca 03R-Nissan) - Murphy Prototipes Munemman-Latif-Winslow (Zytek Z11SN-Nissan) - Graves Rigon-Kaffer-Beretta (Ferrari 458) - AF Corse Bonanomi-Albuquerque-Jarvis (Audi R18 e-tron) - Audi Wyatt-Rugolo-Bird (Ferrari 458) - AF Corse Minassian-Ladygin-Mediani (Oreca 03R-Nissan) - SMP Ordonez-Reip-Erdos (Nissan Zeod RC) - Nissan
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