Porsche breaks Audi-hegemony with the 17th Le Mans victory

Porsche breaks Audi-hegemony with the 17th Le Mans victory

Posted on 14-06-2015 at 15:01 by JordyS – 103 Comments”

De winnende Porsche 919 van Nico Hulkenberg, Nick Tandy en  Earl Bamber
Porsche hoped in 2016, the 24 hours of Le Mans to win, but it was the competitors from Audi now is already too fast. Nico Hülkenberg, Nick Tandy and Earl Bamber (#19) proved to be supreme and reason, even as a second finished merkgenoten Timo Bernhard, Mark Webber and Brendon Hartley (#17) on a circle.

The drivers of the Porsche 919 Hybrid lost in the early stages of the race some ground, but in the middle of the night put Hülkenberg and Tandy the basis for the seventeenth Le Mans-victory of Porsche. The #7 Audi was in it a long time difficult, to Marcel Fässler, André Lotterer and Benoit Treluyer a piece of bodywork are lost. Bamber was the lead in the early hours continue to build, as all Audi’s unscheduled pit stops had to make. So was the oil from the #7 Audi to be refilled. (who reads ‘m in?) and followed a short stop for the bonnet to check.

Audi’s regularly in trouble
The Audi with number 8 at that time, was already turned off for the stage win, after Loic Duval’s car in the opening in the wall parked. He estimated the speed of a number of participants from another class, and that’s totally wrong, could not take evasive action and drove the entire front of his R18 to smithereens. Later in the race lost the team for a further two minutes, after the engine hood had to be replaced. Felipe Albuquerque, Marco Bonanomi, René Rast (#9) seemed the appropriate Audi-riders to the Porsche difficult to make, but they also verspeelden a lot of time in the pits, because one of the drive shafts broke.

Porsche #18 forfeits podiumkansen in Mulsanne
It took the leading Porsches also relatively little difficulty in making the 919 Hybrid today in first and second position about the finish. The third Porsche (Neel Jani, Marc Lieb and Romain Dumas) was the only one who frequently got into trouble. As were Dumas and Jani the tyre stacks at Mulsanne and had to in both cases, the front of the bodywork be changed.

Nissan has dramatic comeback
We were able to see it coming, but the LMP1 cars of Nissan were not looking forward to burn. The Japanese had a pretty disappointing preparation, in which the Nissan GT-R LM NISMO looked more like a rudderless ship than on a dreaded LMP1 racer. Michael Krumm took the Nissan with the number 22 as the 40th and last over the finish line, while the other two cars to the finish at all didn’t make it. So there is work to be done for next year’s race, though you can already now there are serious question marks in the model year car through to develop into a winning car.

Incidentally, also played Toyota no role of significance Alex Wurz, Mike Conway and Stephane Sarrazin finished, while the sixth, but laid no less than nine laps to less than the racewinnaars. Anthony Davidson, Sebastien Buemi and Kazuki Nakajima did it with an eighth place already not much better. That was the Davidson charge, as he twice crashed.

First LMP2 victory for KCMG
The LMP2 team KCMG was no better 24 hours of Le Mans. Nicolas Lapierre, Richard Bradley and Matt Howso started on pole position and drove to the end of each hour to the pipe. Yet it was occasionally quite exciting, for example when the ORECA 05 two-minute long silence fell with a mechanical problem. Also, Lapierre went on during the 22nd hour of the job in Indianapolis. Oliver Turvey, Mitch Evans and Simon Dolan finished for Jota Sport Gibson as second, followed by Sam Bird, Roman Rusinov and Julien Canal.

Corvette wins GTE Pro class after attrition
In the GTE Pro class, had a Corvette, Ferrari, Porsche and Aston Martin, to determine the race, run off would go. Especially Corvette (#64), Aston Martin (#97 and #99) and Ferrari (#51) were in the early stages strong on the road. Aston Martin had to first specify, after #97 motor blown up and #99 crashed after a collision with an LMP2-participant. Ferrari drivers Gianmaria Bruni, Toni Vilander and Giancarlo Fisichella took the lead two hours before the fall of the flag, but were then a half hour of quiet with gearbox problems. Oliver Gavin, Tommy Milner and Jordan Taylor could therefore take it easy in the final, because the Corvette drivers came with an advantage of five laps.

Aston Martin let GTE AM victory are
Although it went wrong in the GTE Pro class, it seemed to Aston Martin in the GTE AM division, confident of victory. Paul Dalla Lana, Pedro Lamy and Mattias Lauda were comfortably in the lead, Dalla Lana in the car in the last hour in the tyre stacks parked. That meant immediately, end of story, so Victor Shaitar, Andrea Bertolini and Aleksey Basov their Ferrari first across the finish line sent.


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