Gosh. Audi wins 24 Hours of Le Mans 2013

Posted on 23-06-2013 at 15:39 by Ricardo – 95 Comments”

Audi has again geflikt. The e-tron R18 TDI’s were the Toyota’s, just like in 2012, the boss.

The coureurstrio Kristensen, McNish and Duval in the Audi took the victory at the 81st edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans, a race that was overshadowed by the death of Danish driver Allan Simonsen.

In the LMP1 class was, indeed, the predictable battle between Audi and Toyota. The Audi’s were faster, but Toyota did longer stints to drive with the two TS030’s, and they used a second and fourth place managed to tackle. For the 45-year-old driver Kristensen, this is the ninth victory.

The top 10 of the results:

1. LMP1 Audi Kristensen/McNish/Duval
2. LMP1 Toyota Davidson/Buemi/Sarrazin
3. LMP1 Audi di Grassi/Gene/Jarvis
4. LMP1 Toyota Wurz/Lapierre/Nakajima
5. LMP1 Audi Lotterer/Treluyer/Fassler
6. LMP1 Strakka HPD Kane/Watts/Leventis
7. LMP2 OAK Morgan-Nissan Baguette/Gonzalez/Plowman Winner LMP2 class
8. LMP2 OAK Morgan-Nissan Pla/Heinemeier Hansson/Brundle
9. LMP2 Delta-ADR ORECA-Nissan, Rusinov/M. Martin/Conway
10. LMP2 Greaves Zytek-Nissan’s Mardenborough/Ordonez/Krumm

Jeroen Event did with its Oreca 03-Judd to a nineteenth place finish, good for an eleventh place in the LMP2 class. Ho-Pin Tung was not the Chinese Dutchman struggled with a brandstoflek.

Porsche was lord and master in the GTE Pro class and the GTE Am class, where they have the #1 position got. In the LMP2 class won the trio of Bertrand Baguette, Ricardo Gonzalez and Martin Plowman in a car of OAK Racing.