Four hours before the end of the race, Poulnot took over the car from his teammates. Their No.8 car completed a vast 380 laps in 24 hours, 65,438+00 laps more than the 370 laps of Audi R8 last year, which fully shows that the speed and technology of Le Mans endurance race are improving every year. According to the tradition of Le Mans, Poulnot deliberately slowed down on the last lap and waved flags to greet the 250,000 fans at the scene.
The runner-up is the 17 Pescaro C60 car driven by WRC champion Sebastien Loeb, and the French trapeze is playing at home. At the end of the game last year, he regretted quitting because his teammate crashed. This year has finally tasted the fruits of victory. The other two heroes driving racing cars are former Renault F/KLOC-0 drivers Mon Tagini and Eric Sillari.
Audi No.7, which started from pole position, finally ranked third because of several accidents in the race. At the same time, it also announced that Tom Kristensen, the seven-time champion of Le Mans, had lost his hope of winning the eighth title this season.
The champion of P2 group belongs to Laura Ex264aer (No.25 of RML team). After last year's failure, Mike Newton finally won with his teammates Erdos and Wallace.
Audi took the lead with two R 10 (click to see photos).
But not all teams can go from failure to victory like RML where Mike Newton played. Aston Martin is like this. After failing to win the championship last year because of engine trouble, this year they lost to Corvette from the United States, and they lost the championship with only three hours left in the game. This time, it was also because of mechanical failure-gearbox. It seems that the reliability problem of Aston Martin still needs to be solved. The only thing that makes them happy is that the 007 car of the same team won the runner-up.
The only winner in the last hour was GT2. Porsche No.83 9 1 1 GT3-RSR was in the lead for the first 23 hours of the race, but at the last critical moment, Dominik FarEmbacher found that his gearbox began to appear abnormal and had to stop for maintenance. When he returned to the track, he found that the first car was no longer himself, but Panoz No.81. At this time, he began to catch up at full speed, hoping to recover the time difference of 2 minutes. However, things often go wrong in a hurry. Fabach ran off the track with half an hour left before the end of the race, and finally had to give up the last glimmer of hope.
Perhaps it is not a bad thing that Porsche failed to win the championship this time, because they gave their opponents a big gift: Panoz won the championship this time, which is the first time since they entered Le Mans 10 anniversary. Panoz should definitely thank Porsche!
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Departure: Two Audi R 10 take the lead.
At 23:00 Beijing time on June 18, and at 7: 00 French local time on June 17, the 74th 24 Hours of Le Mans officially started at La Salte Circuit. Allan McNish, an Audi driver who started from pole position, took the lead in his No.7 R 10 TDI car and firmly occupied the leading position.
Brother 8, who started in the same row, followed closely. The driver was Frank biella, but he was behind Macneish 1.479 seconds after two laps.
The two Pescaro cars occupying the second row are temporarily ranked third and fourth, but the speed of Pescaro-car is obviously not as fast as Audi's, and the former Renault F/KLOC-0 driver Frank Tagini is almost 3 seconds slower than Macneish's every lap, so by the 22nd lap of the race, it has been thrown by Macneish for more than 30 seconds.
Erdos, the pole position winner of LMP2 group, made a good start today, and he is still among the best in this group. However, GT 1 ranked first in the group and got off to a bad start today. For some reason, 007 Aston Martin dropped to 46th place on lap 20. The 009 car of their team was also overtaken by the 64 Corvette car, but the gap was only more than 6 seconds.
Introduction to the 24 Hours of Le Mans in France: Three drivers ran wildly for 24 hours.
The head of aston martin's team said before the race that the problem of car reliability that had troubled them for a long time had been solved, so this year they were no longer afraid of the rock-solid Corvette, but judging from today's situation, this is not the case.
The race started relatively smoothly, with only two cars having problems. A racing car, G-FORC's car No.35, returned to the pit on the first lap because of transmission system failure. The other car was a Judd car driven by Mark rostain, who failed to start when the headlights went out.
By the time of writing this article, the race has been going on for 45 minutes, and Audi's cars 7 and 8 are still in the first place. They both completed 26 laps, and two Pescaro cars ranked third and fourth respectively. The 25th Lara X264aer is the first in P2 group, while the 64th Corvette and 27th Porsche are ahead of GT 1 and GT2 group respectively.
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The third hour: Audi 7 suffered engine failure.
In the third hour of the race, the No.7 Audi R 10, which was in the leading position, first made an extra pit stop because of the windshield problem, and then made an pit stop because of the fuel injection system problem, which made them hand over the leading position to their brother model-No.8 Audi R 10.
Introduction of Serra-Sassen Circuit in Le Mans Endurance: Unique tire doors and three most beautiful straights.
These two extra stops took the No.7 train 25 minutes. At first, the team replaced the black box, hoping to cure the problem, but when Christensen took the car from Capello, the problem appeared again. Finally, the seven-time champion of Le Mans had to drive his car back to the pit and put on a new fuel injection system.
However, this treatment does not mean that the problem has been cured. Ralf Juttner, the technical director of the team, said: "We encountered this problem before the trial operation. So this is not entirely a new problem, it is a very typical fault on diesel engines. "
"Faced with such a problem, you can only replace parts, which is the only thing you can do. According to the experience so far, such problems sometimes appear after two hours, sometimes four hours apart. " Gartner is undoubtedly suggesting that the problem may happen again.
No.7 Audi suffered an engine failure and lost its first engineer, fearing that the problem would reappear.
"Tom (Christensen) told us on the radio that the engine is working normally again now. In a sense, we must now pray that the problem will not happen again (especially in another car). But in our memory, nothing is impossible in the game, and this is Le Mans. " It seems that in the next 20 hours, the whole Audi team will not be calm.
At the time of writing this article, the No.7 R 10 chariot was temporarily ranked fifth after chasing all the way, but they still lagged behind their brother No.8 car by six laps. According to the current situation, R 10 is 3 seconds faster than Pescaro 60, and it is not impossible to overtake the first three cars. It's just that it's not easy for the legendary Christensen to win the eighth championship in front of 250 thousand audience, because another brother car can't stop and wait for him.
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10 hour: Audi was rear-ended by another accident on the 7th.
When the race reached the first 10 hour, the No.7 Audi R 10 car had another accident and collided with a GT 1 car at the corner of Indianapolis.
The rear fork arm of the car was badly damaged, so rinaldo Capello had to drive into the station to replace it. This made them fall from the third place to the fourth place, behind the leading brother car-Audi R 10+00 1 1 lap.
Rinaldo Capello returned to the station and said, "I had a serious car accident in Indianapolis." But he doesn't know who his opponent is. The team only knows that Convers Menx's Ferrari 550 stopped to replace the front wing at about the same time. It seems that this car killed him.
"I passed the car from the inside and it hit me. I am very disappointed. I didn't expect this. Fortunately, my car did not slip and remained on the track. "
"Many parts are damaged and the fork arm of the rear suspension needs to be replaced," Capello continued.
At the time of writing this article, the competition has reached 14 hour. At present, Audi No.8 still leads, 17 Pescaro ranks second, and No.7 R 10 has risen to third place, but they are 9 laps behind the first car.
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14 hours: No.8 Audi still leads 12 car leaves the station.
When the race went to 14 hours, No.8 Audi R 10 still took the lead and extended its advantage to three laps. At present, they have completed 233 laps, with the fastest lap speed of 3 minutes and 32 seconds, 69 1, and a total of 17 pit stops.
Pescaro 17 ranked second. Currently driven by former Renault F 1 driver Montagni, their C60 car is slightly inferior in speed, but it is stable. The distance of three laps is within the attack range for Le Mans, so as long as the first car makes a mistake, they have a chance to win the championship. However, Sillari, the driver, said that the Michelin tires they used became unstable, because the temperature began to rise after dawn, and the car had serious understeer. Now it seems that Montagni suffered from this.
No.7 Audi R 10 lost to its brother car on the fourth lap-No.8 R 10, and suffered another accident at 10 hour, and was rear-ended by a racing car at the corner of Indianapolis, wasting a lot of time to repair the car again. However, due to their crazy pursuit, they are now back to the third place, only 9 laps behind 17 C60 9. Up to now, the fastest lap speed of this race is 3 minutes 3 1 sec 2 1 1, and the total number of pit stops is 19.
Wallace, who drives the No.25 car, ranks first in the P2 group, but he lags behind two GT 1 cars in the total score list. At present, Aston Martin No.009 is still ahead of GT 1 group, but they have only one lap advantage over Corvette No.64, so the situation is still very tense. If nothing unexpected happens, the champion of this group will be born in these two cars. The leader of GT2 Group changed hands, currently led by Porsche 83 of Secker Team, and he ranked 15 in the total score list.
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17 hour racing oil spill safety car is dispatched for the third time.
When the race reached the first 17 hour, the safety car had to be dispatched again, because a car leaked oil at the corner of Indianapolis and spilled oil all over the floor.
This is the third time that a safety car has been dispatched in this competition. 365,438+0 cars (the remaining 65,438+02 cars have been withdrawn) have formed a mighty team to move forward slowly, while on the other side, the track workers are cleaning up the oil stains on the track at full speed. After running about two laps, the race resumed.
At the time of writing this article, the top ranking has not changed. No.8 Audi R 10 still leads by three laps. At this time, the driver in the car is Marco Werner. The Pacaro C60 temporarily driven by Loeb ranked second, while Audi's No.7 car still ranked third. Judging from the current lap speed, although the speed of No.7 car could be faster, it did not catch up and still lagged behind the first car 12 laps.
At the same time, the GT 1 group is still led by Aston Martin 009, followed by Corvette 72, ranking fourth and fifth respectively. Laura X264aer (Lola X264aer) ranked sixth in the overall rating list. The leader of GT2 Group is still Porsche 83 9 1 1 GT3-RSR.
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The following is the final ranking of the 74th Le Mans Endurance Race (the Chinese version will be presented later).
The overall ranking car number group ranked drivers' team nationality model lap time performance was poor.
1.8 LM P 1 1。 Biela，Pirro，Werner Audi Sport Team Joest D Audi r 10v 12 TDI 380 6:20.375
2. 17 LM P 1 2。 Hurali, Loeb, Montagni Pekalo Sports F Pekalo C60H Judd 376 4 laps.
3.7 LM P 1 3。 Capello, Christensen, Macneish Audi Sports Team Joest D Audi R10V12TDI36713 laps.
4.64 LM GT 1 1。 Gavin, Beretta, Magnussen Corvette Racing USA Corvette C6-R355 25 laps
5. 16 LM P 1 4。 Collard, comas, Minasian Pei Carollo Sports F Pei Carollo C60H Judd 352 28 laps
6.007 LM GT 1 2。 Engel, Turner, piccini Aston Martin racing GB Aston Martin DBR9 350 30 laps.
7.72 LM GT 1 3。 Alford, Polikander, Gouaslard Luc Alford Adventure F Corvette C5-R 346 34 laps
8.25 LM P2 1。 Erdos, Newton and Wallace RML GB Lola EX264 AER 343 37 laps
9.62 LM GT 1 4。 Brabham, Bouchut, Garcia Russian age racing RUS Aston Martin DBR9 343 8.360
10.009 LM GT 1 5。 Sarrazin, Lamy and Ottley Aston Martin racing GB Aston Martin DBR9 342 38 laps.
1 1.66 LM GT 1 6。 Borcheller, Mowlem, Fittipaldi Ace MCO Motor Sports USA Saleen S7R 337 43 laps
12.63 LM GT 1 7。 Feros, O'Connell, pabis Corvette Racing Corvette C6-R 327 53 laps.
13.24 LM P2 2。 Nie Bin, Timpany, Terada Nie Bin Motorsports USA Lola B05/40 Zytek 326 54 laps.
14.27 LM P2 3。 Macaluso, Guy, James Miracle Racing American Courage C65 AER 324 56 laps
15.8 1 LM GT2 1。 Dean, Tomlinson, Hughes Team LNT GB Panos Esperante lap 32 1 59.
16.83 LM GT2 2。 Nelson, Embacher, Ehret Secker Motorsports D Porsche 9 1 1 GT3-RSR 320 60 laps.
17.87 LM GT2 3。 Kinch, Niarchos, Mullen Scuderia Ecosse GB Ferrari 430 GT 3 1 1 69 laps.
18.80 LM GT2 4。 Neiman, van Overbeek, Long Flying Lizard Motorsports Porsche USA 911GT3-RSR 309 71lap
19.33 LM P2 4。 Field, halliday, Intersport Racing USA Lola B05/40 AER 297 lap 83 in Dayton
20.22 LM P2 5。 Barbosa, Mosley, short Rollcentre racing GB radical SR9 Judd 294 86 laps.
2 1.32 LM P2 6。 Balaz, Vijay, Cunningham, balaz, εF Courage C65 AER 294 2:59.3 13.
22.93 LM GT2 5。 Lap 911GT3-RSR29189 of Taisan Adouan J Porsche from Xize, Shan Zhi and Colin.
23.53 LM GT 1 8。 A Piserra, Shanxi, lap 97 of Jlocisao Noritake J Lamgorghini Murcielago R-GT 283 in Hino.
24.73 LM GT2 6。 Ianneta, Lambert, Lefort Ice Pol Team B Porsche 9 1 1 GT3-RSR 282 98 laps
25.2 LM P 1 5。 Nilson, Elgard and Anderson Zytek Project GB ZYTEK06S26911circle
26. 19 LM P 1 6。 Evans, Owen, Beric Chamberlain-Co-Racing GB Lola B05/40AER267113 laps
27.20 LM P2 7。 Rostan, MacAllister, Pullan Pierre Bruneau F pilbeam MP93 Judd 244136 lap
DNF 5 LM P 1-Primat, Fassler, Peter Swiss Spirit CH Courage LC70 Judd
DNF 6 LM P 1-Moeller, Kisa, Pickering Lister Storm Racing GB Lister Storm Chevrolet
DNF 9 LM P 1-Ortiz, Campbell-Walker, Gabbiani, Autosportif GB, CA06/H Judd.
DNF 12 LM P 1-Frey, Hancock and Fisk Courage Competition F Courage LC70 Mugen
DNF 13 LM P 1-gunong, nakano and akira Kurosawa Courage Competition F Courage LC70 Mugen
DNF 14 LM P 1-Lammers, Johansson and Yang are Dutch NL Dome racing cars S 10 1H Judd.
DNF 30 LM P2-Bouriche, Hauschall, Rosell Wilt Gerald F WR Peugeot
DNF 35 LM P2-Lelock, moniz, Hahn G Racing B Courage C65 Judd
DNF 36 LM P2-Andre, Clairay, Bao Weibao Robelmont Racing F Courage C65 Ford
DNF 37 LM P2-Ragues, Goselin, Ogilvy Paul Belmont Racing F Courage C65 Ford
DNF 39 LM P2-amoros, Castro, Borgeno Chamberlain-GB Lola B05/40 AER.
DNF 50 LM GT 1-Blanchemain Labre Ferrari 550 Maranello, Bonn House, Gardel.
DNF 6 1 LM GT 1-Vann, Smith, Sugden Russian racing car RUS Ferrari 550 Maranello.
DNF 67 LM GT 1-Pegel, Kox, Vassiliev Convers Menx Team RUS Ferrari 550 Maranello.
DNF 69 LM GT 1-Babbini, Goering, Pescatori BMS Scuderia Italia I Aston Martin DBR9
DNF 76 LM GT2-Du Masi, Narachi, Ritelli IMSA Performance Matmut F Porsche 9 1 1 GT3-RSR
DNF 77 LM GT2-Janet, Maxwell, Milner Multi-Power Racing Team Panos, USA, Panos, Espe, Langte
DNF 85 LM GT2-Crevels, Dumbreck, Spyker Squadron NL spyker C8, Coronel
DNF 86 LM GT2-Brick Moran, Hai Zi Mans, Kane Spyder Squadron NL spyker c8.
DNF 89 LM GT2 Pompidou, Reed, Serine Seba GB Porsche 9 1 1 GT3 RSR
DNF 90 LM GT2-Bergmeister, Crohn, Jonson White Lightning Racing Porsche 9 1 1 GT3-RSR.
DNF 9 1 LM GT2-Sambucus, Defourneaux, Konopka T2M Motorsports J Porsche 9 1 1 GT3-RS
DNF 98 LM GT2-Bourdaie, Cloez, Sharpner Delbello F Porsche 911GT3-RSR Live Resul