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Monday June 19, 2006

Audi win Le Mans in a Diesel..

Italy's Emanuele Pirro took the chequered flag as he Germany's Frank Biela and Marco Werner made Le Mans history winning in a diesel car for the first time in the LMP1 category. The Audi R10 is an amazing car being both fuel efficiant (completing a record number of laps) and faster than its rivals. Here are the first top six final positions.

1  	 8      Audi Sport Team Joest  	LMP1    PIRRO E.        380  	    	 
2 	17 	Pescarolo Sport 	LMP1 	LOEB S. 	376 	4 Laps 	
3 	7 	Audi Sport Team Joest 	LMP1 	McNISH A. 	367 	13 Laps 	
4 	64 	Corvette Racing 	LMGT1 	GAVIN O. 	355 	25 Laps 	
5 	16 	Pescarolo Sport 	LMP1 	COLLARD E. 	352 	28 Laps 	
6 	7 	Aston Martin Racing 	LMGT1 	PICCINI A. 	350 	30 Laps

The Ingolstadt marque from Bavaria is following its excellent record at Le Mans with the R8 car. It is a pity they did not get the top two positions but hopefully they will return next year with three cars and take the podiums honours as they did with the R8.

( Jun 19 2006, 12:00:01 AM PDT ) Permalink