90 edition of the 24 Hours of Le Mans is over, this edition will be remembered for the loss of driver Allan Simonsen after crashing his Aston Martin. Aston Martin decided to retire from the race but relatives of the same pilot encouraged the team to continue in the race. The samples of the fans have been huge since the first time to be published the news.
Audi has achieved the 12th victory in the prestigious race. The team of Mcnish, Kristensen and Duval has been first with an advantage over the Toyota 8 Buemi, Sarrazin and Davidson of a lap. Marc Gené completed the podium with Jarvis and Di Grassi around 1 minute and 55 seconds gap. Top5 for number 7 Toyota and the Audi number 1 that several problems have not allowed it to fight for victory.
Tom Kristensen gets his 9th victory in LeMans. Denmark driver continues to make history enlarging his legend.
It has been a struggle for the victory that Toyota has become difficult victory in every moment to Audi, Audi holding denoting how hard it’s been this year.
The first part of the race was very difficult to have continuous changes of weather from dry to wet continuously suffered pilots not knowing what is expected at every turn, and at 22h the # 1 team and hot favorites suffered mechanical problems that made him lose 45 minutes and start again in the 24th position. Until then arose a comfortable victory for Audi but nothing can be taken for granted at LeMans, the Toyota put directly attacking the Audi making them causing errors. The Rebellion Racing were doing a great performance in his role when at 9 am both cars suffered by accident and mechanical failure. In the last hours it was rainning and again dry and wet conditions during all track. Lapierre, with his Toyota, followed shortly after the final and was pushing harder to get the Audi of Kristensen and suffered a little going off track. From this point the race ended unchanged at the top positions
In LMP2 OAK Racing Morgan Racing Baguette, Gonzalez and Plowman has won with a lap of advantage to his teammates who have lead the race during first hours Pla, Brundle, Heinemeier. G-Drive completes the podium racing category with Conway, Martin and Rusinov. The fourth place near the podium would be to Ordoñez for something more than a minute could not get on the podium in a race in which the second part have gone to the comeback, however a great result and within the overall top10
In GT pro career has been a little disfigured after the accident Simonsen since leaving the safety car started from the beginning of the race the group in two. This situation made top 3 had a significant advantage over the other participants. Antonio Garcia with his Chevrolet and his team made use of his experience in the race to climb from behind positions and fighting with his handicap in the car to the rivals to finish 4th. A race that has been dominated by Aston Martin but this team have had no luck with the first accident with Simonsen and then when they were fighting for victory again they have had another accident with 99 number.
So Porsche team they got 1-2 positions with their teams Lieb, Lietz and Dumas and Bergmeister, Pilet and Bernhard. Aston Martin completed the podium.
The next year 2014 for the next edition with rules change will increased competition and even further with the entry of Porsche to compete with Audi and Toyota
