Audi upsets Peugeot with sweeping victory at 24 Hours of Le Mans
Team Audi Sport's three R15 TDI finish first, second and third
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Congrats to Audi! It was a great Race!
But I'm also sorry for Peugot! They did a good job!
But at the end Audi proved to have the better cars!
June 14, 2010 8:17 am
I feel so bad for Peugeot, they got 3 cars with an exploded turbo and another one with suspension that torn right out of the carbon tub
Audi won it due to their reliability
June 14, 2010 9:09 am
Audi vs. Peugeot, my god Le Mans has fallen off. Jaguar, MB, Ferrari, and Prosche all need works teams in the P1 class.
June 14, 2010 10:49 am
Like I said, lol, Audi picked a different set of advantages. I think Audi has better cooling for the engine, but that also makes the car less aerodynamic and so slower. It paid off though.
June 14, 2010 1:09 pm
It was tortoise vs. hare more than anything else. Peugeot ran off and broke down, whilst the calm and solid Audis (which for some reason had a cleft lip this year) went on to victory. I think it's a shame that the Aston Martins fell out near the end - they were set to win what the Eurosport commentators dubbed "The Petrol Class" with car 009, but the engine set fire in the last hour, then 007 got a puncture and dropped back behind the Oreca car.
I think they need to close the gap next year between petrol and diesel, as a two-chariot race is frankly boring to follow. The rules regarding engines should be the same regardless of fuel. I don't think the fuel economy is actually that different, it's the extra torque. It will also be interesting to see how the replacement for GT1 will work. Roll on 2011!
June 14, 2010 1:50 pm
the fuel economy is what it's all about the diesel, yes it has extra torque...but the fuel economy is the main advantage.
June 14, 2010 4:24 pm
Those of us who get the RSS feed would have appreciated a spoiler alert. My weekend was split watching the first half of the race and the World Cup, and I avoided finding out who won the race, even though I subscribe to several other website RSS feeds - didn't need the race results in the title of the email from WCF. Kthxbai.
June 14, 2010 2:36 pm
Congrats Audi you are the best, i was fallow LeMans all 24h, i hope to go watch LeMans for real in next year.
Audi said that this is the last year for disel, thay also said that next year thay will come to LeMan with something new! I hope some of E-tron stuff, probabley call R25
June 14, 2010 5:58 pm
I'm also a very disappointed, Peugeot is my team ...it's more of what strategy they employed than the cars that failed really...they seemed to have overpushed the cars...congrats to Audi, looking forward to see what they are bringing next year... hopefully Peugeot will also bring some of that Hymotion...
June 14, 2010 11:50 pm









