The race feels as if it’s almost over, but we went into this hour of the 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans…
Hour 18 started under the safety car, after Roald Goethe‘s crash in the #96 Aston Martin. Racing got back underway 10 minutes…
Sébastien Ogier has taken the lead of Rally Italia Sardegna from Hayden Paddon, after a spin for the Hyundai driver.
The 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans has now reached the end of its first quarter, and the battle between Porsche Team…
With the 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans two hours in, it is the #7 Audi that has taken the lead from…
Hayden Paddon finishes Friday’s Rally Italia Sardegna action in the lead, 8.8 seconds ahead of Ogier.
Nissan’s three LMP1 entries are amongst the cars penalised after qualifying and forced to start with major grid penalties.
Technical Director Ben Bowlby believes that Nissan are improving with every session. The top GT-R LM NISMO will start from 12th.
Toyota decided to spend the qualifying sessions perfecting their race set-ups, and so were unable to set quick qualifying time.
Audi will start the 2015 24 Hours of Le Mans from positions 4, 5 and 6, having focused on race set-up instead of qualifying pace.
No-one could match Porsche’s LMP1 pace in qualifying, and the German manufacturer will start 1-2-3 in this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans.
Martin Prokop will hold the overnight lead in Rally Italia Sardegna after winning SS1 this evening.
Not much has changed in the provisional qualifying results after the second session, but some teams will have to rush to repair their cars.
KCMG currently lead the qualifying battle in LMP2, followed by Greaves Motorsport and JOTA. This could easily change with two more sessions remaining, though.
With one of the three qualifying sessions finished, Audi sit in positions 4 through 6, behind Porsche.
With a fourth factory team in the form of Nissan, the LMP1 class at this year’s 24 Hours of Le Mans promises to be one of the most exciting in recent memory.
David Brabham heads to Le Mans this week in an attempt to further his team’s ambitions of racing in LMP2 next year.
