Audi in charge at halfway
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[06/18/2006] As the sun popped up over the dawn horizon and the Le Mans 24-hour passed its 5am halfway mark, the Audi turbodiesel steamroller continues to reset the racing record books.
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As the sun popped up over the dawn horizon and the Le Mans 24-hour passed its 5am halfway mark, the Audi turbodiesel steamroller continues to reset the racing record books.
Frank Biela continued the number eight lead Audi's formidable and so far faultless form 14 hours and 220 laps into the classic race to continue Audi's dominant leading form. Second and three laps adrift remains the Franck Montagny Pescarolo number 17, from the troubled twin Audi number seven six laps behind, but with Tom Kristensen charging at lap record pace.
The number seven Audi was further delayed just after 2am following Dindo Capello making contact with a GT car at the Indianapolis complex, requiring the car to stop twice to replace its floor and adding to its several earlier tech gremlins. That had allowed the number 14 Dome of Jan Lammers into third, but that car crashed out just after the 12 hour mark.
In a most impressive fourth overall and leading a tense GT1 duel is the 009 Aston Martin GT1 driven by Stefan Sarrazin, just over two minutes ahead of Olivier Beretta's 64 GT1 Corvette in fifth overall.
LMP2 leader Andy Wallace's MG Lola 25 is all alone in sixth well clear of any class rivals, while the GT2 duel between the Nielsen Porsche 911, Bleekemolen's Spyker a lap behind, and Kirkaldy's Ferrari F430 continues.
Audi's diesel racers running on Shell VPower diesel fuel continue to reset racing perceptions at the front of the Le Mans field — the oil-burning machines not only easily outpacing their petrol rivals, but also managing to run 15 kilometres further on every equivalent tankfull of fuel through significantly superior fuel consumption.
Turbodiesel technology has now also certainly made its indellible mark on motorsport.
Frank Biela continued the number eight lead Audi's formidable and so far faultless form 14 hours and 220 laps into the classic race to continue Audi's dominant leading form. Second and three laps adrift remains the Franck Montagny Pescarolo number 17, from the troubled twin Audi number seven six laps behind, but with Tom Kristensen charging at lap record pace.
The number seven Audi was further delayed just after 2am following Dindo Capello making contact with a GT car at the Indianapolis complex, requiring the car to stop twice to replace its floor and adding to its several earlier tech gremlins. That had allowed the number 14 Dome of Jan Lammers into third, but that car crashed out just after the 12 hour mark.
In a most impressive fourth overall and leading a tense GT1 duel is the 009 Aston Martin GT1 driven by Stefan Sarrazin, just over two minutes ahead of Olivier Beretta's 64 GT1 Corvette in fifth overall.
LMP2 leader Andy Wallace's MG Lola 25 is all alone in sixth well clear of any class rivals, while the GT2 duel between the Nielsen Porsche 911, Bleekemolen's Spyker a lap behind, and Kirkaldy's Ferrari F430 continues.
Audi's diesel racers running on Shell VPower diesel fuel continue to reset racing perceptions at the front of the Le Mans field — the oil-burning machines not only easily outpacing their petrol rivals, but also managing to run 15 kilometres further on every equivalent tankfull of fuel through significantly superior fuel consumption.
Turbodiesel technology has now also certainly made its indellible mark on motorsport.
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