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Facts about Audi's Eleventh Le Mans Victory
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Audi has led advanced technologies to victory at LeMans yet again. Key facts after the 80th running of the 24-hour race
Audi has led advanced technologies to victory at LeMans yet again. Key facts after the 80th running of the 24-hour race.
Eleven times in front: Audi made its Le Mans debut in 1999 and has now won the 24-hour race for theeleventh timesince 2000. No other manufacturer has clinched as many victories at La Sarthe in such a short period of time.
New technologies: After the first victory of an Audi TFSI engine (2001) and the first win of a diesel power-plant thanks to TDI (2006), the first victory of a hybrid vehicle has now followed.
Rate increase: Audi has won eleven times in 14 attempts. Only Porsche, the sister brand in the Volkswagen Group, has scored more overall victories – 16 wins from 62 races. This calculates to a unique winning rate of 78.57 percent for Audi.
Team performance: The team of Reinhold Joestexperienced its 13th victory at La Sarthe and ninth with Audi. The squad’s personnel were involved in two other successes as well – in 1994 at Dauer Racing with Porsche and in 2003 in an instrumental role with Bentley.
Triple high: Only 14 times in the 80 events of the Le Mans 24 Hours has a manufacturer occupied the top-three positions. After 2000, 2002, 2004 and 2010, Audi has now monopolised the entire podium for a fifth time.
Hat-trick: Like last year, Audi achieved the best time in qualifying, the fastest race lap plus overall victory.
Brief interruption: The safety cars took command of the field at Le Mans only three times. The 24-hour race was neutralised for a total of 2hr 22mins. Last year, with 4hrs 46mins, this period was more than twice as long.
Further and faster: Last year, Marcel Fässler/André Lotterer/Benoît Tréluyercovered a distance of 4,838.295 kilometres (average speed: 201.266 km/h). This year, they completed 5,151.762 kilometres (214.468 km/h). Normally, higher speed also means higher consumption.
Breakthrough for efficiency technologies: Although the winners were 6.4 percent faster than last year, their current Audi R18 e-tron quattro burned clearly less fuel than the R18 TDI. Twelve months later, Audi managed to reduce fuel consumption by ten percent to 33.34 litres per 100 kilometres.
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