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The 2007 24 Heures du Mans Recap
Written by Brian Austin   
Monday, 18 June 2007
Auto Racing

Interesting facts about this year's 24

The win by Audi was the teams 7th and further reinforced the career stats of two drivers.

Audi :
- 7th victory for Audi at the 24 Hours of Le Mans (2000, 2001, 2002, 2004, 2005, 2006, 2007)
- Audi ties Jaguar for number of overall victories

Franck Biela (42 ans)
5th victory in 8 years of competition (2000, 2001, 2002, 2006)

Emanuele Pirro (45 ans)
5th victory in 10 years of participation (2000, 2001, 2002, 2006)

Fate of the cars:

LMP1
#002 Audi - Loses a wheel and goes off track at 8h02
#003 Audi - Crash into wall at 17h49
#005 Swiss Spirit (Lola / Audi FSI ) out with electrical problems at 23h56
#007 Peugeot out with engine problems at 13h26
#009 Creation (Judd) out with broken crankcase at 23h15
#013 Courage (AER) out with engine problems at 4h51

LMP2
Only the #31 Binnie Motorsport (Lola / Zytek) and #33 Barazi Epsilon (Zytek) survive.

GT1
#053 JLoc Lamborghini out with transmission problems at 16h56
#064 Corvette out with transmission problems at 17h45

GT2
#071 Seikel Porsche engine at 23h27
#080 Flying Lizard gearbox at 1h50
#081 LNT Panoz gearbox at 21h45
#083 GPC Sport Ferrari stoped on circuit at 12h05
#085 Spyker tranmission at 3h45
#086 Spyker engine at 22h22
#087 Scuderia Ecosse transmission at 10h16
#097 Risi Competizione water pump at 9h04

 
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