All Audi Cars In Front at Le Mans

On June 22 for the first time in the 90-year history of the Le Mans 24 Hours, two hybrid racecars are on the front row. Audi Sport Team Joest with its three Audi R18 e-tron quattro cars took the three best grid positions for the world’s most important endurance race.

                       

Starting the race from position two is be the number “1” Audi R18 e-tron quattro of last year’s winners Marcel Fassler (Switzerland), Andre Lotterer (Germany) and Benoit Treluyer (France). Andre Lotterer was one of the few drivers who in the final qualifying session on June 20, managed to improve over the precious on a track that was just slowly drying after rain showers and, by setting a time of 3m 23.696s, advanced from third to second place.

2012 saw a first-ever hybrid victory at Le Mans with the combination of TDI power and quattro drive outperformed the competition on the 13.629-kilometer racetrack in Western France on both days of qualifying. The squad of the number “2” Audi R18 e-tron quattro decided the battle for the top spot on the grid in its favor. The fastest time of 3m 22.349s (242.5 km/h), which Loic Duval had achieved right at the beginning of the first qualifying session on the night of June 19, remained unbeaten the following day.

Live streaming including onboard footage of the three Audi R18 e-tron quattro cars will be available at Audi Motorsport. Sports car fans can watch the most important endurance race of the year on Le Mans TV at www.lemans-tv.com as well.