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Le Mans 2001
2001 June 14 Thursday:
Rinaldo Capello in Audi #2 gained pole position for
Saturday's race, from Tom Kristensen in Audi #1.
American Champion Racing Audi #3 was third fastest.
2001 June 16, 4pm:
Shortly after the rolling start of the
Le Mans 24-hour race
with Laurent Aiello (#2)
Infineon Audi R8
in front of Frank Biela in the (#1) car.
There was heavy rain during the early stages of the race.
A Bentley
Exp8 led in the first hour.
Right: A Champion Racing Audi R8 in the wet;
it retired about 10.30pm with a clutch problem.
June 17, 4am: After twelve hours,
Audi R8s
were one and two with the
#8 Bentley
in third place.
8am: That was still the order with eight hours to go.
Frank Biela, Tom Kristensen and Emanuele Pirro in #1
led Laurent Aiello, Rinaldo Capello and Christian Pescatori
in #2 (right, in the pits)
by three laps.
28 cars, out of 48 starters, remained in the race.
10am:
Top six of 24 running,
Audi #1,
Audi #2,
Bentley #8,
Chrysler 5999A #16
(Olivier Beretta, Karl Wendlinger, Pedro Lamy),
Courage Peugeot 3200T #17
(Sebastien Bourdais, Jean-Christophe Boullion, Laurent Redon),
Corvette C5R 6991A #63
(Ron Fellows, Scott Pruett, Johnny O'Connell).
4pm:
1st
Frank Biela, Tom Kristensen, Emanuele Pirro,
Audi #1 321 laps,
2nd
Laurent Aiello, Rinaldo Capello, Christian Pescatori, Audi #2 (-1 lap),
3rd
Andy Wallace, Butch Leitzinger, Eric van de Poele,
Bentley #8 (-15 laps),
4th
Beretta, Wendlinger, Lamy,
Chrysler (-23 laps),
5th
Deletraz, Fabre, Gene, Reynard-VW (-37 laps),
6th
Rosa, Babini, Drudi, Porsche (-38 laps),
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