Quick look at the laptimes.

The graph shows very clearly, that the Porsches surprisingly haven’t had the pace of the Audis and Toyotas over the distance while the Audi also surprisingly were close to the Toyota. My guess the Audis, especially #2, had to go really flatout, while the Toyota did it more easily. However at the end Audi won – again.

3:22min of André Lotterer was another surprise to me. He nailed it again.

Never underestimate Audi over the distance is something Peugeot had to learn and Toyota got the lesson the hard way, too. Will try to display that.

What a race!

I think we have seen one of the best Le Mans races of the past years and I will throw in some analysis the next days. There is one thing that impressed me when I had a quick look at the race datas:

Porsche #20 did a very clean race. Only schedules stopps and all within the same times, without the bad luck at the end, when the motor stopped working, they would have finished a good result. Audi and Toyota pitcrews did both awesome jobs. There is no difference between the two companies – always perfect work. The Porsches were always 5-10s slower. Rumours say they had problems to fill the ful cell as quickly as the others do.

To me, the pitcrews are always the heroes, who have to do perfect jobs all the time, the whole week!

 Table shows pitstop times