[govigov]

2013 , 24 hours of Le mans is live now. You may watch on the same link that pavan_kadam uses for F1.

http://www.firstrow1.eu/sport/motosport.html

Please update if anybody is following this.

approximately 21 and a half hours remaining now and dusk is approaching.

[TheInterceptor]

There's been an accident 10 minutes into the race and an Allan Simonsen (Aston Martin driver) has passed away.

May his soul rest in peace.

[searchingheaven]

Audi has won the Le Mans 24 hour yet again.

Source: Autocar

Tom Kristensen, Allan McNish and Loic Duval took a commanding victory in a Le Mans 24 Hours that was overshadowed by the death of Danish driver Allan Simonsen early in the race.

For Kristensen it was a ninth win in the race and extended the record he already held. McNish took his third Le Mans win while Duval, who put the car on pole last Wednesday, claimed success in the race for the first time.

Audi has now won the event for 12 of the last 14 years.

Duval assumed the lead in the #2 R18 e-tron quattro in the seventh hour when the Benoit Treluyer/Andre Lotterer/Marcel Fassler #1 car, which had held the advantage from the start, spent 12 laps in the pits while an alternator problem was fixed.

POSITIONS AFTER 24 HOURS

Pos Cl Car Drivers Laps Gap
1. P1 #2 Audi Kristensen/McNish/Duval 348
2. P1 #8 Toyota Davidson/Sarrazin/Buemi 347 + 1 Lap
3. P1 #3 Audi Gene/Jarvis/di Grassi 347 + 1m55.252s
4. P1 #7 Toyota Wurz/Lapierre/Nakajima 341 + 7 Laps
5. P1 #1 Audi Lotterer/Treluyer/Fassler 338 + 10 Laps
6. P1 #21 HPD Leventis/Kane/Watts 332 + 16 Laps
7. P2 #35 Morgan Baguette/Plowman/Gonzalez 329 + 19 Laps
8. P2 #24 Morgan Pla/Brundle/H Hansson 328 + 20 Laps
9. P2 #26 Oreca Rusinov/Martin/Conway 327 + 21 Laps
10. P2 #42 Zytek Krumm/Mardenborough/Ordonez 327 + 1m07.075s
11. P2 #49 Oreca P-Companc/Kaffer/Minassian 325 + 23 Laps
12. P2 #43 Morgan Gachnang/Mailleux/Lombard 320 + 28 Laps
13. P2 #48 Oreca Hartley/Chandhok/Patterson 319 + 29 Laps
14. P2 #38 Zytek Dolan/Turvey/Luhr 319 + 4m01.549s
15. P2 #36 Alpine Ragues/Panciatici/Gommendy 317 + 31 Laps
16. GTP #92 Porsche Lieb/Lietz/Dumas 315 + 33 Laps
17. GTP #91 Porsche Bergmeister/Pilet/Bernhard 315 + 2m10.631s
18. GTP #97 Aston Mucke/Turner/Dumbreck 314 + 34 Laps
19. P2 #34 Oreca Frey/Niederhauser/Bleekemolen 314 + 1m27.131s
20. GTP #73 Corvette Garcia/Magnussen/Taylor 312 + 36 Laps
21. GTP #71 Ferrari Beretta/Kobayashi/Vilander 311 + 37 Laps
22. GTP #51 Ferrari Bruni/Fisichella/Malucelli 311 + 1m57.110s
23. GTP #74 Corvette Gavin/Milner/Westbrook 309 + 39 Laps
24. P2 #41 Zytek Rossi/K-Smith/Lux 307 + 41 Laps
25. GTP #53 SRT Farnbacher/Goossens/Dalziel 306 + 42 Laps
26. GTA #76 Porsche Narac/Vernay/Bourret 306 + 1m51.302s
27. GTA #55 Ferrari Perazzini/O'Young/Case 305 + 43 Laps
28. GTA #61 Ferrari Gerber/Griffin/Cioci 305 + 1m26.507s
29. GTA #77 Porsche Dempsey/Foster/Long 305 + 2m51.114s
30. GTA #50 Corvette Bornhauser/Canal/Taylor 302 + 46 Laps
31. GTA #96 Aston Goethe/Campbell-Walter/Hall 301 + 47 Laps
32. GTP #93 SRT Wittmer/Kendall/Bomarito 301 + 1m58.599s
33. P2 #40 Oreca Dagoneau/Downs/Younessi 300 + 48 Laps
34. GTA #67 Porsche Gibon/Milesi/Henzler 300 + 32.348s
35. GTP #66 Ferrari Bertolini/Faisal/Qubaisi 300 + 51.765s
36. GTA #88 Porsche Ried/Roda/Ruberti 300 + 1m28.639s
37. GTA #75 Porsche Collard/Perrodo/Crubile 298 + 50 Laps
38. GTA #81 Ferrari Potolicchio/Aguas/Bright 294 + 54 Laps
39. P2 #39 Lola Porta/Brandela/Raffin 280 + 68 Laps
40. P1 #12 Lola Prost/Jani/Heidfeld 275 + 73 Laps
41. P1 #13 Lola Beche/Belicchi/Cheng 275 + 1m27.020s
42. GTA #70 Corvette MacNeil/Rodrigues/Dumas 268 + 80 Laps
43. P2 #33 HPD Tucker/Franchitti/Briscoe 242 + 106 Laps
44. P2 #46 Oreca Thiriet/Badey/Martin 310 Retired
45. GTP #99 Aston Makowiecki/Senna/Bell 248 Retired
46. P2 #45 Morgan Nicolet/Merlin/Mondolot 246 Retired
47. P2 #47 Morgan Imperatori/Howson/Tung 241 Retired
48. GTP #98 Aston Dalla Lana/Lamy/Auberlen 221 Retired
49. P2 #32 Lotus Holzer/Kraihamer/Charouz 219 Retired
50. P2 #30 Lola Mowlem/Burgess/Hirschi 153 Retired
51. GTA #54 Ferrari Mallegol/Bachelier/Blank 147 Retired
52. GTA #57 Ferrari Krohn/Jonsson/Mediani 111 Retired
53. P2 #25 Oreca Graves/Hamilton/Nakano 101 Retired
54. P2 #28 Lola Giroix/Haezebrouck/Ihara 22 Retired
55. P2 #31 Lotus Weeda/Rossiter/Bouchut 17 Retired
56. GTA #95 Aston Simonsen/Nygaard/Poulsen 2 Retired

[mango_pal]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jknA0IsNGys

Allan Simonson's crash. May he R.I.P

He was driving the number 95 Aston Martin Vantage. This was his 7th Le Mans.

Appears to have over-corrected and lost control. However, it also looks like there could have been a tyre failure, resulting in the loss of control. An official cause has not been posted as yet.

It concerns me that a crash like this resulted in a death. Whatever the cause was, the driver should not have died.
They would need to focus and maybe re-evaluate the safety of the cars.