Relive the 2010 24 Hours of Le Mans, a true endurance classic that tested every limit of man and machine. Audi and Peugeot went head-to-head in a relentless battle for supremacy, with strategy, reliability, and pure speed deciding the outcome. From breathtaking night stints to heart-pounding final hours, this race captured the raw essence of Le Mans and delivered moments that would define a new era of endurance racing.
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00:00Danny Watts in the similar but differently livery car.
00:04Yeah, we'll see how they do on their pit stops.
00:08Last round of pit stops, as you've seen, the hike-off car, of which Marino, of course, is driving now,
00:16I didn't believe they won more laps during the previous stint than the striker racing HPV.
00:22In fact, pretty much identical cars, and you can see a lot of traffic going through the Porsche curves,
00:26but it's going to be the fuel consumption that could be critical between those two cars as the race unfolds.
00:34Fuel and tyres, Stuart, is the first thing that any team does, even if the driver comes in saying,
00:39I've got a chronic misfire, because whatever it needs fixing, you will need fuel and tyres at some stage.
00:45Was he just really low on fuel? I'm really not sure.
00:49Oh, dear, instead of me wobbling, his last lap time was a 4.24.
00:54But that was his lap, and he does appear to be going, so it could have been low on fuel.
00:59Yeah.
00:59But there's hope for our sake that that car hasn't got a problem.
01:02It can resume battle with the Ford GT, because it's a wonderful car, and it's racing it out.
01:06Yeah, but to the line, he wouldn't have lost 20 seconds coming down here.
01:10No, no.
01:10So that's still a slow lap for some reason.
01:14But the Aston has now, maybe it's still a pistol, but the class leading Ford GT, I've gone from here, she has not.
01:23No, you're right, absolutely.
01:25I don't know, actually.
01:264.24 for an in-lap compared to 3.58 for Hershey's last lap.
01:32No, maybe it's just we're used to seeing quicker cars.
01:34Maybe Aston actually had no problem at all.
01:36I shall withdraw all that and stop talking rubbish.
01:38Let's get down to the pit lane, then.
01:40We just saw the number four Peugeot handing over.
01:43Here's Nico Lapierre.
01:50Nico, you're in a podium position at the moment after three hours of the race.
01:53How are you feeling?
01:57So, well, I was quite stressy at the beginning.
01:59Obviously, lots of pressure from the Audi behind me of Alan McNeish.
02:04I had to change the tyres during the pit stop.
02:08We didn't lose too much to the head of the queue.
02:15In the opening laps of McNeish, you really were having a great battle.
02:20Yeah, I said, actually, that was really nice, really fun.
02:25I knew I really couldn't let him pass.
02:32Seb's car's out.
02:35Do you think that's going to happen to you?
02:37Well, hopefully not, obviously.
02:40The pace is very quick, but the car's strong.
02:44Very hard to see what's going on.
02:50We've got to concentrate on our car, on our race.
02:54Try and keep going without any problems, without any contact.
02:58So, Nico Lapierre, busy chatting there.
03:00Meanwhile, lots and lots of very close on-track action.
03:03Back with it again.
03:04McNeish again has got somebody in his sights.
03:08Tom Christensen, rather, has got somebody in his sights.
03:10And that is the number four Peugeot of Leuchte Duval.
03:13So, as the number eight car comes onto Pit Road,
03:18suddenly Christensen is sniffing third-place Peugeot fumes.
03:23And Stuart, as a driver, it's one thing to be getting closer.
03:27It's another when you're almost within fingertips grass of a pass.
03:32It is.
03:33But as we saw with Nicholas Lapierre and Alan McNeish on the first lap,
03:37it's tough to pass.
03:38You know, that Peugeot is pretty quick in a straight line.
03:40And a tough car to pass.
03:43I think Christensen will be picked soon.
03:45It just seems to me that they've only done three stops.
03:48The Leuchte Duval has come out of the pace on a four stop.
03:51So, that gap's going to widen soon.
03:55And Stefan Sarrazen, the race leader,
03:58has also just made another pit stop as well.
04:00So, we're in the middle of the sequence now.
04:03And it would appear that the Leuchte Duval is on a straight line.
04:05It's a little bit farther away from the Leuchte Duval.
04:07Which means the race leader, Ant Davidson,
04:10has saved a lap.
04:12That number one car has saved a lap
04:15on the second and third place Peugeot.
04:18Actually, it did come in a lap after the number two car
04:21on the last sip of the pit stop.
04:23And Stefan Sarrazen, my buyer reckoning,
04:26did a 12-lap step that time around.
04:28And as we said a few minutes ago,
04:30and Nicholas Lapierre in the Orica Peugeot
04:33has a 13-lap step.
04:35Well, I wonder if they've got a fuel consumption
04:37that falls between two stools.
04:39And if they do three 12-lappers,
04:41they end up getting a 13-lap or something like that out of it
04:44because the tank's not quite drained by 12 laps.
04:48And so, gradually, you build up an incremental...
04:51If you keep filling it...
04:52No, that doesn't work, you see.
04:54No, it doesn't work, you see.
04:55Because you fill it every time, yeah.
04:57Dear, sometimes I wonder why I have my mouth.
04:59Never mind.
05:00Here is...
05:00That's drawn at fourth...
05:02And, um, fifth.
05:05Well, so much for the safety car trying to break up the race.
05:08At the moment, we are getting a little battle going on here,
05:11albeit a minute away from the leap there.
05:14And the fact that Christensen has yet...
05:17Christensen and Dumas have yet...
05:19I think they're fourth bits of the day.
05:21Yes.
05:21So, very much a false dawn, I'm afraid, for Audi.
05:24If they're this close at two o'clock tomorrow afternoon,
05:28they might be picking about it.
05:29And, p'tchoo, relief of pressure there,
05:32Deloitte Duval, I would think.
05:34As in come both Audis together, do they?
05:38And, of course, it's just going out.
05:41GT2 class, and Simon's along all.
05:43Let's get back down to the pit lane.
05:46Well, what is exactly happening on your car?
05:49Uh, we don't know yet.
05:51Unfortunately, we couldn't restart.
05:53So, uh, they're still working on it.
05:55We have to see what's going on.
05:56Are you going to drive right after, or is Cindy saying it?
06:00No, Cindy, you take the start.
06:02Natasha is right now in the car.
06:04She will drive again one hour, and then I will take over.
06:06Okay, thank you.
06:09So, the three girls, of course, sharing the 61 that made tech.
06:13Competition car.
06:15That Ford GT, Natasha Kachnag, driving after Cindy Allerman starting.
06:19And that was the third Swiss girl, while Frey in the pits.
06:23There that Romain Dumas stays in.
06:25So, this will be a fuel shortstop only.
06:29Tom Christensen goes back out in front of him.
06:32Interesting enough, Tom Christensen passed Romain Dumas early on in that stint.
06:38Romain Dumas didn't have onto the back and throughout the whole stint.
06:41So, we thought Tom Christensen was going to be a bit quicker.
06:43But, no, Romain Dumas didn't have to be the second level of that whole stint.
06:46And in terms of your consumption, they're both on the same path.
06:50Most of the other guys, they two, 12 laps.
06:52Six at a previous post-stop.
06:55Porsche leading outright and in P1.
06:57The HPD of the striker racing team, leading in the P2 class.
07:02There it is, because we haven't seen very much of it.
07:04GT, GT of the Maytech team, the 65 laps third.
07:09And Jim Rooney leading in the GT2 class in his Ferrari and fourth road.
07:15Back aboard the number two, Peugeot 908 of Stiphan Sarrazan.
07:23Rushing up towards what is a very fast approach here.
07:29Currently chasing our race leader, who is Anthony Davidson in Peugeot number one.
07:3546.9 seconds between them at the line.
07:38Third place moved about at number four, Eureka Peugeot.
07:42And there you can see the second place car.
07:44Cars one and two, running positions one and two.
07:47Making life very easy for me.
07:48Yeah, and Anthony Davidson has just made, has made a new figure.
07:54He has just completed his fifth one.
07:56Yes, yeah.
07:56So, of course, yeah, as we've seen on the 12th, there was only car on to the lane.
08:01There's only Johnny at the wheel.
08:03Yes.
08:03I also know here that the Jaguar, we talked about a few minutes ago, has the tyres from the race.
08:08And again, this engine engine system, for some reason, just hasn't been playing again.
08:14And all these people, that's the problem they haven't had, to my mind, in the past.
08:18And in a few weeks, it's been in the back.
08:19And the ball soon is, there's been an absolute bugbear only here.
08:23And that car hasn't officially returned.
08:25Well, that's a bit disappointing for the men from Coventry.
08:29I was just about to say grounds late, but, of course, that's just a sight now, right from the factory.
08:33Men from Coventry, who have come down for the weekend to watch the Jaguar here.
08:37Not an official presence, but the loads of final problems and all the others who are down here.
08:41Not long, but they were already 2.1664s into the morning at midday.
08:46So, I think they're going to enjoy their weekend, no matter what.
08:50Come down to the pit lane and catch up with Emmanuel Collard in just a second.
08:55What's up?
08:57How you doing?
08:58Pretty good.
09:00Battling at the front of the category.
09:02I think it started pretty well.
09:04Ferrari's looking quite hard to race against at the moment.
09:08The goal is to stay right out of front as much as you can.
09:17At the moment, yeah, absolutely.
09:19I think that the Ferrari is going to be better as the race goes on.
09:23And I think that Ferrari is going to be better as the race goes on.
09:28They said we can stay in front of the camera, but the Ferrari seems to be getting better and better as the race goes on.
09:34The Ferrari is going to be better as the race goes on.
09:38How are you dealing with the cars a little bit quicker than the P1 and the P2 cars?
09:43Is it a bit more?
09:44Is that a bit difficult?
09:47Because they're quite a little quicker than us.
09:50And even more now in the GT2, in general, you have to spend a lot of time watching the mirrors.
09:56Really got to pay attention.
10:00Okay, so he should be getting back in, or getting in, in about.
10:05And of course, Manu car for many years a Porsche stalwart,
10:10and therefore finds himself very much at home here in his GT2 category just with the engine in front.
10:15So, Stuart, I would imagine a awful lot of re-learning to do,
10:20not just, not in terms of necessarily getting the most out of the car when things are going well,
10:24but in the way that drivers catch cars when they're not going well,
10:29you don't want to accidentally think you're in a Porsche and hoof it,
10:31when in fact you need to be doing something very different to get a big front-penging car.
10:35Well, that's only that.
10:36The Porsche, the Porsche is a GT car that Manu car has been driving me,
10:40the Fanching Pesco, I don't know, for the last few years,
10:42and that is a complete disaster of fish.
10:43In that, he's used to catching cars and parking them.
10:46In a Corvette, he's used to watching cars in his mirrors.
10:49So, but, you know, front-penging cars, such as Collard,
10:54you're supposed to jump in and out of cars.
10:57A quick car, slow car, you have to deal with traffic in different ways.
11:00That part and parcel of being the pro and only teams like Corvettes are in the best,
11:05so you can use one of them.
11:06You can use one of the GT cars here before,
11:09has Manu car, back in 03.
11:12Of course, he also won the LMP2 cars last year in the SX Porsche RS5,
11:19so he's another different car under his car.
11:22He's driven an awful lot of cars, but he's through that as his car,
11:25and he's a, you know, as you said, a professional,
11:28and an extremely good driver, as ever, this weekend.
11:31And a great addition to what is always a sort of party, you know,
11:35obviously the Pratt & Miller guys, and the GM Goodreads Corvettes,
11:38very much America's sports car,
11:40and they do have a strong American presence on their driver line-up,
11:43but it is a very multi-national team.
11:46Always has been, you know, the drivers they've got.
11:49They've got Bobby Gavin, a Brit, they've got Olivier Barretta,
11:53a Frenchman, basically, although he is actually a monogast,
11:56you know, he's got that very French, you know, all girls around him.
11:59You've got Dane, you know, Magnussen,
12:01you've got a genuine Frenchman now in Manu car.
12:03That's four or six drivers.
12:04Hang on a minute, where are them Americans?
12:06Well, you've got Johnny O, at least second.
12:09He's holding the flag up as well for them.
12:12Who's the other one?
12:14I don't know, I'll tell you what's here.
12:15What's back?
12:16Yeah, so six drivers, one American driver.
12:19Now, obviously, Ron Fellows was always a stalwart,
12:20but he's now a little bit of a colonial,
12:23but they have exactly, but North America is at least right side of the Atlantic.
12:27But, again, they've had the best.
12:29They don't look at the passport, they look at the results.
12:31You know, it's a world brand,
12:32and they've always said they're the best that they've been thrown a hold on.
12:35And that would put on on a list.
12:36The other, of course, the car equals Charlie P. Lander.
12:39I think that could be a few numbers, yes.
12:43And we've really been touched over to Jeff Carl,
12:45who's going to be killed.
12:46That's what it's telling us.
12:47Yeah, that's definitely Fisichella's helmet getting in there.
12:50So his first stint as a GT2 driver at Le Bon race conditions.
12:56Yeah, absolutely.
12:57Now, as you said before, John Lander has been here before,
13:00but he professes through all nothing about it,
13:03which might be the four or one years that intervened
13:07to life in his memory of anything last hour.
13:10But, yes, genuine Le Bon Virgin win,
13:14and Jack Carl, Fisichella, all the years, all the miles he's done,
13:17and racing, and he's now entering a very different arena for the first time.
13:22The flag's waving at the level of the crest of the road.
13:26As the Audi comes whistling through.
13:28Yeah, there are some great camera angles here.
13:31No matter how many photos you see, again, when you see it every year,
13:35you are reminded of why there's such a different environment.
13:37You know, the shots through the trees,
13:39you don't get that at too many other tracks.
13:42The lines in the middle of the road, the public highway,
13:44really gives a very different look to the track.
13:47For the drivers as well, and still, I mean,
13:49that must be part of it when you go out for the first time in free practice.
13:54Inevitably, it's a look that you probably end up going out
13:56sort of late in the afternoon or into the evening.
13:59It must really be quite a different experience
14:02to start off here for the first time.
14:04It's a completely different experience.
14:05So anywhere, anywhere he goes,
14:07we see Jean-Toc walking down the pit.
14:09They haven't looked at the front.
14:10He's kind of here by actually rolling the suits.
14:12It's a very 1930s mechanic, though, isn't it?
14:16So even Jean-Toc that's the one that's how I've walked down the pit lane now,
14:20such as the rules and regulations at the market.
14:23You know, we don't keep you back to the cars with another pit lane,
14:25because we're going to be able to be able to tell a map of the top.
14:28Well, obviously, he's never walked up and down the pit lane for 24 hours.
14:32He's obviously just sat on and hurt,
14:34watching his cars dominate and organising things from the pit wall.
14:40But I mean, back in the old days, again, you know,
14:42this is a part of the safety back in the old days,
14:44of course, you were prone to setting lights at things
14:46at fairly regular intervals.
14:48I was at a very, very close point.
14:51So you both of them have fuel fires in the pits
14:53during my radial hot days.
14:55And yeah, when things go woof,
14:58you move really, really fast,
15:00because in those days, shorts was about as fireproof as we got.
15:04I don't know if I can't even know if I will, I guess.
15:07The 2.30, Jean-Toc,
15:10it's still your pits on that road.
15:12That car was strong.
15:14If you're watching,
15:14if you will just drive a ball in the warm-up,
15:17I had a run of a winston on the outgoing course,
15:18and there was some bikes up to,
15:20left from the suspension down,
15:22which we did fix, of course,
15:24during the break before the race,
15:26and the unit that's in the perfect,
15:27but the car went down,
15:28so you've got the road.
15:29And the unit that runs suspension,
15:31and it looks like a 2-stop down there on the pit.
15:34They made my ears to...
15:35This is the battle now. No, we were just watching Manuel and Piero trying to wriggle his way back in for past the Key Player's M car.
15:43So Piero is currently posted 24th on timing and scoring.
15:48And the Key Player of M car with still Warren Hughes is third in the P2 class.
15:53And he's completed 48 laps to Manuel and Piero's 46 laps.
15:59So that racing car do love its two laps with whatever ailed it early on as Pierre Bruno's car heads back out.
16:07And Warren Hughes battling hard in his category. He's racing Pescaro and Joe behind.
16:13Mathieu La Haine, the timing and scoring screen don't show that.
16:16May not do it at home either, but La Haine.
16:19Well, there are two identical road racing cars. The ones with the Diego Peak on the front is glitter there.
16:25It's just the team manager who put that on personally for me the other day when I asked him nicely.
16:30He said, oh yes, it's on our list. It's a lead for the next time you go out.
16:33But they've got two different cars. One with quick young guys in and one with the gentleman drivers that normally share.
16:39They, I think, very wisely have decided to separate Fish from Foul and let the young guys really have a run at the class lead.
16:48That's right, because I'm feeling a lot of back over there, but just on the gentleman approach, impressively, I think.
16:53The Le Mans series, generally speaking in the LAP2 class, is a pro-am category this year.
17:00Now then, that is the WR site, England, of the Cellini. Is it Brothers or Pair-A-Feets?
17:08The Brothers.
17:09So, yeah, where are they? 37.
17:15I may have to move on to the eligible screen 3.
17:18No, the 39th at the moment, haven't completed 44 laps to the lead this 54.
17:23I'll be getting near there to see Vellina.
17:24She's been busy this weekend with lots of FIA.
17:27Pair-A-Feets coming to see her.
17:28She had a Michel Pouton visitor on Thursday, and the President makes certain he goes and sees her.
17:34She was clearly getting the earplugs in, so she will be ready to take over the 008 Lola Rasta,
17:40which currently lies even 10th at the place in the hands of Frank Meyer.
17:44There it is.
17:45Looking in the direction, listening to me again.
17:50Well, and the WR for some reason didn't come into the pit.
17:54It hasn't got here.
17:55It did, yes, no.
17:56It went past, yes, it's on the way from it.
18:00Yes, it did, yes.
18:01Totally disorientated a little, Stuart, which is not a good thing.
18:04No, but interesting enough, we're actually seeing a battle on the road for 10th place now.
18:09Christian Alba is going to meet Carlos Alba.
18:10He is closing in on Frank Meyer at a rate of knots.
18:14And I hope the Alba is going to start getting very interesting very soon.
18:17So Vellina X might have some work on our hands, which can house that.
18:20Well, just ahead of those two is Guy Smith,
18:22and he has another 13 Rebellion racing.
18:25I don't know, Gerald Rebellion, whatever you want to call it.
18:28That car is down on straight line speed in compared to the lower Aston Martin.
18:34Certainly, but on Carl Smith, having had a very few laps,
18:38we can have all sorts of problems.
18:40John Christian Alba took through the car off the road a couple of days ago,
18:44and they were actually prepared to travel to the car on both of them.
18:47On both of them, these have a bit better than mention it.
18:51Stratus, third place, or third among the petrol cars here in the lower P1 class.
18:56And that's all, yes, as they would say, third place in the petrol class,
19:00because there is very definitely two different classic grids here,
19:04and one for them as rattles, and almost them as dustles, yes.
19:07One for the fuel burners, one for the oil burners.
19:09And there you can see, yes, that is the gap.
19:11And they've both had four pit stops,
19:13so I'm not sure who loses one first,
19:16but they may end up racing down pit road.
19:19In fact, the motor has spent 5 minutes 47 stationary,
19:23at the hour in 4 minutes 20,
19:25so they've lost a minute and a half in terms of longer stops,
19:29as we look at the spike in English.
19:31That's right, he had to see them work for a minute and a half.
19:38Well, I think, not a marshal,
19:39a judge of fact,
19:41second only in authority to the clerk in the course,
19:44who should know the rules,
19:46stood there,
19:46and apparently did not know the rules,
19:49that even I knew.
19:51I mean, you and I, Jeremy,
19:52went and asked quite extensively of team managers
19:55what the safety car rules were exactly,
19:57how they would operate,
19:58because they were on the chase.
19:59And if I know,
20:00honest to goodness,
20:01a judge of fact
20:02should at least have some faintest indication
20:05of having rules of knowledge of the rules.
20:08I might have had the same judge of back last year.
20:10Yes,
20:12Mini Rant is over,
20:14just for a moment.
20:16Audi's,
20:16Audi's one hour,
20:17Audi's one hour press release arrives at half by six.
20:21Safety car period splits for runners,
20:24and there's about 20 words after that,
20:26which say,
20:28damn it,
20:29damn it,
20:29or damn it,
20:30but I think probably the same text there is,
20:33damn it.
20:34Stefan Sarantan is from Anthony Davidson,
20:37gapped down at the end of the last lap,
20:40and Stewart's to 1.055 the second.
20:44Game on.
20:45Davidson really has got a bit between his teeth,
20:47and I think all the British fans out there
20:49will be really looking forward to him having a,
20:51a deep long match with Sarantan.
20:53I,
20:53I know us up here really want to see that car get into the lead.
20:57Yeah,
20:57he's just been creeping closer and closer over that day.
20:59It was a straight-apar factor,
21:013.22 last time around,
21:02compared to Stefan Sarantan,
21:053.25 to go.
21:06Three seconds quicker than Stefan Sarantan.
21:08I'm sure there's going to be some traffic,
21:09as we know,
21:13he's no slouch,
21:14having won this year,
21:16between Paul Piero,
21:17here we are,
21:18on board with the Audi,
21:20another PS,
21:21the Audi,
21:21they're still,
21:22somewhere a minute or so,
21:24for the year and a half,
21:25after the line with the Projo's,
21:27but pretty much,
21:28they're not losing too much power.
21:31But they absolutely haven't been able to close the gap,
21:33whatsoever,
21:33as we would expect,
21:34because they have not been faster at all throughout the week,
21:38up to now.
21:41Jean,
21:41vous êtes cinquième pour l'instant dans votre catégorie.
21:43Jean,
21:43Lacey,
21:44you're fifth in class at the moment.
21:45How's it going?
21:48Yeah,
21:49we're using a strategy of fuel consumption at the moment.
21:52We're doing one or two laps more than the others at the moment,
21:57I think he's saying.
22:05We're looking towards the full 24 hours,
22:08to try and make sure we get there to the finish first.
22:14We're having a little problem with a thermostat.
22:18Nothing too much to worry about.
22:20It's great to be at the start.
22:33A little run across the road,
22:34and actually to start the race as well.
22:37When a race got underway,
22:39it was madness at the start.
22:47Well,
22:47of course,
22:47I'm used to sprint races,
22:48so I was pretty okay with that.
22:56We get a lot of respect from all the others,
22:58so pass off without too much drama.
23:01Well,
23:02Stuart,
23:02it certainly did look a little bit like an overgrown Formula Ford race in the opening hour,
23:07but,
23:07I mean,
23:07that's what we're used to at the moment.
23:08From your driver's point of view,
23:11it must be quite difficult to watch your car in a wheel-to-wheel dice for lap after lap,
23:17when you know,
23:18A,
23:19you're not in it yet,
23:20so you'd actually like a go if they wouldn't hide,
23:23and B,
23:24it's not 24 minutes,
23:25it is 24 hours.
23:27It is,
23:27it's very difficult,
23:29and especially when you're sat there and someone else is out there doing the business,
23:33but you really just have to trust your teammate.
23:35That's what this car racing is all about,
23:36it's a team game.
23:39So,
23:39at the moment,
23:40Team Pergeot leads from Team Audi,
23:421,
23:432,
23:433,
23:434,
23:445,
23:44and 6 here in Le Mans,
23:45and just a 7.
23:463,
23:475,
23:47and 6 here in Le Mans,
23:48and just a 7.
23:515,
23:51so,
23:52so,
23:53so,
23:54so,
23:54I'll be right back to him.
23:56And we'll be right back.
23:57So,
23:57so,
23:57so,
23:58so,
23:58so,
23:59so,
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