24h Le Mans hour 5: record breaking laps for Audi
Audi R18 e-tron quattro #7 (Audi Sport Team Joest), André Lotterer, Marcel Fässler, Benoît Tréluyer
Man of the fifth hour during the 24-hour race at Le Mans was Filipe Albuquerque: on his 30th birthday, the Portuguese repeatedly bettered the existing lap record in the Audi R18 e-tron quattro #9 before leaving the new mark at 3m 17.647s. As a result, he was able to catch the leading Porsche #17 of Brendon Hartley before each refueling stop.
The race to catch up continued for the other two R18: Benoît Tréluyer ran second at 20.00 in R18 #7 only 44 seconds behind the leader. In R18 #8, Lucas di Grassi moved ever closer to the sixth and seventh placed Toyotas ahead of him.
Positions after 5 hours:
1 Porsche #17 2 Audi #7 3 Audi #9 4 Porsche #19 5 Porsche #18 6 Toyota #1 ... 8 Audi #8