First victory for Audi at Gulf 12 Hours

The Audi R8 LMS won the Gulf 12 Hours endurance race for the first time. The German customer team Attempto Racing celebrated a one-two victory in Abu Dhabi after an exciting race. Audi Sport drivers Christopher Mies and Dries Vanthoor won the race together with Rinat Salikhov, although they had to serve a stop-and-go penalty for an offence at the pit stop. The driver trio was lucky, because just at the moment of the penalty a safety car came onto the track, so that start number 66 returned to the race only twelve seconds behind its number 55 sister car. Mies/Salikhov/Vanthoor then battled with their fellow Audi Sport driver Mattia Drudi and his team mates Nick Foster and Murod Sultanov, who finally had to admit defeat by 93 seconds. At the finish, the victorious Audi set a new race distance record with 316 laps completed and 1,755 kilometres driven.