Le Mans 24 Hours (hour 18): Duval with new Audi best time
Audi R18 (2016) #8 (Audi Sport Team Joest), Lucas di Grassi, Loïc Duval, Oliver Jarvis
In the 17th hour of the race, the group of front runners, including the two Audi cars, increased the pace. LoÏc Duval, with 3m 22.949s, marked the so far fastest race lap of an Audi R18 in the 84th Le Mans running. In the overall classification, car #8 continues to run in fourth position.
Marcel Fässler in the #7 Audi R18 has been setting consistently good lap times as well and, as a result, maintained position five at the beginning of the final quarter of the race.
Positions after 18 hours: 1 Toyota #5 2 Toyota #6 3 Porsche #2 4 Audi #8 5 Audi #7