24h Le Mans 2015
Audi R18 e-tron quattro #9 (Audi Sport Team Joest), Filipe Albuquerque, Marco Bonanomi, René Rast

For the second time an Audi has taken the lead in the Le Mans 24 Hours: with consistently fast lap times, Filipe Albuquerque in the #9 Audi R18 e-tron quattro moved into position one at 20.25 before pitting for the next refueling stop 20 minutes later, handing the leading position back over to the #17 Porsche.

The group of front runners moved together in the third hour: at 21.00, the leading #17 Porsche, the #7 Audi and #9 Audi were within ten seconds of each other.

Lucas di Grassi in the #8 R18 pushed himself in front of both Toyota cars. After the first quarter of the race, that meant that all three Audi R18 e-tron quattro cars of Audi Sport Team Joest were back in the top six.

Positions after 5 hours:
1 Porsche #17 2 Audi #7 3 Audi #9 4 Porsche #19 5 Porsche #18 6 Audi #8