Allan McNish: Going the Distance
After the high of winning Le Mans, Allan was brought back down to earth with a bump when he had problems with his Audi R10 at the Nurburgring and had to watch Peugeot stroll to victory
The way Le Mans turned out this year reminded me a lot of 1998, when I won it for the first time. We had the perfect race, the perfect strategy, and everything went to plan. Then at the next race, at the Hockenheimring, we got trounced!
Last weekend at the Nurburgring, it was the same thing.
In this one there was no chance for us to fight with Peugeot. We were a lap a down within two hours, and that is certainly not what we expected.
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