Le Mans 24 Hours: runners and riders
Audi versus Toyota is just the headline act for the 81st running of the Le Mans 24 Hours. Gary Watkins provides the definitive guide to this year's 56-car grid
LMP1
Audi Sport Team Joest
Car: Audi R18 e-tron quattro
#1 Andre Lotterer (D)
Benoit Treluyer (F)
Marcel Fassler (CH)
#2 Tom Kristensen (DK)
Allan McNish (GB)
Loic Duval (F)
#3 Lucas di Grassi (BR)
Oliver Jarvis (GB)
Marc Gene (E)
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Gary Watkins has, for reasons best known to himself, devoted all his working life to covering sportscar racing. This season is his 33rd as a motorsport journalist, during which time he has reported on major long-distance events on four continents and approaching 80 24-hour races. He reckons a degree in political philosophy makes him well qualified for covering the sometimes Machiavellian world of international sportscars.
Gary, who also writes for Motor Sport, Autocourse, RACER and others, lives in Surbiton close to the former workshops of the Cooper Formula 1 team but spends more time on the road than at home for most of the year.
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