Hour 12: Halfway for Audi
The imperious trio of Audis continue to lead the Le Mans 24 Hours at half-distance. The Biela/Kristensen/Pirro car are on course for an incredible hat-trick of victories in the race, leading the number two Capello/Herbert/Pescatori car by two laps
The Team ORECA Dallara-Judds, hotly tipped to challenge the dominant Audi during the early stages after Stephane Sarrizin's stunning pre-qualifying pace, are both holding top ten positions. The Beretta/Lamy/Comas car lies sixth, the crew of ex-F1 drivers running two laps ahead of their team-mates who lie eighth. Franck Montagny, the current incumbent of the second ORECA, is one lap behind the Racing For Holland Dome-Judd of Val Hillebrand and closing.
MG, already deprived of the number 26 car which ran in the top three earlier in the race, are encountering more problems on their remaining entry. Mark Blundell runs in eleventh place, a lap down on the Team Goh Audi which has moved from 13th to 10th during the past hour.
Still the Prodrive Ferrari defies expectations, running reliably in the lead of the GTS class. Swiss DTM star Alain Menu is clearly putting his BTCC night racing experience to good use.
The two GT class minnows, Morgan and Spyker, are still running. Richard Stanton holds seventh in class for the Racesport Salisbury team, one place behind the all-Dutch Spyker driven by Edenbridge BTCC racer Norman Simon.
With half of the race behind them, the teams know that the hardest parts of the race are yet to come.
Biela/Kristensen/Pirro Audi Sport Team Joest, Audi R8, 183 laps
Capello/Herbert/Pescatori Audi Sport Team Joest, Audi R8, 181 laps
Krumm/Peter/Werner Audi Sport North America, Audi R8, 181 laps
Wallace/Leitzinger/van de Poele Team Bentley, Bentley EXP Speed 8, 178 laps *
Taylor/Angelli/Tinseau Team Cadillac, Cadillac 177 laps
Beretta/Lamy/Comas Team ORECA, Dallara-Judd LMP, 176 laps
Lammers/Hillerbrand/Coronel Racing for Holland, Dome-Judd S101, 174 laps
Goosens/Matthews/Theys Riley & Scott Racing, Riley &Scott-Ford MkIIIC 174 laps
Sarrazin/Montagny/Minassian Team ORECA, Dallara-Judd LMP, 174 laps
Ara/Dalmas/Katoh Team Goh Audi, Audi R8, 171 laps
*GTP class
**LMP675 class
Menu/Rydell/Enge Prodrive, Ferrari 550 Maranello 167 laps
Dumas/Maassen/Bergmeister, Fresisinger Motorsport, Porsche 911 GT3-RS 157 laps
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