24 Hours of Le Mans

Okay, this is not quite halfway to the 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans (something over 12 hours to go through this time), but there is a new series of photos of Drew Phillips is ready for your reading. Keeping with the Sun began the descent, under the gallery has a nice mix of cars in all classes.

As you probably already saw, Audi has lost two of three cars. Allan McNish Audi R18 TDI # 3 crashed in a spectacular way in the first hour of the race. Although the car was completely destroyed, he went unscathed in the shunt. Then, the # 1 Audi R18 driver Mike Rockenfeller was followed by an equally horrible night after crashing his own making contact with the # 71 Ferrari of the Mulsanne straight. Rockefeller also climbed in the car afterwards. Contrary to the cut suffered an arm, he is okay, but kept in hospital overnight for observation. This is good news about the Audi drivers involved in some scary crashes.

8:20 p.m. As the East, despite the fact that it is bad luck so far, currently leads the Audi Le Mans, the R18 TDI # 2 ahead of # 7 and # 9 in LMP1 Peugeot 908s. The highest petrol LMP1 car in the # 16 Pescarolo Pescarolo Judd in the team. The driver of the Corvette Racing # 74 Pro GTE C6.R In LMP2, the # 41 Zytek Motorsport Nissan Great front. Finally, the class is currently led by GTE Amateur # 81 Flying Lizard Motorsports Porsche 911 RSR.