Audi’s ‘No.2’ car won the Le Mans 24 hour race last weekend, and since then the Audi boffins in Germany have been doing a bit of number crunching…
3 The number making up the team of winning drivers: Marcel Fassler, André Lottere and Benoit Tréluye.
42 The number of finishes Audi have recorded from 42 starts since 1999 (76.2 per cent), ten of these have been wins, five second places and nine third places.
54 The number of consecutive laps completed by the race winner on one set of Michelin tyres. In all, nine
13,854 The winning margin, in seconds, between the first-placed Audi R18 TDI with start number “2” over the second placed Peugeot. This equates to 763 metres. The victorious Audi R18 TDI covered 4,838.295 kilometres.
4,838.295 The number of kilometres covered by the winning car.
21m 03s The amount of time that the winning car was stationary during its 31 pit stops as part of the 24 hour race.
37.08 The average amount of diesel, per 100km, that the 3.7 litre V6 TDI engine in the Audi R18 TDI consumed – less than 40 litres for the first time since Audi competes at Le Mans – helped in part by the long safety car phases.
28 The number of times a German car has won the race. Porsche have won it a record 16 times (from 61 races), with Audi victorious 10 times.
46 The number of time the lead changed hands during the race.
201.266 The average speed, in km/h, of the race-winning Audi.
5 The number of times the race was neutralised. In total four hours and 46 minutes of the race (44 laps) were spent behind the two safety cars. The longest full-course yellow lasted 2 hours 20 minutes.
0 The number of broken bones former winner Allen McNish suffered following his horrendous crash within the first hour of the race. Amazingly the Scottish driver walked away with only minor scratches and bruises.
249,500 The number of spectators who watched the race.
28 The number of cars, out of a starting line-up of 56, to finish the race.
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