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PARIS, France — After going 30 hours straight for the event, Joe and I have taken a day off to

recover. We took the train from Le Mans to Paris and saw a few sights on Monday. Joe returns to the states Tuesday via an Air France flight. I have more business to attend to in the UK.
However, we have other information that we will be posted including analysis of the event, a sample of how the event was covered in France by the news media, a really cool win ad by Audi, stories from the trip, more images, and as they say on Madison avenue when they can not thing of anything else, much, much more.

LE MANS, France — When the last minute of the last lap finally ticked off the clock, there was a collective sigh of relief throughout the Audi pit area as the team could finally relax and sip a little victory champagne.

But until the race finally did end and Audi was named the winner of the 75th 24 Hours of Le Mans, no members of the team was ever fully sure what card the gods of racing might deal them.

From the very first hour of the race the Audi team basically stepped on the neck of the Peugeot team (in Tiger Woods fashion if I can mix my sports just for a moment) and waited for it to respond.

The Peugeot was never really able to respond with an agressive move and virtually fell off the pace with the big red machine running first, second, and third midway through the race.

But then the real racing started to happen.

This is a classic response from a champion to a challenger. During most of the week Peugeot had stolen the thunder of Audi by taking the pole position of the race. The qualifying coo put a spring into the step of the Peugeot team — a certain

Audi number three hit a patch of oil and spun into the wall. Even with a herculean effort by the driver to get the car back to the garage it was damaged beyond driveability and it was out.

Late in the race, Audi number two had a freak racing accident when a rear tire left the axle mysteriously and the car went into the tire barrier putting it out of the race.

LE Mans, France — Sometimes all you can do is fight the good fight.

For car number 25, the RML-sponsored LMP2 MG Lola ended short of their dream of winning three straight 24 Hours of LeMans when a blown piston took them out of the race this morning.

The blown piston was but the latest issue for the team as it virtually rebuilt the car after a shunt at the entry to Porche Curves that heavily damaged the car yesterday.

It took a 52 minute pit stop to get the car back together and when the car hit the track it was in dead last position. The team managed to move up to second place during the evening before the piston let go ending their run at history.