LE MANS, France — Under sunny skies the Peugeot Team jumped into the lead and sped away from the field, with a dominating performance during the first hour of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. The No. 8 Peugeot has been very quick — four to six seconds faster than the rest of the leaders (even the other Peugeots) — with Stepane Sarrazine at the wheel.

The No. 2 Audi with Alan McNish at the wheel jumped into third place briefly at the start of the race but has not been able to keep up the early pace and is a little more than a minute off the pace.

In other action, the RS2 Spyder leads the LM P2 class while the Corvette, which was the pole setter for the LM GT1 class is the early leader. The No. 009 Aston Martin has moved into second behind the Vette.

In the LM GT2 class the No. 76 Porsche led early until it was penalized for an illegal fueling incident leaving the Flying Lizards Motorsports team leading the class.