Audi storms to victory

10th October 2008

Scot Allan McNish took an incredible victory in the Petit Le Mans race at Road Atlanta, US, despite crashing his Audi on the warm-up lap.

By the time the squad got its diesel-powered R10 repaired and back on track, they were two laps behind the front-runners. However, McNish, plus co-drivers Dindo Capello and Emanuelle Pirro, set a blistering place, reeling in the leading Peugeot 908 of Christian Klein, Nicolas Minassian and Stephane Sarrazin, before passing for the win with only 35 minutes of the 10-hour race remaining. McNish praised his mechanics afterwards. “This victory belongs to the team,”

he said. “To get the car repaired when I thought we were out of the race, they did something I didn’t think was possible.”

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