If it had been a 3 hour race, Audi would have won it in shining colors, unfortunately for them, it was a 6 hour race and luck was not on their side tonight. The Audi No. 8 had a stall that took away by half the lead it had over third place and then the leading Audi No. 7 was clipped when trying to pass the Ford GT No. 66 on turn 18 both cars spinning out of control with the Audi hitting the barrier hard and not being able to return by its own means Race Control brought out a Full Course Yellow. Eventually the Audi made it back heavily damaged but came back 6 laps behind the leaders. It was a hard hit to take by Audi but they kept on fighting with the No. 8 which hat to recover from the positions it lost due to the Yellow flag as well and finished 2nd in the end behind the No. 1 Porsche and just over 2 seconds ahead of an inspired Toyota Team with the No. 6 car in the hands of Sarrazin.
In LMP2 was as hard as predicted, positions shuffled around and specially for car No. 36 from Signatech Alpine who had to overcome a peculiar problem when they had an issue with the Master Switch of their car at turn 4, the driver had to get out of the car, fit it correctly and then go back in, put the seat belt back on and managed to continue to finish 1st in the class. Second place went to car No. 43 from RGR Sport by Morand and 3rd place went to car No. 26 from G-Drive Racing. Manor’s No. 44 had suspension failure and did not finish and car No. 42 from Strakka Racing could not finish as well.
LMGTE Pro was won by the No. 95 Aston Martin 11 seconds clear of AF Corse Ferrari No. 51 and the No. 71. LMGTE Am was also won by an Aston Martin, the No. 98 with a commanding lead over car No. 78, the KCMG Porsche of over 1 minute. Third place was car No. 50, the Corvette from Labre Competition. Next race will be at Fuji, 3 races are still left in the fight for the Championship.
