For the first time since he landed the Ingolstadt brand in the 24 Hours of Le Mans in 2009, Audi lost its hegemony in the endurance race for excellence. Peugeot overcame them in a very clear and also got a nice double. A result that had spent years looking for. The Audi R15 could not endorse the successes of its bigger brothers, the R8 and R10.

In 2010, Audi will return to the path of La Sarthe in an Audi R15 overhauled, but what’s perhaps more changes will suffer is your pilot training. Of the three trios of pilots, just repeat one. The veterans formed by Dindo Capello, Tom Kristensen and Allan McNish. A car with all the experience possible in races like this, and that target will have no victory. A further enlarging the figure of Tom Kristensen.

The second Audi R15 unit consisting of two Porsche factory drivers, Timo Bernhard and Romain Dumas, who will return to repeat the experience with Audi. Mate Bernhard and Dumas will be Mike Rockenfeller, who will take the place of Alexandre Prémat.

The biggest news will be on the third car. Lucas Luhr and Marco Werner as a historic exit from the apparatus giving way to three new features. The Swiss Marcel Fässler and drove an Audi R10 TDI at the ALMS while Germany’s Andre Lotterer and Frenchman Benoit Treluyer have has experience in Le Mans, with Team Kolles and Pescarolo respectively. For Fässler, his career is closely linked with the GT, while for follow Lotterer and Treluyer have to go to the country of sunrise.

Vía | Sportlifepress