24 Hours Of Le Mans

Two violent accidents took place on Saturday, the 24 hours of Le Mans, one of the most prestigious competitions of cars, but the correct drivers seem to accept escaped. (Scroll down for videos).

Shortly after the race began this morning, Allan McNish, Audi collided with a slower car and plunged into the outer wall. McNish surprisingly left the accident under their own power.

“I am happy to be alive,” said McNish.

The second accident involving driver Audi Mike Rockenfeller after the fall of night. Rockenfeller lost control of his vehicle, ambulance, recovery trucks and cars scrambling for safety at the scene. Rockenfeller was evaluated immediately, but is

Okay, not quite half of the 2011 24 hours of Le Mans (there is a bit more than 12 hours to go at this time), but we have a new batch of photos of Drew Phillips ready for reading. The Gallery has then taken as the sun began its descent, in a good mix of cars of all classes.

As you probably have seen by now, Audi has two of their three cars lost. Allan McNish # 3 Audi TDI crashed dramatically R18 during the first hour of the race. Although his car was completely destroyed, he escaped unharmed shunt. Then controller of Audi R18 # 1 followed by Mike Rockenfeller customize with an equally terrible accident on the night of his own after making contact with the # 71 Ferrari in the Mulsanne straight. Rockenfeller also climbed out of his car after that. Except for a sustainable reduction of an arm, he is good, but in the hospital for observation overnight. It is a good news about the drivers of Audi in a couple of blocks from fear.

8: 20 PM Audi currently leads to the East, despite his bad luck so far, to Le Mans, with the # 2 TDI R18 for # 6 and # 7 in LMP1 Peugeot 908s. The top LMP1 car petrol is the # 16 Pescarolo-Judd team Pescarolo. The leader for GTE is the # 74 racing Corvette C6. r. in LMP2, the # 41 Greaves Motorsport Zytek Nissan beforehand. Finally, the GTE Amateur class is currently led by number 81 reptile Motorsports Porsche 911 RSR fly.

That’s all for now. You can live time on the follow-up of LeMans.org and a large collection of a page of channels of audio and video, as well as the timing, an observer Guide and live chat, remove the global sport.

If you are using our gallery of photos from the beginning of the race lost, you need to check. We have more coverage of Le Mans later in the race.

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