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    Flag Le Mans 2011

    Lets' do it again!

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    I wish I was there...
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    Shocking accident for Audi No.3 at the hands of Alan McNish

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    Such a shame and he is the fastest driver in Audi.

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    Well we should thank god he is alive.....

    And seeing the faces in the audi garage says it all of how bad it was....

    Also thats one strong car....
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    Accident number two befalls Audi with an equally horrific crash. I can't recall a year where one team has had such bad luck.
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    An Audi has done it once again, incredible. Congrats to the whole team.

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    AM so exhausted by only listening it.... puffff!
    This is unbelievable!

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    10th Victory!!! Congrats to Audi and all of the team members. What a race, what a driver, what a car??!! Just imagine what they did with that car, qualification laps even after 24 hours of racing, pushing through the whole race with only a few secodns in front of the Peugeot. Insane. So it is 10 victories so far, thus came up to the second place in the overall ranking, after Porsche, overtaking Ferrari this year. I would love to see Audi equalling and next year overtaking Porsche in the absolute wins!
    Oh and one more thing: Have You seen Rupert Stadler celebrating with the team after the finish? That moment demonstrated the human characteristics within Audi! It was great to see!
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    A thrilling race, I missed only 3 hours of it so I am rather tried at the moment. One can only imagine how thrilling it could have been if none of the Audis had crashed.

    I doubt anyone will ever surpass their number of wins in so few times competing.
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    The incredible weight that youngest team had placed on their shoulders after the two elder teams retired is just unbelievable. Just awesome the level all three drivers (and team) gave!
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    Quote Originally Posted by Toto89 View Post
    10th Victory!!! Congrats to Audi and all of the team members. What a race, what a driver, what a car??!! Just imagine what they did with that car, qualification laps even after 24 hours of racing, pushing through the whole race with only a few secodns in front of the Peugeot. Insane. So it is 10 victories so far, thus came up to the second place in the overall ranking, after Porsche, overtaking Ferrari this year. I would love to see Audi equalling and next year overtaking Porsche in the absolute wins!
    Oh and one more thing: Have You seen Rupert Stadler celebrating with the team after the finish? That moment demonstrated the human characteristics within Audi! It was great to see!
    Was it 10th or 11th?!

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    10 wins out of 12. But you could say that it was actually 11 out of 12 because the Bentley was effectively an Audi anyway.
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    Actually it is 10 out of 13. Audi didn't win in 1999 (first year), 2003 (Bentley) and 2009 (Peugeot won).
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    Quite right, I forget about their first attempt where they finished third and forth. But if you think about it they effectively won 10 times in a row if you include the Bentley(Audi), this is unbelievable and unheard of in Le Mans history.
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    Am still speechless about this whole race! BRAVO Audi! It's so nice being your fan today!

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    Where next for Audi, do they continue with Le Mans and DTM or should they look at rallying again and possibly F1?
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    Well Joker i know what i would like them to do.....

    F1 Baby............

    Run rings around the lot of them.....
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    I only saw the last 4-5 hours on Eurosport, but - WOW - the lone Audi was racing the 24 hour race like it was a 20 minute fast race taking quite big risks I think.

    It moved like it had no feelings, like a wolf without emitions doing it's best to destroy any chance of happiness for petite Peugeot.

    Second place is the first loser, no one remembers the second place.

    And after a 24 hour race the Audi managed to win by some 15 seconds... A race to be remembered! Well done!

    I saw a lot of people by Peugeot crying.
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