About eight hours into the race, another big accident overshadowed proceedings at the 24 Hours of Le Mans (FR). The no. 1 LMP1 Audi crashed post-obit a collision with a slower auto. According to initial information, Mike Rockenfeller (DE) was apparently able to get out of the automobile on his own and has at present been taken to hospital. Everyone inside Team BMW Motorsport hopes the Audi driver has not suffered any serious injuries. The accident caused a prophylactic-machine menstruation that only concluded at 01:00hrs.

The two BMW M3 GT cars are in the middle of a fight back. Car number 56 was running second in the LM GTE course, when Andy Priaulx (GB) reported on the radio he had an engine misfire. During the subsequent pit stop, the engineers inverse the engine ECU too as an ignition coil. Dirk Müller (DE) rejoined in tenth after more than 8 minutes. Since lap 116 Joey Hand (Usa) has been back behind the wheel, running in 9th subsequently the re-start.

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In the other BMW M3 GT (no. 55), Dirk Werner (DE) managed to improve from 11th to seventh over the form of his stint, handing over the wheel to Augusto Farfus (BR) on lap 107. Jörg Müller (DE) will get back in the car afterward his Brazilian squad-mate'due south dark stint.

Dirk Werner (motorcar number 55):"The first stint was pretty flawless for me and I was able to do good times. The car was working fine and I kept my tyres for a double stint. I then struggled a footling flake because I had some problems to run into as the windscreen was very dirty. I retrieve a car had put oil on it or something similar that so information technology was very difficult for me to have a good vision. And then in that location was a big crash and I but hope Mike Rockenfeller is ok."

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Dirk Müller (car number 56):"Information technology was a rough one. Offset of all we had the issue when Andy had a misfire in the car. He had to bring the car into the garage and the boys did an crawly chore. They worked out what information technology was, changed the right parts and sent me dorsum out. I did a nice stint and was getting used to the sunset was quite difficult to begin with. Unluckily we had the massive incident with Mike Rockenfeller. I really hope he is okay as he is a very good friend of mine. Apart from that information technology has been a long, long yellow."

[Source: BMW ]