The 79th Le Mans 24 Hours By The Numbers
LMP1
2011 saw first wins for the Audi R18 - Andre Lotterer, Marcel Fassler and Benoit Treluyer - All have podium finishes to their name (with the R15 last year and for Treluyer back in 2002 in a GTS Viper) Fassler adds a Le Mans 24 Hours title to his overall win at the Spa 24 Hours in 2007
It's Audi's 10th overall win since 2000! That moves them one clear of Ferrari and into an unchallenged second position in the race’s current history
It makes 24 podium finishes here since 1999 out of a possible total of 39!
It's the 20th overall win for Michelin and their 14th consecutive victory – They swept the podium in LMP1.
It continues a fine record of success for Audi LMPs - the R8, R10 and R15 Plus are now followed by the R18.
The 2011 trio become the 12th, 13th and 14th winning drivers for Audi
It was two cars on the podium for Peugeot, their first podium finishes at Le Mans for their new 908 – It continues a record of success that has seen the cars finish on the podium in every race they started.
A word too for Rebellion Racing who brought the first petrol fuelled car home, 6th overall for the 12 Lola Toyota – Hugh would have been very proud of every single one of them.
LMP2
Greaves Motorsport win LMP2 The first win for the new Nissan Zytek LMP2 engine, the first LMP win at Le Mans for a Zytek chassis - (though of course a Zytek engine did win LMP2 with Binnie Motorsport) LMP2 saw the first class wins too for Olivier Lombard and Karim Ojjeh – For Tom Kimber Smith though its a second win in two starts in very different cars and very different classes (2006 in a Team LNT Panoz - 2011 in an LMP2 Zytek Nissan.)
Oreca Team Matmut score a first podium finish for the 03 Nissan combination
It’s a first podium finish for all three of the #26 crew: Soheil Ayari, Franck Mailleux and Lucas Ordoñez Third went to Level 5’s Lola HPD Coupe – The first podium finish for the team and for the 2.8 V6 turbo from HPD
This is Lola’s 25th podium finish here in their history
It’s a first Le Mans podium finish for Joao Barbosa and Scott Tucker – Christophe Bouchut adds a fourth podium finish (including his 1993 overall win – all in different classes)
Dunlop Win LMP2 - Michelin completes the podium
GTE Pro
Corvette Racing Take the inaugural GTE Pro class win
It's the first Le Mans win(s) for the GT2/ GTE version of the Corvette C6.R to add to their six wins for the GT1 versions of the C5 and C6
It’s Tommy Milner’s first Le Mans 24 Hours class win
It’s Antonio Garcia’s third class win in 4 years, an astonishing record – GT1 win for Corvette and Aston Martin and now a GTE win for Corvette too.
It’s Olivier Beretta’s sixth class win and his fourth for Corvette Racing.
It was the first podium finish at Le Mans for the Ferrari 458 and, perhaps surprisingly, for the AF Corse squad
It’s Giancarlo Fisichella’s first Le Mans podium – Toni Vilander’s too
For Gianmaria Bruni it’s a second podium here, after a class win for Risi in 2008
It’s the first podium finish for BMW Motorsport since the team’s overall win in 1999, the first for the BMW M3 GT2
Michelin win the class, and finish second too – Dunlop score a third
GTE Am
Larbre Competition score a famous 1,2 – including the team’s sixth class win here
The win came for their Corvette C6.R – a double win for the ‘Vette this year It’s Patrick Bornhauser’s first win or podium after several attempts
Gabriele Gardel and Julien Canal scores a second consecutive class win here.
The #70 Porsche saw debut wins for Roland Gibon and Pascale Bourret and a second – after a 2002 podium in the FFSA Viper The Robertson Racing Ford GT makes history in a couple of notable ways –
The first Ford to finish on a Le Mans podium since a Capri won the Touring class in 1972.
The first podium finish for a married couple, the spendidly enthusiastic Andrea and David Robertson – and on their wedding anniversary too.
It’s a second podium finish for David Murry after a second place in GT in 2000
It’s a Michelin clean sweep in GTE Am | 
