Jun 17, 2007, 15:35 GMT
Le Mans, France - Audi's diesel-powered R10s driven by Frank Biela, Marco Werner and Emanuele Pirro won the Le Mans 24-hour race Sunday for a second straight victory.
Second place went to the Peugeot 908 team of Sebastien Bourdais, Stephane Sarrazin and Pedro Lamy, who were 10 laps behind.
Two further laps back in third place was the French Pescarolo Sport team of Emmanuel Collard, Jean-Christophe Boullion and Romain Dumas.
It was a third victory for Germany's Werner, while compatriot Biela and Italian Pirro each have five victories to their name.
Audi have now won seven of the last eight Le Mans 24-hour races.
The victorious team took the lead with seven hours to go after the No 2 Audi R10 of Rinaldo Capello, Allan McNish and Tom Kristensen, who had led the endurance event from the first corner, crashed out.
With just 77 minutes left, the second Peugeot, with Formula One champion Jacques Villenueve among its drivers, pulled out with engine problems.
The team had been in second with a little more than two hours left but dropped to fourth following a lengthy pit stop before retiring.
Canadian Villeneuve was attempting to join the late Graham Hill as the only other man to have achieved a motorsport hat-trick of the F1 title, Indianapolis 500 and Le Mans.
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