A fine drive also saw the GT1 winner finish in fifth overall as the leading non-LMP1 runner and the only disappointment for the team was that the sister car, the #007, was unable to make it a 1-2 finish. That had looked likely for periods of the race as the two cars lapped together, but when the #007 was forced to make an unscheduled stop for a new front splitter in the 16th hour, it saw the car of Tomas Enge, Johnny Herbert and Peter Kox drop down to fourth in class. Despite the best efforts of Enge in particular to bring the car back into the podium places, the trio would be forced to settle for fourth in class when Enge went off in the 20th hour while fighting with Christophe Bouchut in the #008 AMR Labre car – suffering a puncture and then needing to make a further lengthy stop to fix problems associated with a trip into the gravel.
Having lost one car early on, the Corvette team was able to throw its resources behind the #63 entry for the majority of the race and the team was rewarded with a second place finish, the late Safety Car period removing any chance the team had of overhauling the Aston Martin to continue the American manufacturers stranglehold on the class. Indeed the result could have been much worse for the team when the Corvette was unceremoniously punted off in the gravel at the first corner by the race leading Audi while being lapped after the R10, with Biela at the wheel at the time, went for a gap that simply wasn't there – the yellow machine rocketing across arguably the biggest gravel trap at the La Sarthe circuit and managing to rejoin.
While the second works car had to settle for fourth, there was two Aston Martins on the podium, with the lead Aston Martin Labre entry of Bouchut, Casper Elgaard and Fabrizio Gollin claiming the final place on the podium. The first Oreca Saleen – which failed to match the pace shown in practice and qualifying – was fifth thanks to French trio Laurent Groppi, Nicolas Prost and Jean-Philippe Belloc while the top six was completed by another DBR9, the BMS entry of Fabio Babini, Matteo Malucelli and Jamie Davies.
