Friday, 20th June 2008

Allan McNish reflects on a 2008 Le Mans 24 Hours that Audi was never scripted to win - but did so anyway...

“We knew we had to push flat-out to win, and they knew we would be there; they knew very, very clearly that we wouldn't give up at all. That was the nice part about this battle – that it was two manufacturers with some excellent drivers and fantastic teams that were just going at it 100 per cent flat-out with no inch given or taken.

“I really enjoyed it, and I said to our mechanics two or three hours from the end – when the Peugeot was catching us at a rate of four or five seconds a lap and it looked unlikely that we were going to win the race – ‘boys, even if we don't win it, we can be very proud of the work we've done, and we can be proud of the result that we will get'. To actually come away having won it just makes it even better.”

by Russell Atkins

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