Audi wins LMP1 at Spa 08 | 05 | 2016

AUDI DRIVERS OLIVER JARVIS, Lucas di Grassi and Loic Duval clinched their first World Endurance Championship victory together in a race of attrition at the Six Hours of Spa-Francorchamps.

Brit Jarvis, driving the #8 Audi R18 e-tron LMP1 hybrid (pictured), took the chequered flag two laps clear of the Porsche shared by Marc Lieb, Neel Jani and Romain Dumas. The Porsche ran for nearly all the race with reduced hybrid power levels.

The Audi trio inherited the lead halfway through the fourth hour when the #5 Toyota TS050 Hybrid — driven by Anthony Davidson, Sebastien Buemi and Kazuki Nakajima — suffered major engine failure.

The Toyota was a lap clear of the second-place Audi and looked on course for victory when Nakajima brought the smoking car into the pits.

"It's clear we didn't have the performance this weekend compared to the Porsche or even the Toyota," Jarvis admitted, “but we stayed out of trouble and the car was reliable: that's what endurance racing is about.

"We've had some bad luck in the past, so we'll take the good luck this weekend."

In LMP2, Airdrie’s Ryan Dalziel brought his Extreme Speed Motorsports Ligier-Nissan home in second place, missing out on victory by just five-seconds.

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Jim McGill