24 Hours of Le Mans 2015 - a few statistics
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24 Hours of Le Mans 2015 - a few statistics

Here is a series of stats for a different take on the 83rd running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

• It is the first time that a #19 car has won. The car with the most wins is #1 with 12 victories.

• 17th win for Porsche, 17 years after their last victory in 1998 (if we include TWR-Porsche and Dauer-Porsche).

• The 4th time that Porsche has scored a double

• 32nd victory for a German manufacturer

• 5th victory for a 4-cylinder engine (the previous one dates back to 1928!)

• 1st win for a V4.

• 4th victory for a hybrid propulsion vehicle

• 10th win for Corvette.

• Nico Hülkenberg won the 24 Hours of Le Mans on his first entry. Overall victory hadn't gone to a rookie since Frenchman Laurent Aiello won at the wheel of a Porsche 911 GT in 1998.

• 1991: the last time that an active F1 driver claimed victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Bertrand Gachot (in a Jordan-Ford in F1) and Johnny Herbert (Lotus-Judd) shared the cockpit of the winning Mazda 787B with Volker Weidler.


• The 2015 race was attended by some 263,500 spectators at the track.


• 2,670,599 web users logged on to follow the race on www.24h-lemans.com


• 378,700 fans connected with the Facebook page at www.facebook.com/24heuresdumans


• 215,350 followers kept an eye on the race via Twitter.


• André Lotterer achieved the fastest race lap in the #7 Audi R18 e-tron quattro n°7 at 3:17.476 during lap 337.


• André Lotterer took his fourth lap record (during the 337th lap), the third consecutive record at the Le Mans circuit (2011-2013-2014-2015).


• 395 laps were covered in this year's race, which is 16 more than last year, despite four outings for the safety car and the slow zone procedure being implemented several times during the race. It is just two laps less than the distance record set in 2010.

• An average 247 km/h: the pace at this year's 24 Hours of Le Mans.

• It is only the second time that a team positioned 3rd on the starting grid has taken victory.

• This is the 4th time the driver in pole has finished 5th.

• The winning Porsche topped the hourly rankings from the 9th hour of the race.

• KCMG with its Oreca 05-Nissan is the first Chinese team to take the win in the LM P2 class, thanks to drivers Nicolas Lapierre (FRA), Richard Bradley (GBR) and Matthew Howson (GBR).

• The Oreca 05-Nissan took its first victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans (LM P2).

• The LM P1 winner completed 395 laps.

• The LM P2 winner completed 358 laps.

• This is the 65th year that Porsche has taken part in the 24 Hours of Le Mans: a record

• 32nd victory for a closed-cockpit car.

• 52nd victory for a car with a mid-mounted engine.

• 37th victory for a turbocharged engine.

• 74th victory for a petrol engine.

• 24th victory for Michelin.

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