Six of the best for the AUTOSPORT Six Hours
The Intercontinental Le Mans Cup and the Le Mans Series resume after a two-month summer break with this weekend's AUTOSPORT 6 Hours at Silverstone. Gary Watkins picks six of the best from each of the three major classes
LMP1
Audi Sport Team Joest - Audi R18 TDI
# 1 Timo Bernhard (D)/Marcel Fassler (CH)
# 2 Allan McNish (GB)/Tom Kristensen (DEN)
Audi was beaten hands down at Imola, partly because Peugeot managed to switch on its tyres in the hot conditions and partly because the R18s were hit by an unexpected brake-cooling problem. The German manufacturer believes it has addressed the braking issue, caused by spent rubber blocking the front cooling ducts, and is expecting to be back in thick of the fight at Silverstone.
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Gary Watkins has, for reasons best known to himself, devoted all his working life to covering sportscar racing. This season is his 33rd as a motorsport journalist, during which time he has reported on major long-distance events on four continents and approaching 80 24-hour races. He reckons a degree in political philosophy makes him well qualified for covering the sometimes Machiavellian world of international sportscars.
Gary, who also writes for Motor Sport, Autocourse, RACER and others, lives in Surbiton close to the former workshops of the Cooper Formula 1 team but spends more time on the road than at home for most of the year.
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