[LM24] The Greatest overall team performance at Le Mans

[Mal]

Reflecting on the aftermath on this years Le Mans got me thinking whether we have just seen the greatest overall team performance at Le Mans.

The Audi team put themselves in a position that by right they shouldn't have been able to do.

Its not that Peugeot #7 ran a bad race, their drivers didn't make many mistakes. They didn't even spend much time in the pits. Most other years what they did with the speed they had would have been easily enough to secure victory.

But this year the #2 Audi performed on a different level. It had no mechanical problems whatsoever - the drivers were throwing in massive 3 to 3.5 hour stints to save time and were still able to perform at the highest level and keep the car in touch with the Peugeot ready to pounce - and when the rain came they had anticipated it and set their car up so that TK could take a massive 47 seconds out of the lead car in just 3 laps.

Then in the closing stages they made all the right decisions with regards to tyres and strategy and took a victory that shouldn,t have been possible considering the performance of the #7 car.

Was this the greatest ever overall team performance - if not on which other occassions has a team performed at this level to overturn the odds - not through other cars misfortune but through sheer quality of performance