モーター racing-Audi lead Porsche after two hours at Le Mans
LE MANS, フラン, June 13 (Reuters) - 支持する／優勝者s Audi led a tight 戦う／戦い with 挑戦者s Porsche on the two hour 示す at the Le Mans 24 Hours race on Saturday, with the safety cars already making their first 外見 of the 週末.
The number seven Audi of defending 支持する／優勝者s Marcel Fassler, Andre Lotterer and Benoit Treluyer was followed by the first of the three 作品 Porsches after 30 （競技場の）トラック一周s of the Sarthe 回路・連盟 in western フラン.
The number 17 Porsche -- 株d by Australian 示す Webber, New Zealander Brendon Hartley and Germany's Timo Bernhard -- led Switzerland's Neel Jani in the number 18 car with 決まり文句／製法 One driver Nico Hulkenberg fourth in the number 19.
The other two 作品 Audis followed with Toyota seventh and eighth.
Nine times 勝利者 Tom Kristensen, the 広大な／多数の／重要な Dane who retired last year, waved the race away in 有望な 日光 with Porsche 占領するing the first three places after qualifying.
Porsche then led for the first hour before a three car 衝突／不一致 捨てるd oil on the 跡をつける at the first chicane.
That brought out the safety cars, with three （軍隊を）展開する，配備するd at different points 予定 to the length of the （競技場の）トラック一周, and bunched up the frontrunners.
The eight 主要な factory cars were all in a line behind the first safety car and lapping nose-to-tail when the race 再開するd before Lotterer was able to 掴む the lead as they approached traffic and made pitstops.
Audi, the 支配的な team at Le Mans in 最近の years with their ディーゼル hybrid car, are chasing their 14th 勝利，勝つ since 2000 in the world's oldest sportscar endurance race but 直面する a 堅い 戦う／戦い from Volkswagen Group stablemates Porsche.
Porsche have 勝利d 16 times, with their last victory coming in 1998. (令状ing by Alan Baldwin in London, editing by Justin Palmer)
