le mans latest: hour 17

["Dave Eaton" <Dave.Eaton@clear.net.nz>]

bmw looks comfortable at the front, although the lead bmw had a couple of
slow laps.  the lead audi r8r had to change it's gearbox, dropping only a
couple of laps soon after setting it's fastest laps of the race.

5 hours to go.....

dave
'95 rs2
'90 ur-q
'88 mb 2.3-16
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Leaders after 19 hours at 1000CET:
1 17 BMW (Kristensen, Lehto, Muller) 274 Laps
2 15 BMW (Winkelhock, Martini, Dalmas) 270 Laps
4 03 Toyota (Katayama, Tsuchiya, Suzuki) 270 Laps
3 08 Audi (Pirro, Theys, Biela) 268 Laps
5 18 BMW (Bscher,Auberlen, Soper) 264 Laps
6 12 Panoz (Brabham, Bernard, Leitzinger) 260 Laps
7 21 Nissan (Cottaz, Goosens, Ekblom) 257 Laps
8 07 Audi (Alboreto, Capello, Aiello) 252 Laps
9 13 Courage (Montermini, Caffi, Schiattarella) 251 Laps
10 51 Viper (Archer, Bell, Duez) 244 Laps