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<body> <Table Width="550" border="0" style="border-collapse: collapse" cellpadding="0"><TR><TD Width="35"><IMG SRC="//www.totalmotorsport.com/images/spacer.gif" WIDTH="35" HEIGHT="1"></td><td> <CENTER><Table border="0" width="100%"> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="5">LE MANS</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="left"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="2">13/06/2004</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="4">Audi Continues To Lead At Le Mans After 18 Hours</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><B><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="3">Suspension Set Back For Herbert</FONT></B></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="center"><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="1">  </FONT></TD></TR> <TR><TD width="100%" align="left"><FONT FACE="Tahoma" SIZE="2"><B>Audi Continues To Lead At Le Mans</B><BR> <BR> After a relatively calm night, two Audi R8 sports cars continue to lead the Le Mans 24 Hours. <BR> <BR> Following thrilling early stages of the race, there were no major dramas for the Audi teams at Le Mans during the night. Despite that, the lead changed in the early morning: Seiji Ara, Rinaldo Capello and Tom Kristensen took the lead shortly after 7 a.m., when the push-rod of the left rear suspension had to be changed on the No.88 Audi Sport UK Team Veloqx Audi R8 which had been in the lead from the start. James Davies, Johnny Herbert and Guy Smith lost two laps and are now one lap behind in second position. <BR> <BR> The charge through the field was successful for the other two Audi R8 cars which had dropped to the back after early accidents. Team ADT Champion Racing (JJ Lehto/Emanuele Pirro/Marco Werner) moved from 41st to fourth and can still look forward to finish on the podium. The performance of Frank Biela and Pierre Kaffer, making there way up from 44th back into the top ten during the night in Audi Sport UK Team Veloqx’s second Audi R8, was especially remarkable. The two Germans have to finish the race alone as the doctors recommended Allan McNish, following his accident on Saturday, not to continue in the race. <BR> </FONT></TD></TR> </TABLE><BR> </CENTER> <BR><CENTER><font size="1" color="#808080" face="Tahoma">Copyright ©2000-©2023 TotalMotorSport</font></CENTER> </td> </tr> </table> </body>