1995 24 HOURS OF LE MANS
June 17-18, Le Mans, France

NOTES: 8 HOURS COMPLETE

By Robert Heathcote, for SpeedNet

Mario Andretti went off the road and damaged some body work on the #13
Courage-Porsche sometime after the fourth hour.  The car lost six laps
and dropped to 25th.  After 8 hours, the car had moved up to eighth, but
was still 6 laps behind the leader.

It has been raining since the first hour, following a dry start.

With 8 hours in the books, the McLaren F1 GTR-BMW machines led the way,
with the #49 car of Nielsen, Bscher and Mass one lap ahead of the #51 and
#59 cars. Fourth was the #57 Jaguar XJ220 followed by yet another
McLaren, both five laps down. The American Corvette ZR-1 entry failed to
complete more than 4 laps...

One entry was ommited from the previous list (besides the 21st and 48th
qualifiers, who are absent still on the chart above):

    Ps.Cl.No.Driver; Entrant; Chassis-Engine (size, T=Turbo)

    32 G1 26 Alain Ferte (F), Kenny Acheson (IRL), Tomiko Yoshikawa (J);
             Sard Co. Ltd; Sard MC8R-Sard 4.0l-T


Wish I had more to add, but that's all I know at this time.


-Robert

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