Larbre Competition fought off close competition from the IMSA Performance Matmut Porsche for most of the race, and prevailed to take their third consecutive class victory at the 24 Hours of Le Mans.

Jack Leconte, Team Owner: “The engineers and I calculated the time each IMSA driver had spent in their car and worked out that Anthony Pons had to return to the cockpit to complete his minimum running. Nevertheless we asked Pedro to push during his final stint and he did a great job. When we had a safe margin of around six minutes I decided to replace Pedro with our local driver, Julien Canal, and let him take the chequered flag at his home race. He has done a great job with us for the past three years and it was a nice way to say thank you and congratulate him for his third consecutive Le Mans win with Larbre Competition.”

Patrick Bornhauser, No.50 Corvette C6.R: “I was really stressed during the last half an hour as it was so close and we could have lost everything. The pitwall did a great job and controlled the IMSA car through our strategy. This is my second Le Mans win with Larbre and I would like to thank Jack Leconte and the whole team for their hard work.”

Pedro Lamy, No.50 Corvette C6.R: “Mission accomplished! After the tough time I had in LMP1 last year this is the perfect way to return to Le Mans.”

Julien Canal, No.50 Corvette C6.R: “It was an honour to take the chequered flag today and I am very grateful to Jack Leconte for allowing me to do so. I’d also like to thank the entire Larbre Competition team for their work these last three years – we owe our success to them.” 

Photo: CIRCUIT DES 24 HEURES DU MANS (LE MANS, SARTHE), 24 HOURS OF LE MANS, 17TH JUNE 2012.  The GTE Am class winning No.50 Larbre Competition Corvette C6.R