8:00 The final sprint begins

Just a little under 8 hours to go until the winner of the 75th running of the 24 Heures Du Mans will be crowned. The German train of the Audi R10 continues to dominate running 1st and 2nd, with the Peugeot Total Team running 3rd and 4th.
I have Cafe in me now, and am feeling my second wind coming. As tired as I am, I can only imagine how exhausted the drivers, mechanics, and various supporting crews are. It was also pretty interesting to see in the middle of the night the crowd trickle out of the bleachers. Currently the smallest crowd I have seen since Wednesday.

The question is: will Peugeot (as seen this morning, above) turn up the heat in the last 8 hours of the race, to put pressure on Audi; The Audi Sport team has been in this position before, but in racing, anything can happen. It was also funny to walk through the press room stationed above the team garages through out the night and early morning. Counting the number of press people who had fallen working at their computers, or crawled under the desks like I did for a few hours, to grab some precious shut eye.

Current results as of 7:30 are:

1 2 Audi Sport North America LMP1 McNISH A
2 1 Audi Sport North America LMP1 BIELA F
3 7 Team Peugeot Total LMP1 MINASSIAN N
4 8 Team Peugeot Total LMP1 BOURDAIS S
5 16 Pescarolo Sport LMP1 COLLARD E
6 18 Rollcentre Racing LMP1 SHORT M
7 9 Aston Martin Racing LMGT1 TURNER D
8 7 Aston Martin Racing LMGT1 HERBERT J
9 63 Corvette Racing LMGT1 O'CONNELL J
10 8 AMR Larbre Comp. LMGT1 ELGAARD C
11 54 Team Oreca LMGT1 BELLOC J-P
12 100 AMR BMS LMGT1 MALUCELLI M
13 31 Binnie Motorsports LMP2 TIMPANY A
14 15 Charouz Racing LMP1 MUCKE S
15 72 Alphand Aventures LMGT1 GOUESLARD P
16 35 Saulnier Racing LMP2 JOUANNY B
17 67 Convers Menx Team LMGT1 PERGL R
18 87 Scuderia Ecosse LMGT2 KIRKALDY A
19 76 Imsa Performance LMGT2 LONG P
20 93 Autorlando Sport LMGT2 SIMONSEN A
21 97 Risi Competizione LMGT2 MELO J
22 73 Alphand Aventures LMGT1 ANDRE D
23 32 Barazi Epsilon LMP2 BARAZI J
24 14 Racing For Holland LMP1 LAMMERS J
25 99 Risi Competizione LMGT2 BRAUN C
26 12 Courage Competition LMP1 FREI A
27 55 Team Oreca LMGT1 ORTELLI S
28 25 RML LMP2 NEWTON M
29 59 Team Modena LMGT1 GARCIA A
30 17 Pescarolo Sport LMP1 TINSEAU C
31 33 Barazi Epsilon LMP2 KUROZAWA H
32 78 AF Corse LMGT2 MACARI J
33 6 AMR Larbre Comp. LMGT1 BORNHAUSER P
34 82 Team LNT LMGT2 TOMLINSON L
35 19 Chamberlain Synergy LMP1 EVANS G
36 24 Noel Del Bello LMP2 HALLIDAY L
37 83 GPC Sport LMGT2 ROSENBLAD C.
38 70 PSI Experience LMGT1 PETER Ph
39 20 Pierre Bruneau LMP2 ROSTAN M
D.N.F. 3 Audi Sport Team Joest LMP1 LUHR L
D.N.F. 5 Swiss Spirit LMP1 DELETRAZ J-D
D.N.F. 9 Creation Autosportif Ltd LMP1 CAMPBELL-WALTER J
D.N.F. 13 Courage Competition LMP1 GOUNON J-M
D.N.F. 21 Bruichladdich Radical LMP2 GREAVES T
D.N.F. 29 T2M Motorsport LMP2 LONGECHAL R
D.N.F. 40 Quifel ASM Team LMP2 AMARAL M
D.N.F. 44 Kruse Motorsport LMP2 BURGESS T
D.N.F. 53 JLOC Isao Noritake LMGT1
D.N.F. 64 Corvette Racing LMGT1 BERETTA O
D.N.F. 71 Seikel Motorsport LMGT2 COLLIN P
D.N.F. 80 Flying Lizard Motorsport LMGT2 van OVERBEEK J
D.N.F. 81 Team LNT LMGT2 KIMBER-SMITH T
D.N.F. 85 Spyker Squadron LMGT2 BELICCHI A
D.N.F. 86 Spyker Squadron LMGT2 JANIS J