At the end of one hour...

Le Mans, France -- Mother nature dealt race teams a sunny start with for the 75th running of the 24 Hours of LeMans, but as the first hour of the race ended, the hole of blue sky and sunshine was closed by rain clouds and a light sprinkle. With 23 hours of the race left, it is Audi running one, two, three with the number seven Puegeot in fourth.

Rinaldo Capello in Audi 2 passed the the number 8 Peugeot driven by Sebastien Bordais as they raced through the first turn of the race and never looked back.

There was some conjecture amongst pit wizards as to whether Audi tipped its hand for its strategy sending Capello to the front of the class as a "rabbit" to force the Peugeot to follow and possibly break. Further conjecture was that the Audi team perhaps "sandbagged" during the qualification period and then have brought its full force to bear on the French team in the early goings. Indeed it appears as if the Audi seem to be running stronger around the race track in the early goings.

However, with but 1/24th of the race complete anything can, and probably will happen, with the weather factor playing the joker. Thus far nearly one-and-a-half hours into the race there has been no wholesale dump of rain on the track. But the track is ringed by rain clouds and if one was playing weather forecast it would seem that there will be at least one good dump of rain.