The 78th 24 Hours of Le Mans was a non-championship 24-hour automobile endurance race for teams of three drivers each fielding Le Mans Prototype (LMP) and Grand Touring (GT) cars held from 12 to 13 June 2010 at the Circuit de la Sarthe, near Le Mans, France, before 238,150 spectators. It was the 78th 24 Hours of Le Mans as organised by the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO).
The race-winning No. 9 Audi R15 TDI plus of Timo Bernhard, Romain Dumas and Mike Rockenfeller, which set a race record for overall distance covered
Sébastien Bourdais set the fastest overall lap in the first qualifying session to put the No. 3 Peugeot on overall pole position.
Nigel Mansell crashed the Beechdean Motorsport Ginetta Zytek in the race's first hour and had amnesia, haematoma on his brain and a neck injury as a result.
The No. 2 Peugeot being retired from the overall lead with connecting rod failure.
The Circuit des 24 Heures du Mans, also known as Circuit de la Sarthe located in Le Mans, Sarthe, France, is a semi-permanent motorsport race course, chiefly known as the venue for the 24 Hours of Le Mans auto race. Comprising private, race-specific sections of track in addition to public roads which remain accessible most of the year, its present configuration is 13.626 km (8.467 mi) long, making it one of the longest circuits in the world. The capacity of the race stadium, where the short Bugatti Circuit is situated, is 100,000. The Musée des 24 Heures du Mans is a motorsport museum located at the main entrance of the venue.
Circuit de la Sarthe
Dunlop Bridge in 1977
The esses after the Dunlop Bridge
Part of the Mulsanne Straight
