Porsche salvages victory

Stuttgart overcomes setbacks to increase Le Mans win tally to 19

Le Mans 2017 proved to be an attritional enduro in the old style, with the pace-setting LMP1 cars all hitting trouble. Timo Bernhard, Earl Bamber and Brendon Hartley (above) lost 18 laps having a motor generator unit replaced before recovering to lead in the 23rd hour. Oliver Jarvis, Ho-Pin Tung and Thomas Laurent (Oreca) won LMP2, in second overall (below left), while Darren Turner, Jonny Adam and Daniel Serra and took the GTE Pro spoils for Aston Martin.