Karun Chandok completes 24 hours of Le Mans in sixth position

Indian racing star Karun Chandok has created history by becoming the first Indian to complete the historic Le Mans 24 hours. His team, JRM Racing crossed the finish line in sixth position. Karun's teammate and 2009 Le Mans winner David Brabham started the proceedings for team JRM Racing in the 11^th position. The Australian immediately gained a place and then handed over the Honda HPD ARX-03a LMP1 car to Karun. The latter, during his stint in the car moved it from 10^th position to eight and then handed it to Peter. Peter then started to trade places with #13 LOLA Rebellion, gaining a place and then losing it when he had to refuel. Later, he moved up to the sixth place when the #7 Toyota wasted significant amount of time in the pits.

On lap 114, Peter had a tyre failure coming through the Dunlop Curves and spun off into the gravel. The Scot subsequently had to negotiate almost the entire lap with a puncture, and was pulled into the garage to check for suspension damage. During this stop, David took over from Peter and by the time he handed over the car to Karun on lap 158, the team was in ninth position. Karun soon went up to eighth and set about chasing the #44 Starworks car for seventh overall. On a stop on lap 169 Karun reported a problem with the clutch and was pushed into the garage. He rejoined in 12th overall but brought the car back to the pits in 9th when he handed over to Peter just before dawn. Peter then concluded the race for the #22 JRM Racing car.

Karun Chandhok was ecstatic after finishing in such a high position in his first ever race here. Driving for nine of the last 36 hours and sleeping for four makes for a pretty tiring ratio! I ended up doing the graveyard shift from 2 - 5am, which was very special and exhausting in equal measure. It made me really understand the unique, special nature of this race. Overall a very good race for us and it feels great to be the only Indian to have finished the Le Mans 24hr race. The whole team worked tirelessly and it is a great reward for all their hard work. We have all been flat out since the first test here. I am absolutely exhausted and look forward to taking a nice long break. To finish second amongst the privateer teams is huge so fantastic result all around.