Saturday - The race begins

At 15pm the 24 hours Le Mans 2009 started. Emanuelle Collard was the first driver in the car and held the pole position at the start of the race.

Casper Elgaard took over and drove three stints (3 x 12 laps) still as the leading car with a gap of a minute to no.2.

Kristian Poulsen had his first laps of the race after Casper. Just as he drove out of the pit there was a safety car and the gap to the following car was redused to a few seconds...