Audi, the German luxury automaker, witnessed favourable provisional results at half time at Le Mans, the world’s oldest active sport car race. Post 12 hours, the race was led by Audi R18 ultra and Audi R18 e-tron Quattro.
Three prototypes of Audi completed their circuits without any hassles. Audi R18 e-tron quattro Audi #1 was in the lead and finished its 188 laps by half time. Audi #2 finished the same in less than a minute of its sibling, mainly due to a sequence of speedy laps covered by Tom Kristensen. The driver of #3 Audi R18 ultra, Romain Dumas met an incident in the 13th hour, when his vehicle struck a slower moving car while lapping and ended up spinning. Because of the collision, the rear bodywork of the car needed to be replaced at an impromptu pit stop. Although Dumas faced this mishap, he still retained sixth position.
The positions of cars after 12 hours are as follows:
| Positions | Car Model |
| First | Audi #1 |
| Second | Audi #2 |
| Third | Audi #4 -2L |
| Fourth | Lola-Toyota #12 -5L |
| Fifth | Lola-Toyota #13 -7L |
| Sixth | Audi #3 -8L |
| Seventh | HPD-Honda #44 -12L |
| Eighth | Oreca-Nissan #49 -12L |
| Ninth | Oreca-Nissan #26 -12L |
| Tenth | Oreca-Nissan #46 -12L |
A sequential description of facts that happened at given time is mentioned below in tabular form:
| Time | Fact |
| 02:15 | #4 pit stop from P3, diesel |
| 02:25 | #2 pit stop from P2, diesel |
| 02:38 | #1 pit stop from P1, diesel, tires, Tréluyer out, Fässler in |
| 02:41 | #3 pit stop from P6, diesel, tires, rear bodywork changed after spin |
| 02:59 | #4 pit stop from P3, diesel |
| 03:00 | #1 P1 +41,918 #2 P2 -41,918 #4 P3 -2L #3 P6 -9L |
