A Pescarolo Sport C60 car shared by Jean-Christophe Boullion, Emmanuel Collard and Érik Comas started from pole position after Boullion set the overall fastest lap time in the fourth qualifying session. The car led the first two hours until a gearbox fault forced it into the garage for repairs and promoted the Champion Racing Audi R8 vehicle of Emmanuele Pirro to the lead until Pirro crashed after a safety car intervention. The sister Champion car of JJ Lehto, Tom Kristensen and Marco Werner took over the lead and maintained it for the rest of the race to win. It was Werner's first Le Mans win, Lehto's second and Kristensen's seventh. Kristensen eclipsed Jacky Ickx as the all-time leader of overall Le Mans victories and Audi took its fifth win since the 2000 edition. Pescarolo finished two laps behind in second and the sister Champion Audi car of Frank Biela, Allan McNish and Pirro completed the race podium in third.