Auto Racing
From Staff and Wire Reports
A French-made Peugeot maintained its lead midway through the rain-plagued Le Mans 24-hour race, with defending champion Mazda stubbornly staying close.
France’s Yannick Dalmas and Britain’s Derek Warwick and Mark Blundell led another Peugeot by 9 minutes, 1.436 seconds, or more than two laps of the 8.45-mile circuit. A Mazda was third, another lap back.
The lead car had covered 171 laps, a distance of 1,444.95 miles.
