renger van der zande for wayne taylor racing started from pole position and led for most of the opening hour. filipe albuquerque of mustang sampling racing took the lead after the first round of pit stops and kept it for five hours before losing it to team penske's hélio castroneves. whelen engineering racing, penske and mustang sampling traded the lead several times over the next 12 hours. mustang sampling's albuquerque, christian fittipaldi and joão barbosa led the final third of the race to win in a record-breaking distance of 808 laps and and take the lead of the prototype drivers' and teams' championships. mike conway, eric curran, stuart middleton and felipe nasr were second in the sister whelen engineering racing car. third were core autosport's jon bennett, colin braun, romain dumas and loïc duval.