Karun Chandhok & team to start 11th at Le Mans

Le Mans (France): India's Karun Chandhok and his team JRM Racing will start their first-ever Le Mans 24 Hours race from 11th position this weekend.

The team made the best of a difficult day after discovering the gearbox had been damaged in Thursday's running. The team elected to switch to the race engine as well, thereby lightening the work schedule for Saturday.

As a result, the team missed most of the earlier qualifying and the work was condensed into the later session in which Peter Dumbreck exclusively completed. He bettered his time of Thursday to a 3 minutes, 35.421 seconds.

With the team missing most of the earlier qualifying session Chandhok did not get a chance to run and will head into the historic race with a mere 18 laps under his belt along with team-mates David Brabham and Dumbreck in a Honda HPD ARX-03a in the LMP1 class. (IANS)