With Oreca separating from Chrysler, Cadillac in crisis, the presence of reduced Bentley, Courage, Panoz and Dome struggling with limited resources, all on the eve of the 24 Hours of Le Mans 2002 hinted at a third consecutive success of the Audi R8, and so it was, with the car of Kristensen / Biela / Pirro that ended in front of the other two Audi of Herbert / Capello / Pescatori and Krumm / Peter / Werner. A perfect race, that of Audi, and Tom Kristensen also took away the satisfaction of the fastest lap at an average speed of 230.182 km / h.