Peugeot won a chaotic Spa 1000 km race last Sunday as the teams prepare for the 24 hours of Le Mans in June.

Late race rain and an on-track power failure made the day unforgettable in more ways than one.

French driver Simon Pagenaud, along with co-drivers Pedro Lamy and Sébastien Bourdais, took their Peugeot 908 to the win, as the race was called at the six-hour time limit.

Audi driver and seven time Le mans winner Tom Kistensen, looked set to grab a thrilling victory after a late race rain shower. Kristensen gambled on Intermediate tyres, and looked set to easily catch the lead Peugeot when the rain stopped and the track dried out.

The Audi struggled on but couldn’t hold out the second Peugeot of Stephane Sarrazin who came through to take second place. The Audi hung on for third.

In LMP2, the Quifel-ASM Team took the win with drivers Olivier Pla and Miguel Amaral in a Ginetta - Zytek holding off the team RML Lola of Tommy Erdos Mike Newton and Andy Wallace.

In the GT1 class, Matech Competition dominated as Bas Leinders, Markus Palttala and Eric de Doncker led home a 1, 2, 3 for the brand-new Ford GT.

As expected the battle between Ferrari and Porsche in the GT2 class was a thriller with the German marque taking  their second victory in a row.

Marc Leib and Richard Leitz led home the AF Corse Ferrari’s led by  Jaime Melo and Gianmaria Bruni.

The teams will now take the lessons of Spa back to the workshops as they prepare for the big one the 2010 Le Mans 24 hour June 12 - 13.

For the second year in a row the race will be telecast live in Australia on ONE HD.

And for Melbourne viewers, tomorrow night (Tuesday May 11) In Pit Lane will have a special feature taking you behind the scenes on the development of the new Audi R15 Plus.