2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, Allegations of racism
Gay activists and editorial writers have suggested that police only looked at the disappearances seriously when a white man, Andrew Kinsman, was reported missing. Idsinga denied this, noting that Project Houston was a bigger investigation. He also noted that Kinsman's disappearance in June 2017 was important to the creation of Project Prism because of evidence obtained in July, not because of race. CBC News examined hundreds of pages of partially redacted court orders unsealed in September 2018, and concluded that there had been "considerable effort" toward investigating all three Project Houston subjects.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, Allegations of racism
Jooyoung Lee suggested that there was racism within the gay community, indicated by the relatively weak responses to the disappearances of the brown-skinned men in contrast with the campaign to find Kinsman.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, Allegations of racism
There have also been suggestions that McArthur was initially overlooked as a suspect because he is white. In 2017, Reid theorized that the killer was a person of colour like the victims, later stating this was because serial killers tend to target familiar communities.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, Victim blaming
While defending the Project Houston investigation and responding to criticisms that police should have recognized the alleged serial killer sooner, Chief Saunders expressed his frustrations to The Globe and Mail that some sources were reporting incidents after McArthur's arrest which could have changed the course of the investigation had they been reported at the time. He was quoted as saying "We knew that people were missing and we knew we didn't have the right answers. But nobody was coming to us with anything." This was run on the front page of the national newspaper on February 27, 2018, under the headline: "Toronto police chief says civilians failed to help investigation into alleged serial killer".


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, Victim blaming
The story was widely cited by other media outlets and caused a backlash against Saunders, with his comments taken by LGBTQ leaders and the community as victim blaming. One group held a rally outside police headquarters calling for Saunders's resignation. In a later interview with CP24, Saunders apologized if his comments to the Globe's editorial board were "misconstrued or taken in the wrong context" and that he had not intended to single out the LGBTQ community.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, Victim blaming
Saunders had expressed gratitude toward the community for their help in the investigation in earlier instances, on one occasion saying he was "proud of the fact that the community did help us out in this". Mayor John Tory defended Saunders as a leader who could repair relationships with the city's communities, despite his "awkward language" in the interview.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, Victim blaming
One widely covered story in the media was the account of a 52-year-old part-time university teacher from Thunder Bay who had known McArthur for about ten years. According to the man, McArthur had contacted him on the Bear411 app and suggested that they meet for dinner at Church and Wellesley. After dinner the man got into the back of McArthur's van where they began kissing, petting and undressing. At this point the man claims that McArthur grabbed his neck and violently twisted it, forcing his face into McArthur's crotch.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, Victim blaming
"I really thought my neck was going to be snapped the way he twisted it." The man grabbed McArthur's elbow, squeezing the joint until he was able to make McArthur let go. The man did not report the alleged incident to police until after McArthur's arrest, yet felt police could have arrested him sooner. The man alleges this happened in April 2017, about the time that Esen disappeared.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, Victim blaming
Another man claimed to have been invited through a dating app to McArthur's apartment for a liaison involving "bondage and submission role-playing" in late July 2017. McArthur did not want to go to the man's apartment because of security cameras in the area. McArthur made a GHB cocktail for the man, who requested a dosage to relax and "heighten the sexual encounter". The man soon began sweating heavily, suggesting he had been overdosed.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, Victim blaming
The man alleged that McArthur ignored his limits and safe words and blocked his airway "with his penis, with his hands, with his body weight sitting on my chest". The man said he lost consciousness and was saved by the return of McArthur's roommate. The man said he was contacted by police the day after McArthur's arrest, and from their questions realized McArthur had photographed him bound in what was described as "a kill position".


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, Alleged 2016 assault
In early March 2018, Idsinga said that he learned of "concerning information" in the case which he immediately reported to the professional standards unit; they began an internal investigation on March 5. Police did not release any details but Idsinga said it was serious enough to affect the careers of officers involved.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, Alleged 2016 assault
The media roughly described an incident alleged to have occurred on June 20, 2016, in which McArthur and an unidentified man whom he met through a dating app were masturbating each other in the back of McArthur's van in a McDonald's restaurant parking lot in North York. McArthur allegedly began throttling the man who broke free and said he would report what happened to police. Sources then vary, with McArthur following the man to a police station or driving to a Scarborough police station while the man phoned police.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, Alleged 2016 assault
McArthur either claimed it was the man who had choked him or that the man had asked to be choked then panicked and fled. According to one source, McArthur was placed under arrest and taken from 41 Division in Scarborough to 32 Division in North York where the investigation continued. No occurrence report was filed and McArthur was not charged. Homicide investigators only became aware of the alleged incident after McArthur's arrest, when the man came forward again to bring it to their attention.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, Alleged 2016 assault
In an agreed statement of fact read in court, Cantlon said that the victim of the "attempted choking" had known McArthur for years. The victim called 911 after he escaped while McArthur went to the police and said the incident was consensual. He was let go, as police believed his story was credible. His 2003 arrest did not come up on background checks. McArthur had pictures of this man; in some he was wearing a fur coat similar to the one in which McArthur posed his victims.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, Alleged 2016 assault
On February 1, 2019, Sgt. Paul Gauthier from 32 Division was charged by the professional standards unit with insubordination and neglect of duty regarding policy on reporting domestic violence, such as videotaping the complainant's statement and obtaining photos of the complainant's injuries. Gauthier's attorney said that the decision to not charge McArthur in 2016 was made in consultation with Gauthier's supervisor, and that the investigation and arrest of McArthur was fully documented. The allegations against the officer are not criminal. Gauthier has 15 years on the job and is highly regarded by colleagues, praised for his work with difficult cases involving human trafficking.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, Alleged 2016 assault
In a two-page letter emailed to colleagues and obtained by news outlets, Gauthier stated that he was being made a scapegoat. He wrote that the reports were completed and available from the night of the incident, and that he had spoken to Project Prism officers regarding it after they had identified McArthur's van, and that there were no complaints then. Gauthier wrote that this changed after Saunders's February 27 story in The Globe and Mail. The following day, Saunders's friend and former partner Idsinga called Gauthier's investigation into question with the professional standards unit.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, Alleged 2016 assault
The following week it was leaked to the media, and Gauthier suggested that this was done to divert attention from Saunders's remarks. The professional standards unit received special permission from the civilian Toronto Police Services Board (TPSB) to lay charges against Gauthier, as their investigation exceeded the six-month window required under the Police Act. Gauthier's lawyer and Toronto Police Association (TPA) President Mike McCormack have stated that the case should be heard by an independent judge instead of a tribunal officer appointed by Saunders.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, Alleged 2016 assault
Gauthier has not made his first appearance at the tribunal. He has been diagnosed with PTSD and wrote that he is undergoing treatment due to the toll of being blamed for the murders of Esen and Kinsman. On August 23, 2021 Gauthier was found not guilty on charges of insubordination and neglect of duty


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, Handling of missing persons cases
The TPS receives over 4,000 missing-persons reports each year, with most resolved within a few days. 51 Division, which includes Church and Wellesley, had 600 missing persons between 2014 and 2018 and about 30 cases remained open in March 2018. According to Lusia Dion, who runs the website Ontario's Missing Adults, missing men are taken less seriously as "We tend to think they can take care of themselves."


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, Handling of missing persons cases
The circumstances of a disappearance are considered by TPS before committing resources to a search, especially for an adult. The city had been working to reduce the TPS budget which exceeded $1 billion in 2016. In July 2017, the Toronto Police Association (TPA) claimed that there was a staffing crisis with working conditions at "a breaking point", noting that staff had been reduced by 500 officers since 2010 while a budgetary task force recommended a hiring freeze. An unexpected number of early retirements were attributed by the TPA to stress and morale, and TPA President Mike McCormack noted "when we have a stressed-out officer, when we have people who are burned out, it really does impact public interaction".


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, Handling of missing persons cases
On December 8, 2017, Saunders announced an internal probe to assess the TPS's response to Richey's disappearance, to determine if there was a procedural, training or other issue. He specifically noted the importance of call uptake and absorbing the circumstances of a reported disappearance. At a February 29 Toronto Police Services Board (TPSB) meeting, Tory moved to have the internal report made public – or as much as could be released given the ongoing investigation and legal proceedings. The board and Saunders agreed to hear public input on the report.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, Handling of missing persons cases
Wells's family claimed Toronto police officers told them that her case "was not high priority" because she was homeless for several years. Her disappearance was reported by her father in early November 2017, four months after her Facebook account went dormant. Her body had been found on August 5, but was badly decomposed and was not identified until November 23.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, Handling of missing persons cases
The person who found Wells's body informed both police and The 519 community centre, but 519 staff failed to follow up with police or transgender-focused organizations. Wells's friends say that this resulted in her body being unidentified for months. In mid-December, 519 executives apologized for their "mishandling of information" but placed full blame on the police. A petition started that month called for the resignation of the 519's executive director, alleging prejudice against transgender and homeless people. The 519 board called for an independent fact-finding review of the allegations.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, Handling of missing persons cases
Tory has been supportive of police while acknowledging legitimate questions about the investigation that would be answered in due course. Councillor Kristyn Wong-Tam, whose ward includes Church and Wellesley, supported police at the time of McArthur's arrest when she expressed gratitude and noted that it was a complicated case. But by the end of February she said that the police relationship with the community had to be rebuilt and in early March that she was "no longer surprised" by "incompetence" in the investigation. At McArthur's sentencing in 2019, Justice McMahon praised TPS for their investigation.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, Handling of missing persons cases
Pride Toronto had been in closed-door talks about the TPS returning to the parade after controversially being banned in 2017. Progress was made but criticisms following McArthur's arrest led to an April 2 statement by Pride's executive director and five LGBT organizations asking the TPS to withdraw its application to march in uniform. The statement cited community feelings that investigations were "insufficient" and that concerns were "dismissed". Saunders had hoped that participation would demonstrate a "shared commitment to progress and healing", and considered the many TPS members who identify as LGBTQ and wished to march in the event built on inclusiveness.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, Handling of missing persons cases
In a March 9 statement, Saunders said that he understood the public's frustrations with the limited information that had been released during the investigation. He announced finalized plans for a dedicated missing persons unit, community outreach, and a professional standards review of the Richey and Wells cases. He also stated that he believed there were serious issues of systemic bias which required an independent external review, and that he had been working with other officials on how to hold such a review without affecting investigations and prosecutions.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, Handling of missing persons cases
The missing persons unit, staffed by six police detectives and an analyst, began work in July 2018. They have been tasked with digitizing and reviewing thousands of missing persons files dating to 1953, and to act as a central hub to review each active missing persons case. Their protocols are intended to flag suspicious disappearances in the early hours of an investigation and detect if broader investigations are warranted. Investigations will continue to be run by officers in each of the 17 divisions.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, Handling of missing persons cases
The Missing Persons Act would make it easier for police to obtain judicial orders for access to phone records or financial information in a missing persons case. Previously police could only obtain such records if a crime was suspected. The Act was passed in March 2018 by the Ontario Liberal government as part of Bill 175, but as of October 2018 it has been stalled by the new government of Premier Doug Ford with no timeline for bringing it into effect.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, External review
In January 2018, the Alliance for South Asian AIDS Prevention (ASAAP) demanded that the TPSB commission an external review of the investigation. In late February Saunders came to the conclusion that the public could not get clear and credible answers without an independent external review, and suggested as much to Tory and Andy Pringle, chair of the TPSB. He further suggested that the review consider systemic bias in the force. Tory's March 7 call for a public provincial inquiry was reviewed by Ontario's attorney general, who cautiously suggested that it wait until after criminal proceedings.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, External review
In mid-March, a group of LGBTQ advocates demanded an immediate inquiry. Legal experts suggested that criminal investigations and prosecutions be protected by a publication ban on witness testimony, or by preserving records and taking witness statements under seal until the trials were over. Protocol for an external review was debated on March 22 by the TPSB, which voted to back an external review that would exclude the McArthur serial murder investigation.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, External review
In mid-April, the board unanimously approved a working group to define the specifics of the external review. The group consisted of TPSB member Ken Jeffers, ASAAP board member Shakir Rahim, sex-worker advocate Monica Forrester and lawyer Sara Mainville who specializes in cases involving indigenous peoples. The TPSB named Breese Davies, vice-president of the Criminal Lawyers' Association, in a facilitator role. The TPSB had to request $25,000 from the city's budget committee for the working group and its legal consultation fees.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, External review
The working group reported on June 15 that the missing-persons investigations of McArthur's alleged victims could be examined up to the point at which the investigations involved McArthur. They estimated that the inquiry would take 15 months and cost $2.5 million. Tory was adamant that the community be adequately consulted and increased this figure to $3 million, which would go before city council.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, External review
The review is to examine TPS handling of missing-persons reports, biases within the service, and any obstacles that prevented Lisowick and Kanagaratnam from being reported missing. Specific investigations to be examined will include Project Houston, Project Prism, and the investigations into missing persons Alloura Wells and Tess Richey. Past reviews are also to be examined including the review into the 1981 bathhouse raids, the city auditor's report following the Balcony Rapist investigation, and the Missing Women Commission of Inquiry following Vancouver police's Robert Pickton case.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, External review
On June 25, on the recommendation of the working group, the TPSB announced that it had retained Justice Gloria Epstein, who would retire as a part-time Ontario Appeal Court judge on September 1 to lead the review. Epstein had been appointed to the Ontario Superior Court of Justice in 1993 and made a prominent ruling that the Ontario Family Law Act definition of spouse was unconstitutional because it discriminated against homosexual couples. Epstein asked Mark Sandler to serve as the review's legal counsel.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, External review
In October, the review was compiling documents and establishing an advisory panel to aid "extensive outreach to the community." The advisory panel was named in January 2019, and included Forrester, ASAAP executive director Haran Vijayanathan, activist Ron Rosenes, Indigenous lawyer Christa Big Canoe, former Ontario Court of Justice chief Brian Lennox, former member of the Gay Officers Action League Michele Lent, workplace human rights lawyer Andrew Pinto, and Parkdale Queen West Community Health Centre executive director Angela Robertson.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, External review
When McArthur pleaded guilty to eight murders on January 29, 2019, it removed concerns regarding his fair trial rights. Epstein wrote a letter to the TPSB requesting a mandate to fully examine the investigation and perform a more thorough review. Pringle was taking it under advisement, while consulting with the Ontario Attorney-General; a public inquiry can only be ordered by the provincial government. The same day, Tory spoke in favour of a "broader inquiry". A spokesperson for the Ministry of the Attorney General declined to comment as the matter was still before the courts. Civil litigation lawyer Douglas Elliott suggested that rather than conducting separate investigations, that Epstein be named to lead a public inquiry with a provincial mandate and subpoena powers.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, Media use of photos
The media have drawn criticism for the imbalance in images of McArthur and his alleged victims. One widely published picture is of McArthur smiling at the camera as he posed at Niagara Falls. Lisowick, in comparison, was mostly known by a police mug shot. TPS spokesman Mark Pugash explained that they only release pictures if there is a "valid investigative purpose".


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, Media use of photos
Media outlets with tight deadlines obtain photos from the Internet, and copied pictures from McArthur's Facebook page and online dating profiles within minutes of his arrest. Flattering pictures that he had used to define himself thus became his image in the media. The slain men who had Facebook accounts posted fewer pictures and Lisowick, a homeless man, had no digital footprint; so the first available picture was a police-released mug shot.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, Media use of photos
Editor Kathy English said that the Toronto Star would continue to publish Facebook photos of McArthur as a journalistic duty to report reality. Editor Sylvia Stead of The Globe and Mail stated that "true news photos" should be recent, like courtroom sketches, and that the balance should be in favour of the victims.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, Media use of photos
Nikki Ward, a director of the Church-Wellesley Neighbourhood Association and graphic artist, obtained a photograph of Lisowick at a vigil which she cleaned up and shared with media outlets so that his mug shot would not have to be used.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, Media use of photos
Another controversial photo was that of a dead man which police released in hopes that the public could help identify him. The Toronto Star chose not to publish the photo because of its disturbing nature. A version cleaned up by Ward to better represent the man in life and a sketch by a TPS forensic artist were released at an April 11 news conference.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, #LoveWins
A free concert called #LoveWins was initiated by Kristyn Wong-Tam, the only openly LGBTQ member of city council. In production since December 2017, the event went public on March 7 through a news release and Facebook page, described as "part vigil, part celebration". The proposed March 29 event drew criticisms, from logos of corporate sponsors to holding a celebration when the unnamed dead were still in forensic laboratories. The event was chaired by Salah Bachir, president of Cineplex Media, who identified as a "queer Arab man" and was both sad and angry about the crimes, having known some of the victims personally while his sister was a landscaping client of McArthur's.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, #LoveWins
Sara Malabar, who produced the opening and closing events for 2014 World Pride, started a Facebook page titled "Stop Love Wins Concert" and threatened to organize a protest if it was not cancelled. Another critic noted that events are pressured to go mainstream when attracting corporate sponsors, and overlook the needs of the community that they are meant to address. It was also noted that marginalized communities could make better use of the resources than by throwing a party.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Controversies, #LoveWins
On March 10, Wong-Tam's website announced that the event would be postponed to address concerns, admitting that the event had sparked unnecessary division at a historic moment for the community. Malabar offered to help in creating a more appropriate event, with more LGBTQ performers.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Media coverage
The investigation, and its possible link to the still-unsolved 1970s murders, were the subject of Bob McKeown's television documentary "Murder in the Village", which aired in April 2018 as an episode of CBC Television's The Fifth Estate. Researcher Leslie Morrison won the Canadian Screen Award for Best Visual Research at the 7th Canadian Screen Awards.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Media coverage
In 2019, Justin Ling delved into the murders in Uncover: The Village, the third season of the CBC investigative journalism podcast Uncover. In August 2019, the CBC announced that Uncover: The Village was in development as the basis for a documentary television series.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Media coverage
Also in 2019, the CBC aired Michael Del Monte's documentary film Village of the Missing as an episode of its documentary series CBC Docs POV. The film was nominated for the Donald Brittain Award at the 8th Canadian Screen Awards.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Media coverage
In 2020, the CBC docudrama The Detectives explored the TPS investigation in two episodes, the first covering Project Houston and the second Project Prism. Canadian actor Dave Rose portrayed Bruce McArthur. In the same year Ling published the book Missing from the Village: The Story of Serial Killer Bruce McArthur, the Search for Justice, and the System That Failed Toronto’s Queer Community.


2010–2017 Toronto serial homicides, Media coverage
In 2021, Swedish radio station P3 aired the documentary series Verkligheten i P3 and the episode "På barrunda med en seriemördare", where Swedish gay man "Anders" told the story of how he had met McArthur in a Toronto bar in 2009, and gone on a drinking spree with him. He reports leaving McArthur after feeling increasingly uncomfortable in his company. It was only in 2019 that Anders made the connection between the convicted killer McArthur and the man called Bruce that he had met in Toronto.


2011
2011 (MMXI) was a common year starting on Saturday of the Gregorian calendar, the 2011th year of the Common Era (CE) and Anno Domini (AD) designations, the 11th  year of the 3rd millennium, the 11th  year of the 21st century, and the  2nd   year of the 2010s decade.


2011
A series of protests and government overthrows, known as the Arab Spring, swept through the Middle East in 2011.


2011
In 2011, the nation of Samoa only had 364 days as it moved across the International Date Line skipping 30 December 2011; it is now 24 hours (25 hours in southern hemisphere summer) ahead of American Samoa.


2011 (album)
2011 is the eleventh studio album by American rock band The Smithereens, released on April 5, 2011 by eOne Music.


2011 (album)
It is the first album of all-new material since 1999's God Save The Smithereens, followed by an eight-year recording break and the release of four cover albums between 2007 and 2009. The album cover was inspired by the cover for the band's 1989 album 11. The album's first single was "Sorry", followed by "One Look at You".


2011 (album), Background
The Smithereens released four cover albums between 2007 and 2009: two devoted to Beatles songs, one Christmas album, and a treatment of The Who's Tommy. "Our record company E1 liked the idea of us doing cover records so they kept giving us budgets to do them", drummer Dennis Diken explained. But what the band really wanted to do was to record a new studio album of original material, according to lead singer Pat DiNizio.


2011 (album), Background
"The label, though, figured there was a built in market for tribute albums", he said, "and they’re not wrong about that, so I came up with the idea that, since the 40th anniversary of Tommy was coming up in 2009, we should say something – let’s have the Smithereens cover Tommy. The record label went nuts over it, green lighted it immediately."


2011 (album), Background
Not all band members, though, were all on board for yet another cover album, so when DiNizio delivered the bad news to E1 "they asked what “will it take for you to do Tommy?”  And I said, “If you finance and release a brand new Smithereens original album we’ll do it,” and they (to my amazement) went for it. We gave them Tommy, and we created Smithereens 2011".


2011 (album), Background
The band demoed songs and ideas at a rehearsal studio in New York City. "Pat came in armed with a briefcase filled with his four track cassette machine, and a stack of cassettes", Diken said. "We went to town. Laid down some grooves. We wrote some separately and together". The band reunited with producer Don Dixon, who had produced three of their earlier albums - it had been 16 years since they last worked together on the 1994 album, A Date with The Smithereens.


2011 (album), Background
"We worked like we did on the first records", Diken said, "We knew we only had a certain number of days to cut tracks, because the studio was only available to us for a finite amount of time. But we’ve always liked to work quickly. I think it brings out the best in us". The basic tracks were recorded at engineer Mitch Easter's Fidelitorium studio in North Carolina in October 2010 and the overdubs in Pat DiNizio's living room in New Jersey between December 2010 and January 2011. Guitarist Jim Babjak: "I would come in at night and play through an amp simulator that Don Dixon had made himself. Pat's mom was sleeping in the next room, so I only heard myself through headphones". Mixing and mastering was completed in February 2011.


2011 (album), Background
The album title, 2011, is a nod to longtime followers of the band: referring to the 1989 album 11, and at the same time grounding the album in the present moment, according to  music journalist Tris McCall, writing for NJ.com. "The "11" in "2011" is even printed with the same big, bold red numerals that decorated the front of [11]", McCall wrote.


2011 (album), Critical reception
Allmusic's Mark Deming gave it 4 stars out of 5, calling it "a return to form", and with Don Dixon having produced the band's "two best albums", 1986's Especially for You and 1988's Green Thoughts, Deming stated that "the sound of the album recalls the dramatic guitar-powered pop of the Smithereens' glory days". Though most of the songs, according to Deming, "don't come off as classics like "Only a Memory" or "Blood and Roses"," the band "haven't forgotten how to come up with a song that's hooky and atmospheric at the same time". John Borack of  Goldmine magazine rated the album 4 stars out of 5, calling it "a refreshing, wholly satisfying blast of classic Smithereens songcraft and melodicism" that sounded like a return to The Smithereens’ best albums of the 1980s.


2011 (album), Critical reception
Hal Horowitz, writing for American Songwriter, gave the album 3½ out of 5 stars, calling it "a true return to form". He felt that the songs are "timeless", some are "powerful and memorable", and others have "sing-along choruses [that] stick in your brain after the first spin". Horowitz added: "If this album appeared in the late ’80s, it would have been hailed as one of the band’s finest efforts. In 2011 it’s merely the comeback of the year". In a less enthusiastic review, Will Hermes of Rolling Stone rated the album 3 stars out of 5, saying that the band "still crunch harder than most of the power-pop acts they get filed alongside", but felt that the songs were not memorable.


2011 1. deild karla
The 2011 season of 1. deild karla was the 57th season of second-tier football in Iceland.


2011 1. deild karla, Results
Each team play every opponent once home and away for a total of 22 matches.


2011 1. deild karla, Statistics, Top goalscorers
The top scorers from the 2011 1. deild karla are as follows:


2011 1. divisjon (women)
The 2011 1. divisjon (women) season kicked off on 25 April 2011, and the final round was played on 23 October 2011.


2011 1. divisjon (women)
Vålerenga were promoted to the 2011 Toppserien as 1. divisjon winners, along with Fart who finished second. This was the first time Vålerenga were playing in Toppserien, while Fart returned to the top division for the first time since 2008.


2011 1. divisjon (women)
Before the season started, Orkla withdrew their team, and was replaced by Alta. Manglerud Star were bankrupted 4 April 2011, and didn't play any matches.


2011 1000 Guineas
The 2011 1000 Guineas Stakes was a horse race held at Newmarket Racecourse on Sunday 1 May 2011. It was the 198th running of the 1000 Guineas.


2011 1000 Guineas
The winner was Godolphin's Blue Bunting, a three-year-old dark grey filly trained at Newmarket, Suffolk by Mahmood Al Zarooni and ridden by Frankie Dettori. Blue Bunting's victory was the first in the race for Al Zarooni. Godolphin and Dettori had previously won the race with Cape Verdi in 1998 and Kazzia in 2002.


2011 1000 Guineas, The contenders
The race attracted a field of eighteen runners, twelve trained in the United Kingdom, four in Ireland and two in France. The favourite was the French challenger Moonlight Cloud, the winner of the Prix Imprudence at Maisons-Laffitte on her most recent start. Ireland was represented by the Aidan O'Brien-trained Misty for Me the European Champion Two-Year-Old Filly of 2010 whose wins included the Moyglare Stud Stakes and Prix Marcel Boussac and who was accompanied by her stable companions Together (Silver Flash Stakes) and Empowering (Leopardstown 1,000 Guineas Trial Stakes).


2011 1000 Guineas, The contenders
The other Irish runner was Laughing Lashes, who had beaten Misty for Me in the Debutante Stakes in August 2010. The best of the British-trained contenders appeared to be Memory (Albany Stakes, Cherry Hinton Stakes), Havant (Oh So Sharp Stakes), Hooray (Cheveley Park Stakes) and Cape Dollar (Rockfel Stakes). Moonlight Cloud headed the betting at odds of 9/2 ahead of Memory (6/1), Havant (13/2) with Hooray and Misty for Me at 9/1. Blue Bunting, who was running in her first Group race, and was considered a middle-distance prospect rather than a miler, started a 16/1 outsider.


2011 1000 Guineas, The race
The start of the race was slightly delayed by the French filly Immortal Verse (later to win the Coronation Stakes and the Prix Jacques le Marois) who refused to enter the starting stalls and was withdrawn without coming under starter's orders. Hooray took the early lead and set the pace from the 50/1 outsider Elshabakiya, with Laughing Lashes, Empowering and Misty for Me close behind. Memory effectively refused to race and was tailed-off soon after the start.


2011 1000 Guineas, The race
The complexion of the race changed abruptly three furlong from the finish as the early leaders weakened and several fillies who had been restrained in the early stages made rapid progress. Moonlight Cloud briefly took the advantage with a quarter mile left to run but was quickly overtaken by Together and Maqaasid who raced down the centre of the track, whilst Nova Hawk moved forward and Blue Bunting began to make rapid progress on the stand-side rail.


2011 1000 Guineas, The race
Together led until well inside the final furlong when she was overtaken by Blue Bunting who won by three quarters of a length, with Maqaasid a length and a quarter back in third ahead of Nova Hawk. Of the other fancied runners, Havant finished sixth, Moonlight Cloud seventh, Hooray eighth, Misty for Me eleventh and Memory eighteenth and last.


2011 1000 km of Spa
The 2011 1000 km of Spa-Francorchamps was held at Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps on May 7, 2011. It was the second round of the 2011 Le Mans Series season and the 2011 Intercontinental Le Mans Cup. Prior to the race weekend there were up to 60 provisional entries but was shortened to 54 as there were some withdrawals from Aston Martin Racing who withdrew to continue developing their new and struggling AMR-One. It was a similar situation for Hope Racing who were not quite ready to race the new KERS-driven Oreca 01 Hybrid. Other cars had to withdraw from damage prior to the weekend including the No. 24 OAK Racing Pescarolo 01 LMP1 car.


2011 1000 km of Spa
In the second free practice session of the race, the No. 13 Rebellion Racing Lola-Toyota driven by Jean-Christophe Boullion crashed heavily at Radillon corner. Then shortly after the green flag was waved to restart, the No. 8 Peugeot of Pedro Lamy and No. 36 RML Honda of Mike Newton collided with each other. Both Peugeot and Rebellion mechanics had to deal with a late night with the RML car too heavily damaged to take further part in the race weekend.


2011 1000 km of Spa, Qualifying
The qualifying session was stopped early when another heavy impact during the weekend halted proceedings. It was the remaining LMP1 car of OAK Racing that fell victim to the famous Spa-Francorchamps track. Matthieu Lahaye crashed heavily into a barrier resulting in much débris being put on the track. The session was red flagged and not restarted. This was bad news for Peugeot who decided to released their cars later on in the session but the red flags meant the two car only set one flying laps each. This resulted in the two cars No. 7 and 9 starting in 13th and 18th overall respectively, with the No. 8 Peugeot starting at the back of the grid for not participating in the qualifying session as it was still being repaired from the practice crash.


2011 1000 km of Spa, Qualifying
The No. 1 Audi driven by Timo Bernhard took pole position with No. 2 and 3 qualifying second and third respectively. Strakka Racing took LMP2 pole only marginally ahead of TDS Racing. In the FLM class, Phil Keen of Neil Garner Motorsport took pole for their car. The No. 71 AF Corse Ferrari starts first in the GTE Pro class while the No. 67 IMSA Matmut Porsche took pole in GTE Am.


2011 1000 km of Spa, Qualifying, Qualifying Result
Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.


2011 1000 km of Spa, Race result
Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).


2011 12 Hours of Sebring
The 59th Mobil 1 12 Hours of Sebring presented by Fresh from Florida was held at Sebring International Raceway on March 19, 2011. It was the opening round of the 2011 American Le Mans Series season and the 2011 Intercontinental Le Mans Cup.


2011 12 Hours of Sebring, Qualifying, Qualifying Result
Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.


2011 12 Hours of Sebring, Race, Race result
Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).


2011 12U Baseball World Championship
The 2011 12U Baseball World Championship was an under-12 international baseball tournament held from July 8 to July 17, 2011 in Taipei City, Taiwan. It was the first 12U Baseball World Championship ever and was won by the host, Chinese Taipei.


2011 12U Baseball World Championship, Teams
Fourteen teams accepted the invitation for the tournament. Originally, Zimbabwe would appear in Group B, but the team withdrew from the tournament on the opening day.


2011 12U Baseball World Championship, Teams
Chinese Taipei is the official IBAF designation for the team representing the state officially referred to as the Republic of China, more commonly known as Taiwan. (See also political status of Taiwan for details.)


2011 2. deild karla
The 2011 2. deild karla was the third tier of Icelandic football in the 2011 season.


2011 2. divisjon
The 2011 2. divisjon consists of 56 teams divided into 4 groups. Follo, Tromsdalen and Moss were relegated from the 2010 Norwegian First Division. Lillehammer avoided relegation to the 3. divisjon due to the bankruptcy of Lyn.


2011 2000 Guineas Stakes
The 2011 2000 Guineas Stakes was the 203rd running of the 2000 Guineas Stakes horse race. It was run over one mile at Newmarket Racecourse on 30 April 2011.


2011 2000 Guineas Stakes
This race was the sixth of Frankel's unbeaten 14 race winning streak, his second win as a 3-year-old and his second Group 1 victory, following his victory in the Dewhurst Stakes at the same racecourse in 2010.


2011 2000 Guineas Stakes
Rerouted was entered into the race primarily to act as a pacemaker to the highly promising Frankel, however with Frankel being drawn in stall number one and Rerouted in stall number thirteen, the opposite side of the Rowley Mile racecourse at Newmarket, the pacemaking job was almost rendered obsolete.


2011 2000 Guineas Stakes
Such was Frankel's pace that he drew clear from the field from the off, pacemaker and all. Where some may have considered it a risk for jockey Tom Queally to allow Frankel to set its own pace, it became clear that Frankel was a very special horse on this day as he quickly established an insurmountable lead and won the race in one of the most dominant displays in any British classic.


2011 2000 Guineas Stakes, Full result
* The distances between the horses are shown in lengths


2011 2000 Guineas Stakes, Form analysis, Two-year-old races
Notable runs by the future 2000 Guineas participants as two-year-olds in 2010:


2011 2000 Guineas Stakes, Form analysis, The road to Newmarket
Early-season appearances in 2011, prior to running in the 2000 Guineas:


2011 24 Hours of Daytona
The 2011 Rolex 24 at Daytona ran on Saturday and Sunday January 29–30, 2011 at the Daytona International Speedway was the 49th running of the 24 Hours of Daytona endurance race. The first race of the 2011 Rolex Sports Car Series season, it was broadcast on Speed Channel, with fourteen hours of live coverage, in addition to a considerable attendance.


2011 24 Hours of Daytona, Qualifying
Pole position for the race was won by Jörg Bergmeister of Germany, driving the #45 Daytona Prototype of Flying Lizard Motorsports, a Riley Technologies chassis powered by a Porsche engine, with a lap time of 1 minute 40.099 seconds. Pole for the Grand Touring category was won by Dominik Farnbacher in the #66 The Racer's Group Porsche 911, with a lap time of 1 minute 48.781 seconds.


2011 24 Hours of Daytona, Results
Winning the race overall was the Daytona Prototype team of Chip Ganassi Racing, with drivers Scott Pruett, Memo Rojas, Graham Rahal, and Joey Hand driving the #01 Riley & Scott-BMW defeating Chip Ganassi Racing's second team, consisting of IndyCar drivers Scott Dixon and Dario Franchitti, and Sprint Cup teammates Jamie McMurray and Juan Pablo Montoya in the #02 Riley & Scott-BMW by just over two seconds in a one-lap sprint following a late caution flag.


2011 24 Hours of Daytona, Results
The win was Pruett's fourth overall victory in the 24 Hours of Daytona, and the fourth of four major auto racing wins by Ganassi in the last year, following victories in the 2010 Daytona 500, 2010 Indianapolis 500 and 2010 Brickyard 400; co-driver Rahal's victory came 30 years after his father, Bobby Rahal, won the race in 1981.


2011 24 Hours of Daytona, Results
The GT division victory was claimed by The Racer's Group, the #67 Porsche 911 GT3 Cup driven by Andy Lally, Spencer Pumpelly, Brendan Gaughan, Wolf Henzler, and Steven Bertheau winning by a margin of one lap.


2011 24 Hours of Daytona, Results
Patrick Dempsey, a television actor, placed third in the GT category in the #40 Mazda RX-8.


2011 24 Hours of Daytona, Results
Although there were no serious accidents during the race, dense fog in the early morning hours resulted in a caution period lasting nearly three hours.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans
The 79th 24 Hours of Le Mans (French: 79e 24 Heures du Mans) was an 24-hour automobile endurance race for Le Mans Prototype (LMP) and Le Mans Grand Touring Endurance (LMGTE) cars held from 11 to 12 June 2011 at the Circuit de la Sarthe, near Le Mans, France, before 249,500 spectators. It was the third round of the 2011 Intercontinental Le Mans Cup, and the 79th edition of the event as organised by the automotive group, the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) since 1923. A test day was held six weeks prior on 24 April.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans
An Audi R18 TDI driven by Marcel Fässler, André Lotterer and Benoît Tréluyer started from pole position after Tréluyer set the fastest lap in the third qualifying session. The car battled with a trio of Peugeot 908s after the sister teams of Timo Bernhard, Romain Dumas and Mike Rockenfeller and driven by Rinaldo Capello, Tom Kristensen and Allan McNish respectively retired because of separate crashes within the first eight hours of the event and secured the first Le Mans victories for Fässler, Lotterer and Tréluyer and Audi's tenth.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans
The Peugeot 908 shared by Sébastien Bourdais, Pedro Lamy and Simon Pagenaud finished 13.854 seconds later in second in the fourth-closest result in the history of the race and their Peugeot teammates Nicolas Minassian, Franck Montagny and Stéphane Sarrazin completed the overall podium two laps behind the race-winning vehicle in third.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans
The Greaves Motorsport team of Tom Kimber-Smith, Olivier Lombard and Karim Ojjeh who shared a Zytek Z11SN-Nissan car won the Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2) category after leading the final 137 laps of the race. The trio finished six laps ahead of Signatech Nissan's Oreca 03 vehicle of Soheil Ayari, Franck Mailleux and Lucas Ordóñez and seven in front of Level 5 Motorsports' Lola B08/80 car of João Barbosa, Christophe Bouchut and Scott Tucker.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans
Corvette Racing took their seventh class win courtesy of drivers Olivier Beretta, Antonio García and Tommy Milner finishing first in a Chevrolet Corvette C6.R in the new Le Mans Grand Touring Professional (LMGTE Pro) category. An AF Corse-fielded Ferrari 458 Italia GT2 of Gianmaria Bruni, Giancarlo Fisichella and Toni Vilander and BMW Motorsport's BMW M3 GT2 of Joey Hand, Dirk Müller and Andy Priaulx finished the class podium in second and third respectively. Larbre Compétition took the first two positions in the new Le Mans Grand Touring Endurance Amateur (LMGTE Am) class with their Chevrolet Corvette C6.R of Patrick Bornhauser, Julien Canal and Gabriele Gardel ahead of the sister Porsche 997 GT3-RSR of Jean-Philippe Belloc, Christophe Bourret and Pascal Gibon.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans
Audi's victory moved them closer to Peugeot in the LMP1 Manufacturers' Cup and Corvette's class victory promoted it past BMW and Ferrari for the LMGTE Manufacturers' Cup lead. The LMP1 Teams' Cup lead was assumed by Audi Sport Team Joest from Peugeot Sport Total and Larbre overtook Proton Competition for the LMGTE Am Teams' Cup lead. Signatech and AF Corse maintained their advantage in the LMP2 and LMGTE Pro Teams' Cups respectively with four rounds remaining in the season.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Background
The automotive journalist Charles Faroux conceived the 24 Hours of Le Mans to Georges Durand, the president of the automotive group, the Automobile Club de l'Ouest (ACO) and the industrialist Emile Coquile for car manufacturers to test race vehicle reliability and fuel efficiency. It is considered one of the world's most prestigious motor races and is part of the Triple Crown of Motorsport. The dates for the 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans were confirmed by the ACO on 7 October 2010. It was the 79th edition of the event, and the third of the seven automobile endurance races of the 2011 Intercontinental Le Mans Cup. The race was held at the 13.629 km (8.469 mi) Circuit de la Sarthe, close to Le Mans, France, from 11 to 12 June 2011.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Background
After winning the 1000 km of Spa six weeks earlier, Peugeot led the LMP1 Manufacturers' Cup with 55 points, 17 ahead of Audi in second. BMW led the LMGTE Manufacturers Cup with 49 points, 11 points ahead of Ferrari in second and a further 14 ahead of Corvette in third. Peugeot Sport led the LMP1 Teams' Cup with 27 points; Audi Sport Team Joest, Team Oreca and Rebellion Racing followed with a respective 19, 18 and 12 points respectively. Signatech Nissan led the LMP2 Teams' Cup with 22 points and OAK Racing followed in second with four less points. AF Corse led the LMGTE Pro Teams' Cup with 27 points, followed by BMW Motorsport with 26 points. Proton Competition led the LMGTE Am standings with 24 points over second-placed Krohn Racing with 21 points.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Regulation changes
The ACO authored the 2011 regulations to respect environmental and sustainable development in developing new technologies and lowering carbon emissions and fuel consumption. Le Mans Prototype (LMP) cars could now be fitted with four-wheel or kinetic energy recovery system hybrid powertrains either by braking or exhaust or heat generated by the engine and/or suspension dampers. Each hybrid system was limited to 500 kW (670 hp) between braking zones and driver aids such as push-to-pass prohibited. Engine sizes for both turbocharged and diesel engines were reduced and the ACO lowered fuel capacity for both petrol and diesel vehicles. All prototype cars had to weigh 900 kg (2,000 lb) and were installed with vertical fins atop the engine cover to reduce lift tendency.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Regulation changes
The second-tier Le Mans Prototype 2 (LMP2) category was overhauled to try and keep costs low and affordable for privateer entries. All cars had to be fitted with a budget-capped production series engine with an engine life increasing incrementally from 30 hours to 50 hours over the following three years. 2010 LMP2 cars could be entered until 2013 but had to be 20 kg (44 lb) heavier than 2011 vehicles with no bodywork modifications permitted and their performance limited to be slower than the current specification cars. At least one Silver or Bronze rated driver had to be signed by each LMP2 team.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Regulation changes
The ACO dropped the LM GT1 category and created a single set of regulations based on 2009 LMGT2 rules for the GT Endurance category divided into two separate classes: LM GTE Pro and the LM GTE Am. This was done to avoid multiple calendar clashes with several racing series and because there were few entrants in the class away from the Le Mans race as well as the category being exclusively for short-distance sprint events. The LM GTE Pro category featured new cars able to be used by any driver while the LM GTE Am class was restricted to one-year old vehicles featuring a minimum of two drivers per team holding either a Fédération Internationale de l'Automobile (FIA) silver or bronze licence.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries
The ACO received 71 applications by the deadline for entries on 19 January 2011. It granted 56 invitations to the race and entries were divided between the LMP1, LMP2, LMGTE Pro and LMGTE Am categories. A total of 40 per cent of the applications were for entry to the LMGTE Am class.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries, Automatic entries
Automatic entries were earned by teams which won their class in the 2010 24 Hours of Le Mans, or who won Le Mans-based series and events such as the Intercontinental Le Mans Cup (ILMC), the American Le Mans Series (ALMS), Le Mans Series (LMS) and the Petit Le Mans. Some second-place finishers from the 2010 24 Hours of Le Mans and the 2010 LMS were also granted automatic entries. Entries were also granted for the winners of the LMS Green X Challenge.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries, Automatic entries
As automatic entries were granted to teams, teams were allowed to change their cars from the previous year to the next, but not their category. Automatic invitations in the two GTE categories could be swapped between the two based on the driver line-ups chosen by those teams. As the ALMS did not separate between the Pro and Am categories, only a single GTE invitation was granted for their class champion.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries, Automatic entries
On 3 December 2010, the ACO announced the list of automatic entries.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries, Entry list and reserves
In conjunction with the announcement of entries for the 2011 ILMC, the ACO announced the full 56-car entry list and 10-vehicle reserve list at a press conference in the headquarters of Radio France in Paris on the afternoon of 9 February. In addition to the 26 full-season entries from the ILMC, the field was composed of entries from the ALMS and the LMS series along with one-off entries only competing at Le Mans.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries, Entry list and reserves
A total of ten reserves were initially nominated by the ACO, two from the LMP1 category, three from the LMP2 class and the remaining five in both of the LMGTE classes. Withdrawals following the 1st February were replaced class-by-class, an LMGTE entry would be replaced by another car from that category and an LMP vehicle would fill the spot vacated by a withdrawn car from the two LMP categories.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries, Entry list and reserves
Signatech Nissan withdrew its the second vehicle, the No. 27 Oreca 03-Nissan, from the entry list on 12 April, promoting the No. 44 Extrême Limite AM Paris Norma MP200P-Judd BMW car to the race  as a result and the Kronos Racing Lola-Aston Martin entry moved to first in the reserve list. The Pegasus Racing and Rangoni Motorsport entries were subsequently removed from the reserve list.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Entries, Entry list and reserves
On 16 May, the Highcroft Racing team withdrew its LMP1 ARX-01e-Honda car, citing a lack of financial support as the cause, while at the same time announcing the end of their partnership with Honda and HPD due to the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami. The Kronos Racing Lola-Aston Martin was promoted to the entry list. Two reserves remained on the list by the time of the event's start: the No. 69 Robertson Racing Ford GT-R-Doran and the No. 86 Young Driver AMR Vantage.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Testing and practice
For the 2011 race, the test session was reintroduced to Le Mans for the first time since 2008 to allow manufacturers and teams to develop new technologies on their cars. The test day took place over two four-hour sessions on 24 April, seven weeks before the race. There were 54 cars from the race entry and reserves list involved during testing, including three Formula Le Mans-class Oreca-FLM09s from Hope Racing, Genoa Racing and JMB Racing. The United States-based Flying Lizard Motorsports, Highcroft Racing and Krohn teams did not participate in the test due to cost and logistical reasons, as well as the European-based JMW Motorsport, Prospeed Competition, Quifel-ASM Team and Strakka Racing squads.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Testing and practice
Romain Dumas set the fastest time in the first session with a 3 minutes, 27.900 seconds lap in the No. 3 Audi R18 TDI, but his teammate Tom Kristensen in the sister No. 3 Audi improved to a 3 minutes, 27.687 seconds in the second session. Mike Rockenfeller followed two-tenths of a seconds behind in second, while the fastest Peugeot 908 car was the No. 8 of Stéphane Sarrazin in third. The No. 2 Audi of André Lotterer was fourth, with Sébastien Bourdais's No. 7


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Testing and practice
Peugeot fifth, and the No. 10 Team Oreca Matmut Peugeot 908 HDi FAP was sixth after a lap from Loïc Duval. The fastest non-diesel LMP1 car was Emmanuel Collard's eighth-placed No. 16 Pescarolo entry. Oreca-Nissans led the LMP2 class with the fastest time set by Franck Mailleux for Signatech with a 3 minutes, 42.992 seconds lap from the No. 48 Team Oreca Matmut car of Alexandre Prémat and Alex Brundle's No. 41 Greaves Motorsport entry.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Testing and practice
Allan Simonsen in the No. 89 Hankook Team Farnbacher Ferrari 458 Italia was the only driver to go below the 4-minute mark in the LMGTE Pro category with a 3 minutes, 59.966 seconds lap to top the class. Tommy Milner helped Larbre Compétition's Chevrolet Corvette C6.R to lead in LMGTE Am with a 4 minutes, 4.222 seconds lap. Separate incidents involving Dominik Kraihamer at Arnage corner, Andrea Belicchi on the Mulsanne Straight with a fractured right-rear toe link, Guy Smith in the gravel trap at the PlayStation chicane due to a broken front toe link led to disruptions during practice.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Testing and practice
Official practice was held on 8 June with the full 56-car field on track for four hours. Audi and Peugeot drivers shared the fastest lap until the quickest overall time was a 3 minutes, 27.986 seconds lap set by Rockenfeller in the No. 1 Audi, three-tenths of a second ahead of Lotterer's No. 2 entry. Bourdais was the highest-placed Peugeot driver in third followed by Alexander Wurz's No. 7 vehicle and Allan McNish's No. 3 Audi. Jonny Kane's No. 42 Strakka HPD


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Testing and practice
ARX-01d led LMP2 with a 3 minutes, 42.863 seconds lap from Prémat's No. 48 Oreca Matumt entry and Signatech's Soheil Ayari. The LMGTE Pro class was topped by the No. 55 BMW M3 GT2 with the sister No. 56 vehicle of Andy Priaulx second and the fastest non-BMW car was Jan Magnussen's third-placed No. 74 Corvette despite a dislodged power steering hose. Fabien Giroix in Gulf AMR Middle East's No. 61 Aston Martin Vantage GT2 lapped fastest in LMGTE Am from Flying Lizard's No. 81 Porsche 997 GT3-RSR of Darren Law.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Testing and practice
The No. 76 IMSA Performance Matmut Porsche of Raymond Narac struck the tyre wall in the Porsche Curves' first part and stopped in the gravel trap and severely damaged the car, stopping practice for eighteen minutes. Roger Wills aboard CRS Racing's No. 62 Ferrari F430 GT2 struck the barrier exiting the Porsche Curves and damaged its front-left suspension and radiator just before the session's mid-point.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Qualifying
The first of three two-hour qualifying sessions began late 8 June night under dry and cool conditions. Audi led from the start with a flying lap from McNish followed by Rockenfeller and then Lotterer leading overall. Sarrazin's 3 minutes, 27.033 seconds lap set with half an hour remaining claimed provisional pole position in the No. 8 Peugeot which it held to the session's conclusion. The trio of Audis driven by Lotterer, Rockenfeller and Kristensen followed in the next three positions. Wurz was the next fastest Peugeot in fifth after traffic slowed him in the final third of the lap.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Qualifying
His teammate Bourdais was provisional sixth. Collard piloting the No. 16 Pescarolo was the fastest driver in the petrol-powered LMP1 entries in eighth. Dumas exited Mulsanne corner at speed and collided side on with the right-hand corner in the door area of Roald Goethe's stopped No. 60 Aston Martin that had earlier spun. Both drivers were unhurt, and qualifying was stopped for five minutes. Kane carried Strakka's car to provisional pole in LMP2 with a 3 minutes, 42.615 seconds lap almost 40 minutes in, ahead of Mailleux's Singatech, Premat's Oreca Matmut and Tom Kimber-Smith's Greaves entries.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Qualifying
Nick Leventis lost control of the Strakka car and crashed into the tyre barrier just before the Dunlop backwards at approximately 195 km/h (121 mph) and at 9.4G, littering debris on the track and concluding the session with 30 seconds left. The professional class of LMGTE saw BMW lead with a flying lap from Priaulx in the No. 56 car ahead of Gianmaria Bruni's No. 51 Ferrari and Augusto Farfus's sister No. 55 BMWw with the first eight separated by 1.572 seconds. Jean-Philippe Belloc helped Porsche top LMGTE Am from Spencer Pumpelly's Flying Lizard and Giroix's Gulf AMR Middle East's Aston Martin entries.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Qualifying
After the first session, Strakka reconstructed its car overnight and changed its programme to provide their drivers the opportunity to acclimatise to race conditions. The IMSA Performance Porsche was able to return to competitive running after it was transported and rebuilt at the team's headquarters in Rouen, Normandy overnight. The second qualifying session saw Sarrazin improve provisional pole to a 3 minutes, 26.336 seconds time and then to a 3 minutes, 26.156 lap. Marcel Fässler then overtook Sarrazin to move the No. 2 Audi to first with a 3 minutes, 25.961 seconds lap which he held to the session's conclusion.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Qualifying
The No. 8 Peugeot was demoted to second as the sister No. 7 car improved to third after a lap from Marc Gené. McNish kept Audi's No. 3 entry in fourth with Dumas' No. 1 car falling to fifth and Franck Montagny retained sixth for the No. 9 Peugeot team. Ayari reset LMP2's quickest lap time to a 3 minutes, 41.458 seconds time for Signatech. Premat improved the Oreca Matmut car while Pierre Kaffer moved the Pecom Lola-Judd vehicle to second and third in class respectively.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Qualifying
In LMGTE Pro, AF Corse led the session and claimed provisional pole position with the quickest class lap set by Bruni, demoting the No. 55 BMW of Jörg Müller. Similarly, AF Corse's No. 61 Ferrari of Marco Cioci improved the LMGTE Am pole position lap with Horst Felbermayer Jr driving the Felbermayr-Proton Porsche to be second in category. During the session which saw several cars affected by mechanical issues, Priaulx lost control of the No. 56 BMW at the Ford Chicane after possibly driving over debris or gravel and crashed into the outside tyre barrier.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Qualifying
In the third session, Dumas in the No. 1 Audi bettered the No. 2 car's provisional pole lap before Benoît Tréluyer reset the fastest time to a 3 minutes, 25.738 seconds and held first until the session ended. Audi achieved their first overall pole position for five years past 2006. Dumas put the No. 1 entry to join Tréluyer's No. 2 vehicle on the grid's front row while Simon Pagenaud qualified the No. 9 Peugeot third. Nicolas Minassian put the No. 8 Peugeot fourth, Kristensen qualified the No. 3 Audi fifth with the No. 7


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Qualifying
Peugeot of Anthony Davidson placing sixth. Davidson spun the No. 7 Peugeot in the Ford Chicane early in the session before Kristensen lost control of the No. 3 Audi upon a kerb and went through in the Tetre Rouge gravel trap to crash the car. Signatech's second session lap Ayari's lap was not improved upon and thus secured LMP2 pole position. Kane's lap time could not be bettered by his team Strakka and began from second in category with Oreca Matmut starting third in class.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Qualifying
Farfus bettered the LMGTE Pro pole lap and the No. 55 BMW remained atop the class until the session's conclusion. The No. 51 Ferrari began from second as the No. 56 BMW fell to third after not being able to partake in the session following Priaulx's second session accident. Cioci earned AF Corse the inaugural LMGTE Am pole position with an improved fastest lap. The session was halted for 20 minutes when Anthony Beltoise crashed the No. 58 Luxury Racing Ferrari at Mulsanne Corner after hitting oil and Christian Klien in the No. 009 Aston Martin AMR-One picked up a left-rear puncture, prompting the laying of cement dust on the racing line.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Qualifying, Qualifying results
Pole position winners in each class are indicated in bold. The fastest time set by each entry is denoted in gray.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Warm-up
The drivers had a 45-minute warm-up session at 09:00 local time on 11 June in cloudy conditions without rain. Bourdais' No. 9 Peugeot recorded the fastest lap of 3 minutes, 27.228 seconds just before the session's end. Pole position qualifier Tréluyer was second-fastest with his Audi teammates Timo Bernhard and Kristensen third and fourth. The quickest LMP2 lap was a 3 minutes, 43.449 seconds set by Mallieux's Signatech entry. AF Corse's LMGTE Pro -category Ferrari of Toni Vilander led the class while Niclas Jönsson's Krohn Ferrari led LMGTE Am. Rui Águas stopped AF Corse's No. 71 Ferrari at Mulsanne corner with a suspected differential issue. Kaffer went straight on at Arnage turn and restarted the Pecom car to continue his race preparations.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Start to early evening
Pre -race weather was dry and clear with the air temperature between 8 and 18 °C (46 and 64 °F) and the track temperature from 14.5 to 28.6 °C (58.1 to 83.5 °F). The race, which was attended by 249,500, started at 15:00 local time with Jean Todt, the FIA president, waving the French Tricolour from the starter's gantry to begin proceedings. The 56-car field was led by Tréluyer for the first ten laps.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Start to early evening
His teammate McNish overtook Bourdais for fourth before the Mulsanne Straight and then Montagny on the outside at the PlayStation chicane after a five-lap battle that saw Montagny put McNish towards the pit lane barrier. Aston Martin Racing lost both of its LMP1-class AMR Ones during the first hour when Darren Turner lost control of the No. 009 entry and beached it in the first Mulsanne chicane gravel and Adrián Fernández brought the No. 007 car into the garage with unrepairable broken engine aluminium alternator pulleys breaking the pulley-linked drive alternator and water pump gear. Bruni moved Ferrari's No. 51 car to the LMGTE Pro lead followed by Oliver Gavin's No. 74 Corvette to second after passing Farfus. Gavin held off Farfus on the Mulsanne Straight in the following laps before Farfus re-overtook him for second in class.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Start to early evening
Mallieux's Signatech car forfeited the LMP2 lead it had held since the start to Prémat's No. 48 Oreca entry after 34 minutes because of a left-rear puncture causing bodywork damage. The first hour ended with McNish passing Bernhard's slowing No. 1 Audi for the lead on the inside past the Dunlop Bridge before Beltoise was caught off guard and hit the No. 3 car's rear in the high speed right-hand Esses.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Start to early evening
McNish' went through the gravel backwards and struck the outside tyre wall at a gap allowing cars to be moved to a safer location beyond the gravel at high speed and landed upside down on its side. The impact destroyed the Audi and sent debris flying across a group of photographers through the inside catch fence. The marshals turned the Audi upright and McNish exited it unhurt. McNish was transported to the infield medical centre and then to a local hospital for checks clearing him.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Start to early evening
The safety cars were deployed for 72 minutes as marshals worked to repair the damaged walls. Under safety car conditions, Montagny brought the No. 8 Peugeot into the garage earlier than scheduled to rectify a stuck vehicle brake balance distribution unit in the rearmost area and it rejoined the race in eighth with Sarrazin driving.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Start to early evening
When racing resumed, Nick Tandy in the No. 88 Felbermayr Porsche was lapping faster than Corvette's Olivier Beretta and overtook him for second in LMGTE Pro. Tréluyer maintained the lead until a pit stop cycle saw his teammate Bernhard temporarily move past him since the cars made pit stops in numerical order. Bernhard had driven over a kerb damaging the No. 1 Audi's nose line while lapping a slower GT car, reducing the amount of available downforce. Tréluyer and Wurz demoted Bernhard to third following separate overtakes on the Mulsanne Straight.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Start to early evening
Audi brought the No. 1 car into the pit lane for a replacement front nose and Bernhard fell to fifth. LMP2 became a duel for first between Prémat and later Kraihamer's Oreca and the Strakka car of Danny Watts, who was drawing closer to the Oreca. Jörg Müller relinquished the No. 55 BMW's hold on third in LMGTE Pro due to a right-rear puncture requiring it to enter the garage, and dropped two laps behind the class leader. Pagenaud lost control of the No. 9 Peugeot and went straight at Arnage turn, causing him to steer the car around in order to rejoin the circuit.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Start to early evening
Davidson took over the race lead in the No. 7 Porsche from Fässler's No. 2 Audi courtesy of his car been able to drive longer between pit stops. Dumas was recovering lost ground in the No. 1 Audi when he lost control of it lapping the LMGTE Am-class No. 71 Porsche on the inside at Tetre Rouge; he maintained the car's hold on fourth.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Start to early evening
AF Corse saw their hold on third in LMGTE Pro ceded to Antonio García in the No. 73 Corvette when Vilander drove straight into the gravel trap at Mulsanne Corner and required trackside recovery to enable the Ferrari's return to the circuit. Matías Russo was able to pass Leventis' Strakka entry and moved into third position in LMP2. The No. 7 Peugeot of Davidson and the No. 2 Audi of Fässler exchanged the race lead during the sixth hour until Fässler was able to establish a minute's lead over the remainder of the field. LMGTE Am became a tight duel with the distance between the class leader and sixth in category just more than a minute due to the track's length and involved the Flying Lizard, Krohn, AF Corse and Larbre teams.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Night to dawn
As night began to fall, Rockenfeller in the No. 1 Audi overtook Lamy in the No. 9 Peugeot for third after Lamy's car had been affected by a repeating door flapping open as Lotterer and Gené continued to duel for the race lead. Priaulx relinquished the No. 56 BMW's hold on second in LMGTE Pro due to an engine misfire requiring switch of engine control unit and ignition coil. LMGTE Am saw the two Larbre entries in the No. 70 Corvette and the No. 50 Porsche duel for the category lead with the Corvette consistently lapping faster than the Porsche.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Night to dawn
Gené fell back from Lotterer in the duel for the overall lead and the No. 7 Peugeot was put under pressure by Rockenfeller's No. 1 Audi that overtook him for second by causing Gené to drift wide onto the Arnage corner run-off area and lose 30 seconds in the eighth hour. Not long after, Rockenfeller was lapping the No. 71 Ferrari of Rob Kauffman at the second kink on the straight linking Mulsanne and Indianapolis corner when Kauffman went into Rockenfeller's path and made contact with the rear of the No. 1 Audi.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Night to dawn
Rockenfeller's car was sent spearing left into the Armco barrier at high speed, destroying the Audi, around 20 metres (66 ft) of barrier and the car went back across the circuit, littering a plethora of debris on it. The ACO ordered Kauffman to not partake in the remainder of the race, and Rockenfeller was kept in hospital overnight with a minor right arm flesh wound.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Night to dawn
The safety cars were deployed for the second time to allow marshals to repair the damaged Armco barrier and remove debris for 2 hours, 22 minutes. All of the leading prototype cars were driven into the pit lane for full-service pit stops. CRS brought their No. 62 Ferrari into the garage to be retired due to driver Shaun Lynn damaging the vehicle's right-rear corner heavily against the Ford Chicane barrier after losing control turning into the corner.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Night to dawn
The resulting damage saw bodywork jammed the right-rear wheel against the fuel cell, causing an oil leak repaired by Lynn before the car's clutch burned out. When racing resumed, the sole-remaining No. 2 Audi and the three Peugeots exchanged the lead several times over the following hours during pit stop cycles. Prémat relinquished the LMP2 lead that the No. 48 Oreca had maintained for 96 laps in succession to the Greaves entry of Olivier Lombard because of electrical issues forcing the Oreca's moving into the garage. Second in both LMGTE classes saw four drivers within twelve seconds of each other in Pro and three competitors within three seconds of one another in Am. Watts moved the Strakka LMP2 car to second in category with successive overtakes on Russo and Kraihamer.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Night to dawn
The LMP2 category saw two cars running in the top three retiring. Russo lost control of the third-placed Pecom car through the Porsche Curves and it suddenly speared right into the barrier. Watts in the Strakka entry made contact with a kerb and the car sustained damage to its front aerodynamics. A change of front nose cone during a pit stop rectified the problem before Watts smelt oil and stopped the car because of a suspected oil cooler issue at the first Mulsanne chicane before abandoning the car after telemetry determined that it should not be restarted.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Night to dawn
Kraihamer was lapping faster than Karim Ojjeh's No. 41 Greaves car and overtook him to reclaim the LMP2 lead in the No. 48 Oreca since the entry had made one fewer pit stop. Ayari brought the Signatech car to third in category when he passed João Barbosa as the Nos. 7 and 8 Peugeot twice exchanged third overall during a pit stop cycle. Pagenaud and his teammate Davidson were able to close up to Fässler in the No. 2 Audi and took the first two positions in the race just before the safety cars were deployed for the third time. Jean-Christophe Boullion substantially damaged the front of the No. 13 Rebellion in an accident at the Porsche Curves; marshals were required to remove the car and clear debris in the accident area. Boullion was unhurt.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Night to dawn
As racing continued in the early morning, the first three entries were all close together. Fässler moved from third to the race lead after a pit stop cycle before losing the advantage when Davidson overtook him on the inside entering Indianapolis corner. Davidson was pressured by Fässler through the Porsche Curves and the former flat-spotted the front wheels on the No. 7 Peugeot when he locked them at the first Mulsanne chicane enabled Fässler to reclaim first place.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Night to dawn
The safety cars were deployed for the fourth time when Christophe Bourret beached the No. 70 Larbre Porsche in the edge of the gravel in the Porsche Curves and reversed to return to the track. Stéphane Ortelli then stopped the No. 59 Ferrari on the track and required assistance from marshals and trackside equipment for recovery. During the safety car period, David Hallyday in the second-placed No. 48 Oreca LMP2 entry went straight on at Arnage corner and damaged the car's front-right corner in an attempt to retain tyre temperature. Hallyday abandoned the car on the run-off area and it was transported to the pit lane on a flatbed truck. The Oreca's retirement promoted Mallieux's No. 28 Signatech car to second in LMP2 and Christophe Bouchut's No. 33 Level 5 Motorsports entry to third in category.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Morning to finish
Beretta, who was combating carbon monoxide poisoning from inhaling fumes during earlier safety car periods, missed his point to brake for Arnage corner and he went straight into the turn's tyre barrier with the front of the No. 73 Corvette. He reversed the car and rejoined the circuit retaining third in LMGTE Pro.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Morning to finish
The No. 81 Flying Lizard Porsche of Seth Neiman ran wide into the gravel at Mulsanne and was forced to temporarily relinquish the lead of LMGTE Am to the No. 50 Larbre driven by Gabriele Gardel when it entered the garage with liquids leaking from the car's rear. Neiman was then relieved by Pumpelly and battled Gardel for the category lead until Gardel claimed the position. Magnussen in Corvette's No, 73 LMGTE Pro -leading car was lapping the No. 63 LMGTE Am-category Proton Porsche of Horst Felbermayr on the inside when he lost control of the car's rear.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Morning to finish
He struck the side of Felbermayr's car and sent both vehicles into the barrier before ricocheting back across the wall on the circuit's other side. The accident forced the retirement of both the Corvette and Porsche and Vilander's No. 51 Ferrari was promoted to the LMGTE Pro lead with Beretta's No. 63 Corvette second.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Morning to finish
The safety cars were deployed for the fifth time and marshals spent 29 minutes clearing debris in the accident area and recovery vehicles were used to extricate the damaged vehicles. Following the resumption of racing, the No. 7 and 8 Peugeots were released from the pit lane a lap before the No. 2 Audi of Tréluyer that was at the back of the nearest safety car's queue. Pagenaud took the race lead from Tréluyer before the latter was able to reclaim the position on the outside entering the second Mulsanne chicane and pulled away with a series of fastest laps.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Morning to finish
The No. 8 Peugeot of Sarrazin was assessed a one-minute stop-and-go penalty since the team member holding the refuelling hose had an improperly placed visor when fuel was added to the car, losing a lap to the race leader. In the 19th hour, Wurz missed the apex for Indianapolis corner and went straight on. He made light contact with the tyre barrier at the exit of the turn and the No. 7 Peugeot received with heavy damage to its front-right corner and a wobbling right-front wheel on a hub. The car was extricated by a tractor and was recovered to the garage, where it lost four laps to the race leaders due to repairs to its front suspension.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Morning to finish
Light rain began to fall on parts of the circuit at the 19th hour's end and increased in intensity not long after; it was not heavy enough to affect proceedings. Tréluyer approached the rear of the lapped Davidson and was blocked from further lapping the No. 7 Peugeot due to it blocking his path and removing downforce from Audi's No. 2 car going off the racing line. Audi told Tréluyer to slow and not put a further lap on Davidson.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Morning to finish
Lotterer relieved Tréluyer during a routine pit stop before the No. 2 Audi was again slowed by a Peugeot, this time by Montagny's No. 8 entry before being lapped at Mulsanne turn. García's No. 73 Corvette took the LMGTE Pro lead after Ferrari's No. 51 entry was unable to immediately restart due to clutch and electrical problems when driver Vilander attempted to drive away from a pit box. Rain returned to the track during the 22nd hour and some cars were caught out by the change in conditions. Kimber-Smith lost control of the Greaves Zytek car and temporarily beached the car in the gravel at the Dunlop S before recovering with assistance without losing the LMP2 lead. Collard crashed the No. 16 Pescarolo 01 into the tyre barrier entering the Porsche Curves and the car retired from fifth.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Morning to finish
In the 23rd hour, Lotterer was delayed by the fourth-placed Gené whom he was attempting to lap and the two drivers made contact into the second chicane on the Mulsanne Straight. Lotterer was able to lap Gené after Mulsanne turn. Robertson Racing's No. 68 Ford GT was promoted to third in LMGTE Am after the JMB Racing Ferrari had to twice enter the garage for clutch repairs. The circuit had become completely dry by the final hour's start.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Morning to finish
Lotterer was forced to make an extra pit stop for four new tyres and fuel with fewer than 40 minutes remaining after Audi noticed the No. 2 car's left-rear tyre was slowly deflating. Race control decided that there would be no traditional slow lap to finish the race with flag waving by marshals but a full lap at slow speed would occur after the first car had completed the event instead. Pascale Gibson in the second-placed LMGTE Am Larbre Porsche crashed into a tyre wall though he was able to recover without relinquishing the position.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Morning to finish
Lotterer was able to pull way from the No. 9 Peugeot by responding to the car's fast pace in the final half-hour, and the No. 2 Audi was the first to finish after 355 laps, achieving the first Le Mans win for Lotterer, Fässler and Tréluyer and Audi's tenth. Their lead engineer, Leena Gade, was the first female race engineer to win the event.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Morning to finish
Pagenaud followed 13.854 seconds later in the No. 9 Peugeot in second for the fourth-closest recorded Le Mans finish and the No. 8 Peugeot driven the headache-affected and visually affected Minassian due to overnight car vibrations completed the podium two laps behind in third. Greaves was undaunted for the final 137 laps in LMP2 and drivers Kimber-Smith, Lombard and Ojjeh claimed their first class wins and Nissan's first since 2000. Signatech were six laps behind in second and Level 5 took third on their Le Mans debut.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Race, Morning to finish
Corvette Racing held their lead in LMGTE Pro, earning the team their seventh category win and Milner's maiden class victory, García's fourth and Beretta's sixth. AF Corse took their first Le Mans class podium with the No. 51 Ferrari second and BMW's No. 56 car was third. Corvette also won in LMGTE Am with Larbre achieving their sixth category win with the No. 50 Corvette ahead of the sister No. 70 Corvette and Robertson's Ford GT. On David and Andrea Robertson's wedding anniversary, the two became the first married couple to finish on the podium.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Post-race
The top three teams in each of the four classes appeared on the podium to collect their trophies and spoke to the media in the later press conferences. Fässler described how he felt when he observed his co-drivers duel Peugeot in the closing stages: "In the last five hours I was in the pits with everybody, standing by the car when it came in. I didn't know where we were going in the rain. I know how difficult it is to drive a car like this on slicks in the rain."


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Post-race
Bourdais conceded Peugeot lost to a slightly stronger, quicker and more reliable Audi squad, and his teammate Pagenaud  preferred to have been the driver being caught, adding: "It was more difficult to finish second by only 13 seconds because it was such a tough battle." Davidson denied employing gamesmanship on Lotterer, saying he had not received a team order and took his own initiative. He also said he did not deliberately collide with Lotterer and that the closed-cockpit Peugeot caused him to only observe the latter whilst braking.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Post-race
McNish was given advice to not travel so he could recover from body trauma. He praised the strength of the Audi and said of the first hour accident that led to the No. 3 car's retirement: "Obviously, it was a very big accident. I think everybody realises that. I've been banged around a little bit, but the biggest thing is a little bit of pain in the bottom of my back and a big graze around my shin. Considering the impact, the speed and everything else, I think we all got away quite fortunate."


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Post-race
Beltoise said he did not observe McNish approaching his Ferrari from behind and was "very surprised" by the incident. Rockenfeller praised car safety standards safety following his accident with Kauffman, saying: "The safety standards at Audi are simply incredible and have saved my life. I've never had such an accident before in my career and hope I'll never have such an experience again." Wolfgang Ullrich, the Audi team principal, said closed-cockpit vehicle design did not provide a wider view as an open-cockpit car and denied that the team's two major race accidents were caused by visibility-related issues.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Post-race
Kimber-Smith stated Greaves being on a low-risk strategy race-long had proved fruitful, adding: "Theres a perception that you always have to be fast, but in LMP2 you also have to finish and that"s exactly what we did." His teammate Lombard described the team's victory as "truly exceptional" having tested the car just once, saying: "It was a delight for me and even though there was fatigue and stress I thought I coped well. Hopefully this success can be the start of things, maybe even a driver for next year as well."


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Post-race
Milner described his LMGTE Pro victory as "was the hardest drive of my life" and said the changeable conditions would have made it easier. Beretta said he became ill during a safety car period from breathing in exhaust gas and said of the challenge Corvette faced: "We had a lot of pressure and we just pushed as hard as we could. I think we really deserve the victory." Doug Fehan, Corvette Racing's general manager, commented: “If I were to write a script to celebrate the 100th anniversary of Chevrolet and the 10th anniversary of Corvette Racing's first win at Le Mans, this would undoubtedly be it."


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Post-race
The final result meant Peugeot remained in the LMP1 Manufacturers' Cup lead with 103 points ahead of Audi with 69 points. Corvette's class victory saw them progress to the top of the LMGTE Manufactuers' Cup with 84 points ahead of Ferrari and BMW with 72 points each. Audi Sport Team Joest overtook Peugeot Sport to lead the LMP1 Teams' Cup while Signatech and AF Corse retained the LMP2 and LMGTE Pro Teams' Cups respectively. Larbre moved past Proton Competition to lead the LMGTE Am Teams' Cup with four rounds remaining in the 2011 ILMC season.


2011 24 Hours of Le Mans, Post-race, Race classification
Class winners are marked in bold. Cars failing to complete 70 per cent of winner's distance (249 laps) are marked as Not Classified (NC).


2011 24 Hours of Nürburgring
The 2011 ADAC Zurich 24 Hours of Nürburgring was the 39th running of the 24 Hours of Nürburgring. It took place over June 25–26, 2011. 135 out of the 202 starters were classified.


2011 24 Hours of Nürburgring, Resume
With Corpus Christi weekend being rather late in 2011 on June 23–26, the 2011 event was held two weeks after the 2011 24 Hours of Le Mans. The first five VLN races of 2011 were won by a factory-entered BMW, a GT3-class Mercedes SLS, a new Ferrari 458, the Hybrid Porsche GT3 and finally an Audi R8 LMS, so at least these five different brands were expected to challenge for the overall win in the 24 hours.


2011 24 Hours of Nürburgring, Resume
In the first qualifying session, the Hankook-sponsored Farnbacher-Ferrari used soft tyres and was about 7 seconds faster than the competitors, lapping at an average speed of over 181 km/h, the fastest since 1983. This earned the team the pole position, but also an extra weight of 25 kg in the pre-race update of the ‘Balance of Performance’.


2011 24 Hours of Nürburgring, Resume
Team Manthey decided to find out in the early stages of the race which class was more effective under the current conditions, entering their four Porsche factory drivers on two yellow and green Porsche 997 GT3: two pilots shared the #11 SP9/GT3-spec ‘R’, which had more power and qualified 8th, two others the #18 SP7/GT2-class ‘RSR’, which had more downforce, but was only 16th on the grid. After a few hours in changing weather conditions, the team retired the ‘R’ to focus on the ‘RSR’ which already had won three times since 2007.


2011 24 Hours of Nürburgring, Resume
Without any problems, it went on to win its fourth Nürburgring 24 Hours, with a new distance record of 156 laps. Second place was taken by another GT2-spec car, the #1 factory BMW M3 GT which had won in 2010. Five GT3 cars of Audi and Mercedes followed. The SP8/GT2-class #2 Ferrari had run into early problems, but set the fastest race lap in the final hours, finishing 8th and James Glickenhaus’ P4/5 Competizione finished 39th, second in the E1-XP2. After 2010 Sorg Rennsport took the victory in class SP4 again. Gianvito Rossi, Diego Romanini, Alfredo Varini and Alexander Rappold have been the only team in that class, but as it has been the first 24h race for Rossi and Rappold the 122 laps they did and final 78th place overall have been great result!


2011 24 Hours of Spa
The 2011 Total 24 Hours of Spa was the 64th running of the 24 Hours of Spa. It was also the third round of the 2011 Blancpain Endurance Series season and was held over 30 and 31 July at the Circuit de Spa-Francorchamps. The race was won by Greg Franchi, Timo Scheider, and Mattias Ekström of Audi Sport Team WRT.


2011 24 Hours of Spa, Qualifying
Most of the 62 qualifiers set their fastest times in the third qualifying session due to the fully dry track. In the previous two sessions it was a drying wet track.


2011 24 Hours of Spa, Qualifying, Qualifying result
Class leaders are in bold, the fastest lap for each car is in gray.


2011 24 Hours of Spa, Race, Race Result
Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).


2011 3. divisjon
The 2011 season of the 3. divisjon, the fourth highest association football league for men in Norway.


2011 3. divisjon
Between 22 and 26 games (depending on group size) are played in 12 groups, with 3 points given for wins and 1 for draws. Twelve group winners are promoted to the 2. divisjon.


2011 3. divisjon
The 3. divisjon was streamlined to only 12 groups, compared to 24 groups in 2010.


2011 4 Nations Cup
The 2011 4 Nations Cup was a women's ice hockey tournament that was held in Nyköping, Sweden. All matches were held at the Stora Hallen arena. The November 10 match between Canada and the US marked the 100th time since 1990 that the two countries have played each other.


2011 5-hour Energy 500
The 2011 5-hour Energy 500 was a NASCAR Sprint Cup Series race held on June 12, 2011 at Pocono Raceway in Long Pond, Pennsylvania. Contested over 200 laps on the 2.5-mile (4.0 km) asphalt tri-oval, it was the 14th race of the 2011 Sprint Cup Series season. The race was won by Jeff Gordon for the Hendrick Motorsports team. Kurt Busch finished second, and Kyle Busch clinched third.


2011 6 Hours of Castellet
The 2011 6 Hours of Castellet (6 Heures du Castellet) was the opening round of the 2011 Le Mans Series season. It took place at Circuit Paul Ricard on April 3, 2011. It was also the first Le Mans Series race with the two new GT classes, GTE Pro and GTE Am, contesting the event after the demise of the GT1 class.


2011 6 Hours of Castellet, Qualifying result
Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.


2011 6 Hours of Castellet, Qualifying result
Note: the No. 16 Pescarolo Team was demoted to the back of the grid due to a ride height infringement in qualifying.


2011 6 Hours of Castellet, Race
The race got off to a controversial start when the pace car did not return to the pits when the green lights came on. The front running LMPs slowed down but some of the GT cars could not react fast enough, resulting in all three GTE Pro class Porsches getting heavily damaged and retired. The GTE Am class IMSA Performance Matmut Porsche and GTE Pro JOTA Aston Martin were also caught in the carnage. The race was won overall by Pescarolo Team after their first race since 2009 after their financial troubles in 2010. LMP2 was won by Greaves Motorsport, Pegasus Racing took the FLM victory. JMW Motorsport took GTE Pro victory after a hard fought battle with the No. 51 AF Corse Ferrari towards the end. Team Felbermayr-Proton won in the GTE Am class.


2011 6 Hours of Castellet, Race, Race result
Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).


2011 6 Hours of Estoril
The 2011 6 Hours of Estoril (6 Horas do Estoril) was the final round of the 2011 Le Mans Series season. It took place at the Autódromo do Estoril on September 25, 2011.


2011 6 Hours of Estoril, Qualifying, Qualifying result
Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.


2011 6 Hours of Estoril, Qualifying, Race result
Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).


2011 6 Hours of Imola
The 2011 6 Hours of Imola was an auto racing event held at Autodromo Enzo e Dino Ferrari on July 3, 2011. It was the third round of the 2011 Le Mans Series season and the fourth round of the 2011 Intercontinental Le Mans Cup.


2011 6 Hours of Imola, Qualifying, Qualifying Result
Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.


2011 6 Hours of Imola, Race result
Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).


2011 6 Hours of Silverstone
The 2011 Autosport 6 Hours of Silverstone was an auto racing event held at the Silverstone Circuit on 11 September 2011. It was the fourth round of the 2011 Le Mans Series season and the fifth round of the 2011 Intercontinental Le Mans Cup.


2011 6 Hours of Silverstone, Qualifying, Qualifying Result
Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.


2011 6 Hours of Silverstone, Race result
Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).


2011 6 Hours of Zhuhai
The 2011 6 Hours of Zhuhai was a sports car racing event held at the Zhuhai International Circuit on November 13, 2011. It was the seventh and final round of the 2011 Intercontinental Le Mans Cup.


2011 6 Hours of Zhuhai, Qualifying, Qualifying Result
Pole position winners in each class are marked in bold.


2011 6 Hours of Zhuhai, Race result
Class winners in bold. Cars failing to complete 70% of winner's distance marked as Not Classified (NC).


2011 7-Dorpenomloop Aalburg
The 2011 7-Dorpenomloop Aalburg, also known as the Verti advies 7-Dorpenomloop van Aalburg due to sponsorships reasons, was the fifth running of the women's 7-Dorpenomloop Aalburg, an elite women's bicycle race in Aalburg, the Netherlands. It was held on 28 May 2013 over a distance of 121.2 kilometres (75.3 miles), starting and finishing in Aalburg. It was rated by the UCI as a 1.2 category race. It was the first year that the race was a UCI 1.2 category race, so it was also the first year that the race was part of the 2011 UCI women's cycling calendar.


2011 A Championship
The 2011 A Championship was the fourth and final season of the A Championship in Ireland. The season was sponsored by Newstalk. The league featured 16 teams. Derry City A were the champions, while UCD A finished as runners up.


2011 A Championship, A Championship play-offs
The 2011 season saw the two pool winners plus the two pool runners-up qualify for the title play-off.


2011 A Lyga
The 2011 A Lyga was the 22nd season of the A Lyga, the top-tier football league of Lithuania. The season began on 12 March 2011 and ended on 6 November 2011. Ekranas were the defending champions, having won their third consecutive title at the end of the 2010 season.


2011 A Lyga, Teams
The league will see a change in the number of teams once again as twelve teams were granted a licence for 2011, one more than in the 2010 season.


2011 A Lyga, Teams
FK Vėtra were expelled over financial troubles after 16 matches of the 2010 season; their records were annulled and the team was subsequently disbanded. From the remaining ten clubs, Atletas Kaunas, who finished in last place at the end of the season, were the only team not to apply for a 2011 top-level licence. Atletas therefore played at the second level in 2011.


2011 A Lyga, Teams
Three new teams were admitted to the league, unbeaten 2010 I Lyga champions FBK Kaunas, seventh-placed team Atlantas Klaipėda and Dainava Alytus, a merger between I Lyga runners-up Alytis Alytus and third-placed city rivals Vidzgiris. FBK Kaunas and Atlantas made their return after two seasons in the lower divisions of the Lithuanian league system, while Dainava had their debut in the A Lyga, as neither of its predecessor clubs played at the Lithuanian top level in its history.


2011 A Lyga, Results
Teams played each other three times, either twice at home and once away or vice versa, for a total of 33 matches per team.


2011 A-League Grand Final
The 2011 A-League Grand Final was the sixth A-League Grand Final taking place on 13 March 2011 at Suncorp Stadium. It was the final match in the A-League 2010–11 season, played between premiers Brisbane Roar and runners-up Central Coast Mariners.


2011 A-League Grand Final, Match, Summary
In front of a crowd of 50,168, a record for both Brisbane Roar and football in Brisbane, the home side lifted their first A-League title after a match that was decided in a penalty shoot-out.


2011 A-League Grand Final, Match, Summary
Both teams had periods of quality possession and created chances; however, the game remained scoreless going into halftime. Brisbane Roar midfielder Mitch Nichols went closest for the home side in the first half, hitting the crossbar following a corner from Thomas Broich. Central Coast Mariners captain Alex Wilkinson came closest for the Gosford side only for the ball to be cleared off the line by the opposing captain, Matt McKay.


2011 A-League Grand Final, Match, Summary
For the majority of the second half, the Mariners were put under a lot of pressure as the Roar pushed forward searching for a goal, forcing Mariners goalkeeper Mathew Ryan into a number of saves. The Mariners defended resiliently and were able to exert some pressure of their own through young substitute Bernie Ibini-Isei, whose shot was saved by Roar goalkeeper Michael Theoklitos. Ibini-Isei was nearly put through one-on-one with Theoklitos in the dying seconds of the second half, only for referee Matthew Breeze to whistle for the end of 90 minutes just as the pass to Ibini-Isei was played. As the scores were deadlocked at 90 minutes with both teams failing to grasp their chances, the match was destined for extra time.


2011 A-League Grand Final, Match, Summary
Central Coast started the first half of extra time the better of the two sides and were threatening the Brisbane goal. This pressure brought reward for the Mariners in the 96th minute, with Ibini-Isei winning a corner after Theoklitos could only deflect the young strikers' shot behind. The resulting corner saw a Mariners' header well saved by Theoklitos, only for the ball to land in front of striker Adam Kwasnik, who scored the first goal of the game despite the efforts of Matt McKay on the goal line.


2011 A-League Grand Final, Match, Summary
Seven minutes later, Kwasnik was the provider for the Mariners' second goal of the game. After being put through on goal with only Theoklitos to beat, Kwasnik had his shot blocked, however the striker managed to regain the ball and pass to an unmarked Oliver Bozanic who managed to score despite efforts on goal line from the Roar defence.