Monday Motorsports: Bittersweet Win for Danes at Le Mans LE MANS, France - It was a day of triumph and tragedy for the Danes in the 90th anniversary running of the 24 Hours of Le Mans. Tom Kristensen guided his Audi home Sunday to his ninth victory in the classic endurance race; it was the 12th consecutive win for Audi. But his countryman, Allan Simonsen, 35 - competing in a different class - was killed just a few minutes into the event. Simonsen was killed after his Aston Martin suddenly veered left in a right-hand turn, slamming into a guardrail at undiminished speed. The race continued, although it was slowed for nearly an hour to replace the guardrail at the impact site. That was but one of many slowdowns during a long, trouble-plagued race that saw innumerable spins on rain-doused pavement, car-to-car crashes and further replacements of damaged barriers. Kristensen's winning Audi R18 e-tron quattro, in which he shared driving with Allan McNish and Loïc Duval, completed 348 laps around the 13.6-kilometer Circuit de la Sarthe. The margin of victory over the runners-up, Stéphane Sarrazin, Anthony Davidson and Sébastien Buemi in a Toyota TS030 Hybrid, was nearly one lap. Another Audi, driven by Oliver Jarvis, Marc Gené and Lucas di Grassi finished third. A second Toyota, driven by Nicolas Lapierre, Alex Wurz and Kaz Nakajima, survived a major crash in the final hour, finishing fourth. The winning car led the final 17 hours of the event, after running second during the first seven hours. The early leaders, Andre Lotterer, Benoît Tréluyer and Marcel Fässler, in another Audi, lost considerable time with an electrical problem, eventually finishing fifth. In other racing news from the previous week: The Chevrolet driver, Martin Truex Jr., won the Nascar Sprint Cup race on Sunday at Sonoma Raceway in California. Jeff Gordon finished second, eight seconds behind, after the apparent runner-up Juan Pablo Montoya ran out of fuel within sight of the finish. Montoya ended up in 34th; Carl Edwards was third. Jimmie Johnson, the series points leader, took ninth. James Hinchcliffe won the IndyCar race on Sunday at Iowa Speedway in his Chevrolet-powered Andretti Autosport racer, leading a convincing 226 of 250 laps. His teammate, Ryan Hunter-Reay, was second, followed by Tony Kanaan. Helio Castroneves, who finished eighth, maintained a slight lead over Hunter-Reay in the driver points contest. Courtney Force edged her dad, John Force, for a final round Funny Car victory in National Hot Rod Association action at New England Dragway in Epping, N.H. Her Traxxas Ford Mustang covered the track in 4.301 seconds, at 261.67 mp.h., while her dad's Castrol GTX Ford Mustang clocked in at 4.367 seconds, doing 262.28 m.p.h. Spencer Massey won in Top Fuel, and Allen Johnson took the Pro Stock victory. A.J. Allmendinger continued to rebuild his career, with a victory Saturday in a Nascar Nationwide series event at Road America in Wisconsin. Allmendinger faced a large degree of uncertainty last year after Nascar suspended him for flunking a drug test. But since being reinstated, he has re-signed with Team Penske, for whom he scored the victory on Saturday. Sébastien Ogier continued his mastery of the World Rally Championship this season, with a victory over the weekend at Rally Italy in Sardinia. Ogier's factory-backed Volkswagen Polo has won four of the seven events run in 2013. Thierry Neuville took second in a Ford Fiesta, while Ogier's teammate, Jari-Matti Latvala, came in third. On Friday, a Federation Internationale de l'Automobile tribunal found that the Mercedes-Benz Formula One team and its tire supplier Pirelli had violated testing rules. Mercedes and Pirelli had performed testing in Spain during racing season. The sanctioning organization issued a reprimand and barred Mercedes from participating in a young driver test scheduled at Britain's Silverstone Circuit next month. In addition, Mercedes was ordered to split the cost of the tribunal equally with Pirelli and the F.I.A.