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Crash
Spin! And gravel. It's the Team AAI Corvette of Mark Patterson at the Porsche Curves.
Stopwatch
It's that man again. Kobayashi is really getting into the swing of this, a 3m21.445s is the fastest lap of the race by four tenths of a second.
Safety car
Slow zones now declared.
Crash
#31 ESM Ligier has spun. That was odd, Cumming seemed to lose it as he approached a yellow flag zone.
Yellow Flag
Wonder if he hit the speed limiter, and it locked the rear wheels? It was like he pulled the handbrake on. His rejoin wasn't exactly graceful, either.
Pit Stop
Kobayashi pits from the temporary lead in the #6 Toyota.
Crash
Oh dear, Cumming has been off again at the final corner. And it looks like something has broken on the #31 ESM car, which had been running well inside the top 10. Broken right-rear suspension?
Mechanical problem
That's going to be a long drive back to the pits...
The #5 and #6 Toyotas are now out of sequence with each other, having previously been pitting simultaneously.
Pit Stop
Audi #7 pits, it has climbed to a legitimate eighth position overall now, after losing six laps for a turbo change early on.
From the Ford onboard we just saw Scott Dixon have a huuuge moment, not like him! Mr smooth usually...
Giedo van der Garde gets a black-and-white warning flag for abusing track limits in the #38 Gibson.
You can watch the Ford onboards here...
Stopwatch
Let's do a post-pitstop #6 reset.
Webber leads in Porsche #1 by 14.338s ahead of Kobayashi in the #6, who put in some great work at the end of the previous stint to make up time he'd lost at the start.
Lieb is third in Porsche #2, 39.6s behind Webber.
LMP2-wise, Hirakawa in the #46 has 30 or so seconds on Stevens in the #26, now that the class-leading #36 Signatech Alpine is in the pits.
Stopwatch
Overall, Jarvis is fourth in the #8 Audi, having lost time at a recent pitstop to have a door replaced. Of the three LMP1 manufacturers, Audi has suffered all the mechanical issues today.
Davidson is fifth in Toyota #5 but has made an extra pitstop, due to a vibration on his outlap.
In the GTE stakes, it's still Ford 1-2, Hand leading Mucke, but Dixon has slipped back to fourth behind Malucelli in the #82 Risi Ferrari.
GTE Am has probably seen the least action of all the classes today. It's still the #78 KCMG Porsche (Camathias) from the #88 Proton car (Al-Qubaisi).
Penalty
Trouble for the #26 G-Drive car, which just had a drive-through for refuelling with the engine still on. Oopsie.
Nice to see Brad Pitt putting his name (and face!) to the FIA's Action for Road Safety campaign today...
FIA Action for Road Safety photoshoot: FIA President Jean Todt, ACO President Pierre Fillon, actor Brad Pitt with drivers
That G-Drive penalty has put the #36 Signatech, now with Stephane Richelmi driving, in second, with the #47 KCMG of Howson in third.
Behind that bunch, van der Garde in the #38 is just a second behind Rao in the #44 Manor car, nice battle shaping up for P4 there.
Spotted on pitlane: Lucas di Grassi all suited and booted, ready to take over the #8 Audi.
Pit Stop
Right on cue, here's Jarvis in the pits to hand over to the rapid Brazilian.
The #7 Audi is now up to seventh overall, still behind the #13 Rebellion though.
Di Grassi on his way, the #8 car down to fifth after that stop.
Pit Stop
Now the race-leading #1 Porsche is on pit road.
Timo Bernhard clambers into the cockpit, taking over the reins from Webber.
So that's the #6 car of Kobayashi into the lead, as Bernhard rejoins in third.
Hirakawa has been flying out front in the LMP2 class. The Japanese has over a minute in hand from Richelmi now.
Pit Stop
In comes the #2 Porsche from second.
Lieb out, our poleman Jani in and back in the race fourth.
Black-and-white flag for Mathias Lauda in the #98 Aston for ignoring track limits.
Pit Stop
Change of position in GTE Pro, as Mucke pits from second to hand over the #66 Ford GT to Le Mans rookie Billy Johnson.
Pit Stop
Now our class leader Hand has come in to hand over the #68 to Sebastien Bourdais, so it's Malucelli now leading the way in GTE Pro.
Mechanical problem
Remarkably, we're almost a quarter of the way through and only one car is out - the #89 Porsche - although several others have hit serious trouble.
Leading positions after 6 Hours:
1) #6 Toyota2) #1 Porsche
3) #5 Toyota
4) #2 Porsche
5) #8 Audi
6) #13 Rebellion
LMP2:
1) #46 Oreca2) #36 Alpine
3) #47 Oreca
GTE Pro:
1) #82 Ferrari2) #68 Ford
3) #69 Ford
GTE Am:
1) #88 Porsche2) #78 Porsche
3) #98 Aston Martin
Pit Stop
The #46 Oreca of Hirakawa just made a stop, but still came out in the lead with 10 seconds in hand over Richelmi.
IndyCar stars Bourdais and Dixon practically nose-to-tail in the fight for second in GTE Pro behind Malucelli, who is less than five seconds ahead.
Don't forget, a driver change takes around 30 seconds to execute on top of a normal stop, hence how the #68 gave up the lead.
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