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WEC 24 Hours of Le Mans

Le Mans 24 Hours – Race

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Romain Dumas waiting patiently to take over the #2 Porsche 919 from Lieb.
Lucas Di Grassi pits the #8 Audi R18 from fourth place, still 2 laps down on the leaders.
In comes the #7 Audi, currently piloted by Benoit Treluyer. He's 11 laps down.
Lapierre pits the Signatech Alpine from the lead of LMP2. He gets out, hands over to Stephane Richelmi.
Bourdais' Ganassi Ford is now within 6sec of Vilander in the Ferrari at the front of GTE Pro. Dixon is another 2mins behind in third.
And here's Lieb into the pits to hand over Dumas. His lead as he pitted was 57sec.
It was a good stop by Porsche, he resumes behind Sarrazin but well ahead of Nakajima in the second Toyota.
Dolan stuffs the Gibson-Nissan into the tire barrier just before pitlane. Limps over to the pitlane, almost collects another car on the way.
Meanwhile Dumas is 2.6sec off Sarrazin, and 8sec ahead of Nakajima. This is looking very tasty.
Vilander has all the answers for Bourdais right now. The Ferrari driver stretches the GTE Pro lead to over 11 secs
Sarrazin keeping Dumas at arm's length, the gap settling at 4.725sec, with Nakajima another 4sec in arrears.
The #1 Porsche is brought into the pits by Mark Webber, hands over to Timo Bernhard.
The #66 Ford GT pits from fifth in class, Olivier Pla now at the wheel.
In GTE Am, Segal has a lead of 2m08sec over David Heinemaier Hansson who's now at the wheel of the Proton Porsche.
Replays show Tommy Milner had his right-front wheel on the grass under braking at the Esses. The car therefore doesn't slow down under braking and pounds the end of a tire wall.
He appeared to get knocked off line by the bump on exit, but Milner is out and safe.
Sarrazin pits the Toyota, and resumes, and Neel Jani takes over from Dumas in the #2 Porsche.
Richelmi also stops the LMP2-leading Signatech Alpine.
Slow zone obviously enacted at the Dunlop chicane after Milner's shunt.
Down in GTE Pro, Vilander's lead over Bourdais is 10sec.
Hour 16 Leaders
LMP1: #6 Toyota (Sarrazin)
LMP2: #36 Signatech Alpine (Richelmi)
GTE-Pro: #82 Risi Competizione Ferrari (Vilander)
GTE-Am: #62 Scuderia Corsa Ferrari (Segal)
Along with the recovery of the Corvette, they also have to rebuild the tire barrier Milner ripped apart.
Pit stop and driver change with the Larbre Competition Corvette ... Yamagishi at the wheel.
Overall top five right now:
PosStateCatTeamDriverCarTLapsGapLast lapBest lapAv speedPits
1 6 Run P1 Toyota Gazoo Racing SARRAZIN Stéphane Toyota TS050 - Hybrid M 254   3:48.827 3:21.445 243.6 18
2 5 Run P1 Toyota Gazoo Racing NAKAJIMA Kazuki Toyota TS050 - Hybrid M 254 14.227 3:49.888 3:22.600 242.2 19
3 2 Run P1 Porsche Team JANI Neel Porsche 919 Hybrid M 254 19.138 3:45.518 3:21.756 243.2 20
4 8 Run P1 Audi Sport Team Joest DUVAL Loïc Audi R18 M 252 2 Laps 3:46.717 3:23.805 240.7 20
5 7 Run P1 Audi Sport Team Joest FÄSSLER Marcel Audi R18 M 243 11 Laps 3:49.310 3:23.043 241.6 21
The #35 Alpine, running 4th in LMP2, blew straight through the gravel and has impacted the wall at the first chicane.
Tommy Milner on the Corvette crash: "Just made a mistake, really. Just feel bad...Very disappointing"
That CLM P1/01 has been on fire way too much during its life.
Whoa. One of the Porsche LMP1s has had door-to-door contact with the #98 Aston, sending the AMR entry spinning at the Dunlop Chicane
And a new slow zone for the charred ByKolles LMP1.

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