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WEC 24 Hours of Le Mans

Le Mans 24 Hours – Race

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By our count, six retirements so far...
#64 Corvette Racing Corvette
#13 Rebellion R-One
#51 AF Corse Ferrari
#91 Porsche Motorsport Porsche
#89 Proton Competition Porsche
#47 KCMG Oreca 05 - Nissan

Expect a couple more to join them after the recent incidents...
Crash
The #46 Thiriet By TDS Racing, running 2nd in LMP2, is beached.
Crash
And another LMP2 in distress ... #30 ESM stuck in the gravel.
Safety car
SAFETY CAR
Pit Stop
The class-leading #36 in the garage for what we expect to be quick, taking advantage of the SC period.
Crash
The #48 Murphy Prototypes machine has spun while trying to avoid running over the car in front of them. Ben Keating continues...
The action has really escalated since sunrise.
Pit Stop
The #7 Audi is back in the garage.
Pit Stop
#66 Ford GT in the pit garage.
Pit Stop
The leading Toyota LMP1 duo pit together
Sarrazin (#6) and Nakajima (#5) hand over their machines to Buemi (#6) & Conway (#5)
Safety cars in this lap.
Green Flag
Green, green, green.
And it's a traffic jam. Saw an Audi flying up through there with the lights flashing.
Penalty
The #2 Porsche is actually leading overall after that dual Toyota pit stop.
Battle for 2nd between the Toyota teammates. Will they be allowed to race?
Well, the #5 overtakes the #6
Porsche is up the road by 56 seconds
Mechanical problem
The beaten and battered #4 ByKolles has become our seventh official retirement of the day, and the first in LMP1.
Buemi has taken over P2 spot, but he's not pulling away from Conway.
Pit Stop
The #2 Porsche has pitted from the lead.
Mechanical problem
Besides the CLM, we've also lost both works Porsches (#91 and #92), Ferraris (#51 and #71), the #47 KCMG Oreca and the #89 Proton Porsche.
Wow, Jani rejoins right behind the Toyota pair. This is gonna be fun!
Unbelievable scenes - we're 17 hours into this race, and the top three are split by under two seconds!
Following the Safety Car period, the gaps in GTE Pro see Vilander in the Risi Ferrari 6.7sec ahead of Bourdais in the #68 Ford who is 35sec ahead of Richard Westbrook who's now piloting the #69 Ford.
Interestingly, the #1 Porsche - in all its lapped glory - is just ahead of the trio, but running a similar pace now. 

Will Bernhard try and hold up the Toyotas?
The answer to that is no. Both Buemi and Conway sweep past unimpeded on the start/finish straight.
Pit Stop
Both the GTE Pro leaders are in the pits.
The gap had only been a few seconds before the #82 Ferrari and the #68 Ford dived into the pits.
Quote
Milner on the #64 Corvette shunt: "This Corvette Racing team and the group at Chevrolet build the safest cars. We’ve seen some big wrecks here over the years and all our drivers have walked away fine. I’m pretty disappointed that our race has ended the way it has. We had just made some setup changes to try and get some more speed out of the car. It was just driver error. I should have done a better job of keeping the car under control but couldn’t do it today."
Both those GTE Pro leading cars completed driver changers, by the way. Muller is now in the Ford, while Malucelli took over the Ferrari.
Buemi bashes out a couple of laps in the 3m23s to move over two seconds clear of the #6 Toyota.
Mechanical problem
Two more official retirements to report: the #64 Corvette and the #46 Oreca. We're up to nine now, and the #13 Rebellion will surely put us into double figures before too long.
Bill Sweedler (Scuderia Corsa Ferrari) a handy 3min30sec ahead of Hansson (Proton Porsche) in the battle for GTE Am honors.
LMP2 update: Richelmi in the #36 Alpine has a lap in hand over Rast in the #26 Oreca, Kirill Ladygin in the best of the BR01s is a further two tours down in third.
Following the pitstops, Malucelli's Risi Ferrari is 18.7 sec ahead of Muller's #68 Ford at the head of GTE Pro. Westbrook is a further 13sec back.

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