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Nakajima has reported a problem. It's lost power. This could all change in the last five minutes!
The #5 can do nothing but just limp around. The Porsche is closing in fast.
Just 25 seconds is the gap now. The lead is about to change.
#5 is stopping on the main straight. With 3m20s left, we have a new leader.
Incredible scenes. Neither the Porsche nor the Toyota crews can quite believe what is happening.
The #5 is stationary on the main straight. It's over for them. Less than five minutes from the end. Incredible.
The #5 is going again. The victory is gone, but a podium is still on if he can make it to the end.
Nope, it's stopped again.
The #2 Porsche is going very slowly as well, but it looks like it's just cruising home. The leading LMP2 car is following Jani along, while the GTE Pro leader just blasted past them both.
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There it is. The #2 Porsche wins Le Mans. Amazing. Never seen anything like that.
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We have our outright winners – congratulations Neel Jani, Marc Lieb, and Romain Dumas.
In the LMP2 class, Nicolas Lapierre brings it home for him, Gustavo Menezes, and Stephane Richelmi.
In GTE Pro, it’s a historic Ford win for Dirk Muller, Joey Hand, and Sebastien Bourdain.
And finally, Townsend Bell, William Sweedler, and Jeffrey Segal win GTE Am.
In the LMP2 class, Nicolas Lapierre brings it home for him, Gustavo Menezes, and Stephane Richelmi.
In GTE Pro, it’s a historic Ford win for Dirk Muller, Joey Hand, and Sebastien Bourdain.
And finally, Townsend Bell, William Sweedler, and Jeffrey Segal win GTE Am.
Tears up and down pitlane. At Porsche, it's tears of happiness. At Toyota, pure despair.
That was remarkable. The #5 Toyota did everything you need to do to win Le Mans... apart from lasting the last five minutes of the race.
24 hours of racing, and it came down to the last five minutes. Remarkable.
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Le Mans winner Marc Lieb: "What can I say? First of all I feel sorry for the boys down in the other garage. They deserved this, they were giving us a hard time as well. This race should have had two winners, it was really unbelievable."
The #5 Toyota has still be classified second, with the sister car third.
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Caught your breath yet? What a finish. What a race.
Jani has arrived back in the pits, as has the LMP2 winner with Lapierre at the wheel.
Nakajima, meanwhile, has jumped out of the #5.
Hold the phone, more drama. The timing screen has the #6 Toyota in P2.
The #5 hasn't been classified after all. More heartbreak. And an Audi on the podium.
That will put the #8 Audi (di Grassi, Duval, Jarvis) in third. Audi's podium streak stays alive.
There is also a big question mark over second place in GTE Pro; the #82 Ferrari didn't serve a stop for non-functioning lights at the end. Something to keep an eye on.
As it stands, the #82 is still being classified second.
The non-classification of the #5 means that the LMP2-winning car is fifth outright.
Race control has confirmed that #5 isn't classified. Icing on the heartbreak cake.
Twitter
That tweet from Toyota sums it all up. There was less than five minutes to go...
The Rebellion team head out for the 'fourth' step on the podium. Piquet, Prost, and Heidfeld celebrate being best LMP1 privateer.
The three Audi drivers who finished third just look confused. At a lazy 12 laps down they weren't expecting to taste champagne today.
Dumas looks genuinely dumbfounded on the podium.
Here are some highlights from what was a much happier time for Toyota.
Jarvis, Duval, and di Grassi get their trophies. Never have three people looked less enthused on a podium.
Right, that's it for our live coverage of the Le Mans 24 Hours.
On behalf of myself (Andrew van Leeuwen), Jamie Klein, Charles Bradley, David Malsher, and Nick DeGroot, thank you very much for sticking with us throughout what was genuinely 24 action-packed hours of racing.
Stay tuned to Motorsport.com for more reaction from both Le Mans – and if you want to follow the European GP from Baku live, you can do it right here.
On behalf of myself (Andrew van Leeuwen), Jamie Klein, Charles Bradley, David Malsher, and Nick DeGroot, thank you very much for sticking with us throughout what was genuinely 24 action-packed hours of racing.
Stay tuned to Motorsport.com for more reaction from both Le Mans – and if you want to follow the European GP from Baku live, you can do it right here.
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