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WEC 24 Hours of Le Mans

Le Mans 24 Hours – Race

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Yellow Flag
And a new slow zone for the charred ByKolles LMP1.
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
That CLM P1/01 has been on fire way too much during its life.
Mechanical problem
The ByKolles CLM is burning again...
Quote
Tommy Milner on the Corvette crash: "Just made a mistake, really. Just feel bad...Very disappointing"
Yellow Flag
That's another slow zone
Crash
The #35 Alpine, running 4th in LMP2, blew straight through the gravel and has impacted the wall at the first chicane.
Overall top five right now:
PosN°StateCatTeamDriverCarTLapsGapLast 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
Pit Stop
Pit stop and driver change with the Larbre Competition Corvette ... Yamagishi at the wheel.
Along with the recovery of the Corvette, they also have to rebuild the tire barrier Milner ripped apart.
Just under eight hours remain now.
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)
Down in GTE Pro, Vilander's lead over Bourdais is 10sec.
Yellow Flag
Slow zone obviously enacted at the Dunlop chicane after Milner's shunt.
Pit Stop
Richelmi also stops the LMP2-leading Signatech Alpine.
Pit Stop
Sarrazin pits the Toyota, and resumes, and Neel Jani takes over from Dumas in the #2 Porsche.
He appeared to get knocked off line by the bump on exit, but Milner is out and safe.
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.
Crash
Big crash for the #64 Corvette.
In GTE Am, Segal has a lead of 2m08sec over David Heinemaier Hansson who's now at the wheel of the Proton Porsche.
Pit Stop
The #66 Ford GT pits from fifth in class, Olivier Pla now at the wheel.
Pit Stop
Nakajima pits the #5 Toyota.
Pit Stop
The #1 Porsche is brought into the pits by Mark Webber, hands over to Timo Bernhard.
Sarrazin keeping Dumas at arm's length, the gap settling at 4.725sec, with Nakajima another 4sec in arrears.
Vilander has all the answers for Bourdais right now. The Ferrari driver stretches the GTE Pro lead to over 11 secs
Meanwhile Dumas is 2.6sec off Sarrazin, and 8sec ahead of Nakajima. This is looking very tasty.
Crash
Dolan stuffs the Gibson-Nissan into the tire barrier just before pitlane. Limps over to the pitlane, almost collects another car on the way.
It was a good stop by Porsche, he resumes behind Sarrazin but well ahead of Nakajima in the second Toyota.
Pit Stop
And here's Lieb into the pits to hand over Dumas. His lead as he pitted was 57sec.
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.
Pit Stop
Lapierre pits the Signatech Alpine from the lead of LMP2. He gets out, hands over to Stephane Richelmi.
Pit Stop
In comes the #7 Audi, currently piloted by Benoit Treluyer. He's 11 laps down.
Pit Stop
Lucas Di Grassi pits the #8 Audi R18 from fourth place, still 2 laps down on the leaders.
Romain Dumas waiting patiently to take over the #2 Porsche 919 from Lieb.
Pit Stop
Bourdais stops and resumes in the #69 Ford.
Crash
Yet another incident for the Pegasus LMP2...

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