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WEC 24 Hours of Le Mans

Le Mans 24 Hours – Race

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Pit Stop
Dumas brings in the #2 Porsche from second place.
The #7 Audi's last pitstop is now under investigation. Fassler has managed to get back on the same lap as the #12 Rebellion in the battle for fifth.
Penalty
Erik Maris cops a one-minute stop-and-go for speeding in a slow zone in his #22 Ligier.
Pit Stop
Menezes pits from the lead of LMP2, Rast in the driving seat ahead of Beche now.
GTE Pro update: Westbrook is chipping away at the gap between he and Vilander, which is now down to 57 seconds.

Muller in third is another 1m20s down.
A whole bunch of cars, including the #26 G-Drive car, are being investigated for slow zone speeds.
On the down-side, Hartley is down in 54th overall, 17 laps down on the next car in class, the #12 Rebellion.
Porsche must be following our feed - they get the #1 car back on track, still ahead of the #4!
Back at the front, only six seconds between the #6 Toyota and the #2 Porsche now, although Dumas is due in the pits next time round.
Incidentally, the #1 Porsche - now 37 laps down - is in danger of being overtaken by the #4 CLM on the timing screens.

Oh the ignominy.
Stopwatch
Rast down to 24s behind Menezes in the LMP2 duel.
Pit Stop
Conway pits the #6 Toyota from the lead.
Stopwatch
Conway's lead is out to over 1m15s out front.
It's been a tough Le Mans for Audi, this.
Corvette now in the top five in class thanks to Tommy Milner's efforts in the #64 car, the American just over a minute down on Thiim's #95 Aston.
GTE Pro-wise, still a minute between Vilander's Ferrari and Westbrook's Ford.
Pit Stop
#5 Toyota pits, so Buemi can get rid of the tyres he was moaning about. Think we're about ready for a Davidson switch? No, Buemi stays aboard.
Stopwatch
Over a minute separates the top two overall.  So LMP2 is really the battle to watch right now.
Alpine won't thank me for that, but, whatever - the Alpine is an Oreca really.
The top three in the baby prototype class - #36, #26, #46, all Oreca 05s - spread by under a minute now.
The #36 of Menezes now back in the lead of LMP2 following Rast's last stop.
Yellow Flag
Slow zone for that little episode.
The Italian is out of the car, that looks like it could be finished for the day.
Crash
Rigon in the gravel at the Esses in the #71 Ferrari.
Mechanical problem
We've lost a GTE-Pro Porsche 
Pit Stop
Rast pits from the lead of LMP2, Beche retakes the advantage in the #46 Thiriet by TDS car.
Stopwatch
Leader Conway's #6 Toyota is 1m11s out front over Dumas in the #2 Porsche.
So it's now Toyota-Porsche-Toyota-Audi at the front.
Dumas takes second from Buemi.
#5 Toyota and #2 Porsche have to go three-wide on Mulsanne Straight to pass backmarkers.
Green Flag
Green flag!
Video
Safety Car is coming in soon. So let's continue our quick highlights catch-up as we raced towards the darkness.

 

 

Mechanical problem
OFFICIAL: The #47 KCMG Oreca is our second retirement of the race. For real this time.
Not much happening out front in the darkness right now, second-placed Buemi is worried he won't be able to get heat into his well-worn tyres when the race resumes – especially with Dumas just behind him in the #2 Porsche.
There's a big change in GTE Pro too, with Vilander in the #82 Ferrari now leading by 1m47s from the #69 Ford of Westbrook.

Seems Muller got held up at the end of the pitlane in his last stop, costing him some two minutes.
Video
Then the race settled into a pattern between hours three to five, with some great racing action and a fair share of spins...

 

 

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