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WEC 24 Hours of Le Mans

Le Mans 24 Hours – Race

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All three of those cars change drivers - so it's Stevens in the #26, Leventis in the #42 and Petrov in the #37 now.
Shaitar himself, along with Rast in the #26 car, both in too.
Pit Stop
Kane pits the third-placed LMP2 Gibson, having built up a 20-second cushion over Shaitar in the BR01.
Looks like Kobayashi is about the jump on board the #6 Toyota.
Conway and Lieb are into the 3m22s as they scrap over second place.
Pit Stop
GTE Pro leaders on pit road - Malucelli stays in the #82 Ferrari, but Hand takes control of the #68 Ford.
Sun
Bright blue skies today, a far cry from yesterday's rain-soaked start.
300 Laps down for the leaders now as we hit 1000 local time at La Sarthe.
Lieb gets a good run through traffic and is right on Conway's tail now.
Muller continues to home in on the lead in GTE Pro, the Ford man is just six seconds behind Malucelli now.
Some on-board footage from Lieb's Porsche shows some pretty hardcore lift-and-coast action. Fuel saving becoming a factor as the race closes in on its final five hours.
The American, who is doing an excellent job on his Le Mans debut, returns to the track with 2 minutes in hand over Rast.
Pit Stop
Menezes pits the LMP2 class-leading #36 car.
Penalty
PENALTY O'CLOCK: The #77 Porsche (Eng) and the #44 Oreca (Merhi) both get drive-throughs for track limits violations.
At the front, Conway is gradually making ground on the leader. Gap is currently 26 seconds, with four more back to Lieb in third.
That one caught the attention of the stewards, who are now investigating the pair of US gentleman drivers.
Crash
Ligier-geddon! The #49 car of John Pew and the #40 of Tracy Krohn just came to blows at the first chicane.
Pit Stop
Meanwhile, Westbrook brings in the #69 for Briscoe to take over.
Muller absolutely flying in the #68 Ford now, he was 4s faster on the last lap than Malucelli. Won't be long before the two are nose-to-tail at this rate.
Quick shoutout for Chris Hoy, who is lapping at a very respectable pace in the #25 Ligier, which is 14th in the LMP2 class.
The LMP2 class-leading #36 is being investigated for its last pitstop...
Green Flag
Slow zone at the Porsche Curves cleared. Boogity boogity boogity, etc.
But the other Gibson in the field - a chassis which can trace its roots back to a 2002 Reynard - is in a strong third thanks to Strakka and its #42 entry.
The #6 Toyota has quickly built itself a three-second gap over Lieb in the Porsche.
The #44 Manor of Roberto Merhi is being reported to the stewards for 'constant abuse of track limits'.

Could be reaching for the penalty icon again soon, folks.
Quick GTE Pro update, Muller has the lead of Malucelli down to 23s now.
Things are tight between the #6 Toyota and the #2 Porsche since the last stops. They are running nose-to-tail.
Pit Stop
The #8 Audi pits from fourth. The #7 is back on track now too, with its running repairs completed.
Yellow Flag
Slow zone for the #50.
Nice pirouette by the Japanese amateur, rear-ends the barriers and gets stuck in the kittylitter.
Crash
The #50 Larbre Corvette of Yamagishi is in the gravel.
Yellow Flag
Double yellows at the Porsche Curves.
Pit Stop
Marc Lieb now pits in the #2 Porsche. That means the Top 3 have all made their latest round of stops.
Rast back on track, but that slow last stop for the #36 has put the G-Drive car back on the lead lap.
Pit Stop
And now we have Rast in from second in the P2 class. The German had reduced the #36 car's lead to 1m23s.
Pit Stop
Buemi brings the leading Toyota into the pits.
Pit Stop
Kane and Shaitar both in the pits after their frenetic tussle.
Shaitar gets it all wrong at the first chicane, Kane through into third.

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