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WEC 24 Hours of Le Mans

Le Mans 24 Hours – Race

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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.
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.
Bill Sweedler (Scuderia Corsa Ferrari) a handy 3min30sec ahead of Hansson (Proton Porsche) in the battle for GTE Am honors.
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.
Buemi bashes out a couple of laps in the 3m23s to move over two seconds clear of the #6 Toyota.
Both those GTE Pro leading cars completed driver changers, by the way. Muller is now in the Ford, while Malucelli took over the Ferrari.
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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."
The gap had only been a few seconds before the #82 Ferrari and the #68 Ford dived into the pits.
Pit Stop
Both the GTE Pro leaders are in the pits.
The answer to that is no. Both Buemi and Conway sweep past unimpeded on the start/finish straight.
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?
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.
Unbelievable scenes - we're 17 hours into this race, and the top three are split by under two seconds!
Wow, Jani rejoins right behind the Toyota pair. This is gonna be fun!
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.
Pit Stop
The #2 Porsche has pitted from the lead.
Buemi has taken over P2 spot, but he's not pulling away from Conway.
Mechanical problem
The beaten and battered #4 ByKolles has become our seventh official retirement of the day, and the first in LMP1.
Porsche is up the road by 56 seconds
Well, the #5 overtakes the #6
Battle for 2nd between the Toyota teammates. Will they be allowed to race?
The #2 Porsche is actually leading overall after that dual Toyota pit stop.
Penalty
And it's a traffic jam. Saw an Audi flying up through there with the lights flashing.
Green Flag
Green, green, green.
Safety cars in this lap.
Sarrazin (#6) and Nakajima (#5) hand over their machines to Buemi (#6) & Conway (#5)
Pit Stop
The leading Toyota LMP1 duo pit together
Pit Stop
#66 Ford GT in the pit garage.
Pit Stop
The #7 Audi is back in the garage.
The action has really escalated since sunrise.
Crash
The #48 Murphy Prototypes machine has spun while trying to avoid running over the car in front of them. Ben Keating continues...
Pit Stop
The class-leading #36 in the garage for what we expect to be quick, taking advantage of the SC period.
Safety car
SAFETY CAR
Crash
And another LMP2 in distress ... #30 ESM stuck in the gravel.
Crash
The #46 Thiriet By TDS Racing, running 2nd in LMP2, is beached.
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...

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