WEC Silverstone 6 Hours
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This race is still exciting, with Toyotas running line astern out front, Tincknell less than one second ahead of James Calado in the GTE Pro lead battle and GTE Am also neck and neck.
But that first hour was especially action-packed. Check out this quick highlight reel of Hour 1 at the Silverstone 6 Hours to refresh your memory.![WEC 6 Hours of Silverstone - start highlights - WEC Videos]()
But that first hour was especially action-packed. Check out this quick highlight reel of Hour 1 at the Silverstone 6 Hours to refresh your memory.
WEC 6 Hours of Silverstone - start highlights - WEC Videos
WEC Videos. Start action from the 2018 WEC 6 Hours of Silverstone.
A correction to our earlier info about the #56 Team Project 1 Porsche. Bronze driver Egidio Perfetti jumped in rather than Bergmeister. But he's still leading GTE Am, 1.1s ahead of Salih Yoluc.
Green flag
We're back under green.
LMP1
Alonso came in for a pit stop too, so it's as you were out front. Conway leading in the #7 Toyota, Alonso second in the #8.
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The #7 Toyota pitted and had its tail end bodywork replaced. It appears to have been precautionary - Mike Conway's engineer explains to him over the radio they found nothing untoward.
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Here's a look at that earlier Alonso pass on three GTEs in one swift movement. Hardly a Sunday drive.
That ByKolles car isn't moving on its own. A flatbed truck is here to collect the stranded #4 LMP1 machine.
So the yellow was simply for lots of bits of bollard accumulating at Brooklands - cars like taking plenty of kerb there - and Binder's mistake came from not reacting quickly enough to it.
There was a cascading effect there. Cars were slowing for that full course yellow but Rene Binder was slow to react, going off-track to avoid another car exiting Aintree and spinning out.
Crash
Oh, erm, there might be another reason. The ByKolles car is pointing the wrong way on the Wellington straight.
Yellow flag
A full course yellow is thrown by race director Eduardo Freitas. There's lots of debris at Brooklands.
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Priaulx put in a mega stint in the #67 Ford, carving his way up to the lead before handing over to Harry Tincknell.
"The start was really difficult with cold tyres. I had a car broadside in front of me, so I had to curve my way back through."
"The start was really difficult with cold tyres. I had a car broadside in front of me, so I had to curve my way back through."
GTE PRO
Interesting strategy choice by Aston Martin here. They've elected to stack their cars, Thiim in the #95 first and then Maxime Martin in the #97.
Conway got run a little bit wide at Abbey while lapping a GTE Porsche, which allowed Alonso to close up.
LMP1
Alonso has caught up to Mike Conway now and is darting around looking for a move!
There are driver changes all around in both Pro and Am at these stops.
Lots of pitstops happening now in both GTE Pro and Am. Tincknell takes over from Priaulx, handing Ford team-mate Mucke the lead for a single lap.
That Project 1 Porsche will probably be back in the lead battle sooner rather than later though. Lindsey climbs out and is replaced by Jorg Bergmeister. A two decade veteran of Porsche sportscar racing.
GTE AM
Lead change in GTE Am. Patrick Lindsey brings the #56 Porsche into pit lane. Charlie Eastwood is now first.
A hare has joined the race. It shoots across the Hangar Straight right in front of the #61 Clearwater Racing Ferrari, just avoiding being run over. Eek!
LMP2
Oops! Romano Ricci spins the #50 Larbre Competition Ligier at Village. Nothing untoward, simply an innocuous slow speed rotation all on his own.
LMP1
Alonso pits from second place.
GTE PRO
And actually Christensen didn't stay in the #92 Porsche. Kevin Estre has jumped back in already. That's awfully early for a second driver change in GTE.
Interestingly Andlauer didn't stop but is now 15 seconds behind Eastwood. Not sure what happened there.
GTE AM
GTE Am's podium battle has come to a head. Eastwood has caught class leader Patrick Lindsey.
GTE PRO
Christensen brings the #92 Porsche to the pitlane. They double stinted that set of tyres and it showed in those last few laps. New boots fitted, a top-up of fuel, and off he goes.
LMP1
Oh crikey. Alonso isn't messing about. He sweeps around the outside of three GTE cars at Stowe. If any of those had lost grip mid corner it could have been messy!
GTE PRO
Thiim and Lietz are still running nose to tail. But they've now caught Michael Christensen in the second Porsche in fourth place too.
He's on his way fine enough though it seemed a tad unnecessary. That Porsche would still have needed to turn left at Farm at full tilt and its driver probably wouldn't have been expecting an LMP2 to suddenly appear there. Maybe just as well Maldonado went off, then...
Crash
More Maldonado shenanigans. He tries to lap one of the GTE Porsches around the outside at Abbey. He runs wide and through the tarmac run-off.
Stopwatch
Looking at their laps since both the #7 and #8 had driver changes, that's been a consistent theme so far. Alonso quicker in the opening sector, but Conway gaining that time back across the rest of the lap.
Conway sets a new fastest lap to boot, though Alonso went purple in sector one.
LMP1
A quick update on what's going on out front. The Toyotas are holding station, though Alonso continues to peg Conway's advantage at 1.9s.
GTE AM
Andlauer just turned the GTE Am timing board purple again, this time in every single sector. Yet still behind Eastwood. Surely it's a matter of time until he takes second?
GTE PRO
Well, it was inevitable. After a disastrous start we now have a Ford 1-2. Mucke has passed Bird for second place, with Priaulx already 10 seconds up the road in first.
He tried to follow one of the Toyotas through the lapped traffic there but he was a little bit too far back to try that.
Crash
Oooooh, that was risky from Maldonado. Taking a lot of kerb at Village, he has a half spin and tags the #71 Ferrari.
Autosport
Thiim has likely clocked up thousands upon thousands of laps around here virtually, as he's a keen gamer. Speaking of which, there's a new Le Mans Esports series you can enter.
The winner even gets to celebrate on the real 24 Hours of Le Mans podium next year. That's pretty cool.
The winner even gets to celebrate on the real 24 Hours of Le Mans podium next year. That's pretty cool.
Lietz is using the wide line at Luffied while Thiim keeps it tight to the apex. It gives Lietz a run towards Copse but it's not enough. Good defending from the Aston Martin driver.
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