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GTE PRO
All is as we left it in GTE Pro meanwhile, with Lynn still managing a gap of just over a second to Pier Guidi in the #51 Ferrari, Molina treading water over 1m15s back in third with, in turn, 90s in hand over Thiim in fourth. It just hasn't really happened for the #95 Aston today.
LMP2
A boatload of work is still going on with that #37 Jackie Chan DC Racing car. Having been in the battle for the lead of the LMP2 class earlier on, it's stranded in the garage missing half of its bits.
GTE AM
Francesco Piovaneti has pitted the #61 Luzich Racing Ferrari that Come Ledogar qualified on GTE Am pole. Oz Negri has taken it over again and will be hoping for a less eventful stint than at the start of the race when his Turn 1 spin triggered Preining's crash.
This one will never make Trivial Pursuit, but sportscar anoraks will love this historical fact. Mark Patterson became the oldest driver in Le Mans history when he climbed aboard the High Class Racing ORECA. He's three months short of his 69th birthday. His record was then trumped – and by some margin – when Dom Bastien left the pits in the #88 Dempsey-Proton Porsche. He's 74, and will turn 75 in November.
GTE PRO
Molina has been chasing shadows ever since his #71 Ferrari was held in the pits under the safety car for the Spengler/Gommendy accidents and the leading pair weren't. He now comes in from his lonely third place.
LMP2
The #39 Graff is in for a stop. Another car that figured heavily in the fight for the class lead, before Vincent Capillaire threw it into a spin at the Porsche Curves. It remains sixth for now, nestled between the Panis Racing of Jamin and the #27 Dragonspeed of Hanley.
Pit stop
Both GTE class leaders have now pitted - Lynn in the Pro class and Nielsen's Am Ferrari. Pier Guidi now cycles to the lead in Pro, as Eastwood does the honours in Am.
LMP2
Vergne's also in now, jumping out of the G-Drive machine to let Rusinov take control. Brundle just about makes it past to reclaim the LMP2 lead.
GTE AM
Eastwood still has Gunn lodged right on his bootlid. Great scrap between the two Astons - resuming the fight seen earlier between their more experienced team-mates Adam and Farfus.
LMP2
The second United Autosports car, of Albuquerque, has also cleared Rusinov. The Russian has fallen over 7s behind LMP2 leader Brundle. Meanwhile, da Costa jumps into the Jota car as Davidson calls his stint a day. Or night.
GTE PRO
Now in comes Pier Guidi from the GTE Pro lead. Will the Ferrari rejoin ahead of the #97 Aston? Meanwhile Lietz follows the WeatherTech car into the pits.
GTE PRO
Lietz keeps the same tyres as WeatherTech decide to change, so he comes out ahead. We didn't get to see his in-car footage, but we reckon some serious celebrating is going on inside the cockpit. Perhaps it even calls for breaking out the rarely-seen Emile Heskey DJ move.
LMP1
It's official: the ByKolles squad has finally called it a day and retired. And so, the CLM P1/01 will claim the ignominy of failing to finish six Le Mans races. 'Tis a shame.
Rain
It's tempting fate, but we've seen very little sign of the rain worsening as yet. But then again, as Jason Statham will have you believe, it always rains at Le Mans.
Now, idea for a team. If Emerson Fittipaldi, Lake Speed and Jolyon Palmer formed a line-up, it'd really please the Gen X'ers. A truly progressive squad.
GTE AM
After that segue, Eastwood becomes the last of the GTE Am lead bunch to pit on lap 115. We should note that Cairoli vacated the #56 Porsche for Larry Ten Voorde.
LMP2
The #50 Richard Mille team comes in for a driver swap - Calderon jumps out, and Floersch takes over. They're eighth in class, splitting the two Dragonspeeds as it stands.
LMP1
That's the #8 in and out of the pits, Buemi's on board, something something Burt Ward. Hey, this post writes itself!
GTE AM
Gunn and Nielsen right together after the eighth round of pitstops - it's a battle for second at present, as Eastwood has maintained his lead in the TF Sport car.
LMP2
We saw an Inter Europol skittering across the gravel, Isaakyan missing his marks at what looked like Arnage. He's back on, he just brought a bit of kitty litter with him.
GTE AM
If you don't know too much about Gunn, he's been a bit underutilised by Aston since joining its factory ranks at the end of the 2015 as the British GT4 champion alongside Jamie Chadwick. But the secret is well and truly out of the bag now, and his co-driver Augusto Farfus was raving to Autosport about his abilities on Friday.
LMP1
Nato's in for the #1 Rebellion team, with Senna presumably about to sub in for the French driver.
LMP2
Meanwhile, second-in-class Albuquerque jumps out to let Phil Hanson take over in the #22 car. Rusinov will presumably shuffle up to second.
GTE PRO
We've got a terrific battle for the GTE Pro lead unfolding now, as Maxime Martin is piling on the pressure to Alessandro Pier Guidi. The Aston has the fresher tyres, so a move could be on the cards.
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GTE PRO
And now we have a lead change as Martin makes the move stick into Mulsanne Corner.
LMP2
The #22 United Autosports car has been in, as Brundle ends his stint and Job van Uitert takes on some of the night shift. Meanwhile, Jota's da Costa has just passed Hanson for third in the LMP2 class.
LMP2
Rusinov takes over the lead of the LMP2 collective, with van Uitert second in that lead United Autosports car.
GTE PRO
Woops, a bit of a gravelly moment for Jeff Segal in the WeatherTech Ferrari through the Dunlop Curves. That car is back down in seventh in the Pro class now, ahead only of the much-delayed #92 Porsche after its power steering woes.
GTE PRO
Segal brings the Ferrari back to the pits, where it's pushed back into the garage. Lots of attention at the front end from the mechanics, and it looked like a brake disc being changed on the left-front.
LMP2
A shot of a nice battle between IDEC Sport's Lafargue and Nico Lapierre in the COOL Racing machine. That IDEC Sport car was way down at the start of the race, and it's now 12th in class. Elsewhere in LMP2, Floersch makes a stop.
GTE AM
Still the battle over second in GTE Am continues to rage between Gunn and Nielsen. This has the potential to go on and on - next up for both will be experienced campaigners Farfus and Collard.
LMP2
The #39 Graff of Allen, who enjoyed a monster first stint in this race, is in the pits for a splash of fuel.
LMP2
There's Rusinov, in for a refuel. The #26 G-Drive, once again, will have a #32 car ahead of it on leaving the pitlane. Da Costa won't be too far behind either.
GTE PRO
Segal now leaves the pits, but the WeatherTech car is four laps down on the leaders.
GTE PRO
Martin is continuing his strong pace in the lead of GTE Pro, and eked his advantage over Pier Guidi to 2.4s. Still though, you get the feeling there's more in the tank for both should they need it later on.
LMP2
Da Costa comes in for a stop, bringing Hanson up to third. The top four of the LMP2 class seems static, since the #31 Panis Racing is quite far behind.
LMP2
As I say that! That's a slow Rusinov, in that #26 G-Drive. "I lose the power", he reports, coming to a stop on the straight. A quick reset seems to have helped him, but that's going to cost him a ton of time.
GTE AM
We didn't clock it earlier, but the #75 Iron Lynx Ferrari which led the GTE Am class earlier on in the hands of Andrea Piccini before being pushed back in the garage has now rejoined, albeit four laps down and P17 in class. Matteo Cressoni is now at the wheel.
LMP2
Rusinov's pause has let both the #22 United Autosports car and the #38 Jota through too. The Russian has stopped once again - the car keeps cutting out and he's going to have to find a way to make it back to the pits.
By: Jake Boxall-Legge
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