Live text
WEC
24 Hours of Le Mans
2020 Le Mans 24 Hours Live Updates
Live AppleTV Race Audio
Live Standings
presented by
Stopped
Summary
Live Text
Sort by
LMP1
Buemi calls time on his stint, and Hartley picks up the baton in the #8 car. It's still Toyota from Toyota at the top.
Twitter
LMP2
Will Owen comes in for a stop in the #32 car, while Paul di Resta takes over from Hanson in the sister #22 machine. Gonzalez also stops in the Jota car, maintaining the LMP2 top three status quo.
GTE PRO
Now in the pits we've got GTE Pro leader Serra, who hands over to Calado.
LMP2
The #24 Nielsen car, which we've barely seen hide or hair of, gets off pit road very slowly indeed. Kapadia's on his way, but he's 19th in class.
LMP1
Race leader Kobayashi comes in for his stop, the 16th of the race for the #7 squad.
GTE AM
Sparks flying from the left-front corner of the #70 Am Ferrari which Takeshi Kimura dumped in the gravel at the chicane earlier on. Could it be a loose splitter or something more sinister?
LMP1
Bruno Senna ends that stint on board the #1 Rebellion, giving the reins to Gustavo Menezes. Still, each of the LMP1 cars are separated by a lap, so obviously it's such a close competitive field...
GTE AM
Amid that excitement, Farfus has brought the GTE Am leading Aston Martin into the pits.
GTE AM
One lap after Farfus, Adam now comes in too with the TF Aston.
GTE PRO
Tincknell is hanging onto the coat-tails of Calado and doing a thoroughly respectable job of keeping the Ferrari man honest. There are just 6s between the two leaders as we approach the halfway mark in around 33 minutes time.
LMP1
Dumas brings the #3 Rebellion into the pits, still fourth (and last) in the LMP1 rankings.
LMP2
Yellows out briefly, for what looked like the High Class car of Fjordbach (again). Meantime, Mikkel Jensen passed Capillaire after the Graff driver made a pitstop.
LMP1
A slow lap from Kobayashi just now: a 3m28.6s, more than six seconds slower than he managed around the eight and bit miles of the Circuit de la Sarthe. Probably just a bit of traffic.
GTE AM
Charlie Eastwood is back on board the #90 TF Sport Aston and piling the pressure on Augusto Farfus, who is running much older tyres on board his works-run #98 Vantage. Can the Northern Irishman find a way by in this ding-dong battle?
LMP1
Kobayashi follows up his 3m28s, with a 3m24s. That's still not the kind of lap time the race-leading Toyota has been doing so far. Hartley has just done a couple of 3m23s.
GTE AM
Having led the GTE Am class earlier, the race has gone somewhat downhill for the #75 Iron Lynx Ferrari which Rino Mastronardi has now beached in the gravel at the Porsche Curves. Plenty of enthusiastic big spins that would have impressed Torvill and Dean, but won't do much for his laundry bill...
Slow Zone
Sure enough, we have a slow zone to recover the stranded 488.
Twitter
LMP2
The gap between the two United cars is pretty much static at the top of the P2 order. Owen aboard #32 is a minute up on #2 di Resta in #22. That Owen is holding his own is impressive, because everything points to di Resta being on the fresher Michelins.
LMP2
Panis Racing decides to use the slow-zone period to release Canal from the #31, and lets Vaxiviere take over driving duties.
GTE PRO
For a bit of house-keeping, the #71 GTE Pro Ferrari has returned to the track, now with Davide Rigon at the wheel. He's four laps down now in sixth place.
LMP2
Dragonspeed brings the #27 in for a stop too. Still on board of the car is the team's Dutch driver, whose name is Renger and he dances in der Zande.
GTE AM
Farfus has rallied after that initial challenge from Eastwood to hold him at bay to the tune of 2.2s, with Collard currently 27s off the GTE Am lead in third aboard the #83 Ferrari.
Driver Out
It appears that the #37 car, the Jackie Chan DC Racing machine, has been disqualified for illegal repairs.
A 3m23.3s from Kobayashi on the first lap after the slow zone was removed, so there doesn't seem to be an underlying trend. Hartley was a tad slower than his team-mate that time around on a 3m23.8s. Yes, I am clutching at straws in the hope that #8 can make a race of this.
Pit stop
Hartley's in for a stop, as are the top three in the LMP2 class. Owen and Di Resta retain first and second in-class.
GTE AM
Having been baulked by Bird entering the pits last time, Collard mercifully has a cleaner run into the pits this time and is soon sent on his way again.
LMP2
Davidson takes over from Gonzalez in the Jota car, aiming to bring the car closer to the two United cars. Meanwhile, the #22 car of di Resta is now just 1.5s off of Owen in the #32 - so we have a battle for the LMP2 lead.
GTE PRO
Not much to report at the front in GTE Pro, Calado still leading Tincknell by 8.2s - a strong effort here from the ex-Ford man given his lack of experience in the Vantage GTE.
The battle for the lead in P2 shows how quickly things can change at Le Mans. The slow zone accounted for about half of Owen's one-minute advantage going down the swanne, the pitstop the other half.
LMP1
Kobayashi's been in for a slug of fuel, while Menezes keeps the #1 Rebellion on the same strategy and also comes in to pit.
GTE PRO
The #95 Aston hasn't really been in contention for victory since the early stages, but Westbrook is doing his best to keep the car in the mix on the tail end of the lead lap. He's just made a pit visit.
We're now halfway in the 2020 Le Mans 24 Hours. Who's still with us?
LMP2
The two United cars are literally nose-to-tail, #32 just holding sway from #22, some showing this from the Leeds-based team.
Twitter
LMP2
Onboard with di Resta shows that he's keen to get past Owen. Just 0.5s between them as they crossed the line last time by.
GTE AM
Collard has now overhauled Perfetti for third in GTE Am, the Porsche man though still owes us another stop.
LMP1
What's this? Leader Kobayashi is told "we might have an issue with the right-hand side turbo, we might have to stop."
LMP1
Kobayashi's last lap time was a 3m28s – hardly rapid.
By: Jake Boxall-Legge
Published:
Page:
