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LMP2
Albuquerque, no longer having to defend from Yamashita, is right on Allen's tail. Potential for a change in the class lead, if Albuquerque can find a bit more.
Driver Change
68-year-old Mark Patterson takes over from Yamashita in the High Class machine, as Job van Uitert switches out for Brundle in the #32 United Autosports car.
Pit stop
Allen, Albuquerque and Vergne all come in, then. A true battle off of the pitlane for the former duo's teams beckons.
GTE PRO
Lynn hands over the lead car to Maxime Martin, as Calado, Thiiim and Vilander pit one lap later.
Driver Change
Phil Hanson has taken over for Albuquerque in the #22 United Autosports car, with Rusinov replacing Vergne in the #26 G-Drive. Stevens reclaims the LMP2 class lead.
GTE AM
Plenty of pitstop action in GTE Am too - Gunn ends his excellent double stint to hand over to amateur Paul Dalla Lana in the #98 Aston, Eastwood and Cairoli stay out one lap longer before handing over to Salih Yoluc and Larry Ten Voorde.
LMP2
Allen has stayed in the #39 Graff car, taking a shorter stop as van Uitert is battling away with United Autosports stablemate Hanson.
Interesting to note that a lot of the P2 teams are getting their amateurs into their cars. With rain forecast and a long night ahead, getting some of the silver or bronze's allocation out of the way when the conditions are good is a wise move. The minimum drive time for each driver across all the classes is six hours.
LMP1
Conway is in to make his third stop, allowing Buemi to retake the lead.
GTE AM
Problems for the #54 Ferrari started by Fisichella - that had just been taken over by Francesco Castellacci, but is pushed back into the garage and is receiving some attention from the AF Corse mechanics.
LMP2
A spokesperson for Racing Team Nederland has said that the #29 car was afflicted with an engine issue, with took two stops to fix. Giedo van der Garde is still on board.
GTE PRO
Through that second phase of pitstops, Ferrari has taken the lead back again - Molina now heads Maxime Martin (in for Alex Lynn) by about the same margin it was trailing before the stops, 2.6s. Alessandro Pier Guidi is now aboard the #51 Ferrari which remains third, while Marco Sorensen is now aboard the #95 Aston Martin in fourth.
LMP2
Van Uitert, having cleared Hanson, dropped a wheel into the gravel at Arnage. But he carries on, retaining the position so far.
LMP2
After a fraught start to Le Mans, the Racing Team Nederland entry has now cleared the GT field. Frits van Eerd takes over the car. Class leader Stevens pits, having been off-sync with the rest of the LMP2s.
GTE AM
Dalla Lana continues to lead the GTE Am class by 17s over Yoluc, but Ten Voorde is making inroads into the Turkish driver - the gap down from 9s to 7s in a matter of laps for the Porsche driver. Then it's a yawning 1 minute gap back to Aaron Scott's #55 Spirit of Race Ferrari in fourth place, and he has Matteo Cressoni (#75 Iron Lynx Ferrari) and Tom Blomqvist (#72 Hub Auto Racing Ferrari) chasing behind.
LMP2
Allen, still on board the Graff car, is back out in the lead - with the da Costa-piloted Jota is up to second - albeit 15s in arrears.
GTE AM
Vutthikorn Inthraphuvasak is now aboard the #99 Dempsey Proton Porsche that was fourth in GTE Am prior to that last round of stops. But the Thai driver is currently lapping in the 4m08s bracket - a full 10s slower than the cars ahead and has just dropped to eighth behind Nielsen, who is triple-stinting the #83 Ferrari which had to make an extra stop earlier on.
GTE PRO
Still just 10s between the leading trio in GTE Pro, with Molina 2s ahead of Maxime Martin and Pier Guidi 8s further back. Sorensen has lost a bit of time in the #95 Aston and dropped 16s behind the third-placed man.
LMP1
Here's Buemi in to pit, then, which will give the lead back to Conway. Plenty of lead-swapping between these two Toyotas, as they're out of sync.
GTE PRO
Molina's advantage over Maxime Martin has completely disappeared. There's absolutely nothing between them now at the front.
GTE PRO
Sure enough, there's a lead change as Martin drafts past Molina into the first Mulsanne chicane to retake the lead in GTE Pro.
LMP2
The High Class car, having been in the thick of the action with Yamashita on board, has dropped to 10th in class with Patterson with his finger on the button. He's way ahead of the Cetilar car, but 5s off of John Falb in the Algarve Pro Racing machine.
GTE AM
Lead change in GTE Am. Dalla Lana had a 4m29s lap and drops to third - new leader is now Ten Voorde, who has also cleared Yoluc.
LMP2
With Allen waltzing away in the LMP2 class lead, the battle for second is hotting up - with van Uitert winding in da Costa. Da Costa reports he's good on tyres for now.
GTE AM
It was unseen by the cameras, but an Aston Martin spokesman says Dalla Lana had a moment at the Porsche Curves. Fortunately the car appears undamaged - and he's still going in third, 43s up on Blomqvist.
LMP2
Da Costa and van Uitert now make pitstops, and will presumably cede second and third in the LMP2 class.
GTE PRO
It's fairly nip and tuck in the battle for sixth in GTE Pro, as Jeff Segal's WeatherTech Ferrari heads Richard Lietz in the polesitting #91 Porsche by around half a second. Lietz seemingly unable to get close enough to pass though.
LMP2
LMP2 leader James Allen makes a stop, as does Phil Hanson in the #32 car and Rusinov in the #26. Allen ends his almost two-and-a-half hour stint, allowing Vincent Capillaire to take over.
GTE PRO
These laps stuck behind Segal are really hurting Lietz - Christensen is 25s up the road and lapping 1s faster per lap at the moment.
LMP1
ByKolles brought Dillmann in for a stop, and with it, our first LMP1 driver change. Oliver Webb, a long-time ByKolles stalwart, takes the wheel.
LMP2
Mr. Newbold, who is excellently handling the GT side of affairs today, has reminded me that Capillaire was the driver whom Kobayashi mistook for a marshal back in 2017, which created a chain of events that ended that Toyota's race. Let's hope any interactions between the two today are less troubled.
Driver Change
Driver swaps for the two Rebellion cars: Senna hands control of the #1 car to Gustavo Menezes, who was phenomenal in qualifying, as Romain Dumas takes over from Berthon in the #3.
GTE PRO
Maxime Martin pulled out two seconds on Molina on that last tour, which has made his lead a more healthy-looking 2.9s.
GTE PRO
Christensen meanwhile pits the #92 Porsche from fifth in GTE Pro.
LMP1
Kobayashi duly takes over for Conway in the #7, as the first of the two Toyotas makes a driver swap. A good opening stint from Conway.
LMP2
Jackie Chan DC Racing's Stevens now leads the LMP2 class, from Jota's Da Costa, UA's van Uitert and Graff's Capillaire. Then it's UA #32 driver Hanson, Rusinov in the G-Drive, and Duqueine's Konstan Tereshchenko.
GTE PRO
Our man Josh Suttill has just been speaking to Kevin Estre via Zoom - the #92 Porsche is stopping earlier than the rest because of a puncture Christensen sustained from debris.
GTE PRO
More GTE Pro pitstops now as Molina comes in from second. Porsche might want to consider bringing Lietz in too for an undercut on Segal - the two are chained together, but the Austrian doesn't seem to have the acceleration he needs off the corners to pass.
GTE PRO
And sure enough Lietz does come in, which now puts Olivier Pla in the Risi Ferrari onto Segal's tail.
GTE AM
In GTE Am, Nicklas Nielsen is still aboard the #83 Ferrari and has climbed up to fourth, passing Tom Blomqvist despite that extra stop earlier on. Out front, Ten Voorde has stretched his advantage over Yoluc to 27s, with Dalla Lana 7.8s behind the TF Aston in third.
By: Jake Boxall-Legge
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