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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.
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Slow Zone
Sure enough, we have a slow zone to recover the stranded 488.
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...
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
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
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.
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
Dumas brings the #3 Rebellion into the pits, still fourth (and last) in the LMP1 rankings.
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.
GTE AM
One lap after Farfus, Adam now comes in too with the TF Aston.
GTE AM
Amid that excitement, Farfus has brought the GTE Am leading Aston Martin into the pits.
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
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
Race leader Kobayashi comes in for his stop, the 16th of the race for the #7 squad.
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.
GTE PRO
Now in the pits we've got GTE Pro leader Serra, who hands over to Calado.
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.
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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.
GTE AM
It's getting close again in the GTE Am classification, with just 3.8s between Farfus and Adam. Those two enjoyed a fabulous battle at dusk earlier in which Farfus emerged the winner. Can Adam turn the tables?
LMP2
Rusinov's in for a big glug of fuel, as Mikkel Jensen tags in for the next shift in the #26 car.
GTE PRO
We jumped the gun a few minutes ago by saying it was Westbrook aboard the #95 - Sorensen now does come in to give way to the Brit, while Tincknell also comes in for a fuel top-up in second place.
LMP2
Here's van der Zande in the pits for Dragonspeed, who should retain the seventh-in-class spot. The Signatech Alpine is a way behind, with the Richard Mille team not far off the French outfit.
All these camera shots of sleepy mechanics aren't helping Autosport out here. Thankfully, McCoys and Digestives are on-hand.
GTE PRO
The issues for Bird have promoted the #95 Aston Martin of Marco Sorensen up to third - and more points for the WEC GTE Pro championship-leading crew if things stay like this. With its main rivals the #92 Porsche way down, it's looking good for the 'Dane Train' at the moment.
LMP2
I feel like I'm forever mentioning the #31 car's stops - but Canal's in and out of the box for the French squad. He's way behind the #38 Jota in third, but way ahead of the #26 G-Drive machine in fifth.
GTE PRO
The #71 car is wheeled into the garage and it looks like it might be more serious than just a puncture - the Ferrari mechanics pore over the stricken 488. Could it be a suspension failure?
Pit stop
Bird manages to bring the crabbing car back to the pits with what looks like a right-rear puncture, but inadvertently delays Collard as the GTE second-placed man comes into the pits. That'll hurt the #83 car in its quest to overhaul Farfus for the class lead.
GTE PRO
Problems for the #71 Sam Bird Ferrari! It's crawling slowly back to the pits with some ominous-looking puffs of smoke behind it.
LMP2
Rusinov clears Capillaire for fifth in class; the G-Drive pilot is making up for the earlier electronics issues that plagued the team, which took them out of the four-way battle for the LMP2 lead.
LMP1
Berthon gets out of the Rebellion, leaving the #3 car to Dumas.
LMP2
A few LMP2 stops - de Vries has been in, as has Montoya. Currently, Capillaire has just exited his pit stall having stopped too. Jakub Smiechowski has also just completed a stop for the Inter Europol squad in that yellow and green machine.
GTE AM
If there's one thing you learn when covering endurance racing, it's never discount Emanuel Collard. The veteran has chipped away at Farfus' lead in GTE-Am and just three seconds are in it at present.
GTE PRO
But the biggest beneficiary of all could be Bird, who gained a minute on the two cars ahead by not having to slow down - luck of the draw it seems - and is now just 1m20s off the lead in GTE Pro.
GTE PRO
Serra could be another to profit from the slow zone - he's extended his advantage over Tincknell to 10.5s, gaining 4s on that last tour.
LMP1
Kobayashi takes over from Conway in the leading #7 Toyota, and now leaves the pits. Senna's also stopping in the #1 Rebellion, third in class.
GTE AM
Matt Campbell's #77 Dempsey-Proton Porsche is marooned one lap down in GTE Am, but the timing of the slow zone might have helped his cause to get back in amongst the leaders as the Australian was in the pits at the time.
LMP2
The #38 Jota has also come in for a stop, while Roberto Merhi goes out in the #35 Eurasia car too. With numerous issues today, the Eurasia team hasn't had a Merhi old time of it.
Green flag
And we're back to green.
By: Jake Boxall-Legge
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