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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
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.
LMP1
That's the #8 in and out of the pits, Buemi's on board, something something Burt Ward. Hey, this post writes itself!
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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 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
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.
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
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.
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.
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 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.
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 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.
LMP1
Deletraz in the #3 Rebellion comes in for his stop, and duly swaps roles with Nat Berthon, who takes over.
LMP2
Brundle's into the pits in the #32 United Autosports car, bringing Vergne into the lead.
Driver Change
The Signatech Alpine jumps in, Ragues swapping places with Thomas Laurent - who takes over the LMP2 machine.
GTE AM
Behind the top four, the #77 Dempsey-Proton Porsche - remember, the one started by Christian Reid that dropped like a stone from second - has made it back to fifth and is now in the hands of Riccardo Pera. It was a tad unfortunate because factory driver Matt Campbell lost a decent chunk of his stint to the safety cars, nullifying the pace advantage he would have had over the Ams ahead of him had the track been green. Pera is fighting gamely to make up a deficit of over two minutes to the cars ahead.
LMP1
Nato in the #1 Rebellion also pitted, but the LMP1s are so spaced out there's no positional changes forthcoming. Lopez in the leading Toyota now comes in to stop.
GTE AM
After the initial excitement of the restart when Gunn, Cairoli, Nielsen and Eastwood were separated by just a few seconds, it's rather settled down now with Nielsen leading Eastwood, Gunn and Cairoli, We didn't see how it all shook out - but what's clear is Nielsen has a 7s lead in the car that had to make an unscheduled extra stop early on because of a puncture. Gunn keeping Eastwood honest though in the battle for second.
LMP2
Now, Albuquerque comes in, which lifts Davidson up to third in class. Given the Panis car of Jamin is a lap behind, Albuquerque will retain fourth place.
LMP2
At the top of the LMP2 order, Vergne is right on Brundle's six. Albuquerque is 6s behind them, with Davidson almost another 6s behind.
GTE PRO
It's groundhog day for Richard Lietz - he's still stuck behind the WeatherTech Ferrari, this time being driven by Vilander. I think he'd be able to draw that car blindfolded when he gets out if he wanted to. Which he wouldn't, he's probably sick of the sight of it.
LMP2
Now, Davidson's having to hack through a lot of traffic. The Cetilar car of Lacorte was difficult to put a lap on, which has opened the gap that the car of Albuquerque had ahead.
Driver Change
Another Live driver change, and Newbold and I are back to see you into half-distance.
GTE AM
It's all change at the front of the GTE Am field, as Nielsen has hauled the #83 AF Corse Ferrari into the lead ahead of Eastwood in the #90 TF Sport Ferrari entry. Gunn has dropped to third place in the #98 Aston.
LMP1
The #8 Toyota pits from second place. Just a fuel stop as Nakajima stays in the driving seat for another stint, still one lap down on the sister #7 car.
GTE PRO
Pier Guidi is also right on the tail of the GTE Pro leader Lynn. Molina in the #81 AF Corse is more than a minute behind the leading duo in third place but remains on the lead lap.
GTE AM
It's a power steering issue for the ex-GTE Am leaders in the #75 Iron Lynx, a similar issue to the one which crippled the chances of the #92 Porsche in GTE Pro earlier in the race.
Its loss is firmly the gain of Gunn in the #98 Aston and Cairoli in the #56 Porsche, who are within a second of each other as the race restarts.
Its loss is firmly the gain of Gunn in the #98 Aston and Cairoli in the #56 Porsche, who are within a second of each other as the race restarts.
Green flag
Green flag - off we go again!
LMP2
With Vergne pitting moments ago it has released Brundle into the class lead in the #32 United Autosports, but both of them and third-place Davidson in the #38 JOTA are in the same safety car train. This restart is going to be busy.
An interesting factoid regarding the repairs for #8: it's the first time that a Toyota has gone back into the garage during the race since 2017.
Information
This third safety car period shouldn't last too long though as it appears to be a precaution to allow the crew who repaired the Armco barrier to safely leave the track at the first chicane on the Mulsanne Straight.
GTE AM
Drama in the GTE Am class as the long-time leading #75 Iron Lynx Ferrari is pushed back into its garage.
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