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GTE AM
Giancarlo Fisichella is on the move in GTE Am, he's just taken fourth from Andlauer and is chipping away at the 12s gap to Cairoli ahead.
LMP1
Buemi's right on the back of Conway, after a long stop for the #7 car. Buemi gets through, but will need to stop again in a few laps.
GTE PRO
There's a bit of a bottle-neck building up behind fifth-placed man Bourdais in GTE Pro, with Vilander - recovering after losing ground in the first pitstop - now up to sixth chomping at the bit behind him, and still being chased by the Porsches of Bruni and Christensen.
LMP2
Allen clears Albuquerque for second in class. "How the hell can he be so quick?", Albuquerque enquired on the radio.
That's only 10 laps for the race-leader, but it appears that it short-fuelled at the previous stop. It was in pitlane for only 57s. That one was 1m07s, so pretty much a regular fuel stop. Senna went 11 laps as per the new EoT.
GTE PRO
Calado may have taken third from Thiim, but he needs to get a wiggle on if he's going to catch team-mate Molina, who is 10s up the road.
LMP1
There's Conway in the pits, as Senna also stopped.
LMP2
Having stopped earlier, Stevens now sits in front of the LMP2 field - and the LMP1 ByKolles as well.
That's 11 laps on a tank of gas for the #3 Rebellion - a smidgeon of good news for those hoping for an upset win here. The Equivalence of Technology has been adjusted to equate the number of laps the privateer P1s can go between pitstops. They're meant to be hitting 11 laps, the same as the Toyotas, and they are. Last year, the TS050s had a one-lap advantage.
LMP2
Albuquerque, Allen and Vergne from the front of the LMP2 field, as does Cetilar's Giorgio Sernagiotto.
GTE PRO
Christensen is frustrated over the radio in the #92 car as he can't use his fresh tyres with Bruni just ahead of him. He'll be even more frustrated after losing P7 to Vilander into the second Mulsanne chicane.
LMP1
Rebellion brings the #3 car in, switching the rear bodywork around. The ByKolles has also made a second stop.
Driver Change
Davidson jumps out of the Jota LMP2 entry, and lets Formula E champ Antonio Felix da Costa take the wheel.
LMP2
It's the second round of stops in LMP2-land. Yamashita, Brundle, Davidson and Trummer make stops, as Jamin takes over from Vaxiviere in the Panis car.
GTE PRO
Change for third meanwhile in GTE Pro as Thiim gets baulked by an Iron Lynx Am Ferrari into the first Mulsanne Chicane and gets a poor exit too, making it easy for Calado to draft past him.
Race control is telling us there's a floppy on track at the Dunlop Chicane. That's not an errant rabbit or hare a la Silverstone back in the day, but one of those plastic corner markers that someone has knocked over.
GTE AM
We didn't see it at the time, but Nicklas Nielsen in the WEC GTE Am points-leading #83 Ferrari has had two pitstops, which explains why it's now back P13. Unlucky for some...
LMP1
At the front of the LMP1 pack, Conway has a 56s lead over Senna. That's quite the margin.
LMP2
The #28 IDEC Sport car has a door open, which can't be in the slightest bit aerodynamically efficient. When is a door not a door? When it's ajar.
GTE AM
Meanwhile in GTE Am, Gunn continues to lead after the first stops and has a 7s lead over the TF Aston of Eastwood, with Cairoli's Porsche still in third. Julien Andlauer is fourth in the #99 Porsche, then it's ex-F1 man Giancarlo Fisichella aboard the #54 Ferrari and Matt Griffin's #55 Ferrari.
The Goodyear airship is hovering over the Le Mans paddock. If there were fans here, those of a certain age would be looking up with teary-eyed romanticism. I remember seeing one of its predecessors at Brands Hatch for the British GP in 1980. We had the Red Arrows and a flypast from Concorde. Better still there was a demo by a Harrier jump-jet that was 'parked' on the infield at Clearways for the first part of the race.
LMP1
Buemi's early second stop has left him fourth so far, dropping behind the second Rebellion of Berthon too.
LMP2
Van der Garde, now back on track following early trouble in this first hour, nearly gets clattered into by a GT car. He manages to avoid any collision at any rate.
GTE PRO
Bruni meanwhile has gotten back up to fifth - despite his penalty - after coming in during the slow zone, while Bourdais is now ahead of the #92 Porsche and Vilander has dropped back to last of the GTE Pro runners.
GTE PRO
So how have the pitstops shaken up the order in GTE Pro? Lynn continues to lead from a Ferrari, but it's now the #71 car of Molina in second, ahead of Thiim with Calado down to fourth. Perhaps the slow zone paying a benefit to the #71 Ferrari crew there?
LMP2
A couple of LMP2 driver not bothering with the course; Yamanaka looks to have got going and tried to clear some GT cars at Tertre Rouge, while the Eurointernational car also slipped off the road.
LMP2
We missed Allen clear Brundle for third in the LMP2 class. The Graff driver is now just 3s behind Yamashita - while Albuquerque has a rather handy 9s lead at the front of the class.
GTE PRO
Now in come the rest of the GTE Pro field - Calado, Thiim, Vilander and Estre all pit, with Christensen taking over the #92 Porsche from Estre.
LMP2
The #21 Dragonspeed, currently piloted by Juan Pablo Montoya, has a 20s penalty.
LMP1
Naturally, Buemi's stop lifts the #1 Rebellion into P2. Buemi seems to have struggled with a vibration on his left-rear, grabbing a new tyre in that stop.
LMP1
Buemi is in for a second stop too, having had a fair bit of radio chatter. New tyres for the #8 Toyota.
GTE PRO
Lynn and Bourdais now pit in GTE Pro, so Calado moves back to the lead. Miguel Molina has taken over the #71 Ferrari from Davide Rigon.
GTE AM
GTE Am leader Gunn now comes in at the end of lap 12, cycling Eastwood to the lead for TF Sport.
LMP2
Stevens has made a second stop at the close of the slow-zone period.
GTE AM
Several pit-callers from GTE Am too, with Matt Griffin, Jeroen Bleekemolen, Andrea Piccini, Michele Beretta and Christian Reid coming in.
GTE PRO
This could be a good time for drivers to pit with the slow zone in place. Rigon is joined in the pits by Bruni, who remember will have to serve that extra 5s penalty for Makowiecki's FP3 infraction.
LMP2
Brundle's getting a much better rub of the green in traffic, bringing him up to the rear of Yamashita as they go into the slow-zone.
GTE PRO
Thiim has dropped off the back of Calado a bit and is now coming under pressure from the second Ferrari of Davide Rigon. Or, at least he was before Rigon came into the pits.
GTE AM
We've not seen any further movement from the #88 Porsche of Preining after that altercation with the wall at the Dunlop chicane, while the #59 MR Racing Ferrari has also been stuck in the pits since lap five.
LMP2
Big off! That's the Eurasia car of Yamanaka off in the gravel at the start of the lap. Yellow flag, then, with a full slow zone.
By: Jake Boxall-Legge
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