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There are 180 drivers entered in this race, and 40 of them have making their first appearance in the race. This is a good chance for some of them to get a feel for the track in the wet.
LMP1
An onboard shot from the #2 Porsche shows it has not started raining yet at the opposite end to the pits - the track (and the car's windscreen) look dry on the run from Arnage to the Porsche Curves.
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LMP2
Taittinger and Berthon are both back in the pits, with the rest of the LMP2 field.
LMP1
Treluyer and Duval pit after just one lap on wets in the Audis.
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LMP1
While this wet running is useless from a qualifying point of view, it's extremely useful for the teams in terms of practice. They have a range of wet/intermediate tyre specifications to try, and it's never a bad idea to have some experience in the bag of driving in changeable conditions - you never know when you could end up on the wrong tyre in the race itself. With it being such a long lap as well, there's a lot of time to be gained or lost in these situations.
GTE PRO
Rigon, Franchitti and Ricky Taylor have crawled back to the pits in their Ferrari, Ford and Chevrolet respectively.
LMP2
Before the rain arrived, Tung in the Baxi DC Racing Alpine logged the fastest LMP2 lap,a 3m39s, about three seconds off the pace in the class set last night by Rast.
LMP1
Both Audis have headed out, as the Toyotas crawl back to the pits on slick tyres. One of the Porsches has been pushed out onto the pit apron - it's the #2 car and it heads back out with Lieb still at the wheel.
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LMP2
Only Taittinger in the Pegasus Morgan and Berthon in the Greaves Ligier are still on track in LMP2. But they are lapping fairly gingerly, and likely on the way back to their garages, for the moment at least.
GTE PRO
Hand pits at the end of his sixth lap. The only other driver to complete a comparable stint is Rigon in the #71 Ferrari – and the Ford's average is 2s a lap faster. That shouldn't be a true reflection of their relative race pace though.
Rain
The long-predicted rain has arrived on the pitstraight. Audi fits the #7 R18 with wets as it sits on the pit apron.
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LMP1
The ByKolles CLM has been out for a run - Kaffer turning a lap 14s off the pace but enough to get it onto the back of the LMP1 field in ninth overall.
LMP1
Both Porsches and both Audis are in the pits - both Toyotas and both Rebellions are still out there.
GTE PRO
And the turning weather isn't deterring those on track – Hand's completed a newest personal best of a 3m53.672s and is now onto his sixth lap. Calado, fresh out of the pits, has done a session best of 3m53.218s.
Rain
There's a thunderstorm approaching the circuit around the start of the lap, but the rain hasn't quite reached the circuit yet.
LMP1
Just in case you were wondering, the #8 Audi lost its best time from first qualifying last night – and a place to the sister car – for using more than the per-lap fuel allowance. The decision from the stewards states that there was a "breach of limitation of gasoline consumption" but we'll take that as a slip of the typewriter. Reckon Audi would have been in even worse trouble if they'd filled up with petrol by mistake.
Rain
Race control says rain is increasing in the north-west area of the circuit. There are certainly some nasty clouds around.
LMP1
It looks like we have a fire up of the ByKolles CLM in the garage, and the bodywork is going on for the car that missed yesterday's qualifying session following a big fire in practice. There was a little bit of smoke on fire-up, but that's normal, and nothing like as alarming as the smoke that was pouring from the car yesterday evening.
Welcome to Autosport's coverage of the final qualifying sessions for the 2016 Le Mans 24 Hours.
By: Geoff Creighton
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