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WEC 24 Hours of Le Mans

Free practice and qualifying

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The most laps completed so far this session is 31 by the #26 G-Drive Jota ORECA
LMP1
Webber gets down to a 3m26.717s - 1.5s off the #1 Porsche's best. That suggestions conditions are rapidly improving.
LMP1
And Buemi goes second fastest in the #5 Toyota with a 3m25.223s.
Glenn Freeman
The CLM went past us on a truck. Majority of the fire damage seemed to be quite far forward, right behind the cockpit.
LMP1
Lieb puts the #2 Porsche up to second with a 3m25.186s, knocking Buemi down to third.
LMP2
The SO24! by Lombard Ligier has been summoned to pitlane to fix a telemetry issue. Vincent Capillaire, Jonathan Coleman and Erik Maris are the drivers of that car, Coleman is behind the wheel at the moment.
GTE PRO
Philipp Eng is making the most headway at the moment. He shaved around five seconds off the #77 Dempsey Proton's best lap on his previous tour, and has just set a personal-best first sector.
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Lapierre's new LMP2 benchmark is a couple of tenths up on the best time in the class in practice last year. That was a 3m39.897s, set by the KCMG ORECA Lapierre was driving with Howson and Bradley.
GTE PRO
Vilander goes faster once more to make sure of the fastest time, a 3m54.180s.

That was just as well, too, as Gianmaria Bruni takes the #51 up to second, 0.137s further back.
LMP1
Kraihamer looked like he was going to improve in the #13 Rebellion after setting the car's best time in the first and second sectors, but the 26-year-old brings the car back into the pits. Remember, Kraihamer is actually part of the crew that currently holds second in the drivers' championship along with Imperatori and Tuscher!
Stopwatch
Hartley improves the #1 Porsche fastest time of the session, setting a 3m24.594s.
GTE AM
Townsend Bell has just broken the #88 Proton Porsche's stranglehold on the fastest Am time, dragging the #62 Scuderia Corsa Ferrari 0.4s clear.
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Standings with 50 minutes remaining: 1 Hartley, 3m24.594s; 2 Duval, 3m24.852s; 3 Lieb, 3m25.186s; 4 Buemi, 3m25.223s; 5 Treluyer, 3m25.526s; 6 Conway, 3m26.211s.
LMP2
Gommendy is back in the Eurasia entry that's currently second. He led the way in LMP2 before Lapierre's effort.
GTE PRO
Bruni is now fastest, usurping Vilander's time by 0.3s.
Stopwatch
Jani puts the #2 Porsche into top spot with a 3m24.489s lap. So it's a Porsche one-two for now.
LMP1
Sarrazin has also improved the #6 Toyota's time to a 3m25.321s. That car is now fifth.
LMP2
The SO24! by Lombard Racing Ligier has been summoned to pitlane again to fix its telemetry.
LMP1
Remember, we only have eight LMP1 cars still running in this session after the #4 CLM caught fire and caused a red flag earlier on
LMP1
Sarrazin goes fourth fastest now on a 3m25.011s.
GTE PRO
Sam Bird in the #71 AF Corse gets a track limits warning.
Stopwatch
Di Grassi goes fastest in the #8 Audi on a 3m22.985s.
LMP2
Gommendy improves to a 3m40.754s but remains second in LMP2.
LMP2
Chatin now jumps up to second in LMP2 in the Panis Barthez Competition Ligier. His 3m40.308s is about equidistant between Lapierre and Gommendy.
Stopwatch
And Hartley retakes top spot for the #1 Porsche on a 3m22.560s.
LMP2
Lapierre improves to a 3m37.225s, but that doesn't move the #36 Signatech Alpine ORECA up a position. It's still third.
GTE PRO
Another improvement - this time from Makowiecki, who sets a 3m54.918s. The #92 Porsche is down to last year's pole time...but 3.5s off this year's pace.
LMP1
Another improvement for the #8 Audi as it plays catch-up - di Grassi gets down to a 3m22.8s to put the second Audi just half a tenth behind the #7 machine. It stays sixth.
GTE PRO
Dirk Muller rams home the fact that this is looking more and more like a two-marque race by going fifth quickest in the #68 Ford on a 3m52.173s.
Crash
Makowiecki is pushing hard - a little too hard. He just spun exiting the Ford chicane, but got going again quickly enough.
LMP2
A purposeful-looking Danny Watts jumps into the #42 Strakka Gibson. Looks like he might have a late qualifying shot to try and move that car up from its current seventh place.

By: Geoff Creighton

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