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Kaffer rips the engine cover off the CLM-AER P1/01 as the red flag is shown
Red flag
Kaffer frantically tries to remove the rear bodywork while gesticulating to the marshals to get involved in salvaging the car before the flames do too much damage.
Red flag
Red flag. The ByKolles CLM is on fire on the Mulsanne Straight.
GTE PRO
Briscoe completes a hat-trick of personal best sector times and improves to a 3m57.223s. Bourdais did a personal-best first sector but the rest of the lap tailed off.
LMP2
Leutwiler is joined by Winslow and Nakano in that Race Performance entry. Ex-Prost and Minardi F1 driver Nakano missed last year's race, but has a best result here of fifth outright in 2011.
LMP2
Leutwiler is in the Race Performance ORECA and has run wide slightly but is able to continue. That car is 20th in LMP2.
LMP1
More action for Lotterer, who encounters three LMP2 cars doing a good job of trying to trip over each other after the second Mulsanne Chicane, including stamping on their brakes just as the #7 Audi was looking for a way through the cars that seemed to be spread all the way across the road.
GTE PRO
And with a return to slicks come a personal best first sector for the #69 Ford in the hands of Ryan Briscoe. Let's see if he can make it a Ford 1-2-3-4.
LMP1
Fun and games between Lotterer and Dumas at the start of the lap, swapping positions down the pitstraight, then both getting a bit hesitant into the first chicane when they remember it's only practice and the track is still damp off the racing line. The #7 Audi remains ahead, having briefly allowed the #2 Porsche onto its tail with a small error in the Porsche Curves on the previous lap.
LMP1
Dumas has been the quickest driver throughout this period of poor weather, and he's now within 10 seconds of the fastest dry-weather lap from earlier in the session.
GTE PRO
One school of thought here is that the Astons being on the Dunlop tyre might make that car, in the words of one rival GTE driver, "sensational" in mixed conditions. Turner posts a 4m07s, Jonny Adam a 4m08s, and while it's difficult to properly gauge with nobody else in Pro on track that is considerably quicker than some respectable drivers in GTE Am are managing.
Rain
The rain prediction is pushed back another 10 minutes to 17:50. Skies looking pretty bright by the pits at the moment.
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By: Geoff Creighton
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