Le Mans 2013 81st Le Mans 24 Hours
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9h34m LMP2: Plenty of pace in the #46 TDS Oreca as Maxime Martin presses on. He's closing down Mike Conway in the G-Drive #26.
9h30m GTE Am: Patrick Dempsey, now free of an embarrassing photographer pitlane scrum, is circulating in the 4m10s, just a few seconds slower than class leader Gianluca Roda. Dempsey is currently second in class.
9h30m LMP1: Now he's in, a lap or so early. That was only 11 laps, despite the safety car.
9h29m LMP1: Sarrazin is pumping in the times a couple of laps away from his next stop.
9h25m GTE Pro: The #93 has been handed a 30-second stop and go penalty for a pit light infringement (or Article 82 for those in the know). It was the first car waiting in the pitlane during that safety car period.
9h23m 
GTE Pro: Second changes hands, as Marc Lieb demotes Darren Turner.
Le Mans 2013
GTE Pro: Second changes hands, as Marc Lieb demotes Darren Turner.
9h23m LMP1: TK pits out of the lead and Nakajima follows him in.
9h19m LMP1: Nakajima is now a lap down on the leader.
9h19m GTE Pro: The opposite is true of Rob Bell in the lead #99 Aston Martin, whose lead has stretched to just over two minutes following that safety car.
9h17m GTE Pro: More bad luck for the #73 Corvette, which once again gets stuck behind the second safety car and loses ground. Antonio Garcia has just taken over from Jan Magnussen.
9h16m LMP1: TK pumps in a 3m26, Sarrazin a 27 and Nakajima lags behind on a 3m31.
9h16m GTE Am: A stop for the #88 Proton Porsche puts Patrick Dempsey in the #77 up into the class lead.
9h14m Jean Todt is in race control. You wouldn't have caught the FIA president in there 25 or so years ago. Jean-Marie Balestre would have been shown the door.
9h13m 
LMP1: It's Toyota, Toyota, Audi across the line. Sarrazin, Nakajima and then Kristensen bidding for that one-lap safety margin.
Toyota WEC Le Mans 2013
LMP1: It's Toyota, Toyota, Audi across the line. Sarrazin, Nakajima and then Kristensen bidding for that one-lap safety margin.
9h12m LMP1: Just a couple of seconds between the pair of Toyotas as they continue to keep the pressure on the Audi squad.
Green flag
9h10m Green flag and the race is on again as the pack thunders past the pits.
9h09m LMP1: The big question is whether TK can put the Toyotas a lap down to create a safety margin for what is now perhaps a one-car bid for victory by Audi.
9h08m Safety car lights are going out on this lap.
9h01m LMP1: Kristensen, the race leader, is right behind the two Toyotas on track. We thought the #7 and #8 cars might be let go, the safety picking up the #1 Audi, but it hasn't happened.
9h00m LMP2: Opportunistic stop for the class leader as Baguette in #35 refuels and resumes behind a safety car train.
8h58m This is our fifth safety car of the race. The #57 is indeed backwards in the wall in the second part of the Porsche Curves. Marshals now streaming out to recover it.
Yellow flag
8h54m Safety car(s) deployed.
Crash
8h54m GTE Am: Yellow flags at Porsche Curves - the Krohn Ferrari is stopped and looks like it is backwards in the wall.
8h52m LMP2: More smoke from the #33 HPD as a blaze erupts again during Briscoe's latest stop. There's little concern in that camp though and he's down and away.
8h52m GTE Pro: Bit of a case of 'what might have been' for Corvette. After struggling to understand its qualifying deficit, getting caught out by the early safety car split and then a few offs, the #74 C6.R is two laps down but running at the same pace as the class-leading Aston. Good stuff from Tommy Milner.
8h51m LMP1: Nakajima is very, very close to Sarrazin now - he's pressuring for second.
8h50m LMP2: Pit action at Oreca as the #46 and #26, running 12th and 13th overall, drop in for a tank of fuel.
8h47m LMP1: Reports of Kristensen suffering vibration in the #2 Audi.
8h47m LMP2: Another spin for the KCMG #47 as Imperatori loops it around again. He resumes, 18th overall.
8h47m GTE Pro: Despite Lietz's spin, Pro is still mighty close. Lieb, now in the #92 car, is within 48s of leader Rob Bell, with Darren Turner roughly halfway between the pair.
8h45m LMP2: Turvey pushing on Mardenborough now as the pair both set fastest sector times in that scrap over third in P2. #38 is quicker through the middle part of the lap, closing the gap even further.
8h44m 
GTE Am: And speaking of the Am class, previous leader Darryl O'Young is now flying. He's now just 26s behind Dempsey, after setting a new race-best of 4m01.661s. He's gone fastest in the first sector next time round too.
Darryl O'Young Le Mans 2013
GTE Am: And speaking of the Am class, previous leader Darryl O'Young is now flying. He's now just 26s behind Dempsey, after setting a new race-best of 4m01.661s. He's gone fastest in the first sector next time round too.
8h43m LMP1: Sarrazin and di Grassi pit for Totota and Audi respectively. They were second and fourth on the road.
8h42m LMP2: Pla in #24 flashes past the pits with a gap of just over two minutes to the class-leading #35.
8h41m GTE Am: American actor Patrick Dempsey clambers into the #77 Dempsey Del Piero-Proton Porsche, currently second in class.
8h39m LMP1: In comes Kristensen; out goes Kristensen. 12th stop of the race for the #2 Audi.
8h38m LMP2: Quick lap there from Turvey in the #38 Jota Zytek. He's now just four seconds behind Mardenborough in the class-third Greaves #42.
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8h38m GTE Pro: Richard Lietz - "Aston Martin are doing triple stints, so we have to do the same thing. It's the only option."
8h37m GTE Pro: The third-placed Porsche pits to allow Richard Lietz to hand over to Marc Lieb.
The #92 machine remains third, behind Rob Bell's #99 Aston Martin. That's eight stops in the bag.
The #92 machine remains third, behind Rob Bell's #99 Aston Martin. That's eight stops in the bag.
8h34m 
LMP1: Fassler-watch: He's up to 16th, ahead of all the GTE Pros, but two laps behind the last of the lead eight LMP2s.
Audi Le Mans WEC 2013
LMP1: Fassler-watch: He's up to 16th, ahead of all the GTE Pros, but two laps behind the last of the lead eight LMP2s.
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