Le Mans 2013 81st Le Mans 24 Hours
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8h33m LMP2: Pitstop for the chasing #24 car with a routine fill of fuel for Pla in the Oak Morgan.
8h31m LMP2: The Murphy Prototypes ORECA-Nissan is down in 14th in class following an ECU change, but Brendon Hartley is now aboard and probably has a good shout at making up ground if he can avoid any more technical problems.
8h31m LMP2: News from the #41 camp is that Lux had a moment under safety car that put the delayed Greaves Zytek into the barriers. He did eventually get it back to the pits and Tom Kimber-Smith is up to speed in 39th overall following a replacement of the front bodywork.
8h28m LMP1: The Toyota team are in the pits and awaiting one of the cars.
8h27m LMP2 Pla is getting a move on in the #24 as it battles back towards the front of P2. He's now just over a minute off class leader #35, which has recently been in for a stop.
8h25m LMP1: Marcel Fassler has made up a another spot on the last lap. He's in among the GTE Pro leaders now in 17th overall.
8h24m LMP1: Kristensen straight on at the first Mulsanne chicane, but it hasn't troubled the #2 Audi's progress.
8h23m GTE Pro: A brake-disc change for the #53 Viper of Marc Goossens. That car has had terrilble luck today and is down in 47th overall and 12th in class.
8h22m LMP1: A personal best time of the race for the #7 Toyota - the perfect response to that pressure from Sarrazin.
8h19m 
LMP1: Sarrazin now has the gap to his Toyota team-mate down to 10s - the #8 possibly lining up the #7 soon.
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LMP1: Sarrazin now has the gap to his Toyota team-mate down to 10s - the #8 possibly lining up the #7 soon.
8h18m LMP2: That looks to have sorted the drama for Greaves #41, while the #42 is in for service from third in class.
8h17m LMP2: Lux has made it back to the pits in #41 and the Caterham-backed Zytek looks ready to resume after a spell in the garage.
8h15m GTE Am: Paolo Ruberti pits from the class lead, takes fuel and tyres, and gets going in what looks to be second place, behind Pat Long's now-leading #77 Dempsey Del Piero Porsche.
8h14m LMP1: Marc Gene reports 'several things weren't going right' on the #3 Audi, which caused its long pitstop behind the safety car. Damaged front and side bodywork was changed, although the smart decision to pit under caution meant the car did not lose a lap.
Gene handed over to Lucas di Grassi at the same time as switching from hard to soft-compound Michelins.
Gene handed over to Lucas di Grassi at the same time as switching from hard to soft-compound Michelins.
8h14m LMP2: Oreca #34 is reported slow on the Mulsanne straight. Bleekemolen has just triggered the beam in the second sector and seems to be touring back to the pits.
8h14m LMP1: The #1 Audi pits from 21st, and it's away again. That was about 42 minutes faster than its previous stop.
8h11m LMP1: Once again the safety car puts the two Toyotas together - well, they are 17s apart - but they are a lap behind the #2 Audi.
8h11m 
GTE Pro: A big moment in the victory fight. Richard Lietz spins his #92 Manthey-run works Porsche at the ironically-named Porsche curves.
That drops the Austrian to third in class, behind Peter Dumbreck's #97 Aston Martin.
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GTE Pro: A big moment in the victory fight. Richard Lietz spins his #92 Manthey-run works Porsche at the ironically-named Porsche curves.
That drops the Austrian to third in class, behind Peter Dumbreck's #97 Aston Martin.
8h11m LMP2: But trouble for the other Greaves car as Eric Lux has been off at the second chicane. #41 is back on the road now after a long delay.
8h09m GTE Am: Tracy Krohn spins coming out of the second Mulsanne chicane; the #57 Ferrari coming so close to being clouted by Maxime Martin in the #46 TDS ORECA-Nissan. Martin is now sixth in LMP2.
8h09m LMP1: How that's shaken out at the front is like this: The #2 Audi leads the two Toyotas (headed by the #7), with di Grassi now in the #3 Audi in fourth.
8h07m LMP2: #35 remains in control of P2, while the battle for second in class is very much on as Pla in the Oak #24 and Mardenborough at the wheel of Greaves' #42 are just a couple of seconds apart as we resume racing.
Green flag
8h06m We're racing again.
8h05m LMP1: We're hearing that Audi #2 is reported to have overtaken a Corvette at Tertre Rouge under the safety car...We'll keep you posted.
8h04m LMP1: The #3 Audi returns to the track - it looked slow but seems to be okay now.
8h02m LMP1: Meanwhile, Toyota is taking the opportunity to service #8 and Sarrazin heads off to join the queue at the end of the pitlane.
8h02m Safety cars in this lap.
8h00m LMP1: This continues to put the #3 further behind the Toyota pair, having already dropped to fourth after an earlier puncture.
7h58m LMP1: The #3 has gone up on the jacks in its garage and the Audi squad go to work on some running repairs.
7h56m LMP1: ...And in does come the #3 Audi - but it's being wheeled into the garage!
7h55m LMP2 Cars being told to keep right at the scene of Graves' off, with plenty debris on the circuit.
7h55m LMP1: Yep, seems di Grassi is ready to jump aboard the #3.
7h54m LMP1: Tom Kristensen pit in the #2 Audi before that, with the team in the pitlane now - presumably for the #3.
7h53m LMP2 But it is the #25 Delta-ADR in the hedge at the entry to the first part of the Porsche Curves. Tor Graves it is indeed at the wheel of that damaged machine.
7h52m LMP2 The #33 Level 5 Motorsports car has returned to the pits with some major smoke billowing from the rear of the machine.
7h51m There's debris on the track, and car #25 - "Graves again!", we exclaim - is on the left-hand side of the track.
Yellow flag
7h50m Safety car is out - there's an incident at the Porsche Curves.
7h48m LMP1: In the battle for third, Marc Gene is closing in on the #7 Toyota, which is 34s up the road.
7h48m LMP2 Jota #38 has been making progress recently and is running second in class for the moment, though clocked over two minutes behind the leading #35.
7h47m The dramas of others have brought the leading LMP2 machine of Bertrand Baguette up to eighth.
The best GTE Pro car, the #99 Aston Martin of Bruno Senna, is 19th while the top GTE Am machine, that of Darryl O'Young, is 34th.
The best GTE Pro car, the #99 Aston Martin of Bruno Senna, is 19th while the top GTE Am machine, that of Darryl O'Young, is 34th.
By: Jamie O'Leary, Gary Watkins, Sam Tremayne, Scott Mitchell, Geoff Creighton, Matt Beer
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