Le Mans 2013 81st Le Mans 24 Hours
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22h16m GTE Pro: Turner pits from the lead in the #97 Aston.
22h15m GTE Pro: Patrick Pilet pits the Porsche - say that five times fast. The #91 car is third in class.
22h13m The rain appears to have eased again, but there's still a lot of threatening cloud around.
22h12m LMP1: Jarvis' stop drops him back behind Lapierre, who had been showing good pace in the #7 Toyota. He's 50s behind - so can he get on to the podium?
22h11m LMP1: Reports that Belicchi has suffered a cracked rib - but not broken. Presumably in that safety car-inducing shunt at the second Mulsanne.
22h09m LMP2: Outfits with sizable advantages are making precautionary switches to wet rubber whenever a shower arrives, with several P2 cars in the pits this time, including leader #35.
22h08m GTE Pro: Very costly. He's 15s slower through the middle sector - that's put him 22 behind the Aston now having closed the gap to 7s.
22h07m GTE Pro: Lietz continues but how costly could that be?
22h06m GTE Pro: The #92 Porsche spins at Tertre Rouge!
22h05m LMP2: Bertrand Baguette still comfortably in charge of the #35's class lead as the threatened rain makes things slippery once more.
Rain
22h04m Rain reported in the first sector...it definitely looks wet from Dunlop through to Tertre Rouge.
22h00m 
LMP1: Jarvis gets held up in traffic and Lapierre is suddenly in with a sniff again. Still little more than one second separating the pair in what is the battle for the final step of this year's podium.
Le Mans 2013
LMP1: Jarvis gets held up in traffic and Lapierre is suddenly in with a sniff again. Still little more than one second separating the pair in what is the battle for the final step of this year's podium.
21h58m Clouds once again gathering overhead, and there's noise from the team radios that rain could be due in around five minutes.
21h58m GTE Pro: We said this wasn't over...Turner was around 15 seconds clear of Lietz when the pair's respective stops cycled through, but the German is now flying. A new race best brings the gap down to 10s.
21h57m LMP2: Olivier Pla pits from second in the #24 OAK Racing Morgan-Nissan. He had moved to within 140s of leader Martin Plowman.
21h56m GTE Pro: Kamui Kobayashi sets a new race-best for the #71 AF Corse squad, currently fourth in class.
21h54m GTE Pro: Over in GTE Pro, Darren Turner has now stretched the #97 Aston Martin's advantage to 12s over the chasing #92 factory Porsche.
21h53m LMP2: Outstanding stuff from Mardenborough. He's almost in the 3m39s bracket, and he goes faster still through the first sector this time around.
21h51m GTE Pro: Turner has eked out a 20-odd second advantage now in the #97 Aston Martin. We're sure he'll need to vacate the Vantage at his next stop - which will also need a new pair of boots.
For reference, that's what the works Porsche did in the previous round of stops. The time loss? 24 seconds...
For reference, that's what the works Porsche did in the previous round of stops. The time loss? 24 seconds...
21h50m LMP2: Alexander Rossi pits in the Caterham-badged #42 Greaves. He's been putting in an excellent shift, matching the frontrunning pace. The same is also true of rookie Jann Mardenobrough, who sets a new race best and takes another two seconds out of Mike Conway in the battle for third in class.
21h49m LMP1: Lapierre runs wide and comes close to putting all four wheels in the gravel exiting Indianapolis.
21h47m 
LMP1: Jarvis manages to eke out a small cushion heading onto the Mulsanne straight, but Lapierre is in his tow, roughly 20 metres down the road.
Audi Le Mans WEC 2013
LMP1: Jarvis manages to eke out a small cushion heading onto the Mulsanne straight, but Lapierre is in his tow, roughly 20 metres down the road.
21h46m LMP1: Jarvis and Lapierre all over each other now, and this is a de facto fight for the final step of the podium.
21h45m GTE Am: We said Cioci was motoring - now O'Young has responded and is closing on Raymond Narac in the lead #76 Imsa Porsche. The lead is now down to three minutes, just as Cioci sets a new race-best.
21h42m LMP1: It's all very quiet at the front (we say in no way trying to liven things up) - though the #8, and then #7, Toyota pits. di Grassi was 55s in arrears to the #7 car prior to that stop.
21h39m GTE Pro: Richard Westbrook spins the #74 Corvette at the final corner, but continues. He's still fifth in class.
21h38m GTE Am: Marco Cioci starting to motor in the third-placed #61 AF Corse Ferrari. He takes two seconds out of O'Young in the sister 458 on that last lap alone, and is now within two minutes of the sister car.
21h28m LMP2: Great turn of pace this from Alexander Rossi in the Caterham-supported #41 Greaves car. He's just passed fourth-place man Pierre Kaffer, while his pace is a match for the lead OAK Racing machines.
21h28m GTE Pro: Turner's taken the class lead! Lieb vacates the Porsche for Lietz but the Aston now has a decent lead. That decision by Aston to get him in and out again looks to have paid dividends for now.
21h25m GTE Pro: Yellow flags at Mulsanne Corner...it's Malucelli! He was sixth in class, and has run straight on and ended up just by the tyres, deep in the gravel. That's where the rain was at its heaviest.
21h24m LMP2: No immediate damage for Kaffer, as the two drivers around him - Jann Mardenborough in fourth and Ludovic Badey in sixth - pit at the same time as he takes his penalty.
21h21m GTE Pro: The #97 Aston Martin pits - takes on no tyres - and Turner continues his dogged pursuit of the class lead.
Rain
21h20m That rain's worse now - heavier from Mulsanne through to Indianapolis. We see sunshine from the media centre!
21h18m 
LMP2: Bad news for the #49 squad, currently fifth in class - Pierre Kaffer will need to serve a stop and go penalty for speeding in the pitlane.
Le Mans 2013
LMP2: Bad news for the #49 squad, currently fifth in class - Pierre Kaffer will need to serve a stop and go penalty for speeding in the pitlane.
21h18m GTE Pro: Farnbacher is travelling slowly through the Porsche Curves with a left-rear puncture on the SRT Viper. Fortunately, that's at the end of the lap, so he'll come straight in without losing as much time as others have this weekend.
21h16m LMP1: Duval pits from the lead as rain is reported through the Porsche Curves.
21h15m GTE Pro: Turner has got the gap to Lieb back down to seven seconds after losing a chunk of time in traffic a few laps ago.
That had bumped the gap up to 10s - more than it had been for a fair while.
That had bumped the gap up to 10s - more than it had been for a fair while.
21h14m LMP2: Olivier Pla pits from second in the #24 OAK Racing Morgan-Nissan.
21h13m LMP1: Immediately after stopping, Lapierre finds time - he's just set the #7 Toyota's fastest lap of the race so far. That's 3m25.718s, half a second quicker than di Grassi's Audi.
21h12m GTE Am: Raymond Narac is now at the wheel of the class-leading #76 Imsa Porsche again, but his pace is not up to that of Darryl O'Young's; the #55 AF Corse Ferrari closing in a three seconds per lap.
Good job the Frenchman has a lap in hand, isn't it?
Good job the Frenchman has a lap in hand, isn't it?
By: Jamie O'Leary, Gary Watkins, Sam Tremayne, Scott Mitchell, Geoff Creighton, Matt Beer
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