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WEC 24 Hours of Le Mans

Le Mans 2017: The race

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Piquet Jr has taken over the #13 Rebellion ORECA and rejoins in second.
Jarvis now has a 54s lead in the #38 Jackie Chan DC ORECA over Piquet Jr in the #13 Rebellion.
The #90 TF Aston with Yoluc driving has stopped at the second chicane on the Mulsanne Straight. The car was running third in class behind the #84 JMW and #55 Spirit of Race Ferraris.
Pier Guidi pits out of third in the #51 Ferrari. He'd been right with Turner in the #97 Aston.
The #21 DragonSpeed ORECA is going slowly. Hanley is at the wheel.
Lotterer pits in the #1 Porsche, which has a lead of 10 laps.
Jarvis leads in the #38 Jackie Chan DC ORECA by 65s from the #13 Rebellion of PIquet. Thanks to time lost a few stops ago, the #31 Rebellion of Canal has lots ground and is now a lap down.
The third-placed #31 Rebellion has had a spin just after the Dunlop chicane.
The #95 and #97 Astons have pitted, allowing Bird through to the GTE Pro lead in the #71 Ferrari. Sorensen takes over the #95 and Serra gets in the #97.
We've got another official retirement: Porsche have confirmed that the #92 GTE Pro car Michael Christensen spun at the Ford Chicane on lap 179 is a basket case and can't be repaired.
Pitstop for Bird in the #71 Ferrari puts Pier Guidi in the sister #51 entry into the lead pending his own pitstop. Bird has emerged 0.677s behind the #95 Aston driven by Sorensen, which is the net leader but currently in third place behind the #51 Ferrari and the #91 Porsche.
The #34 ORECA has gone off at the Porsche Curves - Chandhok at the wheel.
The #34 car is beached in the gravel, and it's being dealt with under local double waved yellows.
Sorensen deals with the threat from Bird quickly - the #95 Aston is now 1.8s ahead of the #71 Ferrari, and its last lap was nearly two seconds quicker.
Both of the LMP2 leaders have just pitted and Jarvis in the #38 Jackie Chan DC ORECA remains around a minute ahead of Piquet in the #13 Rebellion ORECA.
There is now a slow zone in place while Chandhok's car is recovered.
For those of you wondering, the #1 Porsche is still in complete control of this race with a 10 lap advantage over Jarvis in the leading LMP2 #38 Jackie Chan DC ORECA.
The #34 Tockwith Ligier has been cleared now and the track is green again.
We've got a yellow flag with the #90 TF Sport Aston in the gravel at the Porsche Curves. Yoluc was behind the wheel.
There will be now be another slow zone to reckon that stricken Aston that is currently seventh in class.
We have got to remember that there is still over a third of this race remaining. As dominant as the #1 Porsche is at the moment, there is still a very long way to go...
The sole remaining Toyota has just visited the pits for a driver change. Nakajima has been replaced by Buemi behind the wheel of the #8 car - it's currently in 27th place overall.
There has been a fairly big shunt for one of the LMP2 cars through the Porsche Curves.
We think it's the #28 TDS ORECA car currently driven by Collard that has had hefty shunt.
The #51 Ferrari has pitted just after the safety car was deployed. Looks like Pier Guidi was getting out to hand over to one of his team-mates, but we don't know who yet.
The second-placed #38 car of Jarvis has come into the pits during this safety car period.
Tung has replaced Jarvis in that #38 car which has now handed the LMP2 class lead to the #13 Rebellion ORECA of Piquet.
It was Calado getting in the #51 Ferrari. That car is now seventh, having led the class, but what will prove more germane to its fortunes - given how jumbled the pitstop schedules are - is which safety car it ends up behind. Class leader Lietz in the #91 Porsche and Sorensen in the #95 Aston are running behind one.
Bird now pits in the #71 Ferrari and it's wheeled straight into the garage, then after some brief multi-personnel work it heads straight back out again.
Lotterer has pitted behind the safety car and handed the leading #1 Porsche to Jani.
There have been a number of LMP2 pitstops during this safety car period, including the third-placed #31 Rebellion ORECA which now has Senna at the wheel. the fourth-placed #35 Signatech ORECA of Panciatic has also been in.
The race is back under way with the #28 car's wreckage cleared away.
The #50 Larbre Corvette of Brandela has just spun at Arnage.
The #98 Aston that led the GTE Am class in the early running will have to serve a 10s time penalty at its next stop for an infringement during the last one.

By: Matt Beer

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