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WEC 24 Hours of Le Mans

Le Mans 2017: The race

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Taylor has a brief off in the GTE Pro-leading Corvette. He straightlined the second Mulsanne Chicane. But he's held onto the lead.
The gap between Taylor in the Corvette and Adam in the Aston Martin is 1.5s.
Taylor runs wide out of the Porsche Curves and just holds on. He defends into the Ford Chicane!
Taylor runs a little wide out of the final chicane and loses the GTE Pro lead AT THE START OF THE LAST LAP!
And Taylor has a problem with front left - he's glanced the wall out of the Esses! This is all over, the #97 Aston Martin of Adam will win GTE Pro!
Porsche wins Le Mans. The #2 car of Bernhard, Hartley and Bamber takes a win that looked impossible when the car lost time early in the race!
The #39 Jackie Chan DC ORECA of Tung takes victory in LMP2 - and second place overall! Jarvis and Laurent are the other drivers in that car.
Taylor has slipped to third place in GTE Pro. Tincknell has passed him in the #67 Ford!
The #97 Aston Martin of Adam, Turner and Serra wins GTE Pro!
The #84 JMW Ferrari of Vanthoor, Stevens and Smith wins GTE Am!
So the top six are:
1 #2 Porsche
2 #38 Jackie Chan DC ORECA
3 #13 Rebellion ORECA
4 #37 Jackie Chan DC ORECA
5 #35 Signatech ORECA
6 #32 United Autosports Ligier
7 #40 Graff ORECA
8 #24 Manor ORECA
9 #8 Toyota
10 #47 Villorba Dallara
What an amazing finish in the GTE Pro class. Here's the order:
1 #97 Aston Martin
2 #67 Ford
3 #63 Corvette
4 #91 Porsche
5 #71 Ferrari
6 #68 Ford
7 #69 Ford
8 #64 Corvette
9 #95 Aston
10 #66 Ford
The marshals line the track to salute the winning #2 Porsche with some flag waving.
Bernhard has reached parc ferme. He's getting out of the car.
We're not far off the podium ceremony here at Le Mans. Not one but two LMP2-class cars make the podium behind the #2 Porsche.
Fans are let onto the track, and they swarm towards one of the most famous podium ceremonies in motorsport.
Handshakes all around from the Porsche drivers to their overall podium counterparts from the LMP2 class.
The top three crews come out in reverse order, so the third placed #13 Rebellion crew is up first, followed by the LMP2-winning, and overall race-leading just a few hours ago, crew of the #38 Jackie Chan DC ORECA.
And here come our race winners, Timo Bernhard, Brendon Hartley and Earl Bamber. Porsche celebrates its 19th overall victory in the Le Mans 24 Hours.
So with the trophies handed out, we're going to bring this live feed to an end after 25 hours of non-stop coverage. Thank you to everyone for following us over the course of race week - it's exhausting for our team at the track, but we hope you've enjoyed following a crazy Le Mans with us.

Congratulations not only to all the winners, but to all of those who reached the finish - a massive achievement in itself (just look at the LMP1 class!). Goodbye.

By: Matt Beer

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