Le Mans 2017: The race
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Stewards are investigating an incident between the #24 Manor ORECA and the #47 Villorba Ligier.
Pit stop
Heinemeier Hansson brings the #13 Rebellion ORECA into the pits.
Pit stop
The #9 Toyota is now in the pits with its door still open.
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LMP1
Look closely and you'll see the door of the #9 ajar.
LMP1
Lotterer is starting to cut the gap to Sarrazin in the leading #7 Toyota. The Porsche driver is now 34s behind and gained six seconds on the last lap alone.
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Pit stop
Canal brings the #31 Rebellion back into the pits for its eighth stop.
LMP2
The #31 Rebellion ORECA has taken the lead in the eight round of pitstops! Canal now leads in the #31 car ahead of Heinemeier Hansson.
LMP1
That brief period of Lotterer cutting into Sarrazin's lead is over - for now at least. It's now gone back to 39s.
Crash
#82 Ferrari in the wall at the first Mulsanne chicane after being tapped by the #28 TDS LMP2.
Slow Zone
With the Ferrari stranded and badly damaged, there's a slow zone covering that area of the track.
LMP2
Canal's lead is just over three seconds in the #31 Rebellion over the #13 sister car. The #37 Jackie Chan DC ORECA of David Cheng is third.
Slow Zone
Here's that big shunt for the Risi Ferrari – with Kaffer at the wheel – after a collision with the #28 TDS car.
LMP2
Cheng is into the pits #35 Jackie Chan DC ORECA from third place.
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LMP2
Heinemeier Hansson is staying on the tail of team-mate Canal in the Rebellion battle at the front of P2. He's less than a second down.
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LMP1
Let's have a run down of the LMP1 leaderboard as it stands during this slow zone. Sarrazin continues to lead in the #7 Toyota with a 42.9s advantage over Lotterer in the #1 Porsche. Nakajima is third in the #8 Toyota while the #9 example is fourth, but some 4m32s off the lead. The #2 Porsche is 19 laps down and if you are wondering why the ByKolles is being mentioned even less than usual, well it retired in the second hour having crashed on the very first lap.
LMP2
Ragues is up to third in the #35 Signatech Alpine ORECA. Should he finish in that position it would equal his best class result in his 11th appearance at Le Mans. He's one of those ubiquitous Frenchmen who is stealthily creeping up the Le Mans participations order.
Slow Zone
This slow zone is continuing because the guardrail needs repairing. It was a pretty hefty impact it took from the Ferrari.
LMP2
Tung in the #38 Jackie Chan DC ORECA is right with Hirschi in the #24 Manor car in the battle for fourth. We know where our money is on that battle.
GTE PRO
Taking stock of the GTE Pro running order during the slow zone, Adam remains in the lead in the #97 Aston by 50s from Derani in the #67 Ford, with Fassler third in the #64 Corvette a further half-minute down the road. Fassler is dealing with the attentions of Pier Guidi in the #51 Ferrari, while the #68 Ford currently driven by Tony Kanaan, another beneficiary of slow zones around the pit window, fifth ahead of Molina in the #71 Ferrari. Porsche's two 911s are ninth and 11th after losing time to earlier collisions with other cars.
LMP1
Most of the LMP1 gaps are fluctuating only ever so slightly, except for that between Nakajima and Kunimoto. The latter is very close to getting lapped in the #9 Toyota.
LMP2
The #23 Panis Barthez Ligier with ex-GP2 man Berthon at the wheel is in for what looks like a routine stop.
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Race director says that in order to repair the barriers at the first Mulsanne chicane, he needs to send "heavy equipment" onto the circuit so there will be a slow zone in the second sector of the track as well.
GTE AM
Slow-running #61 Ferrari - it's picked up a rear-right puncture - is causing some havoc in the slow zone.
LMP1
The timing of this slow zone has added even more woe for Kunimoto in the #9 car. While the top three are separated by a minute, he is now a further four minutes further back.
LMP2
Canal is inching away from Heinemeier Hansson in the internecine Rebellion battle up front. So that's the McDonald's franchisee coming out on top over the internet multi-millionaire.
GTE AM
The #61 Clearwater Ferrari had been running seventh in class, albeit a lap down on the class leaders, with Keita Sawa at the wheel, when the entire outer casing of the right-rear tyre departed, leaving just the inner sidewall gripping the rim.
Pit stop
Sarrazin is now pitting from the lead in the #7 Toyota.
LMP2
The Dutch Dallara – if you know what we mean – is going slowly. Lammers is at the wheel of the #29 car.
Pit stop
And instantly we've got another Toyota in with Nakajima also stopping in #8. This means Lotterer is back in the lead of the race with a 2.2s margin over Sarrazin.
LMP2
The best of the Ligiers, the #32 United entry, is into the pits with de Sadeleer at the controls.
LMP2
Ragues is into the pits and out of third in the #35 Signatech Alpine. Given the problems for the #36 entry, he and team-mates Panciatici and Negrao are the French team's sole hope of retaining their Le Mans LMP2 crown.
Pit stop
Kunimoto has now stopped too, meaning all three Toyotas have pitted on lap 89.
Pit stop
Now it's Lotterer's turn to head to the pitlane. This means Sarrazin in the #7 car is back in the lead. The question is how big will be that lead be? It was 42s before the stops.
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