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WEC 24 Hours of Le Mans

Le Mans 2017: The race

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LMP1
This is heart-rending. Lapierre stops again.
LMP1
This is the wild spin for the #9 Toyota at the first corner when it suffered that puncture:
LMP1
Lapierre gets the #9 Toyota going again.
Pit stop
The #13 Rebellion that briefly led has made its stop and Beche has dropped back to second.
LMP1
Lapierre is going very slowly after Mulsanne Corner. He stops. It looks like the flapping tyre has caused extensive damage.
LMP1
Lapierre spun in the Dunlop Chicane - not sure if that was cause or effect.
LMP1
More drama for Toyota. Lapierre has a left-rear puncture - and it's happened early in the lap. Oh the humanity!
Slow Zone
There's a slow zone covering the final part of the lap to cover the recovery of the #25 Manor ORECA.
LMP2
The #31 Rebellion ORECA has been in and out of the pits and the #13 car now leads in the hands of Beche.
Crash
The #25 Manor ORECA was running fourth in LMP2. And it looks like the damage is pretty significant.
Crash
There has been a massive shunt for Trummer in the #25 Manor!
LMP1
The #7 Toyota is at a halt once again and Kobayashi has clambered out. He's walking away from the car. That's it, it's out of the race. The hopes of Japan now rest on a car that is one lap down on the leading Porsche.
Pit stop
Amid all this drama for the #7 Toyota, the #9 car that is now second has visited the pits.
LMP1
And Kobayashi is on the move again!
LMP1
Kobayashi has obviously managed to find a gear - temporarily. The #7 Toyota gets going and makes it as far as the exit of Arnage before conking again.
LMP2
Trummer has pitted in the #25 Manor ORECA that runs fourth. That was just for tyres.
LMP1
Toyota is reporting that the problem with #7 is the clutch.
LMP1
The #7 Toyota has finally ground to a halt a long way from the end of the long Le Mans lap, but there is a little bit of good news for the Japanese manufacturer. The #8 car is finally back out on track with Davidson at the wheel after its change of MGU at the front. The car is 29 laps down, so not really good news.
LMP1
The #7 Toyota is still stopped at the side of the road just before Indianapolis.
LMP1
Replays show that the Toyota initially slowed as it crossed the finish line.
Crash
Kobayashi has stopped now!
LMP1
This is an incredible turnaround for Porsche! From looking like it had lost out significantly with the safety car, it has now got a lead of over a lap.
LMP2
Porsche #2 has been awarded a drive-through penalty for a pitstop infringement. Not what Bernhard and the boys were hoping for as they strive to make up for lost time and maybe make it into the podium positions.
Information
Lapierre is now up to second in the one Toyota that has yet to have any major mechanical trouble.
Pit stop
Laurent brings the #38 Jackie Chan DC ORECA that briefly led the class into the pits. So it's now #31 Rebellion ORECA (Prost), #13 Rebellion ORECA (Beche) and #38 Jackie Chan DC ORECA (Laurent) in the top three. Prost's advantage is 17.262s with Laurent 53.9s off the lead. But the class has closed up a bit as the #25 Manor ORECA of Trummer and the #35 Signatech ORECA of Negrao are, for now at least, back on the lead lap.
GTE PRO
The #67 Ford had to leave the pits behind the 'other' safety car, so that was a disastrous stop.
LMP1
Kobayashi is getting slower and slower! Will he make it back to the pits? The car hit trouble in the worst possible place with almost an entire lap to complete to get back to the pits.
LMP1
Porsche leads - and the #7 Toyota is surely going to lose more ground with whatever this problem is:
GTE AM
Pitstop penalty for the #54 Ferrari - 13th in the GTE Am class and four laps down on the leaders anyway, so it won't make that much difference to them.
Radio Comms
"I cannot move, I cannot move," Kobayashi has complained - but he's still just about plodding around.
LMP1
Toyota's Le Mans curse strikes again! Lets not forget that car had a lead of over two minutes as the safety car period ended.
Radio Comms
"Car 7 is going slowly," new race leader Tandy is told. 
LMP2
The #13 Rebellion of Beche has pitted from the LMP2 lead. That means Laurent in the #38 Jackie Chan DC ORECA now leads by a small margin ahead of the #31 Rebellion of Prost.
Kobayashi apparently can't get any gears as he crawls around the lap.
Crash
Tandy has taken the lead in the Porsche!
Crash
Problem for the leading Toyota! It's slowing!

By: Matt Beer

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