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Crash
Now the #17 IDEC Ligier has had a spin at the first Mulsanne chicane.
Pit stop
The #31 Rebellion ORECA makes its stop.
LMP1
Toyota is consolidating its position here. Lotterer is now 12s behind Nakajima and that gap is only going in one direction currently.
Slow Zone
The slow zone to cover the Bratislava Ligier is about to end, although the Keating Ligier is very likely to cause another one if it doesn't get going.
Crash
The #43 Riley of Keating has stopped.
LMP2
It's Konopka at the wheel of the Bratislava Ligier.
LMP1
While Nakajima is catching the leader, Lotterer in the #1 Porsche is getting left behind. He is now almost 10s behind Nakajima.
Crash
The #49 Bratislava Ligier is off at the exit of Indianapolis. It's not clear why, but when the slow zone has gone the second-placed Rebellion will surely have lost another 30 seconds through no fault of its own...
Slow Zone
We have another slow zone.
LMP2
The #13 Rebellion is having a disaster with the slow zones. The gap to the #31 Rebellion was just over a minute before that last slow zone, and the gap has now grown to 96s.
LMP1
Nakajima has managed to eat into Sarrazin's advantage at the front, with the gap now down to 16s.
GTE AM
Wee's Clearwater Ferrari is now being carried from the gravel. Here it is a few moments ago beached in the Mulsanne trap.
Crash
Wee has spun the #60 Clearwater Ferrari, not for the first time, and is beached in the gravel at Mulsanne Corner. Clearwater will be hoping for a revival, but we don't give it much credence.
GTE PRO
Makowiecki in the #91 Porsche now being told off for track-limit abuse, and we're informed that Bird has now been reported to the stewards.
LMP2
Senna has got the #31 Rebellion ORECA's lead up to 62s ahead of the #13 car of Piquet. Would be a great battle if the slow zones hadn't got in the way.
Driver Change
Amid all the excitement over the battle for second there was a driver change in the other Porsche. Bernhard is now on board but the car remains down in 53rd overall.
LMP1
After making that move on Lotterer, Nakajima has now pulled out a five second gap over the Porsche. The Japanese driver is also closing in on Sarrazin up front in the #7 car with the lead down to under 20s now.
LMP1
And here's the pass being completed. Toyota one-two again.
LMP1
Before we had a change of place for second, this was how close things got in the traffic...
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GTE AM
The battle at the head of the GTE Am order is an all-bronze affair - and they are probably the best three bronze-rated drivers in the race. They are all lapping under the four-minute mark. Class leader Dalla Lana is popping in 3m58s in the #98 Aston, while Smith in the #84 JMW Ferrari is doing 3m39s. Yoluc is the quickest of this trio, though. The Turk is posting laps in the 3m57s in the #90 TF Aston.
GTE PRO
Black-and-white flag for Bird in the #71 Ferrari for serial abuse of track limits. He's fifth at the moment.
LMP1
Not only has Nakajima cleared Lotterer now, but he's also closing on leader Sarrazin - who was three seconds slower than him on the last lap alone!
LMP1
And Nakajima has done in it! He gets a better run out of Arnage to grab second from Lotterer.
LMP1
There's a lot of traffic in the battle for second! This could get interesting...
LMP1
But Nakajima is rapidly closing now! Will he finally claim the place?
LMP1
In answer to the battle for second question, it's changed very little! Nakajima is still around a second behind Lotterer.
Pit stop
Kunimoto has also now visited the pits too.
Pit stop
Lotterer has now pitted too. How will this affect the battle for second?
Pit stop
Sarrazin has now pitted from the lead. The two Toyotas pitted on the same lap last time but on this occasion Sarrazin extended the #7's stint to an extra 14th lap.
LMP2
Piquet has had his stop in the #13 Rebellion and is now back in second place. He's a little closer than before, with the gap to Senna in the #31 car that leads now 57s.
GTE PRO
The #66 Ford and #63 Corvette break for the pits and drop to 11th and 12th - they're running to a very different timetable to the others after puncturing in the second hour.
Pit stop
We will never know as Nakajima has now headed for the pits!
LMP1
It's taken a lap or so but Nakajima is back with Lotterer now in the battle for second. Will his attempts to get ahead be more successful this time?
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Anthony Davidson on a frustrating opening stint for him in the #8 Toyota: “It was a really tough three stints. I just seemed to get all the bad luck in the traffic. My fastest lap times were competitive so the speed was there but I was just catching cars in the wrong places. Then I was unlucky to be the only leading car to pick up one of the slow zones, which cost me 30 seconds. The car was running well and feels good.”
GTE PRO
Now that the track's green we can see how the effect of that slow zone has shaken out. Mixed news for Turner in the leading #97 Aston, who now has a diminished margin of 16.962s over the #67 Ford now pedalled by Priaulx. But these two are now a considerable distance ahead of the rest. Mucke is currently third in the #66 Ford, a further minute off Priaulx, but he is due a stop soon - and we'd expect fourth-placed Rugolo in the #51 Ferrari to pit in another couple of laps.
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Pit stop
Senna brings the LMP2-leading #31 Rebellion into the pits for its 10th stop.
LMP1
That wobble among the GTE cars has dropped Nakajima back to two seconds behind the Porsche.
LMP1
Nakajima can't quite get enough of a tow to get ahead of the Porsche and is now struggling to get through the Corvette traffic.
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