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The #9 Toyota was the big loser in that slow zone. Lopez was about 43s down on the #8 car when he came in and is now about 1m11s in arrears.
GTE PRO
Reports that the #51 Ferrari - currently running fourth in class - is losing fluid.
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Green flag
Lacorte has got back going again, so the track is clear.
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LMP1
Kunimoto's door is indeed open, clearly shown on TV, with the team telling him over the radio to "close the door".
Molina stops out of second. The #71 is going to be another slow zone winner.
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Race control notes that car #9 (the Kunimoto Toyota) has its door open. That could be troublesome if an unscheduled stop is required to fix (shut) it.
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LMP2
Lacorte tries in vain to dig his Ligier out of the gravel.
GTE PRO
Class leader Adam should be a winner here in the #97 because he's making his stop while there's a slow zone in operation.
LMP2
Canal in the #31 Rebellion did a better job than leader Heinemeier Hansson in the #13 Rebellion in that slow zone, gaining 1.6s (provided he didn't speed!).
It was all pretty equal in that pitstop cycle for the LMP1 boys. The top four were all within five seconds, with #7 coming out top on 1m23s.
GTE PRO
No he doesn't! Adam does, but he's due a stop too. Timing screen confusion. The #97 Aston is now on the first page.
LMP2
Here's Tung passing Hirschi at Dunlop a couple of minutes ago.
Molina now leads in the #71 Ferrari, but he's due a pitstop.
Yellow flag
The yellow flags are flying at the Dunlop Chciane, so Lacorte is going to need some help to get himself dug out.
Driver Change
Nakajima has taken over from Davidson in the #8 Toyota.
Crash
The #47 Villorba Ligier has a spin at the Dunlop chicane. Lacorte is at the wheel and struggling to rejoin as his rear wheels are in the gravel.
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Just in case anyone was wondering that was the first lap that Porsche has led this year as it bids for a hat-trick of Le Mans victories.
LMP1
Sarrazin takes over the #7 Toyota, as Tandy brings the #1 Porsche into the pits.
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GTE PRO
Derani has pitted out of second in class in the #67 Ford. The cars in third through sixth follow him in.
LMP1
The #2 car finally rejoins the race, 19 laps down and 55th overall.
Pit stop
Tung brings the Jota-run #38 Jackie Chan DC ORECA into the pits after that brief stint in third place.
That's a short stint for the leading #7 Toyota - only 10 laps.
LMP2
Tung in the #38 Jackie Chan DC ORECA passes Hirschi in the #24 Manor ORECA for third at Dunlop, with the pair appearing to make light contact.
LMP1
Hartley is about to get back in the #2 Porsche in the garage, although it's certainly not urgent.
LMP2
The #36 Signatech ORECA is in the garage. That car had already lost time early on when Menezes went off.
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GTE AM
Hankey in the #90 TF Aston is doing some impressive times in third place in GTE Am. Don't forget it's his first Le Mans and the first for the team.
LMP1
Hartley has his helmet on in the Porsche garage, so perhaps the #2 car is about to reappear. Let's hope so, just so we have another LMP1 car out there even if its hopes of overall glory are now shattered by that front-axle problem.
LMP2
Canal occasionally makes inroads on leader Heinemeier Hansson in the lead battle, but while the #31 Rebellion ORECA is closer to the #13 example than it was when the last round of driver swaps happened, it hasn't looked like a battle is going to break out.
GTE PRO
Pier Guidi is matching the top two in the third-placed #51 Ferrari and has actually made up a couple of seconds since the previous round of pitstops.
LMP1
The #2 Porsche is still in the garage, now 14 laps down and 53rd overall.
GTE PRO
There's nothing between Adam in the #97 Aston and Derani in the #67 Ford at the head of GTE Pro. They are consistently lapping within a tenth of each other.
GTE AM
Parente in the #60 Clearwater Ferrari has got the old black-and-white warning flag fro persistent abuse of track limits.
LMP1
Traffic is of course playing a part in this, but for the past few laps the #8 and #9 Toyotas, running third and fourth, are lapping quicker than the #7 Toyota and the #1 Porsche ahead of them. We're only talking a couple of seconds, so with the gap between Tandy (second) and Davidson (third) at nearly 20 seconds we're not quite on the verge of a battle there just yet. Kobayashi's lead is 44 seconds.
Pit stop
Gonzalez brings the #25 Manor ORECA into the pits. That's the car that was started by Petrov and that has run in the top half-dozen throughout.
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