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“Bring the car back slowly please, it is a real puncture," Ford driver Mucke is warned.
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GTE PRO
Mucke's #66 Ford has a puncture and is driving back to the pits slowly.
GTE AM
Dalla Lana's harmless spin moments ago:
GTE AM
It's all happening in GTE Am as Vanthoor sets a new fastest time of 3m54.543s in the #84 JMW Motorsport Ferrari. Rees is second fastest with a 3m54.559s in the #50 Larbre Corvette. Third is the #77 Porsche, in which Cairoli has just gone quicker than last night with a 3m54.980s. The previous leader, the #98 Aston, is now fourth having not improved its time.
LMP2
It's all happening in LMP2 - Panciatici puts the #35 Signatech ORECA fourth with a lap of 3m29.328s
LMP2
Heinemeier Hansson improves to a3m30.035s in the #13 Rebellion ORECA. He's sixth.
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GTE AM
The #98 Aston piloted by Dalla Lana has spun at the Dunlop Bridge and continued.
Yellow flag
Yellow flag at Dunlop Curves.
LMP2
Barrichello has also improved the time of the #29 RTN Dallara with a 3m33.182s. He's 17th.
LMP2
Scary moment for Matelli in the #40 Graff ORECA:
Kobayashi's time has eclipsed the 3m14.8s with which Hans Stuck claimed pole for Le Mans in 1985 on a circuit that had yet to include four of the corners on the current circuit layout.
LMP2
McMurry has put the #45 Algarve Ligier up to seventh with a lap of 3m30.164s. That's the lead non-ORECA.
Driver Change
After setting that blistering time, Kobayashi has now handed the #7 Toyota back to Conway. Can he go any faster?
GTE PRO
Adam now goes quickest of all in GTE Pro with a 3m51.860s in the #97 Aston. Last year's pole was 3m51.185s
LMP2
Dumas does a 3m30.691s in the #36 Signatech ORECA. He's gone 12th.
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GTE PRO
Dixon, by the way, is having to right-foot brake again after an interregnum of well over a decade, as a consequence of his Indy shunt.
GTE PRO
New fastest times from Adam in the #97 Aston (3m52.557s) and Mucke in the #66 Ford (3m52.558s). That puts them briefly third and fourth in class... until Dixon rattles through in 3m52.496 in the #69 Ford. That's the best GTE Pro time of tonight so far.
Stopwatch
Petrov takes LMP2 pole position with a 3m25.549s in the #25 ORECA. That is faster than the LMP1 ByKolles CLM!
LMP2
Matelli has a grassy moment in the #40 Graff ORECA. But he keeps it out of the wall
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LMP1
Amid all the excitement of Kobayashi's lap, the Porsches also improved. Jani has put the #1 second on a 3m17.259s (2.468s off Kobayashi), while Bernhard has put in a 3m18.162s in the #2.
LMP2
Various improvements in LMP2 - Heinemeier-Hansson has put the #13 Rebellion ORECA fifth, while the #32 Ligier goes 10th in the hands of Albuquerque.
LMP1
The revised LMP1 order. Take a bow Kamui Kobayashi:
GTE AM
Rees back in the #50 Larbre Corvette. Let's see what he can do before he hands over to his two 'Ams'.
LMP1
That was some lap from Kobayashi. He has blitzed the previous pole record of 3m16.887s!
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LMP2
Vergne puts the #24 Manor ORECA second with a lap of 3m26.871s
So remarkable was Kobayashi's lap time, that one distant figure in the media centre put his hands on his head, made a very French noise and then ran away!
Stopwatch
What a lap from Kobayashi! He is immediately on the pace and has improved the #7 Toyota's time to a 3m14.791s that's an improvement of some three seconds!
Driver Change
Jarvis took over the #38 Jackie Chan DC Racing ORECA during that break, after Laurent drove it before the red flag and took top spot.
LMP2
It'll be interesting to see what Manor drivers Vergne and Petrov do. Remember, they held the top two spots for a long time in yesterday's session before being shuffled back to the second row.
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The sun still shines but it's starting to get low in the sky and long shadows are being cast. Track conditions should be decent for some quick laps.
Busy in the pitlane as the cars are released back onto the track:
LMP2
Among the P2 drivers to have headed out are Collard (#28 TDS ORECA), Prost (#31 Rebellion ORECA), Matelli (#40 Graff ORECA), Petrov (#25 Manor ORECA), Panciatici (#35 Signatech ORECA) and Vergne (#24 Manor ORECA)
The difference between the queue at the end of the pitlane and the one last night in the media car park is that all the scanning on the track is done automatically. There's a system that reads keeps tabs the tyres on each car as it leaves the pits. The down-trodden media have to hold their passes out the window as they try to make a dash for freedom out of the circuit.
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By: Matt Beer
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