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WEC 24 Hours of Le Mans

Le Mans 24 Hours 2014 The 82nd Le Mans 24 Hours

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A slow lap for Treluyer means he loses five seconds to Nakajima in one fell swoop. The gap at the front is up to 1m36s.
Turner was comfortably clear after Bruni took on new tyres in that last stop – no new tyres for the Aston though, just fuel.
Nakajima's first flying lap of this stint is a 3m27s. That's decent pace that will require the #2 Audi to be on top of its game if it wants to get on terms with the leading Toyota.
Now the #72 SMP Ferrari is back in the garage being looked over quite meticulously by the mechanics.
Mardenborough still has a comfortable LMP2 lead of 1m12s over the Signatech entry, currently driven by Webb. Gommendy is on the fringes of that fight in the TDS Ligier, but he's just made his way into the pits.
The new gap between the leaders is 1m31s. Can Treluyer take it to the man who set the pole position lap earlier this week?
Nakajima takes over the leading #7 Toyota, with a stop that was 26s longer than the #2 Audis. The Japanese driver will have fresh rubber at his disposal though, so let's see if he can reverse the trend of the last couple of hours and extend his car's lead over the Audi.
PItstop for Fisichella, who hands over to Bruni.
It looks like that stop for Mardenborough cost the #35 car about 30 seconds. That means it should still lead by about that margin, but it's a significant dent into a gap that the drivers and team had been managing well up to this point.
The reason for the erstwhile Am runner-up dropping like a stone is that it was being fettled in the SMP Racing garage for a while. Tough luck.
Treluyer brings the second-placed #2 Audi into the pits, while behind him Mardenborough brings the LMP2-leading #35 Ligier in as well - and the car is having some attention paid to the left sidepod.
The #72 SMP Ferrari's had a bad hour. It's tumbled out of second in class, and has just had a spin.
LMP1 order: 1 #7 Toyota; 2 #2 Audi; 3 #20 Porsche; 4 #1 Audi; 5 #14 Porsche; 6 #8 Toyota.
Treluyer gets the gap between the leaders under the two minute mark again, picking up where Lotterer left off and giving Sarrazin a hard time.

Talking of the leading car - Nakajima is warming up again. Maybe this time he'll actually take over from Sarrazin.
Turner's done it – for the umpteenth time in this race, the Briton has taken the GTE Pro lead for Aston Martin.
It's a shame this gap had developed between the #7 Toyota and the #2 Audi, because there's been little to choose between them for pace for the last few hours. If they were close to each other on track we'd be watching a thriller right now.
There we go – Turner's on the back of Fisichella for the lead.
Di Grassi - running about 2 minutes behind the #20 Porsche, brings the #1 Audi into the pits.
The #20 Porsche pits from third with a noticeably scuffed-up left front corner. The team has a new nose section ready, but decides against using it and just gives the car an oil top up.
Gavin's in the C7.R now and the #74 car is now fourth, promoting the #92 Manthey Porsche into the podium positions for now.

The #74 Corvette is therefore still ahead of the sister #73 car, which has had a number of niggling little things add up to compromise its race.
Treluyer has the gap to the race-leading Toyota down to 2m00s. The #2 Audi really seems to have the measure of Sarrazin for pace during this night running.
The #74 Corvette's back in the race.
Westbrook's in the garage in the #74 Corvette. It's a brake change – not uncommon – but a frustrating wait nonetheless. They'll be hoping others need to do the same.
Turner is just six seconds behind GTE Pro leader Fisichella now, having made up four seconds on the previous lap. He's got him in his sights...
Yellow flag
Yellow flags at Indianapolis, the #67 Porsche is in the gravel.
Treluyer is getting to work on bringing Sarrazin's lead down again. He's already got it down to 2m08s.
LMP1 order:
1 #7 Toyota
2 #2 Audi
3 #20 Porsche
4 #1 Audi
5 #8 Toyota
6 #14 Porsche
As Buemi takes fifth from the #14 Porsche, the German car emerges from its garage and rejoins the action around a minute down on the Toyota that has just passed it.
That driver change for the #2 Audi means Sarrazin's lead in the Toyota is back above two minutes - 2m11s, in fact. But with fresh tyres, Treluyer should be able to chip away at that margin much like Lotterer did on older rubber in the previous stint.
Turner stops and takes on tyres, which has put Fisichella into the lead of the GTE element. There's 14s between them but you'd expect the Aston to close that swiftly, given the AF Corse is on used rubber.
Sarrazin pits the #7 Toyota from the lead - but there's no driver change. Nakajima will have to wait, and the car gets back on its way having spent 40 seconds less than the chasing Audi in the pits that time.
All of the attention on the #14 Porsche in the garage is at the rear of the car, where several mechanics are leaning over it now the bodywork is off.
The lead battle is paused for a moment as the #2 Audi comes in and Treluyer takes over from Lotterer. Toyota appear to be readying a driver change of their own for the race-leading car, with Nakajima and his seat insert in position at the front of the garage.
Westbrook and Lietz are in. Fisichella regains second.
The #14 Porsche is back in the pits, straight up on the jacks and wheeled into the garage. Lieb stays in the car as the mechanics take the bodywork off front and rear.
The gap between the two leaders has stabilised at around 1m36s for now, as Lotterer tries to regain the momentum he had earlier in this stint.
Lots of discussion going on in the Porsche garage as Lieb works his way (slowly) through the Porsche Curves.
The Jota Sport Zytek, which Simon Dolan has just brought into the pits, has been warned by race control that it was sparking at the rear.
The #1 Audi's most recent stop for tyres was the result of a puncture.

By: Geoff Creighton, Scott Mitchell, Glenn Freeman, Edd Straw, Gary Watkins, AUTOSPORT staff

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