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WEC 24 Hours of Le Mans

Le Mans 24 Hours 2015 The 83rd Le Mans 24 Hours

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The Honda-powered OAK, which has been running fourth, is limping back to the pits with Vanthoor behind the wheel.
Turvey has closed the gap to Bird again, he's now within six seconds of the second-placed Ligier. Lapierre still leads by 54 seconds.
The #22 Nissan, driven by Krumm, has picked up a puncture. It's last of the cars that are still in the race, so that's not going to cost it anything in terms of position.
Frantic work continues at the back of the #51 Ferrari. Gavin's GTE Pro advantage in the #64 Corvette has stretched to two laps already.
Lamy now pits the #98 Aston from the GTE Am lead. His advantage at the front of the class was about two laps and there's no sign of a challenge from behind.
Di Grassi is putting together a decent stint in the #8 Audi. Just turned a lap in the 3m18s.
Nissan is still battling hard to get its cars to the end. Both #22 (Krumm) and #23 (Krumm) are still on track.
The #51 Ferrari is still in the pits. Its battle with the Corvette had been one of the highlights of the race after a lengthy pitstop lost it ground early in the race.
The #19 Porsche continues to make seemingly serene progress. Bamber leads by a lap with just over an hour-and-three-quarters to go.
The AF Corse car has several laps in hand over the #71 Calado car, but this has denied the fight with the #64 Corvette continuing to the flag.
Change of lead in GTE Pro as the #51 Ferrari slows and comes into the pits for work.
Dumas brings the fifth-placed 18 Porsche into the pits.
Pitstops for the top three in LMP2 as we entered the penultimate hour. Lapierre had a slower stop, but still leads Bird by 53 seconds. Turvey is a further 12 seconds behind.
How things stand up front:

1 #19 Porsche (Bamber)
2 #17 Porsche (Hartley)
3 #7 Audi (Treluyer)
4 #8 Audi (Treluyer)
5 #18 Porsche (Dumas)
6 #2 Toyota (Conway)
7 #9 Audi (Albuquerque)
8 #1 Toyota (Nakajima)
The two Toyotas are still pounding round, with #2 (Conway) and #1 (Nakajima) in sixth and eighth places respectively. The Toyotas have tended to float around the five or six seconds off the pace mark for much of the race...more than the team anticipated.
The second-placed #17 Porsche is in the pits. Hartley is staying in and taking on fuel.
Fourth-placed di Grassi is 90s behind the third-placed #7 Audi of Treluyer.

The Brazilian's #8 Audi has been playing catchup since early on after Loic Duval shunted approaching a slow zone at Indianapolis.
With just over two hours to go, the #19 Porsche of Bamber has the race completely under control, while time lost by the #7 Audi recently means that the #17 Porsche driven by Hartley has second place wrapped up.

Provided, of course, nothing goes wrong. The Le Mans 24 Hours has been lost much later than this in the past...
Taylor's out of the Corvette, in jumps Gavin - and he's got new tyres, too.

Vilander's already on his way though. No new rubber for the Ferrari, and that means he spends 23 seconds fewer in the pitlane.
The two leading GTE Pro cars pit together.
Hartley is lapping rapidly in the #17 Porsche - he's in the 3m19s.

Hartley Le Mans 2015

Hartley Le Mans 2015

An off-track excursion from the #95 Aston, but it's hardly going to make a difference to its result.
The fourth-placed #8 Audi is in the pits in the hands of Di Grassi. Fuel goes in, di Grassi heads back out.
The #7 Audi has been rolled back out of the garage and gets back onto the track in the hands of Treluyer. It's still holding third place.
The status quo remains in GTE Am also, with the #95 Aston two laps to the good.
The #7 Audi is back in again. And again, it's being wheeled back into the garage.
Vilander's got the Ferrari's lead up to 13 seconds, at this stage the AF Corse car looks like it's got just about enough.
The #7 Audi was in the garage for an oil top up. Treluyer returns to the track in third place after taking over from Lotterer.
Estre pits from fourth in the Honda-powered OAK, rejoins in the same place. He's got a lap on fifth-placed Yacaman in the second G-Drive entry.
Meanwhile, the lead #19 Porsche returns to the track after taking on fuel.
The #7 Audi has been rolled into the garage for some work.
Bamber brings the #19 Porsche into the pits from the lead - with Lotterer also bringing in the #7 Audi from third.
Di Grassi improved the fastest lap of the #8 Audi to a 3m17.831s last time round.
Dumas is trying to unlap himself on the Lotterer Audi.
Di Grassi has just set the fastest lap for the #8 Audi on a 3m18.420s. That's a second off the overall fastest lap, set by Lotterer in the #7 Audi.
All calm at the front of the LMP2 field. Lapierre leads by 1m10s over Bird, with Turvey a further 32s behind. Laptimes are not dissimilar, they can all get to the end with three stops.

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

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