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There's a German journalist in the vicinity of Team Autosport who is very excited by the Bratislava car's Lazarus-like recovery. We're not exactly sure why.
LMP1
In a plug on twitter for our coverage moments ago, we asked whether Alonso could repeat his night shift heroics of 2018 now he's back in the #8. He's started auspiciously, by reducing the car's deficit to around 7s.
LMP2
The battle for third between Tung and Maldonado has been remarkably stable through the safety car periods, with 6s still separating the two ORECAs.
LMP2
Exiting the pitlane when the red light is on is a big no-no, and the #47 Cetilar Villorba Corse Dallara has just been hit with a three-minute stop/go penalty for the offence. It's greatest impact on the race so far has arguably been forcing Negrao into an awkward parking manoeuvre in the eighth hour, which gave G-Drive an edge it has not lost since.
GTE PRO
After the stops, Estre is still comfortably out in front in Pro, with 28s in hand over Pier Guidi, but the top two are not so far clear as they once were, with Rockenfeller just 47s behind and Priaulx also within a minute of the lead.
LMP2
We remarked upon Maldonado struggling to make inroads into Tung a few minutes ago, and it seems to have ignited a fire in his belly. The 2012 Spanish GP winner is now just 1.8 seconds in arrears.
LMP1
Alonso isn't making much ground at the moment. He chipped a few seconds off his Toyota team-mate but has lost it all back again, so Kobayashi continues to hold an 11.7s advantage.
GTE AM
Remember a little while ago we mentioned Jorg Bergmeister in the #56 Project 1 Porsche? He's motored up to third in the Am class, and is now just 13s behind Charlie Eastwood in the TF Aston Martin.
LMP1
Kobayashi has added a couple more seconds to his lead and is 13.7s clear of Alonso. Berthon remains a safe third ahead of Vandoorne, who has just pitted for SMP.
Pit stop
Berthon brings the #3 Rebellion into the pits, as Alonso heads in for his first stop of this stint.
LMP1
The #8 gets another nose change before returning to the track.
GTE PRO
There's absolutely nothing to choose at the moment between Porsche team-mates Bruni and Tandy, who are running line astern in third and fourth. Both owe us a pitstop however.
GTE PRO
Well that was unexpected. We have a new GTE-Pro leader as Estre is pushed back into the garage.
Radio Comms
Estre has remained in the car while Porsche changes the #92's brakes.
Pit stop
Loic Duval is back aboard the #28 TDS Racing ORECA, after Vaxiviere relinquished fifth place in LMP2.
Pit stop
Routine in and out stop for Kobayashi, who rejoins 16s ahead of Alonso.
GTE PRO
It looks like a bit more than a brake change will be required on the #92. A real shame, as that crew were looking good for a repeat victory. Now Pier Guidi has 1m25s in hand over Tandy, who has jumped ahead of Bruni but is unable to pull clear.
LMP1
Alonso is now 18s down on Kobayashi as the 13-hour mark approaches.
LMP1
We've not mentioned the ByKolles for a while, but Tom Dillman has stopped out on track on the exit of Arnage and brought out the yellow flags. It doesn't look like he's going to make it through the Porsche Curves.
Slow Zone
A slow zone is now in place from marshal posts 27 to 30, where the ByKolles stopped.
GTE PRO
The #92 Porsche heads back down the pitlane and out onto the circuit. It lost 21 minutes with that stop, and is now 12th in class and five laps down.
GTE PRO
We're now back to green all the way around the circuit.
LMP2
Having been eight seconds behind a few laps ago, Anthony Davidson has closed to within 4 seconds of Tung, so we could see a change of position for third soon.
LMP1
Now we've finished with the slow zones and the timing screens have sorted themselves out, we can see that Alonso is now 33s adrift of Kobayashi.
GTE PRO
The GTE Pro class-leading #51 Ferrari pits. The mechanics have a good old look at the innards behind the rear wheels, before refitting them and sending Pier Guidi back on his way.
GTE PRO
The squabbling #93 and #91 Porsches are also in from second and third next time by.
LMP1
Alonso doesn't appear to have a response to Kobayashi at the moment. The gap between them is up to 38s.
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Pit stop
Alonso has been in and out of the pits in the #8 Toyota, as has Berthon in the #3 Rebellion. That takes him three laps down, but that should be a temporary until the leading #7 comes in for its stop.
Pit stop
Kobayashi's pitstop seemed too close to Alonso's to be a two-lap gap, until we remembered the advantage he'd had before this latest round of stops.
Driver Change
Driver changes to be aware of - Laurent is in the #3 Rebellion in place of Berthon, and Aleshin has replaced Vandoorne in the #11.
LMP2
Ricky Taylor had been running sixth prior to his most recent pitstop on lap 199, but hasn't rejoined again in the #37 DC Racing ORECA. A sad way for a promising run to turn out, as he has already plummeted outside the top 10.
LMP1
The gap between the leading pair is now 1m06s. But the majority of the increase in that is explained by Alonso's stop, which was 26s slower than Kobayashi's.
LMP2
The LMP2 leaders have both pitted, with Lapierre replacing Negrao aboard the #36 Signatech-Alpine. 1m48s is the gap - much bigger than the last time they were both in the car in hour nine...
LMP1
Laurent's Rebellion is now being shown as three laps down, so we'll take the timing screens word on that one. That won't matter too much to him, though, as he still has 1m10s in hand over Aleshin.
GTE PRO
The former class-leading #92 Porsche is down and out of it after its exhaust issues, but the #93 and #91 are refusing to give up the fight, as Tandy and Bruni continue to chase after the #51 Ferrari that had a leg-up from a safety car earlier on. 40s was the gap last time around, with Garcia a further 14s behind the pair in the sole remaining Covette.
LMP2
Lapierre is giving this a go. He's shaved six seconds off Vergne since their stops in the 'battle' - much as you can term it one - for the lead in LMP2, which was spoilt by a safety car in hour 10. He's now 1m42s behind.
GTE AM
Matt Campbell is now behind the wheel of the #77 Am Porsche - that's the good news for Proton Competition - but the bad news is the car's last stop was 3m35s, which has dropped the car that won on the road last year to ninth in class.
LMP2
Our apologies, we missed Davidson getting past Richelmi for third through the last pitstop phase. Sorry about that.
LMP1
The gaps from first to second and third to fourth are almost identical right now. 1m10s is the difference in both cases.
By: Geoff Creighton
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