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WEC 24 Hours of Le Mans

Le Mans 24 Hours 2019

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There's nothing in it between Davidson and Richelmi in the battle for third in LMP2. They're just about clinging onto the lead lap at the moment, and squabbling amongst themselves isn't doing either of them any favours as Vergne lingers behind.
Aleshin in is in the pits in the remaining SMP car. The 1m15s stop looked clean enough, but it's likely to cost him time to Laurent when the #3 Rebellion pits.
And with that, Richelmi snatches third position away from Davidson.
Disaster for TF Sport - Euan Hankey has beached it in the gravel at Mulsanne Corner. Not very deep, but just enough to cause a problem, despite his best wheel-spinning efforts. He is still second for the time being, but will need a bit of help to make it out.
A slow zone is now in place as a result of the TF Sport car's off.
Laurent brings the #3 Rebellion in. Just fuel and a general checkover at this stop.
Hankey does get hoisted out of the gravel, but that's done for his comfortable second place in the Am class as Jeff Segal's Ferrari and Edigio Perfetti's Project 1 Porsche both get past.
Alonso brings the #8 into the pits, right as the slow zone comes to an end.
Kobayashi brings in the #7 car and hands over to Jose Maria Lopez.
Lopez returns to the track with a 1m05s lead over Alonso.
Pier Guidi stops the Ferrari from the GTE Pro lead, which gives Bruni's Porsche the lead for now.
Alonso was almost five seconds quicker than Lopez that time around, so the gap has dropped to 59s at the front.
The two Porsches stop from the lead in GTE Pro and it's now Corvette's Garcia leading Calado's Ferrari.
Richelmi's built a reasonable gap to Davidson now, so the battle for third is settling.

Up ahead, G-Drive's Vergne is over 90s clear of Lapierre's Signatech.
Garcia currently holds a 43s lead over Calado's Ferrari and Lietz's Porsche.
There's another nibble into Lopez's lead from Alonso — another second and a bit.
Laurent in the third-placed Rebellion is more or less matching the Toyotas for pace at this point.
Garcia's turn at the front end when he pits to hand over to Magnussen, promoting Calado's Ferrari back into the lead.

It's 18s for Calado at the moment, but considering his strong nighttime shift earlier on, don't be surprised if that number keeps going up.
Lopez goes a couple of tenths quicker than Alonso that time - both Toyotas were in the 3m23s.
Aleshin pits in the remaining SMP car. He was 90s or so down on Laurent in the privateer battle when he headed in.
So your LMP2 leaderboard looks like:

#26 G-Drive
#36 Signatech
#38 Jackie Chan DC Racing
#31 DragonSpeed
#28 TDS Racing
And in GTE Pro, it's:

#51 AF Corse Ferrari
#91 Porsche
#67 Corvette
#93 Porsche
#69 Ford
GTE Am's seen little change at the front, still firmly in the hands of Bleekemolen's Keating Motorsport Ford, although he's now just handed the car over to Keating himself.

Keating has a sizeable gap, although the timing screen isn't reflecting that quite yet.
Davidson pits from fourth in LMP2 - he shouldn't lose a place on track.
The gap at the front has kind of stabilised. It's 52s at the moment.
Calado's GTE Pro class lead is keeping steady at 18s at the moment, the Ferrari driver and Porsche's Lietz are setting very similar lap times.
Laurent's pitstop time was 1m10s, whereas Aleshin's was 1m16s. That mirrors what has been happening right through the race. The Rebellions have been gaining five, six or more seconds at each stop.
We're certainly not at sunrise, but the sky is becoming slightly brighter.
The LMP2 top three are quite spread out now. Vergne holds a lead of 1m32s over Lapierre, who in turn holds a similar gap over Richelmi in third.
The RLR Msport car of Maini is reported to be slow at the first Mulsanne chicane.
And he's still moving slowly at the second - unsure why at the moment.
Maini's slow at Indianapolis but clearly still moving, so we're remaining under green flag conditions.
Maini has made it back to the pits, the team's #43 ORECA is 11th in class.
LMP2 leader Vergne has pitted, as has the third-placed Richelmi.

By: Geoff Creighton

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