Le Mans 24 Hours 2019
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LMP1
The #3 Rebellion is back in its garage. The car is really out of the battle for the podium anyway, so not a major blow. It needs something special from the #1 car if the team is to repeat its third place of 2018.
LMP1
Alonso is on coffee-delivery duties. He's taken a couple of mugs over to the pitwall. Maybe that tells us something about how he's feeling right now: happy to be on the way to being a three-time world champion and not so fussed about winning Le Mans again.
LMP1
The #3 is wheeled back into the pitlane and sent back out on track, but its problems have allowed the LMP2 class-leading Signatech car to move into fifth overall.
Pit stop
Garcia brings the #63 into the pits for a routine stop. He drops behind Pier Guidi as a result, but is still second in class.
Pit stop
In has come Lapierre from the LMP2 lead, but without losing his one lap advantage over the #38 DC Racing car of Richelmi, who took a new nose when he jumped in for Tung a few minutes ago.
LMP1
It's pretty static between the Toyotas right now. Conway and Buemi are matching each other lap for lap.
Here's how that lead Toyota battle, and the rest of LMP1, is shaping up
Pit stop
Buemi comes in for another stop in the #8.
Crash
We've got a slow moving LMP2 car on the approach to Indianapolis - Nigel Moore in the Inter Europol Competition Ligier has a flat right rear tyre. He'll do well to get it back from there.
Pit stop
New tyres being prepared for Conway's stop. The #7 Toyota is in now.
Pit stop
Conway hands the car over to Kobayashi, who rejoins 1m55s ahead of the #8. Aleshin is also in from third, and Lotterer brings the fourth-place #1 Rebellion in.
Pit stop
To give Moore credit, he's made it back without seemingly doing too much damage to the rear of his Ligier.
GTE AM
Problem for the GTE-Am leading Ford? The Riley Motorsport mechanics have spent a lot of time looking over the right-front corner, but Felipe Fraga does eventually rejoin, albeit after spending 2m45s on pit road.
Pit stop
Pier Guidi brings the #51 Ferrari into the pits and hands over to Calado. That promotes the #63 Corvette back into the lead.
LMP2
Vergne has now jumped ahead of Stevens for seventh in LMP2, but it's difficult to see the G-Drive car getting back into contention now, running four laps down to Lapierre.
LMP1
The #7's lead is nearly two minutes ahead as the 20-hour mark draws closer.
LMP2
The closest battle in the LMP2 race is for fourth, with Romain Dumas being chased by Filipe Albuquerque's #22 Ligier. However, Dumas seems to be stretching his advantage rather than being caught with the gap growing to 19s over the past few laps.
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Four hours to go!
Pit stop
Buemi's spell in the #8 should be done - he's hopped out to hand over to Alonso.
LMP1
The #7 car had completed 319 laps (though it was closer to 320) at the 20-hour mark. Keeping up that rate of progress would mean a final total of 383 laps - five shy of the final amount the #8 managed last year.
Here's the RLR LMP2 that stopped in the pitlane
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GTE PRO
In addition to the Porsche, the #69 Ford will also have to serve a 10s pitstop penalty. Ryan Briscoe is currently seventh in class, the first car one lap down.
Pit stop
Still waved yellows in the pits around the RLR car. Third-place man Aleshin, and just now race leader Kobayashi, have just made LMP1 stops.
Crash
There's a yellow flag out at Indianapolis, but it's bound to be more than that. De Vries has gone off big time.
LMP2
It was a bit of a weird one - Dri Vries just seemed to go straight on at the right-hand kink before the Indianapolis left-hander and nosed straight into the wall.
Safety car
Safety cars are out.
GTE PRO
Garcia's gap at the front of GTE Pro had been reduced to six seconds before the safety car was called as Calado made up two seconds on the last lap alone.
Driver Change
The leading #63 Corvette is into the pits under the safety car and it's now the turn of Magnussen behind the wheel. The GTE Pro Corvette did have to wait at pit exit too.
That's potentially costly for the Corvette, Calado is back in front as it stands.
That's potentially costly for the Corvette, Calado is back in front as it stands.
De Vries went a fair way into the tyre wall and has significant front-end damage.
LMP2
Having been dragged out of the wall, De Vries is attempting to limp back to the pits with his left-front suspension completely deranged. It's a brave effort from the F2 racer, but we're not sure the damage will be repairable.
Here's De Vries attempting to return a very damaged LMP2 car. EDD STRAW now believe it looks more like a clown car, which we're sure Racing Team Nederland would appreciate...
Radio Comms
Kobayashi has been told the gap between himself and Alonso should remain the same when racing resumes. It was well above the two-minute mark in normal racing conditions.
LMP2
De Vries does make it back to the pits. But with just over three hours to go and already multiple laps down, it would not be too surprising if Racing Team Nederland retired the unloved Dallara, which is due to be replaced by an ORECA next year.
LMP1
The #3 Rebellion is back up to fifth overall, ahead of the lead LMP2 car of Lapierre. There was a change of driver for the #1 Rebellion at its most recent stop, with Jani taking Lotterer's place.
GTE PRO
This safety car may well have dented this race-long GTE battle, at the moment Magnussen appears to be three minutes off.
That will be artificial to a degree, but it won't be six seconds between the top two like it was before.
That will be artificial to a degree, but it won't be six seconds between the top two like it was before.
GTE PRO
The #67 Ford has now stopped under the safety car as well.
LMP2
Meanwhile we've had the second-placed LMP2 car into the pits, with Stephane Richelmi remaining behind the wheel of the #38 Jackie Chan DC ORECA for another stint.
By: Geoff Creighton
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