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WEC 24 Hours of Le Mans

Le Mans 24 Hours 2019

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Serra is now in the AF Corse Ferrari, which is fourth after the latest pitstop.

Lietz is just over 5s clear of the chasing Corvette up front.
Laurent comes back in as expected and hands the car over to Menezes, who will return in third.
Those were emergency stops from #11 and #3, so they will have to come back in now the race has gone green.
TV cameras using this full-course yellow to show off everyone sleeping is making Team Autosport envious.
Laurent and Petrov exit the pitlane after their latest stops.
The Kessel Racing Ferrari of Pianezzola has gone off into the Porsche Curves as well!
The #86 Porsche driven by Wainwright is into the barriers and beached in the gravel at Arnage!
The #7 Toyota was the winner in that pitstop sequence and then a 3m29s from Nakajima has further increased his deficit.
Calado and Lietz are evenly matched on stints, but that slow Porsche stop means the gap remains at 30s.
The sun is fully rising above the Dunlop chicane, which I bet the photographers love.

Probably good for an Instagram story as well.
Looking back, that swap to Negrao was around seven seconds slower than its competitors - so that made the gap larger to the LMP2 leader.
Negrao has taken over for Lapierre in the Signatech LMP2 now, he's got a 1m41s gap to chase down to the leader Van Uitert.
Lopez has stopped and appears to have remained at the wheel of the #7 Toyota. He did, after all, get new tyres last time he was in the pits.
Lietz's pitstop was 12s slower than Calado's, so the Ferrari's lead has ballooned to near 30s.
Third-placed LMP2 runner Richelmi pits the Jackie Chan DC Racing car as the leading G-Drive entry follows in swiftly after.
Van Uitert's not losing as much time to Lapierre now - between 0.5s to 1s a lap - and it means the gap to second is now just under 1m30s.
Alonso's stint is over. The #8 is in and out, now with Nakajima at the wheel. It wasn't quite the defining stint of the race like this time last year.
Magnussen pits the Corvette from the class lead to return Calado back to the front of GTE Pro.
Davidson stayed in the DragonSpeed that time around, by the way. Vaxiviere is into the TDS Racing car now though.
Two tenths between the Toyotas that time around - around a track measuring more than eight miles, don't forget.
Calado's now up to second in GTE after Lietz pits, he's around 30s off Magnussen who has yet to stop again in the Corvette.
Fourth-placed LMP2 runner DragonSpeed and the car behind it, the TDS Racing entry, have both now pitted.
Lapierre is currently 3.5s quicker than LMP2 leader Van Uitert on track, so this is a good opportunity for Signatech to close in on G-Drive's lead.
As has often been the case, Calado's pit from the lead has him back out in fourth behind Lietz, Magnussen and Tandy.
Now Lopez has the edge over Alonso. The Argentinian got some new tyres at that last pitstop and we're not entirely sure if that was the case for his team-mate.
The #92 Porsche is in the pitlane too, but it's still on a recovery drive and lies 12th in class.
After a seven-minute delay in the pits, the #32 United Autosports Ligier returns to the track with Cullen behind the wheel. It's now 18th in class.
Laurent pits the Rebellion as Petrov heads out in the #11 SMP Racing machine.
The #32 United Ligier is swivelled back into its garage after arriving slowly in the pits missing its left-rear wheel.
Post pitstop cycle, Lopez now leads Alonso but a just over a minute. So the #7 was the winner. They were both in the pitlane for 1m05s. Lopez had a mega-quick in-lap, which explains at least part of the increase.
There's a 10s penalty added to the next pitstop for the #48 IDEC Sport, which is currently seventh in class, for failing to respect the slow zone procedure.
We take that back. The Toyotas appear to be on their normal 11-laps schedule.

By: Geoff Creighton

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