Le Mans 24 Hours 2019
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If you missed the first hour, what were you doing? Here's our recap of what happened, which will hopefully convince you to stick with it from here on... 
LMP2
In that pitstop cycle, Vergne has closed dramatically on Lapierre and is now only 4.9s behind his compatriot. Davidson and De Vries run third and fourth, but 35s off the lead.
LMP1
Menezes has added to his advantage over Petrov again, after forfeiting six seconds in the most recent round of stops. 8.130s currently separates the two in the battle for third.
LMP2
Perrodo isn't able to live with the pace of the Pros and has lost places to Davidson and Nyck De Vries, who has taken over from Van Der Garde. Brundle is next to try his luck on Perrodo, but has to take to the run-off at the first chicane and loses a place to Richelmi in the #38 Jackie Chan DC Racing ORECA.
LMP1
That shouldn't worry Conway too much either, as he's 21s up the road from Buemi now.
LMP1
Conway gets held up by Hanley exiting the Esses but, to be fair to the DragonSpeed driver, it looked as though he was cooped up behind a GTE car himself.
LMP2
The LMP2 leaders have come in for their second stops. Intriguingly, it's the same smattering of cars - Lapierre, Vergne, Davidson, Brundle and Taylor - that pitted one lap later during the first pit sequence. If they can repeat that trick in every stint, they'll gain a big advantage later on - one to look out for.
Pit stop
Conway stops a lap later than team-mate Buemi again - although that means their latest stints were the same length.
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LMP1
Buemi is in for his second stop at the end of lap 20, and rejoins about 35s up on Menezes' #3 Rebellion.
LMP2
Francois Perrodo now takes over the #28 TDS Racing ORECA. He's one of the genuine Bronze-rated Ams in the class and funds that car, so we can expect it to slip back a little during the time he's in the car.
Pit stop
Menezes and Petrov are also in from third and fourth in the LMP1 order.
LMP2
That's one way to solve the problem - Vaxiviere comes in as we start lap 19 to free up Vergne. Chatin, Tung, Albuquerque, Fjordbach, Nato, Hirschi and Stevens are all in too.
Pit stop
Hanley has also brought the #10 car in for its second stop, which takes DragonSpeed's LMP1 entry a lap down.
LMP2
Vaxiviere and Vergne continue to run nose to tail, the Formula E champion obviously quicker but unable to find a way past his stablemate at present.
Pit stop
Sarrazin is in the pits in the #17 SMP car, which is having its nose changed.
Not the finest moment for Hoshino. Here's the #88 GTE Am Porsche spinning under the full-course yellow.
LMP1 order after one hour
LMP1
The #3 Rebellion gained about 10s on the second-placed Toyota during the FCY.
GTE PRO
Christensen has passed Porsche stablemate Tandy for second in GTE Pro. Olly Gavin meanwhile has the #64 Corvette up to fourth now, having made up some ground during that earlier round of stops.
Pit stop
Van der Garde has just pitted the Racing Team Nederland Dallara from fourth in LMP2.
Pit stop
Dillmann brings the ByKolles in for a second stop, and rejoins in 11th overall.
LMP1
Conway resumes with 14s in hand over Buemi as we approach the end of the first hour. Menezes is a further 21s back in third in the #3 Rebellion, with 11s in hand over Petrov.
Green flag
We're not sure what that full-course yellow was for, but it's been removed now and the green flag is back out.
Full Course Yellow
Hoshino has spun the formerly class-leading #88 Porsche on the Mulsanne straight.
Full Course Yellow
Full-course yellow. The pits are closed.
LMP2
The train of cars running second through fourth get a little held up by the recovering Jamin, who is initially reluctant to cede position but pulls aside exiting Arnage. Lapierre's lead is now 12.6 seconds.
GTE PRO
The rest of the GTE Pro cars have been in the pits now. Garcia still leads in the #63 Corvette, but coming in a lap early has jumped Tandy in the #93 Porsche up to second. Then it's the #92 Porsche, now in the hands of Michael Christensen and Dirk Muller's #68 Ford, which was another car to stop earlier.
LMP1
The speed with which Senna's car was attended to suggests it might just have picked up a puncture. He's back on track already.
LMP2
Having started sixth, Filipe Albuquerque continues to slip back in the #22 United Autosports Ligier. Early-stopping Pizzitola is the latest man to pass, demoting him to P11. We don't expect the Algarve Pro car to stay at the sharp end once Pizzitola steps out though.
GTE AM
The leader in GTE Am, the #88 Porsche, stopped that lap too. Cairoli is out, and now Japanese gentleman driver Satoshi Hoshino is in.
Pit stop
The #1 Rebellion is back in the pits now.
Crash
Senna has already dropped to the back of the LMP1 order, and is now tumbling through the LMP2s as he attempts to recover the car to the pits.
LMP2
Van Der Garde has now joined the intra-TDS battle for second, with Vaxiviere, Vergne and the Dutch Dallara now running line astern in GT traffic. Up ahead, Lapierre leads by 8.5 seconds.
Crash
Issue for the #1 Rebellion! Senna is slow out of the second chicane on the Mulsanne.
GTE PRO
We have our first pitstops in GTE Pro, with Tandy's #93 Porsche the highest-placed of those (in fifth) to dive in. The top four all stayed out, but expect them in shortly.
By: Geoff Creighton
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