Le Mans 24 Hours final qualifying day
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JAMES NEWBOLD is back from his paddock wander and took a scenic pic of the setting sun. He also spotted a man in signed Corvette clogs. Which is a bit odd.
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Senna has stopped the #1 Rebellion at Arnage, appears to be a similar issue to the #3 as there's a trail of smoke and fluid again.
Here's the recovery process ongoing
We believe it is the #98 Aston of Lamy.
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The car that's caused it as at Indianapolis. Unclear which car it is.
Red flag
We now have a red flag.
Slow Zone
So we've got a slow zone on the Mulsanne straight now too.
LMP1
So for a reminder of how things stand:
#7 Toyota
#8 Toyota
#17 SMP Racing
#11 SMP Racing
#1 Rebellion
#3 Rebellion
#10 DragonSpeed
#4 ByKolles
Your provisional pole time is 3m15.497s, 0.411s ahead of the sister car.
The #17 SMP car is 0.662s off the #7 Toyota.
#7 Toyota
#8 Toyota
#17 SMP Racing
#11 SMP Racing
#1 Rebellion
#3 Rebellion
#10 DragonSpeed
#4 ByKolles
Your provisional pole time is 3m15.497s, 0.411s ahead of the sister car.
The #17 SMP car is 0.662s off the #7 Toyota.
The TV graphic reckons there's a 63 percent chance of rain. Our forecasting skills have been somewhat limited by the fact that it's dark now – can't tell how cloudy it is.
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We're virtually into nighttime conditions now, so we're unlikely to see improvements as teams switch their focus to their individual programmes.
Green flag
We are though back under green conditions with a reasonably busy track.
Just under 90 minutes remaining of what has so far been a disrupted session.
Here's the cause of that early slow zone, the BMW hit the barriers at the Ford Chicanes. Catsburg was at the wheel.
Full Course Yellow
The suspicion is that this is a practice run for the FCY procedure. No FCYs — virtual safety cars by any other name — at Le Mans until this year.
Officially they have been introduced on safety grounds, but when used as a lead-in to a safety car, it prevents the kind of breakaway we had in GTE Pro last year.
Officially they have been introduced on safety grounds, but when used as a lead-in to a safety car, it prevents the kind of breakaway we had in GTE Pro last year.
Full Course Yellow
And we now have a full-course yellow. Reason unclear.
LMP1
Autosport is having some WiFi difficulties, but there's been no change in the fastest laps in LMP1.
GTE AM
The Car Guy Ferrari has come slowly into the pits with Cozzolino driving.
GTE PRO
Hand is off in the #68 Ganassi Ford into the Esses.
JACK COZENS has gone trackside: "He might be our LMP2 correspondent, but JAMES NEWBOLD is mouth aghast at the sound of the Porsches through the Esses and here, on the approach to Tertre Rouge"
LMP1
Duval improved after Gommendy jumped him at the top of the P2 times — he found a tenths and a half to get down to a 3m25.345s in the TDS ORECA.
LMP1
Menezes is heading out, you would expect the Rebellion to rack up the laps considering its time loss earlier today.
LMP1
Unsurprisingly, most of the LMP1 field has pitted, but the #4 ByKolles is still on track through Dillmann. Conway is heading out in the #7 Toyota too.
LMP1
Before that slow zone, Nakajima had set the best second sector of all, by a tenth, in the #8 Toyota.
It would have been unlikely to dislodge the #7 car from the top spot though.
It would have been unlikely to dislodge the #7 car from the top spot though.
GTE AM
In GTE Am, Matteo Cairoli has cemented the #77 Dempsey-Proton Porsche's place at the top of the standings, ahead of the sister #88 car of Matt Campbell.
That BMW crash puts a spanner in the works of early fast laps, doesn't it?
LMP2
Gommendy jumps to the top of the P2 times in the Graff ORECA with a 3m25.073s. The guy's got a bit of one-lap form here.
GTE PRO
The GTE Pro times are falling fast. Marco Sorensen puts Aston Martin ahead on a 3m48.000s, beating Harry Tincknell's Ford by 0.112s and Nick Tandy's Porsche by 0.907s. Game on!
Slow Zone
That BMW off will become a slow zone.
LMP1
Lotterer's improved the Rebellion's best to a 3m16.810s, but the #1 car remains in fifth overall.
GTE PRO
Catsburg is off at the Ford Chicane in the #81 MTEK BMW.
LMP1
Vandoorne's crossed the line to set a 3m16.665s, it's an improvement but he stays fourth.
LMP1
Menezes completes his outlap and returns to the pits. No sign of the #10 DragonSpeed yet.
LMP1
Vandoorne's previous lap was a 3m16.858s, for reference.
LMP1
Vandoorne may well respond to team-mate Orudzhev's best, looking good in the first sector with the overall best. Lotterer is improving the #1 Rebellion too.
LMP2
Change in LMP2 as Loic Duval puts the #28 TDS Racing entry on top, knocking the DragonSpeed car into second.
LMP1
That puts Vandoorne's #11 SMP machine down to fourth.
LMP1
Orudzhev climbs from fifth to third with a 3m16.159s, within 0.682s of the leading #7 Toyota.
LMP1
Menezes is taking the #3 Rebellion out, a timely boost after losing so much time in the last session.
By: Geoff Creighton
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