Le Mans 24 Hours Live Commentary and Updates

The badly-damaged HoR Aston has now been put back on its wheels and is in the process of being recovered.

The safety car immediately prompted Lietz and Gelael to come to the pits, with van der Linde following suit. Sato now shuffles to the lead from Gatting, Olsen and Saucy.

This safety car means the handy advantage that Vanthoor had built with that stop during a slow zone has ben wiped out. And with 11 Hypercars still on the lead lap, there's still plenty of contenders here.

Replays show that he was attempting to leave space on the inside at the right-hand kink approaching Indianapolis, with a Ferrari Hypercar fast-approaching, then lost it on the slighty damp line and spun backwards into the barriers, which turned the car over.

Good news is the Italian has emerged unscathed from his upturned Vantage. 

We've had a lead change in P2 as Barnicoat has got back ahead of Jakobsen. 

Corvette isn't currently sure what the problem was for Eastwood, as it has lost all radio comms with the Northern Irishman. 

Gatting got out of the pits ahead of Marino Sato, but the Japanese has now reclaimed fifth in GT3 from the Iron Dames Lambo. The best battle in class now looming is for second with Sean Gelael closing on Daniel Mancinelli's HoR Aston.

All eyes on the battle for third as just millimetres separate the second Toyota from the two chasing Ferraris!

And it all got very dicey there for Fuoco in the #50 Ferrari as he encountered a GT3 BMW through the Esses and the pair made slight contact but they both continue and the Ferrari doesn't lose a place.

Up ahead, once the gaps settled down during the slow zone, Vanthoor's lead stands at 18 seconds.

It's very close in the battle for third with de Vries in the #7 Toyota heading Fuoco in the #50 Ferrari and Shwartzman in the #83 Ferrari by less than a second as they thread their way through a pack of traffic.

Lomko and De Gerus have pitted from the lead and second place in LMP2, cycling Jakobsen - first of the drivers to plump for slicks - into the lead ahead of Barnicoat and Richelmi. Lomko rejoins fourth ahead of Jarvis, with de Gerus now sixth.

Vanthoor has massively benefited from this slow zone and the timing of his stop as he has pulled out a lead of over a minute from Hirakawa - could this be a race-defining moment?

Now that the other P2 runners are having to go through the pain of bringing their tyres in, Jakobsen has blasted past Barnicoat and is 50s back from new leading duo Lomko and De Gerus, who are persisting with wets but circulating around 7s per lap slower.

And, on weather watch, some ominous dark clouds are rolling in again. So will those on slicks soon be forced in again?

Eastwood has stopped on track in the Corvette at marshal post 11, we're told by the timing screens. That #81 car had not long ago got back onto the lead lap through the pit cycles, but hopes of a result now appear dashed.

Jakobsen's times are now on a par with the LMP2 leaders, which underlines that the crossover point has now at last been reached to go to slicks. Jarvis and Deletraz respond and come in.

Hamaguchi and Gatting now pit together on lap 192, moving Mancinelli up to second in the HoR Aston - albeit 30s back from Lietz - and Gelael into third having shrugged off Nicolas Costa's McLaren.

Change for second in LMGT3, as Hamaguchi now passes Gatting. That's perhaps not a move we'd expect given the Japanese is the amateur in the #95 McLaren. Meanwhile Heriau has rotated the #55 Ferrari at the first chicane.

Jakobsen isn't having the same fortunes if indeed he is on the slicks. He was again 15s off the leaders' pace last time around and has dropped 1m35 back from Richelmi, who is 4.7s to the good on Barnicoat.

Lietz's times have started to pick up and he is now pulling away from Gatting again. That suggests it was indeed the Porsche man who switched to slicks that took time to come up to temperature, explaining his initial haemorrhaging of time.

Change for eighth place as Nato in the #12 Jota Porsche was somewhat blocked by LMGT3 traffic at the first Mulsanne Chicane, enabling Giovinazzi in the #51 Ferrari to zip ahead.

Jakobsen is also losing time hand-over-fist to the LMP2 cars around him, and was over 20s slower than De Gerus on the road ahead of him last time around. Could it be that the Peugeot reserve in Cool's #37 ORECA went too early for slicks? 

We've now reached now completed 17 hours of the 92nd edition of the Le Mans 24 Hours, so still plenty of time for things to change but here's the current order in Hypercar:
1.#8 Toyota - Hirakawa
2. #6 Porsche - Vanthoor
3. #7 Toyota - de Vries
4. #50 Ferrari - Nielsen
5. #83 Ferrari - Kubica
6. #2 Cadillac - Lynn

For housekeeping purposes, Bachler has now rejoined in the #92 Porsche after losing 24 minutes in the pits to gearbox issues, but is in 18th position. A hammer blow to hopes the WEC points leaders had of claiming the big prize.

I wonder if either Gatting or Lietz have gone onto slicks. Lietz is 9s slower than the Dane's Lambo, and his lead that stood at 20s a few laps ago has been almost eradicated. Whichever, the Porsche could soon come under pressure unless he can pick up the pace.

Jakobsen lost out badly through that last pit sequence - to the tune of 47s relative to Lomko, who also came in last time around.

More pitstops in LMP2 cycle Barnicoat back to second, and he's 4.2s behind Richelmi at the head of the order. Jarvis is up to third, with Lomko next up ahead of De Gerus and Jakobsen.