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GTE Pro: Serra climbs aboard the #52 AF Corse as it pits from third and ducks out of its battle with the #63 Corvette for second.
LMP2: Stevens brings the #65 Panis Racing machine in, returning the #22 car to third in class. There's also a nice battle between the Pro-Am LMP2 pairing of Hedman and van Eerd, in the #21 Dragonspeed and the #29 Racing Team Nederland car respectively - van Eerd moves past for ninth in class.
GTE Am: A car that has been inching its way up the leaderboard is the #77 Dempsey-Proton Racing Porsche. Kiwi Jaxon Evans at the wheel. It sits sixth now and closing in on the top five.
Pit stop
LMP2: Kubica pits the #41 WRT car, which allows the #36 Alpine LMH car to move up to fifth overall. The leading WRT also makes a stop; Habsburg moves aside to let Frijns take over.
Pit stop
LMH: The #8 Toyota calls in for a stop, bringing it level with the sister #7 Toyota. Conway reassumes the lead.
GTE Pro: The earlier diffuser change on the #64 Corvette was required after it gave up due to damage sustained after contact from the #51 AF Corse Ferrari at the ceremonial start. Incredible.
GTE Pro: Garcia brings the second placed Corvette into the pits for stop number eight. The leading AF Corse and the #91 Porsche are yet to stop in this sequence.
LMH: As it's all shaken out with safety cars and slow zones, the #8 Toyota has got within 30s of the #7 now at the front. The #708 Glickenhaus sits third in class, about 3 laps behind them.
GTE Am: The leaders, TF Sport pit. Fraga's excellent stint is over, and Pereira is back. Rovera (#83 AF Corse) regains the lead.
GTE Pro: Estre has brought the #92 Porsche up to third ahead of #52 AF Corse Ferrari. Both have completed eight stops.
LMH order at 9H: #7 Toyota (Conway), #8 Toyota (Nakajima), #708 Glickenhaus (Pla), #36 Alpine (Lapierre, P5 overall), #709 Glickenhaus (Westbrook, P11 overall)
GTE Am: The leading AF Corse comes into the pits with Rovera at the wheel. Nicklas Nielsen is back in the hot seat, he returns in P2.
LMP2 top five order at 9H: #31 WRT (Frijns, P4 overall), #41 WRT (Kubica, P6 overall), #22 United Autosports (Albuquerque, P7 overall), #65 Panis Racing (Stevens, P8 overall), #34 Inter Europol (van der Zande, P9 overall)
GTE Pro top five order at 9H: #51 AF Corse leads #63 Corvette, P3 #52 AF Corse, P4 #92 Porsche and P5 #91 Porsche. Top three have made eight stops. The #52 AF Corse has snatched third after the #92 made its ninth stop. The #52 AF Corse had lost time with its driver change due to a slow puncture.
Yellow flag
LMP2: The #29 Racing Team Nederland driven by van Eerd has become beached at the exit of the Dunlop curves which has created a slow zone as the car is recovered by the marshals.
GTE Am top five order at 9H: #83 AF Corse Ferrari leads #33 TF Sport Aston Martin. P3 #80 Iron Lynx, P4 #54 AF Corse and P5 #57 Kessel Racing.
LMH: Recovering from its earlier problems, the #36 Alpine was a lap or two away from regaining fourth place overall and climbing past the leading LMP2 runner (#31 Team WRT), but needed to pit as planned which put it further back on the lap. Time to do it all over again.
LMP2: The #29 Racing Team Nederland has got going again, currently down in 16th place in class, having pitted to check over its damage from the off.
GTE Am: Replays show the #66 JMW Motorsport Ferrari (Thomas Neubauer) was involved in that incident with #29 Racing Team Nederland.
LMH: Lapierre, in the #36 Alpine, has P3 in class and P4 overall in his sights as he is all over the rear of the #708 Glickenhaus which has Pla at the wheel.
GTE Am: The dice for the lead between the #83 AF Corse and #33 TF Sport is about to heat up again. Pereira is 2s behind leader Nielsen.
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GTE Pro: The #64 Corvette has dropped back behind the Hub Auto Porsche after a stop and driver change, with Milner back at the wheel.
LMH: After a couple of frustrating laps stuck behind Pla, the #36 Alpine gets ahead as Lapierre dives in front under braking at the first chicane on the Mulsanne straight. Pla fights back at the second chicane in the Glickenhaus but overdoes it and runs wide.
LMH: An LMH vs LMP2 battle is coming up. Fresh from passing Pla, Lapierre now has Frijns just a couple of seconds up the road in the leading LMP2 car that is the #31 Team WRT ORECA. That fight will be for the final podium spot overall.
LMH: Not really a fair fight that one, as Lapierre powers around Frijns at the Porsche Curves. The #36 Alpine is back up to P3.
With that we wave goodbye to Jake and Tom who take some well-deserved rest. For the next time stint it is James and I - just as the night running gets serious.
GTE Am: All credit to Dylan Pereira here, he's doing a great job in the #33 TF Aston to keep Nielsen honest in the leading #83 Ferrari. The gap between them has remained stable at around 6.4s and has, if anything, been coming down over the last few laps.
LMH: The #8 Toyota pits as expected, with Nakajima handing over driving duty to Buemi, while the #7 Toyota retakes the lead in the process. The new gap is currently 1m23s.
GTE Pro: Serra pitted the third-placed Ferrari a lap ago, and now it's Garcia's turn to come in from second. Meanwhile we've got a slow zone on track to recover the JMW Am Ferrari.
LMH: Ah, now the #7 Toyota pits for fuel, with Conway staying in the car, which allows him to retain the lead. As things stand the #8 Toyota has made one more pitstop than its sister car.
LMP2: The top five in class all pit on the same lap so it rather nullifies any changes to the running order. Still a Team WRT 1-2 with Frijns in the #31 leading and P5 overall.
Yellow flag
GTE Am: No lights on with the #66 JMW car - which remember got into a tangle earlier with Van Eerd's RTN LMP2 car. Rodrigo Sales is the man at the wheel, the car having stopped at the pit exit. Its been craned away, so we should hopefully be back to green soon.
Green flag
And sure enough, we're back to green.
GTE Pro: That slow zone came at a good time for Corvette, which was in the process of swapping Jordan Taylor in for Garcia in the #63 Corvette that was running second before its stop.
GTE Pro: Estre is now running third in the #92 Porsche, which is about as high as the car has been all day. It remember spun early doors, when Estre was at the wheel, then had an off in the gravel after changing to slicks. After fighting back to third, it got overtaken by #63 and then got dropped into a different SC train, so has had plenty of drama to get to this stage.
GTE Am: Meanwhile the class leader Nielsen has pitted, cycling Pereira back to the lead in the #33 TF Aston. Nielsen rejoins in second, 8 seconds clear of Matteo Cressoni's #80 Iron Lynx car that you may recall had a ding-dong scrap with Nielsen's team-mate Alessio Rovera when Callum Ilott was at the wheel.
LMH: That cheap pitstop under the slow zone for the #7 Toyota means it is back in the lead with a 43-second advantage over the sister car. The #708 Glickenhaus is back up to P3 after the Alpine pitted, with both cars three laps behind the leaders.
Yellow flag
GTE Am: Dramas for Jensen! The Kessel car that briefly led earlier that was running P5 in the future Peugeot hypercar driver's hands has come to a halt on the approach to Tertre Rouge. No damage, just looks like it's broken down.
That means we've got another slow zone, which may tempt a few into making a pit visit.
By: Loris Capirossi
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