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Lopez is in now. He's going to stay in the car for another stint too.
LMP1
Alonso is still 40s ahead of Lopez, having made one more pitstop.
GTE PRO
The two Ferraris have swapped, Pier Guidi's #51 now leading Derani's #52.
LMP1
Menezes has also replaced Beche in the #3 Rebellion. He's back within 7s of the #1 car now.
Pit stop
In climbs Jani, who heads down the pitlane just as Alonso come in in the #8 TS050 HYBRID. No sign of a driver change yet in the lead Toyota.
LMP1
Rebellion is preparing for a driver change - presumably its last of the race. Jani is getting ready to replace Senna.
GTE PRO
There's another battle going on further down the timing screens, with the Ferraris of Derani and Pier Guidi running less than a second apart in the fight for seventh.
GTE PRO
Makowiecki is 10s clear of Priaulx now, and the Guernseyman has fallen into the clutches of the sister Ford of Hand.
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A Toyota facing the wrong way moments ago
LMP2
Remarkably only the two cars that currently run 1-2 in LMP2 have managed to navigate the opening 21 hours without a major incident of some kind. The difference between them has just been sheer pace - when Lapierre has been out of the car, the #36 Signatech-Alpine has very rarely been able to match the #26 G-Drive.
LMP2
Looks like the problems for the #48 IDEC Sport car might be more serious than previously thought as Lafargue comes back into the pits. A great shame after it put up such a great fight for so long.
Note the difference between Lopez and Alonso's previous efforts
LMP1
Harmless in terms of damage to the car, anyway. That spin did cost the #7 12s to Alonso.
LMP1
Lopez lost the car coming out of the chicane, but it's a fairly harmless incident in the end and he gets going again.
Yellow flag
Lopez goes for a spin in the #7 Toyota up at Dunlop!
How close did that Porsche v Ford battle get earlier on? This close...
GTE PRO
Sounds like Bourdais has had a few things to say about his battle with Makowiecki...
LMP1
We can't report quite the same levels of fun in LMP1. The gap between the top two is 1m18s (so as you were), and Senna still has 20-something seconds over the #3 Rebellion (so as you were).
LMP2
It's not just Ligiers hitting trouble late on in LMP2 - the third-placd #48 IDEC Sport ORECA has been wheeled back into the pits, which will relieve the pressure on Andre Negrao in the #36 Signatech-Alpine.
GTE PRO
Team Autosport has a coffee to recover from that GTE battle.
GTE PRO
Isn't GTE Pro fun? Makowiecki has a 5s gap to breathe.
GTE PRO
We should add that it's now Hand in the Bourdais car, meaning the Priaulx Ford will need to take up the fight.
LMP2
It's a case of too little too late now, but our former second-placed car - the Panis-Barthez Ligier - has rejoined the fray 18 laps down in 14th, having lost over an hour in the pits.
GTE PRO
Bourdais's pitbox is ahead of Makowiecki's too, but he returns in third.
GTE PRO
New tyres and fuel for both.
Pit stop
This GTE Pro battle is so mega, that they've continued it right down into pitlane. Makowiecki heads Bourdais.
GTE PRO
GTE Pro leader Vanthoor has pitted from the lead, with plenty of time in hand.
LMP1
Lopez has pitted from second (where else). He's 1m15s behind Alonso, and there's no real sign of the #7 coming back at the leader.
GTE PRO
Bourdais finally gets the move done for second, with much glee in the Ford garage.
But then Makowiecki then forces Bourdais onto the grass on the run to the Porsche Curves!
Brilliant stuff in the final three and a half hours here.
But then Makowiecki then forces Bourdais onto the grass on the run to the Porsche Curves!
Brilliant stuff in the final three and a half hours here.
LMP2
Pierre Thiriet had a tricky stint in the #36 Signatech-Alpine and has just gone three laps down in the pits handing over to Andre Negrao. The remaining three and a half hours will be all about consolidation - the G-Drive car appears out of reach for now.
LMP1
A cleaner stop for Senna means he's now 25s up the road from Beche. We'll have to wait a bit for that battle to come to a head again.
If that happens in three and a half hours or so we won't be complaining one bit.
If that happens in three and a half hours or so we won't be complaining one bit.
GTE PRO
Makowiecki ran wide out of the Mulsanne chicane and gave Bourdais room before firmly shutting the door.
That was much more like it, firm but fair from both.
That was much more like it, firm but fair from both.
GTE PRO
Replays show Makowiecki being a bit naughty on the Mulsanne, a bit of excessive wide weaving ahead of the clearly quicker Bourdais.
GTE PRO
And Makowiecki is under investigation for driving standards. Another twist in the tale for GTE Pro?
GTE PRO
But Ford versus Porsche always had the feeling of inevitability.
BMW surprised as a 'best of the rest' runner in the night before mechanical problems.
No such excuse for the new Aston. It's been significantly slower than its rivals on the straights, and the #95 Aston is 10th in class.
BMW surprised as a 'best of the rest' runner in the night before mechanical problems.
No such excuse for the new Aston. It's been significantly slower than its rivals on the straights, and the #95 Aston is 10th in class.
LMP1
Beche's stop was another slowish one - a 1m32s on that occasion. Senna is also in now.
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That GTE Pro battle for second is music to the ears of Vanthoor. Not just because he's away from that noisy Ford engine, but because he's 2m44s up the road.
Pit stop
Alonso is also in. Smooth stop for the #8, which is probably good for another stint before a driver change.
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