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The 77th Le Mans 24 Hours
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19h25m Peugeot run one-two in the Le Mans 24 Hours and have done so for a long time now. The #9 car is out front with Alex Wurz at the helm, with the #8 car around 90 seconds behind him.
Alan McNish is third in the #1 Audi entry and is three laps down. Jan Charouz is behind the wheel of the fourth-placed #007 Aston Martin but is a whopping seven laps behind the lead car, with Olivier Panis fifth in the Oreca-AIM #11 car.
Alan McNish is third in the #1 Audi entry and is three laps down. Jan Charouz is behind the wheel of the fourth-placed #007 Aston Martin but is a whopping seven laps behind the lead car, with Olivier Panis fifth in the Oreca-AIM #11 car.
19h23m The #64 car pits, handing the class lead back to the #63.
19h22m Antonio Garcia is all over the back of the black #64 Corvette, with Olivier Beretta only just holding on to a slender class lead.
19h20m Another pass in the top ten: Bruce Jouanny has pitted the #16 Pescarolo Peugeot recently, and Christian Klien went through to take eighth place in the #7 Peugeot works car.
19h19m The GT1 battle is hotting up with Antonio Garcia in #63 now less than two seconds behind the class-leading #64.
19h18m Since the restart, Nicolas Prost has managed to take the #13 Speedy Racing Aston Martin past Charles Zwolsman in the #14 Kolles Audi for sixth place.
19h13m The wheels have fallen off the #99's challenge as the touring Ferrari sheds its left rear en route back to the pits.
19h12m The #99 is smoking heavily with a left rear puncture.
19h09m Christophe Bouchut in the #99 JMB Racing Ferrari is touring slowly around the circuit.
19h05m New GT1 leader Olivier Beretta is beginning to forge a lead and is now almost four seconds ahead of #63.
19h02m Romain Dumas pits the #3 Audi after that recent trip into the Indianapolis gravel bed. He stays in the car while the crew add fuel and change tyres. Dumas rejoins the action.
19h01m The gap between the leading Peugeots is clocked at 1m48s after 302 laps, having increased slightly by the two cars again finding themselves behind different safety cars.
19h00m The #3 Audi has been recovered from the gravel trap and Dumas is on his way again. That entry is down in 27th place overall.
18h58m Romain Dumas is in the gravel trap at Indianapolis in the troubled #3 Audi.
18h57m Christian Bakkerud has coaxed the #15 Kolles Audi R10 back to the pits at very slow speed after that front-end shunt on the Mulsanne straight.
18h56m The big news, however, is the first lead change of the race in GT1. The pair of Corvettes ended up right together behind the pace car and Olivier Beretta has now taken the advantage in the black #64 car.
18h54m Alex Wurz resumes the lead at racing speed in the #9 Peugeot.
18h51m Christian Bakkerud has crashed the #15 car at the end of that safety car period. The R10 speared in to the barriers on the Mulasanne straight and is now touring back to the pits.
18h51m The next potential battle will be for sixth place overall. The #14 Kolles Audi driven by Charles Zwolsmanis in that position at the moment but will have Nicolas Prost in the #13 Speedy Racing Lola Aston Martin right behind him.
18h49m The safety car comes into the pitlane and we are racing once again.
18h48m The safety car will pit at the end of this lap.
18h47m There is some damage to the tyre barriers at the Porsche Curves, which needs to be repaired. The organisers may also take this opportunity to sweep debris from the rest of the circuit.
18h46m The leading #9 Peugeot comes into the pits for its stop ... and the mechanics are changing the rear bodywork. Very quick work there by the crew and Alex Wurz loses hardly any time in that change of skin. He comes back out still in the lead.
18h44m The #11 crew have taken the chance to quickly service the car in the garage. Olivier Panis heads back into the race.
18h42m Stephane Sarrazin brings the #8 Peugeot into the pits for service. He stays in the car and rejoins the fray, still in second position.
18h42m Primat seems to be fine, despite a massive impact, and has climbed out of the destroyed car under his own power.
18h41m The car is heavily damaged at the front end and also down the right hand side where it made severe contact with the tyre barrier.
18h40m It is Harold Primat who has crashed the #009.
18h39m A tractor unit is quickly on the scene and is already hooking up to the crashed Aston in an effort to remove it from the gravel trap.
18h38m One of the Lola Aston-Martins has been crashed heavily in the Porsche Curves.
18h37m The safety car has been deployed.
18h36m In between the stops, the gap between the leading Peugeots is back to a fairly standard 1m30s.
The charge by the #8 to catch the #9 seems to have gone off the boil over the last stint since Stephane Sarrazin took over in the second Peugeot.
The charge by the #8 to catch the #9 seems to have gone off the boil over the last stint since Stephane Sarrazin took over in the second Peugeot.
18h32m Third in the GT2 category is still the #76 IMSA Performance Porsche driven at the moment by Patrick Long, and Rob Bell is ploughing on still at the controls of the #92 JMW Motorsport Ferrari in fourth.
18h31m The GT1 battle has closed in the last hour with the #64 now keeping the leading #63 on their toes, just 11.4s behind at the moment.
18h30m Pierre Kaffer is in the cockpit of the leading #82 GT2 Ferrari. We see him lock up his tyres heavily entering the Mulsanne corner. He brings the Risi Competizione entry in at the end of that lap and takes on tyres and fuel.
Kaffer remains at the helm and he rejoins still with a two-lap lead over Paolo Ruberti in the #97 BMS Scuderia Italia car.
Kaffer remains at the helm and he rejoins still with a two-lap lead over Paolo Ruberti in the #97 BMS Scuderia Italia car.
18h26m The gap was 29s between the leading Peugeots before that stop.
18h25m The second-placed #8 Peugeot comes into the pits with Stephane Sarrazin behind the wheel. A quick stop, fuel only and Sarrazin rejoins the action.
18h22m The sixth and seventh place cars have been in for routine stops with Charles Zwolsman remaining ahead of Bruce Jouanny.
18h22m The latest weather news, as you can see from the national rainfall radar, is that the northern-most band of rain is missing the circuit by approximately 50 miles to the south of the circuit.
We will continue with dry conditions for the foreseeable future.
We will continue with dry conditions for the foreseeable future.
18h18m Tomas Enge has been in for service in the #007 Lola-Aston. That car remains fourth overall.
By: Emlyn Hughes, Geoff Creighton
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