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24 Hours of Le Mans
The 78th Le Mans 24 Hours
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1h01m Ford has taken the lead of the GT1 class, with Thomas Mutsch in the #60 Matech GT overtaking Peter Kox's Young Driver Aston Martin
1h02m Allan McNish heads back out onto track after the first stop for the #7 R15. Only fuel taken, Audi is double-stinting the tyres
1h04m Peugeot pits the leading #3 and the #1 cars at the same time.
1h04m Montagny has passed Lamy in the pits, so the #2 car now leads the race
1h06m Timo Bernhard has been into the pits and taken fuel only. That's the first round of stops out of the way for all the front runners
1h07m The #77 Felbermayr Porsche now leads GT2 after the class-leading Corvettes pitted for fuel. It looks as though the Porsches can run a little longer
1h12m The Larbre Saleen and the JMW Aston Martin are both in the pits with problems
1h14m Soheil Ayari has had a spin in the #6 ORECA-AIM after clashing with the #24 Oak Racing Pescarolo while trying to lap Jean-Francois Yvon at Mulsanne Corner
1h16m The front runners in the GT2 class have all piled into the pitlane on the same lap. The #82 Risi Ferrari, which started from the back of the grid, has taken fuel only and gets back out ahead of the other stoppers.
1h18m Montagny leads by 4s in the #2 Peugeot, with Lamy and Gene running together in second and third.
1h19m Lapierre is back up to fourth place in the ORECA Peugeot, 20s behind the works cars. McNish is one minute behind in fifth.
1h21m Thomas Mutsch still leads GT1 in the #60 Ford GT. Bas Leinders is up to second in the Marc VDS Ford, with Julien Jousse third in the #73 Alphand Corvette
1h23m Pedro Lamy takes the lead in the #3 Peugeot as all three factory 908s close up at the front
1h24m Marc Rostan has spun the #28 Race Performance Radical into the gravel at the second chicane on the Mulsanne Straight
1h25m Montagny has taken the lead back again in the #2 Peugeot
1h26m Paul Drayson pits his Lola from 15th place and hands over to Jonny Cocker
1h28m Soheil Ayari narrowly avoided another incident in the #6 ORECA, almost running Stefan Mucke's #007 Aston Martin off the road
1h31m There are a couple of close battles further down the LMP1 order with Oliver Jarvis (#15 Kolles Audi R10), Guy Smith (#13 Rebellion Lola) running together, and Christoph Bouchut (#14 Kolles Audi) and Franck Mailleux (#008 Signature Aston Martin) in a pair close behind.
1h31m Mansell is being kept in the circuit's medical centre as a precaution, but has escaped his crash without injury.
1h34m Lapierre is back out in fourth place after bringing in the #4 ORECA Peugeot 908 for its second stop of the day
1h37m No, McNish just got ahead of Lapierre as the Peugeot re-joined the track. Timo Bernhard is now having a go at Lapierre down the Mulsanne Straight for fifth.
1h41m GT2 update: #64 Corvette, #63 Corvette, #82 Ferrari, #95 Ferrari, #97 Porsche, #79 BMW, #77 Porsche, #78 BMW, #89 Ferrari, #76 Porsche
1h42m Montagny brings the #2 Peugeot into the pits again. Looks like fuel only.
1h43m McNish follows suit in the #7 Audi
1h43m Lapierre gets his fourth place back as McNish pits, and it starting to pull away from Bernhard
1h46m The #73 Alphand Corvette is now only 15s behind the GT1 leading #60 Ford and closing at more than two seconds per lap
1h47m The #8 and #9 Audis have been in for their next round of stops as well
1h49m Greg Mansell: Nige is ok ... Just having some checks now to be safe... Off home for us... Lemans to st marlo .. 1 hour will be fun ..
1h51m It looks as though the Jaguar team have given up on getting the XKR back in the race. The marque's Le Mans return might have only lasted four laps
1h53m Jonny Cocker has reported a misfire on the Drayson Lola, but he's carrying on for now
1h55m Dirk Muller has stopped on the Mulsanne Straight in the #79 BMW M3 art car. He's parked up crawling around underneath it...
1h56m Didier Andre has taken over the #6 ORECA-AIM after Soheil Ayari's lively first stint
1h57m Big crash for the #70 Ford GT. Spinning the wheels in the gravel at the Dunlop Esses
1h58m Muller is making his way back to the pits in the BMW with a left-rear puncture
1h59m It was Bas Leinders in the #70 Ford. It looks as though it has spun backwards into the tyre wall on the way down the hill towards Tertre Rouge
2h00m Jonny Kane has finished his first stint in the Strakka Racing HPD, and handed the class lead over to Danny Watts
2h02m Two hours in the book and it's still a Peugeot 1-2-3-4. Just 30s covers all four cars, with the three Audis covered by the same margin but one and a half minutes behind
2h03m The #007 and #009 Aston Martins are squabbling over the unofficial petrol class lead, well over a minute clear of the the #13 Rebellion Lola and the two Kolles Audi R10s
2h04m The Strakka and Highcroft HPDs are clear at the head of LMP2, with Watts and Marino Franchitti having just hopped in
2h04m The #60 Ford remains in the GT1 lead, but the #73 Corvette is now less than 10 seconds behind
By: Emlyn Hughes, Geoff Creighton, Steven English, Sam Tremayne
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